An overview including why to use VIVO; who uses VIVO; implementation; and the role of the library in supporting VIVO. Originally delivered at Science, Technology, and Medical Librarians Special Interest Group, Metropolitan New York Library Council.

1. VIVO:
ONLINE NETWORKING
AND RESEARCH
MANAGEMENT FOR
SCIENTISTS
John Carey
Hunter College Health Professions Library
October 15, 2010

2. VIVO
Enabling collaboration and discovery
between scientists and across all
disciplines?
There’s an app for that.
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, U24
RR029822.

3. Inception
“The idea of VIVO was to transcend
administrative divisions and create a single
point of access for scholarly interaction.”
Medha Devare,
VIVO Outreach
Brooks, E., Case, C., Corson-Rikert, J. et al. (2010). National VIVO network implementation plan,
p. 3. Retrieved from http://www.vivoweb.org/files/ImplementationPlan_8_6.pdf.

4. Linked Open Data
and the Semantic Web
A lot of
data, a little
semantics
Linking and
aggregatin
g to take
best
advantage
of what’s
out there
Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch.
http://lod-cloud.net/

5. Partner Institutions

6. VIVO Profiles
Affiliation
Publications
Research
Teaching
Contact info,
website

7. Why Use VIVO?
 Populated with information from verified
sources (not input by users)
 Uses controlled vocabulary to standardize and
retrieve information
 Readable by people or machines / apps
 Centralized, searchable

8. Who Uses VIVO?
 Researchers, faculty
 Administrators
 Funding agencies, donors
 Students looking for an academic program
 The public

9. Benefits for the Scientist
 Team Science
 More work now done in teams
 That work more effective (per impact factor)
 Teams with members from varying disciplines
more effective
 VIVO → “Virtual” team science
N. Contractor, Keynote Speech, VIVO National Conference, August 12,
2010.

10. Implementation Team
MinimumFTEs:
 Programmer/analyst (for data ingest)
 Systems administrator (maintains computers
and network)
 Information Management*
 Training and Outreach*

11. Critical Databases
Publications
, Grants,
and HR
 Human resources
 Personal info, background
 Bio sketches from departments
 Institutional grants database
 Publications
 Harvesting
 Author disambiguation

12. The Library’s Role
 Information Architecture
 Maintain metadata standards
 Negotiate with data stewards (internal or
external)
 Outreach
 Performed by subject specialists/liaisons
 Market and promote VIVO to faculty

13. Support
http://www.vivoweb.org/
 National VIVO Network Implementation Plan
 Subscribe to VIVO newsletter
 Request a webinar demo
 Media Kit for help with local marketing at your
institution
Tutorials, etc. to come