Presented by:Ellen J. Cramer Ph.D.Research AssociateCornell Universityejc12@cornell.edu

A Closer Look at VIVO

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:

Overview

1. What is VIVO?

2. Why the library?

3. User experience (UX)

4. Discussion/questons

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

iClicker Question 1

Had you heard of VIVO before the conference?

A. YesB. No

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.

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)

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

VIVO’s semantic advantage

Data modeled as bidirectional relationships

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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

iClicker Question 3

Who are you?

A. Faculty/researcherB. LibrarianC. VendorD. Other

Faceted search, browse, and ontology hierarchy

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

http://gradeducation.lifesciences.cornell.edu/

Repurposing and re-using data

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 DataSubject Predicate (verb) ObjectRiha, 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

Mike Conlon’s VIVO profile

Mike Conlon’s VIVO profile as Linked Data

Detailed relationships for a researcher

Andrew McDonald

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research area

research area for

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academic staff

Susan Riha

Mining the record: Historical evidence for…

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Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

crop management

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Cornell’s supercomputers crunch weather data to help farmers manage chemicals

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faculty members

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Visualizing relationships

Visuali-zation

Ponce VIVO

WashU VIVO

Scripps VIVO UF

VIVOIU

VIVO

WCMC VIVO

Cornell VIVO RDF

Triple Store

RDFTriple Store

FutureVIVO

FutureVIVO

FutureVIVO

OtherRDF

OtherRDF

OtherRDF

Prof. Assn.Triple Store

RegionalTriple Store

Search

OtherRDF

Search

Linked Open Data

NIH VIVO Network Exemplar

iClicker Question 4

Which one of these features is most important for VIVO to be successful?

A. Publications ingestB. Visualization of relationshipsC. Collaboration toolsD. Search/browse the network

Overview

1. What is VIVO?

2. Why the library?

3. User experience (UX)

4. Discussion/questions

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:

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

iClicker Question 5

How do you feel about the directions libraries and publishers are moving in?

A. Excited by the new opportunitiesB. Scared my job is in jeopardyC. I don’t think it’s going to change that muchD. Anything goes…..

Overview

1. What is VIVO?

2. Why the library?

3. User experience (UX)

4. Discussion/questions

Our Process

Audience Analysis – Mental Model

Contact

User Scenarios

Search

Profiles Collaboration

CV

Reports

Login

Friends

Events

Funding

Site management

Ingest

Linked data

VisualizePublications

Features based on users and scenarios

User testing and Morae

Earlier feedback with InfoMaki

iClicker Question 6 - InfoMaki

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iClicker Question 7 - InfoMaki

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iClicker Question 8 - InfoMaki

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Overview

1. What is VIVO?

2. Why the library?

3. User experience (UX)

4. Discussion/questions

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

http://vivoweb.orghttp://sourceforge.org/projects/vivo

THANK YOU!ejc12@cornell.edu