A presentation on what VIVO is, why it is implemented in the library, and how the interface is influenced by the user and user behaviors.
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me.edu.au provides Australian education and training professionals with an online profile and networking space. Members of the education community are encouraged to use me.edu.au to create an online professional profile, connect with educators who have similar interests, share resources and publish ideas and opinions. me.edu.au puts the individual at the centre of the service and encourages them to collect, connect and publish beyond faculty, institution, state and sector boundaries.
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me.edu.au provides Australian education and training professionals with an online profile and networking space. Members of the education community are encouraged to use me.edu.au to create an online professional profile, connect with educators who have similar interests, share resources and publish ideas and opinions. me.edu.au puts the individual at the centre of the service and encourages them to collect, connect and publish beyond faculty, institution, state and sector boundaries.
Using Social Media for Peer Feedback in a Translation ClassBenoît Guilbaud
These are the slides from a presentation I gave on 27th January 2012 at the LLAS e-learning symposium. Watch the (upcoming) video at http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/archive/6395
Part of collaborative citizen science presentation with James Stewart and co-developed with Eugenia Rodrigues, for the UoE Institute for Study of Science, Technology and Innovation Retreat. 9th June 2015.
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This workshop is divided in 2 parts. In the first part, I will discuss how/why academics use social media and online networks for scholarship, and explore the opportunities and tensions that exist in these spaces. In the second part of the workshop, I will facilitate small group and large group conversations on this topic based on participant interests. Potential topics of exploration may include but are not limited to: social media participation strategies; self-disclosures on social media; capturing and analyzing social media data; ethics of social media research; social media use for networked learning.
What has sparked this interest in ePortfolios and school libraries? Partly the introduction of a Personal Learning Plan for South Australian senior secondary students, combined with increasing discussion on ePortfolios in Australia and worldwide, and the ongoing debate about 21st century information literacy.
Understanding Networked Scholars: Experiences and practices in online social ...George Veletsianos
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http://slnsolsummit2009.edublogs.org
he Virtual Reality of Student Services
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Improving Integrity, Transparency, and Reproducibility Through Connection of ...Andrew Sallans
The Center for Open Science (COS) was founded as a non-profit technology start-up in 2013 with the goal of improving transparency and reproducibility by connecting the scholarly workflow. COS achieves this goal through the development of a free, open source web application called the Open Science Framework (OSF), providing features like file sharing and citing, persistent urls, provenance tracking, and automated versioning. Initial workflow API connections focused on storage services and included Figshare, GitHub, Amazon S3, Dropbox, and Dataverse. The team is now working to connect other parts of the workflow with services like DMPTool, Databib/re3data, and Databrary. This session will introduce the core architecture and the problems that it solves, and illustrate how connecting services can benefit everyone involved in supporting the research ecosystem. COS is funded through the generosity of grants from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Association of Research Libraries, and others.
Presented at CNI Fall 2014, Washington, DC.
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Presentation and discussion session for a group of agricultural consultants and researchers at Scotland’s Rural College, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh, 27 August 2015.
Networked Scholars, or, Why on earth do academics use social media and why ...George Veletsianos
This workshop is divided in 2 parts. In the first part, I will discuss how/why academics use social media and online networks for scholarship, and explore the opportunities and tensions that exist in these spaces. In the second part of the workshop, I will facilitate small group and large group conversations on this topic based on participant interests. Potential topics of exploration may include but are not limited to: social media participation strategies; self-disclosures on social media; capturing and analyzing social media data; ethics of social media research; social media use for networked learning.
What has sparked this interest in ePortfolios and school libraries? Partly the introduction of a Personal Learning Plan for South Australian senior secondary students, combined with increasing discussion on ePortfolios in Australia and worldwide, and the ongoing debate about 21st century information literacy.
Understanding Networked Scholars: Experiences and practices in online social ...George Veletsianos
Slides from an invited talk given to the The 4th International Conference on E-learning and Distance Education located in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Online journals, online forums, and social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are an integral part of open and digital scholarship, which is often seen as a major breakthrough in radically rethinking the ways in which knowledge is created and shared. In this presentation I situate networked practices in open/digital scholarship and explain what scholars and professors do online, and, why they do the things that the do. I conclude by describing 3 themes pervasive in scholarly networks: identify networks, networks of conflict, and networks of disclosure.
From diigo to Aspire - a tale of two resource listssboydie
The use of two resource list creation tools with online distance learners at The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh.
SLN SOLsummit 2009 presentation - by Raylean Henry
http://slnsolsummit2009.edublogs.org
he Virtual Reality of Student Services
The Regents Online Campus Collaborative is a forty-six campus collaborative model focused on providing quality online education and workforce training to help Tennesseans have a better life. Our online students have access to student services including the virtual bookstore, virtual library, virtual student union, virtual career center, virtual tutoring, 24 x7 technical support, and ADA Services.
Improving Integrity, Transparency, and Reproducibility Through Connection of ...Andrew Sallans
The Center for Open Science (COS) was founded as a non-profit technology start-up in 2013 with the goal of improving transparency and reproducibility by connecting the scholarly workflow. COS achieves this goal through the development of a free, open source web application called the Open Science Framework (OSF), providing features like file sharing and citing, persistent urls, provenance tracking, and automated versioning. Initial workflow API connections focused on storage services and included Figshare, GitHub, Amazon S3, Dropbox, and Dataverse. The team is now working to connect other parts of the workflow with services like DMPTool, Databib/re3data, and Databrary. This session will introduce the core architecture and the problems that it solves, and illustrate how connecting services can benefit everyone involved in supporting the research ecosystem. COS is funded through the generosity of grants from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Association of Research Libraries, and others.
Presented at CNI Fall 2014, Washington, DC.
They Came for the Carbs, and Stayed for the CollaborationKaren Reiman-Sendi
Paper presented at the Association of College & Research Libraries conference (2013), Indianapolis, IN. With Breanna Hamm, Diana Perpich, and Lori Tschirhart
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Presented by: Brian Lowe, Semantic Applications Programmer, Cornell University and Jim Blake, VIVO Release Manager, Cornell University.
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Presented by: Alex Viggio, VIVO Implementation Lead, University of Colorado, Boulder, Steven McCauley, Brown University, Julia Trimmer, Duke University and Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College.
The Role of Libraries in Data Management and CurationNicole Vasilevsky
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Abstract:
As increasing amounts of data are being generated, applying best practices in handling data is important, and librarians are well poised to assist users. During this session, we will discuss the role of libraries in assisting with data management, application of metadata, ontologies, data standards, and the publication of data in repositories and on the Semantic Web. This talk will describe best data practices and engage the attendees in interactive activities to demonstrate these principles.
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Presented by: Dean Krafft, Chief Technology Strategist at Cornell University Library and Chair of the VIVO-DuraSpace Management Committee, Brian Lowe, Semantic Applications Programmer, Cornell and Jon Corson-Rikert, VIVO Development Lead, Cornell
Libraries Lead the Way: Open Courses, Open Educational Resoursces, Open PoliciesUna Daly
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) on Wed, Oct 2, noon Pacific American Library Collection(3:00 pm EST) for a free, open webinar on how libraries are leading the way with Open Courses, Open Educational Resources, and Open Policies. Three leaders who support students, faculty, and colleges through open educational policy and practice will be featured.
Dr. Patricia Profeta, Dean of Learning Resources at Indian River State College will share how she and other Florida State College librarians have developed open courses on information literacy and internet search to prepare students for college-level research. These courses have been published in Florida’s Orange Grove repository with a Creative Commons license.
Donna Okubo, Senior Manager of Community Outreach and Advocacy, at Public Library of Science (PLoS) will share their amazing collection of open science resources and journals that you can use in the classroom at your college. PLoS has implemented a new publishing model to support scholarly authorship and allow public access to the peer-reviewed results.
Nicole Allen, OER Program Director at, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) of the Academic and Research Library (ARL) will share SPARC’s plan to broadens its advocacy from open research to include all open educational resources (OER). Working with college libraries to extend their copyright expertise to include open policies is a critical component.
The needs of researchers in key disciplines are changing rapidly and this has important implications for the library’s role in enhancing research productivity and impact.
Librarians can build a roadmap for supporting 21st Century research needs that draws on both published research sources and institution-specific user research. Several key trends from recent studies and ideas for institution-specific user research tools are highlighted within.
Presentation by Ingrid Parent: Digital Academic Content and the Future of Lib...Ingrid Parent
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Creating Sustainable Communities in Open Data Resources: The eagle-i and VIVO...Robert H. McDonald
This is the slidedeck for my ACRL 2015 TechConnect Presentation with Nicole Vasilevsky (OHSU). For more on the program see - <a>http://bit.ly/1xcQbCr</a>.
Infrastructure and practices for data citation have made substantial progress over the last decade. This increases the potential rewards for data publication and reproducible science, however overall incentives remain relatively weak.
authorsNote: This summarizes a presentation given at the *National Academies of Sciences* as part of [Data Citation Workshop: Developing Policy And Practice*](http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/brdi/index.htm) .
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Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
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Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Charleston Conference: VIVO, libraries, and users.
1. Presented by:
Ellen J. Cramer Ph.D.
Research Associate
Cornell University
ejc12@cornell.edu
A Closer Look at VIVO
2. Cornell University: Dean Krafft (Cornell PI), Elly Cramer (Co-PI), Manolo Bevia, Jim Blake, Nick Cappadona,
Brian Caruso, Jon Corson-Rikert, Elizabeth Hines, Huda Khan, Brian Lowe, Joseph McEnerney, Holly
Mistlebauer, Stella Mitchell, Anup Sawant, Christopher Westling, Tim Worrall, Rebecca Younes. University of
Florida: Mike Conlon (VIVO and UF PI), Chris Barnes, Cecilia Botero, Kerry Britt, Amy Buhler, Ellie
Bushhousen, Linda Butson, Chris Case, Christine Cogar, Valrie Davis, Mary Edwards, Nita Ferree, Chris
Haines, Rae Jesano, Margeaux Johnson, Sara Kreinest, Meghan Latorre, Yang Li, Hannah Norton, Narayan
Raum, Alexander Rockwell, Sara Russell Gonzalez, Nancy Schaefer, Dale Scheppler, Nicholas Skaggs,
Matthew Tedder, Michele R. Tennant, Alicia Turner, Stephen Williams. Indiana University: Katy Borner (IU
PI), Kavitha Chandrasekar, Bin Chen, Shanshan Chen, Jeni Coffey, Suresh Deivasigamani, Ying Ding,
Russell Duhon, Jon Dunn, Poornima Gopinath, Julie Hardesty, Brian Keese, Namrata Lele, Micah Linnemeier,
Nianli Ma, Robert H. McDonald, Asik Pradhan Gongaju, Mark Price, Yuyin Sun, Chintan Tank, Alan Walsh,
Brian Wheeler, Feng Wu, Angela Zoss. Ponce School of Medicine: Richard J. Noel, Jr. (Ponce PI), Ricardo
Espada Colon, Damaris Torres Cruz, Michael Vega Negrón. The Scripps Research Institute: Gerald Joyce
(Scripps PI), Catherine Dunn, Brant Kelley, Paula King, Angela Murrell, Barbara Noble, Cary Thomas,
Michaeleen Trimarchi. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis: Rakesh Nagarajan
(WUSTL PI), Kristi L. Holmes, Caerie Houchins, George Joseph, Sunita B. Koul, Leslie D. McIntosh. Weill
Cornell Medical College: Curtis Cole (Weill PI), Paul Albert, Victor Brodsky, Mark Bronnimann, Adam Cheriff,
Oscar Cruz, Dan Dickinson, Richard Hu, Chris Huang, Itay Klaz, Kenneth Lee, Peter Michelini, Grace
Migliorisi, John Ruffing, Jason Specland, Tru Tran, Vinay Varughese, Virgil Wong.
This project is funded by the National Institutes of Health, U24 RR029822, "VIVO: Enabling National
Networking of Scientists".
VIVO Collaboration:
3. Overview
1. What is VIVO?
2. Why the library?
3. User experience (UX)
4. Discussion/questons
4. In September 2009, seven
institutions received
$12.2 million in funding
from the National Center
for Research Resources of
the NIH to to enable
National Networking
with VIVO
•Originally developed at Cornell University in 2004 to support Life Sciences
•Reimplemented using RDF, OWL, Jena and SPARQL in 2007
•Now covers all faculty, researchers and disciplines at Cornell
•Implemented at University of Florida in 2007
•Underlying system in use at Chinese Academy of Sciences and Australian Universities
VIVO history… born in the library
6. VIVO is:
Populated with detailed profiles of
faculty and researchers; displaying
items such as publications, teaching,
service, and professional affiliations.
A powerful search functionality for
locating people and information
within or across institutions.
An open-source semantic web
application that enables the discovery
of research and scholarship across
disciplines in an institution.
7. iClicker Question 2
How familiar are you with the Semantic Web?
A. Very (part of my everyday work)
B. Moderately (can explain it to others)
C. Mildly (understand the concepts)
D. Not at all (new to me)
8. Semantic web: describes methods and
technologies to allow machines to
understand the meaning or "semantics”
of information on the web.
-- W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Ontology: a formal representation of the
knowledge by a set of concepts within a
domain and the relationships between
those concepts.
-- Wikipedia
10. VIVO users
…and many more!
Faculty/Scholar/Researcher/Scientist
•Find collaborators
•Track competitors
•Keep abreast of new work
•Rely on customizable profiles maintained
via automatic updates
Student
•Locate mentors, advisors, or
collaborators
•Locate events, seminars, courses,
programs, facilities
•Showcase own research
Administrator
•Showcase college, program,
departmental activities
•Identify areas of institutional strength
•Manage data in one place
Donor/ Funding Agency
•Discover current funded projects
•Search for specialized expertise
•Visualize research activity within an
institution
13. VIVO harvests much of its data programmatically
from verified sources
• Reduces the need for manual input of data
• Provides an integrated and flexible source of publicly
visible data at an institutional level
Data, data, data
Individuals may also edit and customize their profiles to
suit their professional needs.
External data
sources
Internal data
sources
15. Stored in Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples
Uses the shared VIVO Core Ontology to describe people,
organizations, activities, publications, events, interests, grants,
and other relationships
Incorporates Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) and Bibliographic
Ontology (BIBO)
Supports local ontology extensions for institution-specific
needs
Linked Data
Subject Predicate (verb) Object
Riha, Susan research area crop management
Riha, Susan international geographic focus Brazil
Riha, Susan submitter of impact statement Climate change and its impact on the distribution of invasive weeds
Riha, Susan selected publication (authorship) Biomass, harvestable area, and forest structure estimated from commercial timber inventories
and remotely sensed imagery in southern Amazonia
18. Detailed relationships for a researcher
Andrew McDonald
author of
has author
research area
research area for
academic staff
in
academic staff
Susan Riha
Mining the record: Historical evidence for…
author of
has author
teaches research area for
research area
headed by
NYS WRI
Earth and Atmospheric
Sciences
crop management
CSS 4830
Cornell’s supercomputers crunch weather data to help farmers manage chemicals
head of
faculty appointment in
faculty members
taught by
featured in
features
person
21. iClicker Question 4
Which one of these features is most important
for VIVO to be successful?
A. Publications ingest
B. Visualization of relationships
C. Collaboration tools
D. Search/browse the network
22. Overview
1. What is VIVO?
2. Why the library?
3. User experience (UX)
4. Discussion/questions
23. Why Libraries?
• Are a trusted, neutral entity
• Have a tradition of service and support
• Strive to serve all missions of the institution
• Are technology centers and have IT and data expertise
• Have skills—information organization, instruction, usability,
subject expertise
• Have close relationships with their clients (buy in)
• Understand user needs
• Understand the importance of collaboration and know how
to bring people together
• Have knowledge of institution, research, education, clinical
landscape
Librarians:
Libraries:
24. Library staff as facilitators
Oversight of initial content development
• Oversee content, local ontology and interface refinement
• Negotiate with campus data stewards for publicly visible data
Support and training: local and national level
• Use existing VIVO documentation, presentation/demo
templates
• Provide support, web site FAQs, etc.
Communication/liaising
• Engage with potential collaborators, participants
• Usability: Feedback, new use cases from users to
implementation team
25. iClicker Question 5
How do you feel about the directions libraries
and publishers are moving in?
A. Excited by the new opportunities
B. Scared my job is in jeopardy
C. I don’t think it’s going to change that much
D. Anything goes…..
26. Overview
1. What is VIVO?
2. Why the library?
3. User experience (UX)
4. Discussion/questions
38. Overview
1. What is VIVO?
2. Why the library?
3. User experience (UX)
4. Discussion/questions
39. 1. In our new state of information overload, how
should librarians connect people with
information? Is it the role of the librarian to
connect people with people?
2. What ways are your libraries fostering
collaboration?
3. In light of collaborative team
science/research, how do you envision the
role of the library changing within the
university setting?
Discussion/questions
Presentation Goals: To provide a general overview of VIVO: semantics, profiles, search. How libraries fit in. Why semantics and how it can create a federated search, browse, and visualizations
VIVO is funded by the NIH, specifically the NCRR (National Center for Research Resources).
Stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
Cornell – UF – NIH grant
International – National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Science (3 instances, visiting scholar at CU translating materials) and University of Melbourne in Australia (Research data and records registry).
3 releases, a successful conference in Queens, and have garnished the interest of many universities, USDA, Star Metrics, CTSAs, SUNY and FL state schools
What is VIVO?
It’s a semantic web application with rich profiles that display publications, teaching, service and professional affiliations. Faceted search for fast and meaningful results.
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Foster team science by providing tools for identifying potential collaborators.
Improve collaboration by creating tools using this information for enhancing new and existing teams.
Not limited to science – at Cornell, VIVO covers all disciplines across the entire institution
Talking points:
Profiles are largely created via automated data feeds, but can be customized to suit the needs of the individual.
Information is open source (free) and is stored in a framework that allows for exporting to other applications.
Profiles are richer in content than typical [web pages or] social networking sites and will rank higher in general internet searches.
Semantic/ontology definitions (below RDF), Elly in RDF example for visual, point out links.
Simple semantic advantage
Semantic web: describes methods and technologies to allow machines to understand the meaning or "semantics” of information on the web. -- W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Ontology: a formal representation of the knowledge by a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts.-- Wikipedia
Who uses VIVO?
In addition to the faculty and researchers, it’s also useful to funding agencies, students, and administrators. These users will come from within and outside of the participating institutions.
The technology is versatile and flexible making it responsive to innovation and user needs
Talking points:
VIVO is useful to many different users and audiences. Users will come from within and outside of the participating institutions.
The technology is versatile and flexible enough to easily accommodate changes based on new and innovative demands that users make as they utilize VIVO.
Faceted search, simple and flexible, based on ontology hierarchy.
Authoritative data, diverse formats, filter out private information
Centralizes the information into a pool to draw on (the bucket)
Talk about verified data
Talking points:
Much of the data in VIVO profiles is ingested from authoritative sources so it is accurate and current, reducing the need for manual input.
Private or sensitive information is never imported into VIVO. Only public information will be stored and displayed.
Data is housed and maintained at the local institutions. There it can be updated on a regular basis.
There are three ways to get data: internal, external, individuals. Internal is authoritative!
Examples of internal data – Faculty reporting, course listings, grants, directory
Examples of external sources – Pubmed
Manual – affiliations, geographic locations
Since VIVO stores profile information drawn from a variety of sources in a single, flexible format, it can be easily “re-skinned” or “re-purposed” to present specialized views into the institution.
For example:
Graduate Programs in the Life Sciences - geared toward a specific user – prospective graduate students in the life sciences
CALS Research Portal - Or a filtered view for a specific department
CALS Impact statements- repurposed in a CMS (Drupal), development only
Faculty profiles in Classics - have a dept pulling faculty profiles into Common Spot
How is this data stored?
Talking points:
Simple format
Based on triples
Shared ontology, giving meaning to names and terminologies
Example – Mike Conlon.
See URI for Mike - html view (human readable), marbles RDF view (application use), straight-up RDF (machine readable)
RDF browser of Mike’s information…. person, thing, etc
Keep going, you get more data.
Machine and human readable
Semantically labeled data, not just text.
Feel for the VIVO ontology, Point out examples of relationships or Susan Riha.
Individual, institution, network
National exemplar
search, browse, share as RDF
visualization – Katy Borner at Indiana University
Mapped to the much larger world of the semantic web.
Anyone running VIVO will provide this RDF data with a unique namespace. Marked from an institution and considered authoritative data.
VIVO enables authoritative data about researchers to join the Linked Data cloud
Part of the solution
Libraries are posed to meet participation challenges due to their role on campus as information resource and technology centers.
Librarians are subject matter experts, understand their user’s needs and institution’s research environment.
In VIVO-funded institutions, the librarians are the ones negotiating with the owners of local data sources to explain what data we need and why we need it.
The library is a stable and natural home for VIVO, but the implementers need to work closely with the institution’s administration and faculty.
So what do librarians DO?
Identification of content types – ontology ;development and interface refinement
We negotiate with the owners of local data sources to explain what data we need and why we need it.
We provide local and national support and training through the development of documentation, presentations and help-desk services
Using the vivoweb.org website we liaise with potential collaborators – giving demos and answering questions
Creating a community of support
And delivering usability feedback to the technical team.
Marketing – through demonstrations, conferences, workshops and the development PR materials designed both to attract new participants and to assist participants with local adoption
Notes to self: Need to create a diagram like in the Mental Models book and pull more features out .
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior, Indi Young, Rosenfeld Media, Brooklyn, NY 2008
Weighted by frequency of keyword and priority
Development guided by user analysis and feature list from scenarios.
Download, Adopt, and Implement: VIVO is open source and is available for download.
Provide Data: You can participate by providing machine readable data for research discovery. Bibliometric and funding data are of great interest to the research community.
Develop Applications: Many software applications can benefit from using information that will be provided by the national network. External application development: enhanced search, new collaboration capabilities, grouping, finding and mapping scientists and their work. Anything that will leverage VIVO and the semantic cloud.