VIVO Conference 2017

VIVO 2017 Poster Reception

Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

We hope you will attend this year’s VIVO Poster Reception sponsored by Clarivate Analytics on Thursday August 3rd from 5pm to 7pm in the Griffis Faculty Club.

This engaging event is a great opportunity for one-on-one discussions with the poster and demo presenters, and networking with other attendees. Drinks and appetizers will be served.

Profiles Research Networking Software: Recent Updates and Future Plans

Poster #2: Nick Brown and Griffin Weber

Library Roles in Institutional Research Information Management

Poster #4: Rebecca Bryant and Holly Mercer

Scholars@Cornell: Beginning of a new Cornell VIVO era

Demo #8: Muhammad Javed, Sandy Payette, Joseph McEnerney, Tim Worrall, Jim Blake, Adam Smith, Mary Beth Martini-Lyons, Jason Kovari, George Kozak and Dean Krafft

From PURE to VIVO – a prototype

Poster and Demo #14: Karen Hytteballe Ibanez and Mogens Sandfaer

VIVO RAP - a Research Analytics Platform

Poster #15: Christina Steensboe, Karen Hytteballe Ibanez and Mogens Sandfaer

VIVO data ingest automatization using Karma and a standard middleware with a microservice scheme

Poster #29: Claudia Gutierrez, Ricardo Vera, Ana Triviños and Pablo Valdivia

TIB-FIS-Discovery - VIVO at the German National Library of Science and Technology

Poster #34: Christian Hauschke, Tatiana Walther, Ina Blümel and Martin Barber.

SAMURAI’s sword: VIVO as a linked-data extension to NIMS researcher directory service “SAMURAI”

Poster and Demo #44: Kosuke Tanabe

Building a better VIVO – roadmap and proposals

Poster #45: Mike Conlon

Thinking of a Blockchain for VIVO

Poster #46: Alexander Garcia Castro, Frederico Lopez and Mike Conlon

Serving diverse scholarly narratives using an integrated RIM featuring VIVO

Poster #47: Bruce Herbert, Dong Joon Lee, Ethel Mejia, Michael Bolton and Doug Hahn

Enhancing VIVO with rich publication metadata and citation metrics from Web of Science

Poster #48: Ann Beynon

Pure: A System for Research Information Management

Poster #49: Asheq Rahman

Connect UNAVCO’s VIVO extensions: linking a scientific community

Poster #50: M. Benjamin Gross, Linda R. Rowan, Matthew Mayernik, Michael D. Daniels and Dean B. Krafft

Gain a complete picture of researcher esteem with peer review

Poster #51: Daniel Johnston and Ann Beynon

Leveraging Clinical Data for Secondary Use without Losing Meaning

Poster #52: Andrew Kanter and Frank Naeymi-Rad

Attending VIVO 2017

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Get ready – VIVO 2017 starts tomorrow! Here’s what you need to know to be best prepared.

Conference dates and location

Wednesday August 2 through Friday August 4, 2017

Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065

Your attendee packet will include an event map highlighting event locations.

Transportation

Check your hotel’s website for transportation recommendations. New York has phenomenal transportation options so you won’t need a car. NYCGO is New York City’s visitor’s guide and a great resource for planning transportation.

Onsite registration at Griffis Faculty Club

Head to the registration table in Griffis Faculty Club to pick up your name badge, maps, and other conference information. Registration will be open during the duration of the event. Our conference begins on Wednesday, August 2nd at 7:30 a.m. and concludes on Friday, August 4th at 5:00 p.m..

Griffis Faculty Club is on the first floor of the main Weill Cornell Medicine building at 1300 York Avenue. Proceed straight ahead through the lobby and turn right at the end of the hall. Griffis Faculty Club is down the corridor on the left. Look for VIVO 2017 signs.

Key VIVO 2017 Events

Wednesday 8/2

7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Networking breakfast, Griffis Faculty Club
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception, Skylight Terrace

Thursday 8/3

7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Networking breakfast, Griffis Faculty Club
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Poster Reception, Griffis Faculty Club

Friday 8/4

7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Networking breakfast, Griffis Faculty Club

Tuesday 8/1

all day Symplectic North American Conference 2017

Thursday 8/3

12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch & Learn: Elsevier’s Pure, Belfer Research Building BB302A

Program information on Guidebook

More detailed program information is available on this web site and in the VIVO 2017 Guidebook app. With Guidebook, you can set up your schedule and see where sessions and events are being held throughout the conference. Click this link to download our 2017 conference app.

Tweets

Follow the conference on Twitter before and during the conference using hashtag #vivo17.

Wireless access

While on campus, please connect to Weill Cornell Medicine’s secure Wi-Fi on all your devices.

SSID: EventGuest-Aruba
User Name: wcmc
Password: wcmc1

Attire

As always, the VIVO conference is business casual and comfortable. Don’t forget to bring something warm to wear in air-conditioned event rooms.

If you’re presenting . . .

Mac laptops will be provided with standard MS applications for all presenters who need them. Please bring a jump drive with your presentation on it ahead of the event. AV systems will be provided for with VGA, HDMI, and 3.5mm audio jacks. AV techs will be available at all sessions to help out the presenters with their set ups.

To make your presentation available to the scholarly community, plan to upload the final version of your slides and other files to figshare’s VIVO Collection. Be sure to include the “vivo17” tag to add your work to this year’s conference page in OpenVIVO. Alternatively, you can share your presentation with the session chair or other VIVO task force member on a USB flash drive.

Food, drink, and fun

For restaurant ideas and other recommendations about what to do in this amazing city, see Things to Do on the conference website.

Breakfast is provided in Griffis from 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. every morning, and refreshments will be available during morning and afternoon breaks. Don’t miss the Welcome Reception on Wednesday from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. in the Skylight Terrace and the Poster Reception on Thursday from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. in Griffis Faculty Club.

Recharging in Griffis

Griffis Faculty Club will serve as the “VIVO Sponsors Lounge” location where registration, exhibitor tables, and refreshments will be available all day. Griffis will be the place for networking, refueling, and recharging your devices (session rooms have some outlets too).

Universities and Organizations Attending VIVO 2017

Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The conference task force looks forward to the VIVO 2017 event dates, bringing together the VIVO community, Profiles RNS community, and others from the following universities and organizations.

Attending Universities

Attending Organizations and Companies

VIVO 2017 Program Reviewers

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The Program Chair, Violeta Ilik, and the Vice-Chair, Eric Meeks, would like to thank the distinguished group of experts for helping us build a strong program for the VIVO 2017 Conference.

The reviewers are listed in alphabetical order:

Paul Albert - Weill Cornell Medicine
Lauren Gala - University of Pennsylvania
Kristi Holmes - Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Violeta Ilik - Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Huda Kahn - Cornell University
Dean Krafft - Cornell University
Ted Lawless - Brown University
Brian Lowe - Ontocale SRL
Steven McCauley - Brown University
Eric Meeks - University of California San Francisco
Mark Newton - Columbia University
Andi Ogier - Virginia Tech
Simon Porter - Digital Science
Barlett Ragon - University of Viriginia
Jean Rainwater - Brown University
Hannah Sommers - George Washington University
Julie Speer - Virginia Tech
Graham Triggs - DuraSpace
Julia Trimmer - Duke University
Alex Viggio - University of Colorado Boulder
Terrie Rose Wheeler - Weill Cornell Medicine

OpenVIVO

Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

OpenVIVO is a demonstration of VIVO profiles that anyone can join. Help us grow OpenVIVO with #VIVO17 attendees! OpenVIVO features include:

Open and automated profiles
ORCiD login and integration
Open ontologies
OCLC FAST terminology
FAIR(2) Data Principles
CRediT Attribution
Standard Persistent Identifiers
Immediate data reuse
100% open source!

Check out the OpenVIVO flyer for more information, and feel free to share this flyer with colleagues who may not be able to attend.

VIVO 2017 Program Highlights

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

We’re excited about our final VIVO 2017 Program which includes two keynotes, five invited talks, five (free to all attendees this year) workshops, the popular VIVO poster session, and many great sessions! Explore our online program for details on all of our scheduled content including abstracts and speaker info.

Keynote Talks

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand: Building Networked Identities through Linked Open Data

Cristina Pattuelli is an associate professor at the School of Information at Pratt Institute in New York, US and a visiting professor at the Department of the Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her current research explores the intersection between cultural heritage and information representation and access. She is the founder and director of Linked Jazz, a project that investigates the application of Linked Open Data technology to archival resources, and recently served as co-chair of the LODLAM Summit 2017.

Cristina’s Thursday morning keynote One, No One and One Hundred Thousand: Building Networked Identities through Linked Open Data will explore the complexity of identities emerging from the web of links that relate one to many and the communities that help us understand our history, our culture, ourselves.

Friday Morning Keynote

Jodi Schneider is an assistant professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Jodi studies scholarly communication and social media through the lens of arguments, evidence, and persuasion. She is developing Linked Data (ontologies, metadata, Semantic Web) approaches to manage scientific evidence.

Jodi’s Friday morning keynote Viewing Universities as Landscapes of Scholarship questions what a “Connected Graph of Scholarship” would do, that we can’t do now. The university can be seen as a collection of individuals, or as an administrative engine, but what sets a university apart is the production of knowledge and knowledgable people, through teaching, learning, and scholarly inquiry. In 2000, Michael Heaney proposed that the information landscape could be viewed ‘as a contour map’ with both peaks and troughs. We extend this analogy to take universities, and their faculty members, themselves as a part of this information landscape. This leads us to ask how we can apply linked data not just to a single university but to interconnect universities, and to survey the university itself as a landscape to support scholarly inquiry.

Invited Talks

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Metadata

James Hendler is the Director of the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications and the Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI. He also serves as a Director of the UK’s charitable Web Science Trust. One of the originators of the “Semantic Web,” Hendler was a co-author with Tim Berners-Lee and Ora Lassila on the 2001 Scientific American paper The Semantic Web.

Jim’s invited talk The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Metadata will explore some new work in improving the relationships among the three Semantic Web models, and talk about how metadata can be used for much more than just describing resources.

Knowledge Graph: Connecting Big Data Semantics

Ying Ding is an Associate Professor at School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University and is currently the associate director for data science online program. She is the Changjiang Guest Professor at Wuhan University and Elsevier Guest Professor at Tongji University China. She is the co-editor of the Semantic Web Synthesis book series by Morgan & Claypool publisher.

Ying’s invited talk Knowledge Graph: Connecting Big Data Semantics discusses big data challenges from the semantic perspective.

Synthesizing Web Application Logic Using Structural Analysis of Ontologies

David Eichmann is Director and Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. He also directs the Information Science Subprogram in the Iowa Graduate Program in Informatics. His current projects include Shakeosphere, CTSAsearch and Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L). A recent project developed an application generator that, given an ontology and a representative triple store, constructs a JSP tag library and corresponding web application. The tag library encapsulates SPARQL interaction, allowing a developer to focus on customization of the application interface through the use of HTML-like mnemonic tags.

David’s invited talk Synthesizing Web Application Logic Using Structural Analysis of Ontologies will address the rationale for such an approach, lessons learned and difficulties overcome relating to more-or-less complete ontologies, how a SPARQL-driven application can be nimble, and the potential for the semantic web community.

Making Sense of the Confusing World of Research Information Management

Rebecca Bryant, serves as Senior Program Officer at OCLC Research where she leads and develops areas for the OCLC Research Library Partnership and for OCLC Research related to research information management and research support services. She has also served as Director of Community at ORCID where she led outreach initiatives to encourage the adoption of ORCID identifiers.

Rebecca’s invited talk Making Sense of the Confusing World of Research Information Management examines how research information management (RIM) practices have been in development in Europe, the United States, and across the globe. She will provide an update on OCLC Research investigations that seek to synthesize practices and language about institutional RIM. Her talk will also offer a view of the RIM ecosystem developed in cooperation with librarians from Research Library Partnership (http://www.oclc.org/research/partnership.html) institutions that represents global practices and demonstrates how enterprise-wide collaborations can collect, share, use, and preserve quality metadata about the institutional scholarly record.

The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus: Building, Managing, and Using a Community Supported Project

Katie Frey is the Assistant Head and Digital Technologies Development Librarian at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Katie has been leading the development of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT), a community supported linked data vocabulary for sorting, filtering, and exploring astronomical literature, data sets, images, etc. Astronomical institutions, professional associations, journal publishers, learned societies, and data repositories support the UAT as a standard astronomical terminology. These stakeholders have begun efforts to incorporate UAT into their workflows and data products, taking advantage of its linked data model to build connections between platforms.

Katie’s invited talk The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus: Building, Managing, and Using a Community Supported Project will discuss tools for contributing and tracking suggestions that can be used by researchers and librarians, developed by the UAT’s Steering Committee to solicit the detailed, comprehensive, and consistent community feedback required to keep the UAT relevant.

Workshops

Identity Management - PCC Task Group on Identity Management

With increasing frequency, terminology like “Identity Management” is being used in many settings including libraries where the familiar term is “Authority Control.” Librarians are interested in understanding the difference between those concepts to better align their work with the new developments and new technologies and enable the use of the authority files and identity management registries in various settings. Our task group, Program for Cooperative Cataloging Task Group on Identity Management in NACO, would like to explore and discuss with the VIVO community our common areas of interest. Come hear about some of the emerging use cases illustrating the difference, where library authority data is being utilized in new ways and join us in discussing some of the implications these developments have for the broader community. This workshop will address the new initiative to start a pilot membership program for PCC (and other) institutions with the ISNI. This new initiative is intended to help create a pathway for globally shared identifier management work in libraries, in support of not only traditional uses, like including identifiers in MARC authority work, but also forward looking projects like linked data and non-MARC library initiatives like institutional repositories, faculty profiling systems and many other use cases.

How to Make Your Research Networking System (RNS) Invaluable to Your Institution

This workshop is designed to help institutions build, leverage, and deploy the information within their RNS across the institution. The goal is to increase awareness of, engagement with and dependence on your RNS to solidify the RNS’ roles in supporting researchers. Note that the takeaways from this workshop can be applied to your RNS regardless of the underlying product, and will work for a VIVO, Profiles, “home grown,” or commercial RNS installation. The organizers intend to provide a mix of lecture, discussion, exercises, and templates to enable participants to replicate the successful engagement at UCSF, Duke and Elsevier — and avoid our mistakes.

Managing Assets as Linked Data with Fedora

Fedora is a flexible, extensible, open source repository platform for managing, preserving, and providing access to digital content. Fedora is used in a wide variety of institutions including libraries, museums, archives, and government organizations. Fedora 4 introduces native linked data capabilities and a modular architecture based on well-documented APIs and ease of integration with existing applications. Both new and existing Fedora users will be interested in learning about and experiencing Fedora features and functionality first-hand. Attendees will be given pre-configured virtual machines that include Fedora bundled with the Solr search application and a triplestore that they can install on their laptops and continue using after the workshop. These virtual machines will be used to participate in hands-on exercises that will give attendees a chance to experience Fedora by following step-by-step instructions.

Promoting FAIR data principles with figshare

There has been much talk around FAIR repositories – making content in a repository Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Discoverable– to help create efficiencies throughout the research workflow and allowing researchers to build on data and research that came before them. Figshare works with researchers and publishers to help bridge this gap and connect the valuable underlying data to both the article and the researcher themselves, allowing for more credit for non-traditional outputs of research to spur scientific discovery and incentivize data sharing. This workshop will be a mix of group discussion and case study presentations from Carnegie Mellon University and St Edward’s University, who will be talking through their approach to implementing figshare and the tools they have built on top of the figshare API. The half day will look at the research data management landscape, from the different approaches on the institutional level that are being taken to adjust to the various funder mandates to the ways your institution can ensure researchers comply with these funder requirements.

Crosswalking Research Area Vocabularies in VIVO

Many VIVO sites use different vocabularies to indicate the research areas they are affiliated with. For example the biological sciences uses PubMed MeSH subject headings but the Physical sciences might use a controlled vocabulary from a commercial vendor like Clarivate’s Web of Science Keywords or FAST terms from the Library of Congress. This can lead to redundancy and confusion on a VIVO site that allows the end user to filter based on a vocabulary term. The same or similar terms might display multiple times. Generally an end user isn’t concerned with the originating vocabulary of the term. They just want to filter or center their experience on that term. This workshop will discuss and weigh the various options of modeling and displaying this data, in machine readable and html format, and align these options with the needs of the typical VIVO sites taking into account the governance mechanisms and uses cases for these various VIVO scenarios.

Posters and Demos

Our ever popular poster reception will be held Thursday evening in the Skylight Lounge in Weill Cornell Medicine’s state-of-the-art Belfer Research Building. This year will feature a mix of posters and interactive demos, with drinks and appetizers provided.

Sessions

Explore our online program for details on all of our scheduled content including abstracts and speaker info. Some highlights:

Late Breaking Call for Posters and Demos at VIVO17

Sat, 20 May 2017 09:00:00 +0000

Late Breaking Call for Posters/Demo

If you missed the earlier deadline, you have until June 12 to submit your poster or demo abstract. There are many benefits to presenting at the VIVO poster session, but here are five good reasons:

1. Present in a stress-free situation.

The poster/demo session at VIVO conferences is always informal and laid-back. You’ll talk to just a few people at once. If presenting to a group doesn’t sound fun, the poster/demo session is a great way to get experience without the pressure.

2. Road-test your big idea.

Get instant feedback from fellow attendees about your current work. It doesn’t need to be polished or complete. This is your chance to bounce your idea off VIVO community members.

3. Meet potential collaborators or consumers of your work.

Chances are, others are trying to solve the same problem and you could give them the solution they need. Or you might get help with a sticking point in your own work.

4. Demo something cool that you helped build.

For the first time, we’ll be doing demos at VIVO17. That means you’ll get to show us a live version of your work - no poster needed!

5. Contribute to the scholarly ecosystem.

Deposit your poster or demo abstract in figshare to generate a citation for your work and add it to the 2017 conference page in OpenVIVO.

Late Breaking Call Details

Proposals for posters and demos should be maximum of 500 words. Attendees will view and discuss your work during the poster/demo reception. Demos will be held during the poster session. The person presenting the demo should provide the equipment (typically a laptop). Please indicate in your submission whether you are proposing a poster or a demo. Posters will be limited to 35 inches (width) x 35 inches (height). Please visit the VIVO 2017 FAQ page for more details.

Submissions should explore or illustrate innovative VIVO implementations, integration with other systems, or methods of tracking and displaying scholarly impact. We encourage submissions that demonstrate the use of semantic technologies to represent scholars and their work, as well as those that illustrate teams and communities collaborating across disciplines. Share your ideas and work with the VIVO community – submit your abstract by June 12!

Submit your abstract by June 12, 2017.

Poster/demo abstracts should be 500 words or less. We’re looking forward to seeing your submission!

See you in NYC in August!

Contact Information

Violeta Ilik & Eric Meeks VIVO Conference Program Chair & Vice-Chair vivo17@easychair.org

VIVO17 Workshops

Fri, 19 May 2017 09:00:00 +0000

VIVO17 Workshops

Wednesday 2nd of August, Morning Workshops

How to Make Your Research Networking System (RNS) Invaluable to Your Institution

Organizers:

Brian Turner, Eric Meeks, Anirvan Chatterjee - University of California San Francisco
Lamont Cannon, Julia Trimmer - Duke University
Douglas Picadio, Lars Oestergaard, Kelechi Okere - Elsevier (Pure)

Duration: 3.5 hours

Learning outcomes:

Attendees will be prepared to implement several different tactics to strengthen the utility and prominence of their RNS for their institution.

Description:

A half-day workshop for up to 20 people. We’ll need internet connectivity, a projector, classroom type seating for attendees with table/laptop space, and a lectern.

We intend to provide a mix of lecture, discussion, exercises, and templates to enable participants to replicate the successful engagement at UCSF, Duke and Elsevier — and avoid our mistakes.

Identity Management

Organizers:

John Riemer, chair - University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Amber Billey - Columbia University
Michelle Durocher, PoCo representative - Harvard University
Paul Frank, PCC NACO - Library of Congress
Stephen Hearn - University of Minnesota
Violeta Ilik - Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Jennifer Liss - Indiana University
Andrew MacEwan - British Library
Erin Stalberg - Mount Holyoke College
All organizers are members of the PCC Task Group on Identity Management in NACO

Duration: 3.5 hours

Learning outcomes:

Understand the differences and similarities between authority control and identity management
Identify common areas of interest between libraries and research profiling systems
Contribute to the growing number of use cases for applying authority data in new ways
Understand how the traditional curating role for authorities data in libraries today may become much more focused on identity matching and disambiguation in the future

Participants:

Expected participants would include experts in the field of authority control as used in libraries and established experts familiar with the new initiatives that look to integrate the identity management in systems such as research profiling systems, institutional repositories, and …

This specific workshop has not been organized before. The PCC TG on Identity Management in NACO began with its work in the spring of 2016.

Description:

Libraries are shifting traditional notions of authority control from an approach primarily based on creating text strings to one focused on managing identities and entities. This workshop will examine the library experience of working collaboratively over centuries to standardize name forms, share important lessons learned, and explore what infrastructures might be put in place by libraries and institutions/organizations to enable us to work most effectively together going forward: minting and sharing identifiers, linking local identifiers to globally established ones, and creating metadata enrichment lifecycles that enable broad sharing of identity management activity.

The workshop will address the new initiative to start a pilot membership program for PCC (and other) institutions with the ISNI. This new initiative is intended to help create a pathway for globally shared identifier management work in libraries, in support of not only traditional uses, like including identifiers in MARC authority work, but also forward looking projects like linked data and non-MARC library initiatives like institutional repositories, faculty profiling systems and many other use cases.

Wednesday 2nd of August, Afternoon Workshops

Managing Assets as Linked Data with Fedora

Organizers:

David Wilcox
Andrew Woods

Duration: 3.5 hours

Description:

Fedora is a flexible, extensible, open source repository platform for managing, preserving, and providing access to digital content. Fedora is used in a wide variety of institutions including libraries, museums, archives, and government organizations. Fedora 4 introduces native linked data capabilities and a modular architecture based on well-documented APIs and ease of integration with existing applications. Recent community initiatives have added more robust functionality for exporting resources from Fedora in standard formats to support complete digital preservation workflows. Both new and existing Fedora users will be interested in learning about and experiencing Fedora features and functionality first-hand.

Attendees will be given pre-configured virtual machines that include Fedora bundled with the Solr search application and a triplestore that they can install on their laptops and continue using after the workshop. These virtual machines will be used to participate in hands-on exercises that will give attendees a chance to experience Fedora by following step-by-step instructions. Participants will learn how to create and manage content in Fedora in accordance with linked data best practices and the Portland Common Data Model. Attendees will also learn how to import resources into Fedora and export resources from Fedora to external systems and services as part of a digital curation workflow. Finally, participants will learn how to search and run SPARQL queries against content in Fedora using the included Solr index and triplestore.

Promoting FAIR data principles with figshare

Organizer:

Alan Hyndman

Duration: 3.5 hours

Description:

There has been much talk around FAIR repositories – making content in a repository Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Discoverable– to help create efficiencies throughout the research workflow and allowing researchers to build on data and research that came before them. Figshare works with researchers and publishers to help bridge this gap and connect the valuable underlying data to both the article and the researcher themselves, allowing for more credit for non-traditional outputs of research to spur scientific discovery and incentivize data sharing. This presentation will show how, by providing valuable infrastructure and bringing non-traditional research outputs to the forefront, discoverability and data reuse can raise researcher profiles and allow publishers to provide additional value to the journal article itself.

Openly-available academic data on the web will soon become the norm. Funders and publishers are already making preparations for how this content will be best managed and preserved. The coming open data mandates from funders and governments mean that we are now talking about ‘when’, not ‘if’, the majority of academic outputs will live openly on the worldwide web. The EPSRC of the UK is mandating dissemination of all of the digital products of research they fund this year. Similarly, the European Commission, Whitehouse’s OSTP, and Government of Canada are pushing ahead with directives that are also causing a chain effect of open data directives amongst European governments and North American funding bodies.

This workshop will be a mix of group discussion and case study presentations from Carnegie Mellon University and St Edward’s University, who will be talking through their approach to implementing figshare and the tools they have built on top of the figshare API. The half day will look at the research data management landscape, from the different approaches on the institutional level that are being taken to adjust to the various funder mandates to the ways your institution can ensure researchers comply with these funder requirements. In doing so, we will explore how existing workflows will be disrupted and what potential opportunities there are for adding value to academic research and profile at your institution. It will also take the audience through the experience of figshare and how we’re attempting to contribute in an area that has many stakeholders - funders, governments, institutions and the researchers themselves.

Crosswalking Research Area Vocabularies in VIVO

Organizers:

Duration: 3.5 hours

Description:

An example is how one can draw an equivalence between the Mesh Term Textile Industry and the same Agrovoc term. These both indicate “Textile Industry”. In VIVO the problem arises if one publication indicates the Mesh “Textile Industry” term while a different publication might indicate the Agrovoc “Textile Industry” term. VIVO now will show two “Textile Industry” concepts.

It gets more confounding as we search through the other vocabularies. Some sites like wikidata might have links to the term in various vocabularies, but not all. Looking at wikidata we see links to other vocabulary synonyms for “Textile”, but no links to FAST, MeSH, LCSH, Fields of Research (FOR), or others. Hence challenges are presented for VIVO sites that ingest publications from various sources, either directly or via applications like Symplectic Elements.

University of Colorado VIVO site is now impacted by this problem. We have thousands of publications from various sources using different vocabularies for research terms. We would like to import these publications and their terms into our VIVO. As a University that serves many disciplines how do we standardize which terms we will use. At first glance it seems that the amount of manual curation to do this properly is daunting.

The question then becomes what are the use cases for using Research Areas and harmonizing the terms within a site or across multiple site. An obvious case would be a journalist searching an institution for experts within a certain subject area. The journalist might not know specifically what the subject area is so it’s important to provide a top level view of general subject areas and allow them to drill down. This also might imply that the vocabularies utilize a SKOS type broader/narrower implementation. In this case each of the broader and narrower terms also needs to be harmonized with other vocabularies.

Solving this problem is crucial, especially if one wants to traverse multiple machine readable VIVO sites to locate items that might share a similar research area. Potential solutions could be that a VIVO site imports a crosswalk list of same-as statements between different research vocabularies or they utilize a lookup service. Other options include a federated vocabulary harmonizing service where all VIVOs register and have their taxonomies mined in order to be synced with a master service. Perhaps something similar to a distributed blockchain service. One reason this might be preferable is because many if not most VIVO sites require some sort of autonomy regarding the use of terms and their associations with other objects. Hence it’s imperative that the VIVO application continues to offer this flexibility.

This workshop will discuss and weigh the various options of modeling and displaying this data, in machine readable and html format, and align these options with the needs of the typical VIVO sites taking into account the governance mechanisms and uses cases for these various VIVO scenarios. This is a very broad topic hence discussion will be scoped to maintain an objective of having a VIVO site display research areas in a similar fashion as commercial sites like Amazon do.

Invited Speakers

Fri, 19 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Invited Speakers

David Eichmann

David Eichmann is Director and Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. He also directs the Information Science Subprogram in the Iowa Graduate Program in Informatics. Over the course of his career he has conducted research in relational database theory, software reuse and reengineering, software repository architecture, web search engines and intelligent agents, information retrieval and extraction, biomedical informatics, ontology-based research profile harvesting and visualization, and most recently visualization and reconciliation techniques for linked open data library catalogs. His current projects include Shakeosphere (modeling the social network of the print community in England 1540-1800), CTSAsearch (aggregating research profiles from 70+ institutions) and Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) (where he is part of a consortium exploring the next generation of library catalogs). He spends much of his summers attempting to keep the weeds at bay in his garden beds.

Rebecca Bryant

Rebecca Bryant, PhD, serves as Senior Program Officer at OCLC Research where she leads and develops areas for the OCLC Research Library Partnership and for OCLC Research related to research information management and research support services, contributing to our thematic focus on Research Collections and Support. Rebecca previously served as Project Manager for Researcher Information Services in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she led a campus-wide effort to implement the Elsevier Pure research information management system (RIMS), rebranded locally as Illinois Research Connections. She has also served as Director of Community at ORCID where she led outreach initiatives to encourage the adoption of ORCID identifiers throughout the scholarly communications community, particularly promoting adoption and integration within universities worldwide. Prior to ORCID, Dr. Bryant spent a decade in the University of Illinois Graduate College as Assistant Dean where she led numerous initiatives to support early career researchers, including the establishment of campus-wide graduate career services and postdoctoral affairs offices. She also served on a campus-wide project team to collect assessment data from 62 PhD programs for the National Research Council Assessment of Research Doctoral Programs. She has extensive experience defining and launching new technology initiatives within the research university setting, including Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) and serving as a project leader on the system-wide Banner ERP implementation team at Illinois. Rebecca earned a bachelor’s degree at Butler University, a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a PhD in musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Katie Frey

Katie Frey is the Assistant Head and Digital Technologies Development Librarian at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where she has worked since 2012. One of her primary projects has been leading the development of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus, a community supported linked data vocabulary for sorting, filtering, and exploring astronomical literature, data sets, images, etc. She also leads initiatives such as the digitization of logbooks written by women computers who worked at the Harvard College Observatory in the mid to late 1800s and the development of a tools, devices, and maker collection for exploration and prototyping. Katie holds a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS in Astronomy from San Diego State University.

Ying Ding

Dr. Ying Ding is an Associate Professor at School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University and is currently the associate director for data science online program. She is the Changjiang Guest Professor at Wuhan University and Elsevier Guest Professor at Tongji University China. She has been involved in various NIH, NSF and European-Union funded projects. She has published 200+ papers in journals, conferences, and workshops, and served as the program committee member for 180+ international conferences. She is the co-editor of book series called Semantic Web Synthesis by Morgan & Claypool publisher. She is co-author of the book ‘Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce’ published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, and co-author of the book chapter in ‘Spinning the Semantic Web’ published by MIT Press. She is the co-editor in chief for Journal of Data and Information Science, and serves as the editorial board member for Scientific Data (Nature), and several other top journals in Information Science and Semantic Web. She is the co-founder of Data2Discovery company advancing cutting edge technologies in data science. Her current research interests include data-driven science of science, data-driven discovery, Semantic Web, scientific collaboration, and the application of Web Technology.

James Hendler

James Hendler is the Director of the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications and the Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI. He also serves as a Director of the UK’s charitable Web Science Trust. Hendler has authored over 350 books, technical papers and articles in the areas of Semantic Web, artificial intelligence, agent-based computing and high performance processing. One of the originators of the “Semantic Web,” Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a former member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the AAAI, BCS, the IEEE, the AAAS and the ACM. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002. He is also the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing editors for Science. In 2010, Hendler was named one of the 20 most innovative professors in America by Playboy magazine and was selected as an “Internet Web Expert” by the US government. In 2012, he was one of the inaugural recipients of the Strata Conference “Big Data” awards for his work on large-scale open government data, and he is a columnist and associate editor of the Big Data journal. In 2013, he was appointed as the Open Data Advisor to New York State and in 2015 appointed a member of the US Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee and in 2016, became a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The 8th annual international VIVO conference brings together a community of scholars, technologists, librarians, practitioners, and decision-makers to promote the representation and discovery of scholarship beyond traditional disciplinary bounds.

Sponsors and funders have always been a big part of the VIVO project and community; in acknowledgement of this support, we have designed packages that will allow for maximum visibility before, during, and after the event. Sponsors of the 8th Annual VIVO Conference will have the special opportunity to market to and engage with decision makers and thought leaders in higher education and research including:

Research Officers
Developers, Ontologists, and Analysts
Library and repository strategists
Scientists and Researchers
Publishers
Funding Agencies

Sponsors of the 8th Annual VIVO Conference will meet attendees with overlapping areas of interest including:

Research Networking, Expert Finding, Research Discovery, and Social Network Analysis
Semantic Web and Linked Data
Research Data Standards and Metrics
Evaluation of Research Impact
Research Information Management and Current Research Information Systems (CRIS)
Technology, Technical Support, and Consulting for representing scholarship

VIVO 2017 sponsorship opportunities are limited. Please consider exclusive opportunities and early committer offers. Please see our VIVO 2017 Conference Sponsorship Prospectus for more information.

VIVO Conference 2017

VIVO 2017 Poster Reception

Profiles Research Networking Software: Recent Updates and Future Plans

Library Roles in Institutional Research Information Management

Scholars@Cornell: Beginning of a new Cornell VIVO era

From PURE to VIVO – a prototype

VIVO RAP - a Research Analytics Platform

VIVO data ingest automatization using Karma and a standard middleware with a microservice scheme

TIB-FIS-Discovery - VIVO at the German National Library of Science and Technology

SAMURAI’s sword: VIVO as a linked-data extension to NIMS researcher directory service “SAMURAI”

Building a better VIVO – roadmap and proposals

Thinking of a Blockchain for VIVO

Serving diverse scholarly narratives using an integrated RIM featuring VIVO

Enhancing VIVO with rich publication metadata and citation metrics from Web of Science

Pure: A System for Research Information Management

Connect UNAVCO’s VIVO extensions: linking a scientific community

Gain a complete picture of researcher esteem with peer review

Leveraging Clinical Data for Secondary Use without Losing Meaning

Attending VIVO 2017

Conference dates and location

Transportation

Onsite registration at Griffis Faculty Club

Key VIVO 2017 Events

Wednesday 8/2

Thursday 8/3

Friday 8/4

Sponsor Events

Tuesday 8/1

Thursday 8/3

Program information on Guidebook

Tweets

Wireless access

Attire

If you’re presenting . . .

Food, drink, and fun

Recharging in Griffis

Universities and Organizations Attending VIVO 2017

Attending Universities

Attending Organizations and Companies

VIVO 2017 Program Reviewers

OpenVIVO

VIVO 2017 Program Highlights

Keynote Talks

Invited Talks

Workshops

Posters and Demos

Sessions

Late Breaking Call for Posters and Demos at VIVO17

Late Breaking Call for Posters/Demo

1. Present in a stress-free situation.

2. Road-test your big idea.

3. Meet potential collaborators or consumers of your work.

4. Demo something cool that you helped build.

5. Contribute to the scholarly ecosystem.

Late Breaking Call Details

Submit your abstract by June 12, 2017.

Contact Information

VIVO17 Workshops

VIVO17 Workshops

Wednesday 2nd of August, Morning Workshops

How to Make Your Research Networking System (RNS) Invaluable to Your Institution

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Identity Management

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Wednesday 2nd of August, Afternoon Workshops

Managing Assets as Linked Data with Fedora

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Promoting FAIR data principles with figshare

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