1. VIVO is a resource that
provides information about:
• people
• departments
• facilities
• courses
• grants
• publications
vivoweb.org
2. VIVO Collaboration
University of Florida Indiana University
Mike Conlon (VIVO and UF PI) Katy Borner (IU PI)
Beth Auten Kavitha Chandrasekar
Chris Barnes Bin Chen
Cecilia Botero Shanshan Chen
Kerry Britt Ryan Cobine Cornell University Washington University School of
Erin Brooks Jeni Coffey Dean Krafft (Cornell PI) Medicine in St. Louis
Amy Buhler Suresh Deivasigamani Manolo Bevia Rakesh Nagarajan (WUSTL PI)
Ellie Bushhousen Ying Ding Jim Blake Kristi L. Holmes
Linda Butson Russell Duhon Nick Cappadona Caerie Houchins
Chris Case Jon Dunn Brian Caruso George Joseph
Christine Cogar Poornima Gopinath Jon Corson-Rikert Sunita B. Koul
Valrie Davis Julie Hardesty Elly Cramer Leslie D. McIntosh
Mary Edwards Brian Keese Medha Devare
Nita Ferree Namrata Lele Elizabeth Hines
Rolando Garcia-Milan Micah Linnemeier Huda Khan
Weill Cornell Medical College
Curtis Cole (Weill PI)
George Hack Nianli Ma Brian Lowe
Paul Albert
Chris Haines Robert H. McDonald Joseph McEnerney
Victor Brodsky
Sara Henning Asik Pradhan Gongaju Holly Mistlebauer
Mark Bronnimann
Rae Jesano Mark Price Stella Mitchell
Adam Cheriff
Margeaux Johnson Michael Stamper Anup Sawant
Oscar Cruz
Meghan Latorre Yuyin Sun Christopher Westling
Dan Dickinson
Yang Li Chintan Tank Tim Worrall
Richard Hu
Paula Markes Alan Walsh Rebecca Younes
Chris Huang
Hannah Norton Brian Wheeler
Narayan Raum Feng Wu The Scripps Research Itay Klaz
Institute Kenneth Lee
Alexander Rockwell Angela Zoss
Peter Michelini
Sara Russell Gonzalez Gerald Joyce (Scripps PI)
Nancy Schaefer Ponce School of Medicine Catherine Dunn
Grace Migliorisi
Richard J. Noel, Jr. (Ponce PI) John Ruffing
Dale Scheppler Brant Kelley
Ricardo Espada Colon Jason Specland
Nicholas Skaggs Paula King
Damaris Torres Cruz Tru Tran
Syraj Syed Angela Murrell
Michael Vega Negrón Vinay Varughese
Matthew Tedder Barbara Noble
Virgil Wong
Michele R. Tennant Cary Thomas
Alicia Turner Michaeleen Trimarchi
Stephen Williams
This project is funded by the National Institutes of Health, U24 RR029822
"VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists”
3. Current Challenges
Faculty
• 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?
Administrators
• 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?
Research Support: facilities and personnel
• 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.
4. What is VIVO?
An open-source 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 harvests data from verified sources
Faculty and unit
administrators can then
add additional
information to their
profile.
Internal data sources: External data sources:
• HR Directory • Publication warehouses-
• Office of Sponsored Research e.g. PubMed, Web of
Science, and others
• Institutional Repositories
• Grant databases:
• Registrar System e.g. NSF/ NIH
• Faculty Activity Systems • National Organizations:
• Events and Seminars AAAS, AMA, etc.
Data stored as RDF triples
using standard
ontology
VIVO data is available for reuse by web pages, applications,
and other consumers both within and outside the institution.
7. A VIVO profile will allow researchers to:
Find potential colleagues by research
area, authorship, and collaborations.
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.
8. 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
12. VIVO Collaborative Research Projects Program
Under this RFA, VIVO anticipates
committing $250,000 dollars during the
2010-2011 academic year to provide
funding for people and institutions
interested in developing tools that use
VIVO data or code to positively impact
scientists and science.
Resulting tools must be open source and
available for download from the VIVO
software distribution web sites by the end
of the funding period.
The due date for applications is December
10, 2010 by 5:00pm EST. For complete
details, please see the full RFA text at
http://vivoweb.org/files/VIVO RFA.pdf.
13. 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!