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Using Taxonomies to Create People Directories and Author Networks Bert Carelli, Vice President Business Development www.accessinn.com
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Using Taxonomies to Create People
Directories and Author Networks
Bert Carelli, Vice President Business Developmentwww.accessinn.com
Goals and Agenda Why is it important right now that we
develop better resources about people? What roles can taxonomies play in this
effort? What opportunities are being created for
knowledge discovery and collaboration? What broad initiatives and technologies
should we be aware of?
Access Innovations Background Founded 1978: more taxonomies built than any other
company worldwide Thought leaders and educators in taxonomy standards Data Harmony Software: field tested, battle hardened,
award winning software
"Cut search time 50%." The Weather Channel"Cut search time 50%." The Weather Channel
"7-fold productivity increase" - ProQuest CSA
"7-fold productivity increase" - ProQuest CSA
The Semantic Roadmap: Knowledge Organization Systems
Semantic network Ontology Thesaurus Taxonomy Controlled vocabulary Synonym set/ring Name authority file Uncontrolled list
• Unrelated Entities• Ambiguity
• Linked Entities• Contextual Specificity
• Simple• Low Value
• Complex• High value
The Web Transformed…
Web 1.0 = Getting Content Online (over 120 million websites and growing)
Web 2.0 = Getting People Online
Mobile Social
Facebook: 700 Million Users Projected for 2011 (Open-First)
Twitter: Over 9 Billion Updates per Month
Linkedin: Over 200 Million People Searches per Month
A highly trusted source
Social technologies will boost the utility of this long-trusted source
Business Applications of Social Media
Sharing ideas for innovation Co-developing new products or services Enabling customers to get help from other
customers Generating brand awareness and visibility Peer review Assisting the selling process by sharing
contacts in a community
Company or Member Profiles
User pastes or uploads CV
Button to auto-extract taxonomy attributes
User Reviews tagging for accuracy
One Person, Many Representations
VIAF: Virtual International Authority File
http://viaf.org/viaf/95216565/
Creating an Author Authority Database
Tag all articles in the repository with standard subjects
Export author names, subjects, institutions, locations, etc.
Disambiguate authors with the same or similar names
Author Data: View by Connections…
… or by location…
…Or in the Document itself:http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000228.x001
Many Repositories for Names
VIAF: Virtual International Authority File
http://viaf.org
Project VIVO
Designed around linked data standards Resource Description Framework (RDF)
VIVO’s ontology integrates data from human resource systems, grants databases, faculty annual reporting systems, and publication databases
Free open-source software download: http://vivo.sourceforge.net
Explore a research area
Focus the results
Locate the PI for a grant
Contact a researcher with the desired expertise and research
activity
Detailed Profiles of Medical/BioMedical Researchers
Data is structured in the form of “triples” as subject-predicate-object.
Concepts and their relationships use a shared ontology to facilitate the harvesting of data from multiple sources.
Information stored as Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Jane Smith
is member of
author of
has affiliations with
Dept. of Genetic
sCollege
of Medicine
Journal article
Book chapter
Book
Genetics Institute
Subject Predicate Object
Detailed Data Relationships
David Nelson
Mike Conlon
Biomedical Informatics
Gene Anderson
Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
Ed Tech Magazine
Development of an Observational Instrument to Measure Mother-Infant Separation Post Birth
has research areais research area of
featured in
has position in
features
organization with position for
has authorauthor of
organization with position for
has position in
author of
has author
Inverse relationships are created
Connections among scientists illustrated
Current and accurate data revealed
Visualizations: co-author networks
125 Participant Organizations
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ORCID
ORCID
F67572010
Testing Possible Matching Algorithms:• VIAF matching technology from OCLC• Author Resolver from ProQuest• Matching capability from OKKAM Access Innovations Author Authority
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ORCID Profile Exchange
Integrating Identity into Publisher Systems
Manuscript Submission
• Confirm background and authenticity of submitting authors
Peer review
• Confirm background and authenticity of prospective reviewers and identify potential conflicts of interest
Connection to publications and other works
• Linking ORCID profiles with scholarly output enables disambiguation and improves publisher decision-making.
Social networks
• Integrating profile information into publishers social network systems enhances value and stickiness of these services (e.g. Nature Networks)
Questions?
Bert CarelliVice President, Business Development
Access Innovations / Data [email protected]
510-551-3784Corporate Number: 505-998-0800
