IASSIST Conference, June 2, 2010 Ellen Cramer and Jon Corson- Rikert , Presenters

1. IASSIST Conference, June 2, 2010 Ellen Cramer and Jon Corson-Rikert, Presenters Co-Authors: Nicholas A. Cappadona, Brian Caruso, Valrie Davis, MedhaDevare, Dean Krafft, Brian J. Lowe, and the VIVO Collaboration

2. VIVO Collaboration: Cornell University: Dean Krafft (Cornell PI), ManoloBevia, Jim Blake, Nick Cappadona, Brian Caruso, Jon Corson-Rikert, Elly Cramer, MedhaDevare, Elizabeth Hines, Huda Khan, Brian Lowe, Joseph McEnerney, Holly Mistlebauer, Stella Mitchell, AnupSawant, Christopher Westling, Rebecca Younes. University of Florida: Mike Conlon (VIVO and UF PI), Chris Barnes, Cecilia Botero, Kerry Britt, Erin Brooks, Amy Buhler, Ellie Bushhousen, Linda Butson, Chris Case, Christine Cogar, Valrie Davis, Mary Edwards, Nita Ferree, George Hack, Chris Haines, Rae Jesano, Margeaux Johnson, Sara Kreinest, Meghan Latorre, Yang Li, Paula Markes, Hannah Norton, NarayanRaum, 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), KavithaChandrasekar, Bin Chen, Shanshan Chen, Jeni Coffey, Suresh Deivasigamani, Ying Ding, Russell Duhon, Jon Dunn, PoornimaGopinath, Julie Hardesty, Brian Keese, NamrataLele, Micah Linnemeier, Nianli Ma, Robert H. McDonald, AsikPradhanGongaju, 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, MichaeleenTrimarchi.  Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis: RakeshNagarajan (WUSTL PI), Kristi L. Holmes, CaerieHouchins, 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, ItayKlaz, Kenneth Lee, Peter Michelini, Grace Migliorisi, John Ruffing, Jason Specland, Tru Tran, VinayVarughese, Virgil Wong. This project is funded by the National Institutes of Health, U24 RR029822, "VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists".

3. Problem: Solution:

4. A semantic web application that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines in an institution. 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.

5. VIVO Origins and Current Status • Originally developed at Cornell University in 2004 to support Life Sciences • Re-implemented using RDF, OWL, Jena and SPARQL in 2007 • Now covers all faculty, researchers and disciplines at Cornell • Adopted at University of Florida in 2007 • Underlying system in use at Chinese Academy of Sciences and Australian Universities 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

6. Who can use VIVO? …and many more!

7. VIVO’s three functional layers Search and browse interface end users Editing Display, search and navigation setup curators Curator editing Ontology Editing ontology editing & data flow Data ingest Data export

8. VIVO as disseminator http://research.cals.cornell.edu https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/collaborate/ http://cals-experts.mannlib.cornell.edu/ http://gradeducation.lifesciences.cornell.edu/

9. A Library-based Support Model 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 Librarians: • 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

10. Data, Data, Data • VIVO harvests much of its data automatically 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 External data sources Internal data sources Individuals may also edit and customize their profiles to suit their professional needs.

11. Data in VIVO: Semantic Web standards • 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 institution-specific local ontology extensions Subject Verb Object

12. has author taught by crop management research area research area for teaches headed by CSS 4830 NYS WRI head of faculty appointment in faculty members features person Earth and Atmospheric Sciences featured in Cornell’s supercomputers crunch weather data to help farmers manage chemicals Detailed relationships for a researcher has author Andrew McDonald Mining the record: Historical evidence for… academic staff in author of research area author of research area for academic staff Susan Riha

13. Local data flow local systems of record data ingest ontologies (RDF) > shared as RDF VIVO (RDF) > > RDF via linked data requests SPARQL endpoint RDFa national sources HR/Peoplesoft Grants DB Courses PubMed Publishers > interactive input Researchers Librarians Administrative Staff Self-Editors Verified Information Sources

14. From local to national National browse search share as RDF visualize Aggregating and indexing RDF Exemplar Local search browse visualize local sources • Cornell University • University of Florida • Indiana University • Ponce School of Medicine • The Scripps Research Institute • Washington University, St. Louis • Weill Cornell Medical College > > VIVO share as RDF nat’l sources website data

15. Linked Data principles (Tim Berners-Lee) • http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html • http://linkeddata.org • Use URIs as names for things • Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names • When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using standards (RDF, SPARQL) • Include links to other URIs so that people can discover more things

16. VIVO enables authoritative data about researchers to join the Linked Data cloud Tim Berners-Lee, http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl

17. National networking Future VIVO Scripps VIVO UF VIVO WashU VIVO Future VIVO Future VIVO IU VIVO Ponce VIVO Other RDF RDF Triple Store Other RDF WCMC VIVO Prof. Assn. Triple Store Other RDF Visuali- zation Cornell VIVO RDF Triple Store Search Regional Triple Store Linked Open Data Other RDF Search

18. Challenges in the semantic approach • VIVO approach • Make it easy to enter structured data • Address trust via authoritative sources • Address privacyvia focus on public data • Granularity levels • Terminologies • Scalability • Disambiguation • Provenance • Temporality Jim Hendler, 1997 or 1998, http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler/LittleSemanticsWeb.html

19. Future versions of VIVO will: Display visualizations of complex research networks and relationships. Incorporate external data sources for publications and grants Support easier customization and improved semantic search Linkdata to external applications – e.g., to generate biosketches or CVs Realizethe immediate potential of the Semantic Web

20. Get involved with VIVO • As an: • adopter, • data provider, or • application developer • Open source code (BSD), ontology, and conference information available at: http://vivoweb.org Thank you! Questions?