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Michele R. Tennant, PhD, MLIS ; Kristi L. Holmes, PhD ; Christopher Barnes ; Ying Ding, PhD ; Valrie I. Davis, MLIS ; Sara Russell Gonzalez, MLS, PhD ; Leslie McIntosh, PhD ; Stella Mitchell ; Mike Conlon, PhD ; VIVO Collaboration
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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2 Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
3 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
4 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

VIVO: Support for Translational Research

What is VIVO? Linked Open Data A VIVO profile Visualizations Next Steps
National Search
VIVO is an open source semantic web application that enables the discovery of research and VIVO provides network analysis and

VIVO
scholarship across disciplinary and administrative boundaries through interlinked profiles of
visualization tools to maximize the benefits
people and other research-related information.
afforded by the data available in VIVO.
VIVO uses data ingested from institutional sources of record and external sources and can be
supplemented with manual entry to populate detailed profiles of researchers with information
related to publications, grants, educational background, research interests, teaching, awards,
professional affiliations, and more.

Data in VIVO conform to a public ontology of types and relationships that can be extended for
local needs via the ontology editor included with the VIVO application.

VIVO's ontology supports faceted searching for quick retrieval of people, organizations, events,
and research-related information.
A national search feature will allow users to access the rich data available in VIVO and
Institutional VIVOs and other compatible profiling applications are producing data to form a By storing data in VIVO in RDF and using standard ontologies, the information in VIVO can other compatible platforms and enable meaningful search across a series of semantically
rich network of information that can be searched to foster collaboration across institutions and either be displayed in a human-readable web page or delivered to other systems as RDF. This available endpoints.
allows the open researcher data in VIVO to be harvested, aggregated, and integrated into the
enable open sharing of research discovery.
Linked Open Data cloud. SPARQL is an RDF query language which allows users to construct
globally unambiguous queries, from across diverse data sources. VIVO enables high quality data to be revealed about researchers, their
VIVO Open Source Community
How can you use VIVO? collaborators, their funding sources, and more. VIVO v1.2 offers options
VIVO Ontology for export as images or data. Core project development
augmented with contributions and
is

VIVO 1.2 includes a new ontology module feedback by other developers across
representing research resources including multiple institutions on SourceForge.
biological specimens, human studies,
The VIVO open source community
instruments, organisms, protocols, reagents,
space was recently upgraded to
and research opportunities. This module is
SourceForge 2.0. This is a major
aligned with the top-level ontology classes and upgrade for SourceForge and we look
properties from the NIH-funded eagle-i Project forward to easier administration, better
(https://www.eagle-i.org/home/). navigation and a new look.

More content will be added to

Harvester
SourceForge in the coming months to
The Harvester is an extensible data ingest support implementation, adoption,
and updating framework with sample and development efforts.
configurations for loading PubMed These data can serve as the foundation for
publication, grants, and human resources further network analyses and elegant
data. visualizations of the research enterprise on
Create cross-disciplinary research teams: Download Harvester:
the individual, local, and global levels. VIVO Collaborative Research Projects Program
Anthony is writing a multi-disciplinary research proposal on molecular treatments for breast cancer. He VIVO Widgets
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vivo
would like to identify and contact potential collaborators and begin to exchange information regarding the Ricardo Pietrobon, Duke University with Richard Outten, Mark McCahill, and Paolo Mangiafico
This effort proposes to create a set of widgets that display information from VIVO profiles in blogs, portals, and departmental and lab

2011 VIVO Conference

research.
pages. This will simplify the display of authoritative VIVO information on other sites, will include links back to the original VIVO profile.
Identify potential funding opportunities:
Mary is the director of a large research center. She would like to visualize clusters of interests, techniques, Faculty and unit administrators Digital Vita Documents (DV Docs) for VIVO

Data Sources
and areas of specialty amongst the researchers that are part of her center. She would like to use this can then supplement profiles Titus Schleyer and Michael Becich – University of Pittsburgh
with additional information
information to grow existing areas of strength and collaborative efforts and maximize ROI. Research statement
The aim of this proposal is to import DV’s document generation functions to the VIVO platform, generalize them, and provide a simple
web application for VIVO users to manage and generate NIH biosketches.
Recruit graduate students: Honors and awards
Tom is completing his BS in Biology. He wants to identify institutions with robust programs in his research The VIVO platform and ORCID in the scholarly identity ecosystem
area of interest — the genetic bases of neurodegenerative disorders. Internal data sources: Gudmundur A. Thorisson, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Geoffrey W. Bilder, CrossRef, Oxford,
External data sources: United Kingdom; and Martin Fenner Hannover Medical School, Germany on behalf of ORCID (http://www.orcid.org)
Locate focused publication content: HR directory
Publication warehouses The overall aim of this project is to understand how VIVO and ORCID can interact in the scholarly identity ecosystem by working with the
Samantha is a faculty member at an university. She is looking for papers published by other scholars at her Office of Sponsored Research
PubMed, Scopus, etc.
Institutional Repositories VIVO platform to develop extensions to the VIVO platform to support ORCID use cases such as search/retrieve/ingest bibliographic
institution on using advanced statistical methods to analyze research impact in the bioinformatics domain. Grant databases
Registrar System
NIH RePORTER information from CrossRef and secure exchange of profile information between VIVO and an external system, such as a manuscript
Assemble specialized review panels: Faculty activity systems
Events and seminars
Organizations and societies tracking system.
David is a federal agency staff member. He needs to identify people who can serve on scientific review Data stored as RDF triples using AAAS, AMA, etc.
standard ontology Integrating the UMLS Ontology into VIVO for Linking Biomedical Scientists
panels. He wants to find people who work in specific areas, but wants to exclude people who have been
Moises Eisenberg and Janos Hajagos – Stony Brook University Dept of Medical Informatics/SUNY REACH Web Presence Team
co-authors with the researchers whose proposals are under review. The aim of this proposal is to create open-source tool that uses domain-specific ontologies to normalize research interests in the VIVO
Plan budgets, services and resources: platform. This effort should help facilitate inter-institutional searching for biomedical researchers.
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, A HUBzero/Joomla! VIVO Application
VIVO data is available for reuse by web pages, applications, and other William K. Barnett, Robert H. McDonald, and Anurag Shankar – Indiana University
focused areas of research, and grant dollars enables this task to become more evidence-based.
consumers both within and outside the institution. http://vivo.sourceforge.net http://twitter.com/VIVOcollab http://www.facebook.com/VIVOcollaboration
Joomla! is a portal engine and content management system similar to Drupal. This work proposes to develop a Joomla! extension of the
VIVO application to be integrated within HUBzero. This will offer a number of ways of restructuring and restyling VIVO content.

*VIVO Collaboration: Cornell University: Dean Krafft (Cornell PI), Manolo Bevia, Jim Blake, Nick Cappadona, Brian Caruso, Jon Corson-Rikert, Elly Cramer, Medha Devare, Elizabeth Hines, Huda Khan, Brian Lowe, Deepak Konidena, Brian Lowe, Joseph McEnerney, Holly Mistlebauer, Stella Mitchell, Anup Sawant, Christopher Westling, Tim Worrall, Rebecca Younes. University of Florida: Mike Conlon (VIVO and UF PI), Beth Auten, Michael Barbieri,
Chris Barnes, Kaitlin Blackburn, Cecilia Botero, Kerry Britt, Erin Brooks, Amy Buhler, Ellie Bushhousen, Linda Butson, Chris Case, Christine Cogar, Valrie Davis, Mary Edwards, Nita Ferree, Rolando Garcia-Milan, George Hack, Chris Haines, Sara Henning, Rae Jesano, Margeaux Johnson, Meghan Latorre, Yang Li, Jennifer Lyon, Paula Markes, Hannah Norton, James Pence, Narayan Raum, Nicholas Rejack, 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), Kavitha Chandrasekar, Bin Chen, Shanshan Chen, Ryan Cobine, Jeni Coffey, Suresh Deivasigamani, Ying Ding, Russell Duhon, Jon Dunn, Poornima Gopinath, Julie Hardesty, Brian Keese, Namrata Lele, Micah Linnemeier, Nianli Ma, Robert H. McDonald, Asik Pradhan Gongaju, Mark Price, Michael
Stamper, 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, Sam Katov, Brant Kelley, Paula King, Angela Murrell, Barbara Noble, Cary Thomas, Michaeleen Trimarchi. Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine:
Rakesh Nagarajan (WUSTL PI), Kristi L. Holmes, Caerie Houchins, 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, Itay Klaz, Kenneth Lee, Peter Michelini, Grace Migliorisi, John Ruffing, Jason Specland, Tru Tran, Vinay Varughese, Virgil Wong. This project is funded by the National
Institutes of Health, U24 RR029822, "VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists".