VIVO is a resource that provides information about:

• people• departments• facilities• courses• grants• publications

vivoweb.org

VIVO CollaborationCornell UniversityDean Krafft (Cornell PI)

Manolo BeviaJim Blake

Nick CappadonaBrian Caruso

Jon Corson-RikertElly Cramer

Medha DevareElizabeth Hines

Huda KhanBrian Lowe

Joseph McEnerneyHolly Mistlebauer

Stella MitchellAnup Sawant

Christopher WestlingTim Worrall

Rebecca Younes

University of FloridaMike Conlon (VIVO and UF PI)

Beth AutenChris Barnes

Cecilia BoteroKerry BrittErin BrooksAmy Buhler

Ellie BushhousenLinda Butson

Chris CaseChristine Cogar

Valrie DavisMary Edwards

Nita FerreeRolando Garcia-Milan

George HackChris HainesSara HenningRae Jesano

Margeaux JohnsonMeghan Latorre

Yang LiPaula Markes

Hannah NortonNarayan Raum

Alexander RockwellSara Russell Gonzalez

Nancy SchaeferDale SchepplerNicholas Skaggs

Syraj SyedMatthew Tedder

Michele R. TennantAlicia Turner

Stephen Williams

Indiana UniversityKaty Borner (IU PI)

Kavitha ChandrasekarBin Chen

Shanshan ChenRyan CobineJeni Coffey

Suresh DeivasigamaniYing Ding

Russell DuhonJon Dunn

Poornima GopinathJulie Hardesty

Brian KeeseNamrata Lele

Micah LinnemeierNianli Ma

Robert H. McDonaldAsik Pradhan Gongaju

Mark PriceMichael Stamper

Yuyin SunChintan TankAlan Walsh

Brian WheelerFeng Wu

Angela Zoss

Ponce School of MedicineRichard J. Noel, Jr. (Ponce PI)

Ricardo Espada ColonDamaris Torres Cruz

Michael Vega Negrón

This project is funded by the National Institutes of Health, U24 RR029822"VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists”

The Scripps Research Institute

Gerald Joyce (Scripps PI)Catherine Dunn

Brant KelleyPaula King

Angela MurrellBarbara NobleCary Thomas

Michaeleen Trimarchi

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Rakesh Nagarajan (WUSTL PI)Kristi L. HolmesCaerie HouchinsGeorge JosephSunita B. Koul

Leslie D. McIntosh

Weill Cornell Medical CollegeCurtis Cole (Weill PI)

Paul AlbertVictor Brodsky

Mark BronnimannAdam Cheriff

Oscar CruzDan Dickinson

Richard HuChris Huang

Itay KlazKenneth Lee

Peter MicheliniGrace Migliorisi

John RuffingJason Specland

Tru TranVinay Varughese

Virgil Wong

• Research institutions can be extremely large • How can administrators showcase and monitor research activity, track competitors,

and stay abreast of current research inside large institutions, at other institutions, and globally?

Administrators

Current Challenges

• Research is becoming highly interdisciplinary• How can you find collaborators, track competitors, and stay abreast of current

research inside large institutions, at other institutions, and globally?• How can you find others with shared interests or expertise?• How can you build diverse teams? Find mentors? Be identified as a partner by

community groups?

Faculty

• Library administration or directors of core facilities want to align their strategic plan with the evolving research needs of their clientele.

• Identifying growth areas of research through increasing publications, focused areas of research and grant dollars enables this task to become more evidence-based.

Research Support: facilities and personnel

What is VIVO?

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.

VIVO harvests data from verified sources

VIVO data is available for reuse by web pages, applications, and other consumers both within and outside the institution.

Data stored as RDF triples using standard

ontology

Internal data sources:• HR Directory• Office of Sponsored Research• Institutional Repositories• Registrar System• Faculty Activity Systems• Events and Seminars

External data sources:• Publication warehouses-

e.g. PubMed, Web of Science, and others

• Grant databases: e.g. NSF/ NIH

• National Organizations: AAAS, AMA, etc.

Faculty and unit administrators can then

add additional information to their

profile.

Who can use VIVO?

…and many more!

A VIVO profile will allow researchers to:

Showcase credentials, expertise, skills, and professional achievements.

Connect within focus areas and geographic expertise.

Simplify reporting tasks.

Publish the URL or link the profile to other applications.

Find potential colleagues by research area, authorship, and collaborations.

Future versions of VIVO will:

• Simplify reporting tasks for everyone• Incorporate external data sources for

publications, grants, and more.• Display visualizations of complex

research networks and relationships.• Link data to external applications and

web pages.• Make more types of data and features

available to users

National VIVO Activity

International VIVO Activity

VIVO Collaborative Research Projects Program

Under this RFA, VIVO anticipatescommitting $250,000 dollars during the2010-2011 academic year to providefunding for people and institutionsinterested in developing tools that useVIVO data or code to positively impactscientists and science.

Resulting tools must be open source andavailable for download from the VIVOsoftware distribution web sites by the endof the funding period.

The due date for applications is December10, 2010 by 5:00pm EST. For completedetails, please see the full RFA text athttp://vivoweb.org/files/VIVO RFA.pdf.

How Can I Get Involved?Are you considering adoption of VIVO at your institution?

Do you have an application that could participate in the national network or have an idea for an application that would leverage the information provided by the national network?

Do you have data that could be useful to scientists on the national network?

Contact us at http://vivoweb.org

Thank you!