VIVO: Connecting People,

Creating Communities

M. Devare, J. Corson-Rikert, B. Caruso, B. Lowe, and the Life Sciences Working Group

(K. Alpi, h.a. brown, K. Chiang, J. Powell, L. Solla, M. Schlabach, and S. Whitaker)

5th “Reference in the 21st-Century” Symposium at Columbia University

New York City, March 9, 2007

What is VIVO?

• single point of access for information on scholarly activity in the life sciences

• uses entity – relationship model to organize and present an integrated view of Cornell life sciences:

- People

- Research

- Education

Goal

Present the depth and breadth of research and scholarship at Cornell,

Across the life sciences,

Independently of Cornell’s administrative structure

For:

ResearchersStudentsAdministrators

Prospective studentsProspective facultyDonorsLegislators…

Background

Genomics (1997) and New Life Sciences (2002/2003) Initiatives launched

Aims:

– promote collaboration among faculty

– recruit competitive faculty and students

– attract donors

The problem

Access to information

– Potential collaborators

– Competitive faculty/student candidates

– Donors

CUL Approach

Development of life sciences charge- Life Sciences Working Group

Creation of new position – area of expertise - Bioinformatics and Life Sciences Specialist

Creation of web site targeted to NLSI needs

The solution: VIVO (http://vivo.library.cornell.edu)

Andy Goldsworthy

Sample VIVO faculty profile

VIVO as harvester and distributor

Cornell News Service RSS feed

Central courselistings

Cornell directory

Faculty updates

Cornell events calendar

Workshops

Departmental seminars

Central courselistings

Grants, publications

Sources of Content

Sources of Content

OHR - appointments

OSP data warehouse

Potentially from Registrar’s database

Student/librarian entry

OHR – name & title

Student/librarian entry

Student/librarian entry

Sources of Content

Student/librarian entry

Annual faculty reporting

Annual faculty reporting

Potentially availablevia faculty reporting

VIVO: Research Tools, Facilities

VIVO search

The typical search engine VIVO

Andy Goldsworthy

Sample search in VIVO: “proteom*”

Future?

Expansion of the VIVO-life sciences model to include all Cornell faculty

Phase I focus on most likely early partners/consumers

– Social Sciences (CHE, A&S, Hotel, ILR…)

– Physical Sciences and Engineering (CoE, A&S, CALS…)

– International-themed research (all colleges)

– Weill Cornell Medical College

Phase I efforts

Expansion to full faculty– HR data with appointments– OSP grants for all colleges– Publications (via PubMed, Web of Science, Biosis)– Graduate field affiliations

Increase in data gathered via faculty reporting– VIVO providing an impetus to faculty reporting group

Integration of additional automated feeds as available– News– Events (depending on calendar task force)

Phase II efforts

Data acquisition

– Courses

– CCTEC patents

Individual-specific curation (ideally via college faculty reporting; self-update)

– Additional publications (book chapters, tech reports)

– Discipline, geography-specific elements

– Keywords

– Select data from CVs

THANK YOU!

Phase I manual curation efforts

Cross-cutting– International activities, Ithaca-WCMC collaborations

Subject area specific– Research centers, institutes– Research areas, special initiatives– Major equipment and facilities

Individual specific – Photos– Faculty profile, lab/research group URLs– Research descriptions– Association with research areas, centers, facilities, initiatives