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VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists

VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists. Michael Conlon, PhD Principal Investigator mconlon@ufl.edu. The Goal Improve all of science by providing the means for sharing and using current, accurate and precise information regarding scientists’ interests, activities and accomplishments

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VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists

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  1. VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists Michael Conlon, PhD Principal Investigator mconlon@ufl.edu

  2. The Goal • Improve all of science by providing the means for sharing and using current, accurate and precise information regarding scientists’ interests, activities and accomplishments • National Networking of Scientists • $12.3M 2-year ARRA/NCRR award, 9/25/2009 • Seven schools • Extend VIVO software from Cornell to provide information by scientists for scientists • Foster team science by providing tools for identifying potential collaborators • Improve collaboration by creating tools using this information for enhancing new and existing teams • Facilitate the science of team science National Networking of Scientists

  3. Developed at Cornell in 2004 • Find faculty by interests, activities, accomplishments • Release 1 to 7 schools now • Standard ontology • Local search • Application support • Release 2, open adoption • Federated identity • Network search • Grouping, interfaces • Release 3, national network • Most requested features VIVO Software for National Networking VIVO at Cornell: http://vivo.cornell.edu

  4. Future application -- Find Scientists Semantic search finds only items of interest.

  5. Future application -- Understand Collaborations A sample PI/Co-PI network More recent collaborations are lighter in color Larger circles indicate larger awards

  6. Future application – Route Info

  7. Information in VIVO can be used to create • Biosketches • Vitas • Annual reports • Department and research group web sites • Information can be used to populate profiles in collaborative tools – portals, wikis, … Future application -- Simplify Tasks

  8. Ontologies • FOAF, SKOS, MESH, … • Semantic Web • RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, … • Federated Identity Management • SAML 2.0, Shibboleth, … • Interoperability • Identity, Semantics, Applications How The National Network works: Structured Information Architecture

  9. Three sources of VIVO information • User data • Institutional data • Provider data • Two formats for output • Web Pages for users • Resource Description Framework for applications Institutional Architecture

  10. National Network Users access applications Applications access standard information VIVOs are independent Apps are independent Other systems can provide information according to standards National Architecture

  11. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY • Ponce Medical School, Ponce, PR • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN • Washington University, St Louis, MO • Weill-Cornell Medical College, NY, NY • The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA National Networking Team

  12. Open engagement to foster national networking Inventory of Resources – Eagle-I, Lee Nadler, Harvard Federal agencies – NIH, NSF, … Search Providers – Google, Bing, Yahoo, … Professional Societies – AAAS, … Publishers – Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, Collexis, … Semantic Web community – DERI, Linked Data, … Consortia of schools– SURA, CTSA, CIC, FLR, … Existing service providers – over 40 Collaboration and Coordination

  13. Information is institutionally hosted and maintained to benefit the institution and its scientists VIVO software is open source, community maintained National network applications can be commercial or open source Institutions may use open source, commercial versions of VIVO, or other platforms that provide data to the national network Sustainability

  14. Development Interfaces, packaging at UF, ontology and social networking at Indiana, semantic web, user experience at Cornell Implementation Cornell (existing), UF (underway), Indiana (11/2009), Washington U (11/2009), Weill (12/2009), Scripps (1/2010), Ponce (1/2010) Outreach Presentations, inquiries, collaboration Governance TAB, SAB, EAB Evaluation Washington Univ. Visitwww.vivoweb.org Project Status

  15. Establishing national networking of scientists will significantly improve all of biomedical research in the United States by providing opportunities across all disciplines to identify existing and on-going work, identify potential new collaborations and improve and extend existing collaborations. National networking gives scientists critical new information regarding current scientific activity to improve science, knowledge and human health.

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