VIVO Update and Many Flavors of Search

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VIVO Update and Many Flavors of Search

• Mike Conlon
• University of Florida

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Since February

• VIVO version 1.3 completed search, user
  accounts, science map, QR codes, patents,
  interface
• Spreadsheet upload, Google Refine, Harvester
• Cross site search, VIVO searchlight,
  Direct2Experts
• Cooperative projects Harvard, Northwestern,
  Rochester, OHSU
• Mini grants to Pittsburgh, Stonybrook, Duke,
  Indiana, Weill, ORCID
• Adoptions at APA, USDA, 50 US Schools. Tests at
  NIH
• Mexico, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, India,
  Australia, China, UK, Netherlands, Brazil
• Thomson-Reuters, Elsevier, Microsoft Research
• OpenPhacts, Federal Demonstration Partnership,
  Community of Science
• Workshop, Hackathon, Implementation Fest,
  Conference

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What is VIVO?

• VIVO is open source, community maintained
  software tools for research discovery and
  networking
• 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 a world community of collaborators
  scientists, implementers, developers

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Tools, Data and Community
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Providing Data
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Tools, Data and Community
VIVO Systems
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Tools, Data and Community
VIVO Systems
Harvard Profiles
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Tools, Data and Community
VIVO Systems
Harvard Profiles
Other Compatible Systems
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Tools, Data and Community
Linked Open Data in a common format, regardless
of the system providing data
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Research Discovery and Networking Tools

• VIVO search research discovery and networking
• Duke, Florida, DERI web site plug-ins for reuse
  of VIVO data
• UCSF find investigators like me across the
  network
• Harvard visualize publication patterns
• Northwestern C-IKnow Recommender
• Pittsburgh Digital Vita produce vita and
  biosketches
• VIVO Search Light find experts related to any
  page on the world wide web
• Direct2Experts get counts of researchers
  matching criteria and link to them
• Community of Science use linked open data for
  faculty interests, match to opportunities
• Federal Researcher Profile System avoid
  duplication of entry, simplify administration
• OpenPhacts (EU) link profiles to concepts,
  provide provenance for assertions, identity
  management
• NRN visualization show data sources and their
  inventory of data

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CTSA Consortium Adoption of Linked Open Data for
Research Discovery and Networking
Research Networking Number of CTSAs
Linked Open data systems (VIVOProfilesLoki) (see note 1) 14
Elsevier SciVal Experts (see note 2) 9
Non Linked Open Data System (see note 3) 20
No system (see note 4) 17

• Notes
• Nine other CTSAs are evaluating either VIVO or
  Profiles
• Elsevier has said they can provide linked open
  data either directly, or through a VIVO add-on.
  Northwestern will implement a VIVO add-on for
  their SciVal system as a model for others
• Many CTSAs has researcher directories and/or
  researcher networking systems. Some Pittsburgh
  Digital Vita, Iowa Loki, Stanford CAP may be
  retrofitted to provide open linked data. Others
  may provide a VIVO or Profiles add-on
• Forty CTSAs continue to use WebCamp. A WebCamp
  to VIVO connector could be written to provide
  linked open data for these CTSA investigators

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Barriers to Adoption

• Cost/Commitment
• Time and Effort
• Available data
• Institution-wide implementation beyond CTSA
  mission?
• Benefits
• Emerging tools will be compelling?
• Are tools for faculty or administration?
• Cross site search?

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Addressing the Barriers

• VIVO, Profiles and Elsevier, all provide rapid
  start-up. Commercial support available for each
• Sites can add-on to their existing systems to
  provide linked open data (eg Loki)
• Sites can pipe data from their existing systems
  to a linked open data system
• Focus on CTSA level implementation
• Additional communication consortium wide
• More tools needed for investigators
• Faceted cross site search is coming