VIVO: Enabling Networking of Scientists

Mike ConlonUniversity of Florida

What is VIVO?

• VIVO is open standards and open linked data regarding science – people, papers/products, funding, events, resources, projects, data, concepts – and the relationships between them

• VIVO is open source, community maintained software tools for research discovery and networking

• VIVO is a world community of collaborators – scientists, implementers, developers

Data, Tools and Community

Providing Data

Scientists

Concepts

Funding

Projects

EventsResources

Datasets

Papers, Patents,

Presentations

Providing Data

Advances in Providing Data• VIVO version 1.3 completed. Includes spreadsheet upload. Google Refine. Harvester• Fifty US schools adopting VIVO• Harvard Profiles (30 sites) providing data using VIVO ontology and RDF • SciVal experts (20 sites) working to provide VIVO ontology data• American Psychological Association adopts VIVO for its 154,000 members• USDA adopts VIVO. 40,000 scientists, 80,000 staff, 50 land grant universities• CTSA SG3 to propose VIVO ontology as a consortium wide standard• University of Rochester to provide CTSA-IP as VIVO data• Eagle-I and VIVO working to produce common ontology via RDF• ORCID, Community of Science interchange with VIVO• Stonybrook producing UMLS concept linkages to VIVO profiles• Indiana provides HubZero profiles (3,000) via VIVO. Iowa Loki profiles (1,000) via VIVO.• Adoptions in Mexico, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, India, China, UK, Netherlands, Brazil• Eight major Australian research universities and Australian federal research adopt VIVO• Thomson-Reuters and Elsevier providing data to VIVO• Wellspring offering individual VIVO profiles• Wellspring, Elsevier, Symplectics offering VIVO implementation services• OpenPhacts (EU) proposing VIVO• Implementation Fest held June 22-23, St. Louis. 12 schools

Data, Tools and Community

VIVO Systems

Data, Tools and Community

VIVO Systems Harvard Profiles

Data, Tools and Community

VIVO Systems Harvard Profiles

Tools, Data and Community

VIVO Systems Harvard ProfilesSciValExperts

Other Systems

Data, Tools and Community

Linked Open Data in a common format, regardless of the system providing data

Research Discovery and Networking Tools

• VIVO search – research discovery and networking• Duke, Florida – web site plug-ins for reuse of VIVO data• Digital Enterprise Research Institute – analytics for VIVO data• VIVO Search Light – find experts related to any page on the world wide web • UCSF – find investigators “like me” across the network• Harvard – visualize publication collaboration patterns• Northwestern – C-IKnow Recommender for team building• APA society portal. Identity management• CTSA consortium portal• Pittsburgh – Digital Vita – produce vita and biosketches• Direct2Experts – get counts of researchers matching criteria and link to them• Community of Science – use VIVO data for faculty interests, route opportunities to faculty• Federal Researcher Profile System – avoid duplication of entry, simplify administration• OpenPhacts (EU) – provide provenance for assertions• NRN visualization – show data sources and their inventory of data• VIVO concept – what topic areas are covered by people, departments, universities

Building Community• Federal agencies – OSTP, NIH, NLM, NSF, USDA, FDP, FRPS, STAR Metrics, …• Publishers and Aggregators – Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, ORCID, CiteSeer, Arxiv,

Dspace, …• Professional Societies – APA, AAAS, AIRI, AAMC, ABRF, …• International collaborators – Ireland, Germany, Australia, China, Netherlands,

UK, Costa Rica, Iceland, Brazil, Mexico, …• Semantic Web community – DERI, Tim Berners-Lee, MyExperiment,

ConceptWeb, Open Phacts (EU), Linked Data, …• Research resources – Eagle-I, BRO, eBIRT, RDS, …• Open Source cooperatives – Kuali, Sakai, Duraspace, …• Social Network Analysis Community – Northwestern, Davis, UCF, INSNA, …• Schools and Consortia – CTSAs, CIC, Pitt, Emory, Iowa, Harvard, UCSF, Stanford,

MIT, Brown, Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, Duke, Hunter, OHSU, Minnesota, …• Software downloads (>10,000) and contact list (>1,600)• Four annual events – conference, workshop, hackathon, implementation fest• On-line community http://vivo.sourceforge.net

VIVO 2012, August 22-24, Hotel Intercontinental, Miami, Florida

Thank you!The VIVO Team 2011