1. Visualizing data
Violeta Ilik
Metadata Cataloging Librarian
Texas A&M University Libraries

2. Viewshare
open-source visualization platform

3. Viewshare – 3 use cases
• Collection ingested in XML (MODS) format
• Scientific data set ingested as xsl file
• Academic community data ingested xsl file

4. Texas A&M System - Board
approved operating budgets
MARCXML
MODS

5. MODS XML file

6. Board approved operating budgets –
Texas A&M University System

7. Present fields

8. Present fields (cont.)

9. List view by member institution

10. Ecoli data set
Study design: cross sectional study
cross-sectional studies involve data collected at a
defined time - used to assess the prevalence of
acute or chronic conditions, or to answer
questions about the causes of disease or the
results of medical intervention.

11. Ecoli visualization – raw data

12. Ecoli visualization – human
readable data

13. Ecoli visualization – human
readable data

14. Ecoli visualization –
Visualization of data set from a cross sectional study

15. Ecoli visualization –
Visualization of data set from a cross sectional
study

16. Visualizing academic communities
Dwight Look College of Engineering -
Department of Computer Science &
Engineering

17. Texas A&M Computer Science &
Engineering–
Visualizing academic community

18. Texas A&M Computer Science & Engineering–
Visualization of academic community

19. Texas A&M Computer Science &
Engineering–
Visualization of academic community

20. Texas A&M Computer Science & Engineering

21. Library of Congress Subject Headings –
research area

22. Library of Congress Subject Headings

23. Lexvo term

24. EuroVoc

25. AGROVOC Thesaurus

26. DBpedia

27. DBpedia

28. Virtual International Authority File

29. Visualizing data
• Data Integration: Importing Data from
External Systems
• Integrating and harvesting multiple data
sources with symplectic elements
• Customizing visualization platforms to
meet (y)our needs

30. VIVO
“VIVO is an open community, an information
model, and an open source semantic web
application supporting the advancement of
scholarship by integrating and sharing
information about scholars, their activities and
outputs at a single institution while supporting
discovery of related work and expertise across a
distributed network.”

31. VIVO @ Texas A&M University

32. Lessons learned
“Progress toward better data integration
will happen through use of the key piece
of technology that made the World Wide
Web so successful: the link”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee

33. Thank you
Violeta Ilik
Metadata Cataloging Librarian
Texas A&M University
vilik at library tamu edu