1. Using Taxonomies to Create People Directories and Author Networks Bert Carelli, Vice President Business Development www.accessinn.com

2. Goals and Agenda Why is it important right now that we develop better resources about people? What roles can taxonomies play in this effort? What opportunities are being created for knowledge discovery and collaboration? What broad initiatives and technologies should we be aware of?

3. Access Innovations Background "Cut search time 50%." The Weather Channel "7-fold productivity increase" - ProQuest CSA Founded 1978: more taxonomies built than any other company worldwide Thought leaders and educators in taxonomy standards Data Harmony Software: field tested, battle hardened, award winning software

5. Contextual Specificity

6. Complex

8. Ambiguity

9. Simple

11. Facebook: 700 Million Users Projected for 2011(Open-First)

12. Twitter: Over 9 Billion Updates per Month

13. Linkedin: Over 200 Million People Searches per Month

14. A highly trusted source Social technologies will boost the utility of this long-trusted source

15. Business Applications of Social Media Sharing ideas for innovation Co-developing new products or services Enabling customers to get help from other customers Generating brand awareness and visibility Peer review Assisting the selling process by sharing contacts in a community

16. Button to auto-extract taxonomy attributes Company or Member Profiles User pastes or uploads CV User Reviews tagging for accuracy

17. One Person, Many Representations VIAF: Virtual International Authority File http://viaf.org/viaf/95216565/

19. Export author names, subjects, institutions, locations, etc.

21. … or by location…

22. …Or in the Document itself: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000228.x001

23. Many Repositories for Names

24. VIAF: Virtual International Authority File http://viaf.org

26. Project VIVO Designed around linked data standards Resource Description Framework (RDF) VIVO’s ontology integrates data from human resource systems, grants databases, faculty annual reporting systems, and publication databases Free open-source software download: http://vivo.sourceforge.net

27. Detailed Profiles of Medical/BioMedical Researchers Contact a researcher with the desired expertise and research activity Focus the results Explore a research area Locate the PI for a grant

29. Concepts and their relationships use a shared ontology to facilitate the harvesting of data from multiple sources.Dept. of Genetics College of Medicine is member of Jane Smith Genetics Institute has affiliations with Journal article author of Book Book chapter Subject Predicate Object

30. Detailed Data Relationships Connections among scientists illustrated David Nelson has position in organization with position for Biomedical Informatics Inverse relationships are created is research area of has research area has position in featured in Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) organization with position for Mike Conlon features Ed Tech Magazine Gene Anderson has author author of author of has author Development of an Observational Instrument to Measure Mother-Infant Separation Post Birth Current and accurate data revealed

31. Visualizations: co-author networks

32. ORCID 125 Participant Organizations 25

34. Author Resolver from ProQuest

35. Matching capability from OKKAMAccess Innovations Author Authority ORCID Profile Exchange ORCID F67572010 26

36. Integrating Identity into Publisher Systems

37. Questions? Bert Carelli Vice President, Business Development Access Innovations / Data Harmony Bert_carelli@accessinn.com 510-551-3784 Corporate Number: 505-998-0800