Using VIVO and Other Tools to Achieve a Strategic Vision at Texas A&M. Presentation at VIVO 2016.

1. Using VIVO and Other Tools to
Achieve a Strategic Vision

2. Bruce Herbert, Texas A&M
Laurel Haak, ORCID
Andrea Michalek, Plum Analytics
This panel will explore how Texas A&M, selected and implemented a
technology stack and is using it to achieve their strategic plan, “Vision
2020: Creating a Culture of Excellence.” Their stack includes VIVO,
ORCID, Vireo & DSpace repositories, and PlumX.
The panel will discuss the components and the interactions between
them.
Hosted by: Plum Analytics
Presenters and Panel
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3. A Brief History:
Initial Implementationq
•Currently, we are on our second ramp up of a
VIVO installation.
•We were introduced to VIVO a few years ago and
immediately saw the potential for its use.
• So like anyone with a new toy. We started
digging up any dataset we could find and load
them into VIVO.
VIVO Implementation at Texas
A&M

4. Original VIVO project
focused on representing
biomedical research
VIVO at TAMU has more
complex use cases.
Sociotechnical systems are understood and improved if both ‘social’
and ‘technical’ aspects are brought together and treated as
interdependent parts of a complex system
http://lubswww.leeds.ac.uk/stc/what-we-do/stc-logo/ 4
VIVO as a Sociotechnical
System

5. DESIGN
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6. Faculty Reputation
Discovery of expertise when
building collaborative teams
Organizational practices for
faculty, departments and
colleges
VPR and TEES Proposal
development
Research funding compliance
Informing Society
TAMU Use Cases

7. HR: people and their positions
Symplectic Elements Harvester: Faculty Publications
Registrar: courses
Faculty reporting: awards, professional service,
education, research areas, research blurb
Institutional Repository: ETDs, publications, grey
literature
Events calendar
MARCOMM: internal and external news
Extension: outreach, technology transfer
Research administration: grants & contracts 7
TAMU Data Sources

8. Representing faculty reputations
Dirty data
Lack of common definitions of organizational
structure or who’s “faculty”
Data ownership and use by Colleges
Many dimensions of privacy beyond simple “opt-in
vs. opt-out”
Short-term “go it alone” vs. common good
Institutional risk
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Policy Issues

9. TAMU Researcher Profile Information Ecosystem
TAMU Data
Profile Editor
Faculty Data
SQL
Database
Harvest
Reports
Manual
Input
Curator
QC
Harvest
Crosswalk
Harvest
Widgets
HarvestWidgets

10. Scholarly Impact Metrics
Faculty
Profiles in
PlumX
Identity
Control
Evaluations
Strategic
Decision Making
Alternative metrics critical for many different types of scholarly work

11. Make grey
literature
accessible
and valued
through
integrated
metrics
TAMU’s Institutional Repository

12. INTERFACING WITH PLUMX
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Answer the questions and tell the stories
about your research

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Metrics
Categories
USAGE
(clicks, downloads, views, library
holdings, video plays)
CAPTURES
(bookmarks, code forks, favorites,
readers, watchers)
MENTIONS
(blog posts, comments, reviews,
Wikipedia links)
SOCIAL MEDIA
(+1s, likes, shares, tweets)
CITATIONS
(citation indexes, patent citations,
clinical citations)

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5 categories in action
Article level
metrics are the
building blocks
for PlumX

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ANALYZE
• By metrics category
• By type of output
• By person
• By grant
• By department
• By institution

17. Article level
metrics can
be embedded
in VIVO
through the
Plum Print
widget.
Embedding the Plum Print in VIVO

18. PlumX
harvests
automatically
from
VIVO.
Dashboards
are kept in
sync.
Connecting VIVO profiles to PlumX Dashboards
http://vivo.library.tamu.edu/display/n90ed2027

19. Analytics across all researchers
http://vivo.library.tamu.edu/display/n90ed2027

20. Analytics across DSpace

21. TAMU Researcher Profile Information Ecosystem
TAMU Data
Profile Editor
Faculty Data
SQL
Database
Harvest
Reports
Manual
Input
Curator
QC
Harvest
Crosswalk
Harvest
Widgets
HarvestWidgets

22. INTEGRATING ORCIDS
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ORCID’s vision is a world where
all who participate in research, scholarship, and
innovation are uniquely identified
and connected to their contributions and
affiliations across time, disciplines, and borders.
ORCID

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ORCID provides PIDs
Persistent digital identifiers to distinguish
researchers from each other
Member-built integrations that connect
researchers and their activities/affiliations
A hub for synchronizing machine-readable
connections between identifiers for people,
organizations, and research activities
✔ Plumbing for research information
✔ Tools to build trust in digital information

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Organizations are
using ORCID APIs to
authenticate,
collect, display, and
connect persistent
identifiers for
people, places, and
things in research
workflows
Enabling assertions

26. NIH Video
Publisher
requirement page
TAMU LibGuide
Oxford LibGuide
Vireo ETD poster
DSpace -Fedora-
VIVO Webinar

27. IMPACT
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28. Manage data at its appropriate source with
appropriate privacy
HR, grants management, registrar, graduate school, colleges
and schools, research centers, extension
Department/agency/division/geographic location/research
unit
Consciously derive public data for exchange
Engage stakeholders and build relationships
Recruit power users for training and local knowledge
Data that are visible get corrected!
Data Stewardship
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29. Engaging the TAMU
Community
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Library VIVO Project
• Librarians
• IT Specialists
• Governance by Dean of
Faculties
• Implemented at the
College-level

30. Faculty want control of
their narrative
An integrated VIVO
system supports the
complex variety of
narratives at TAMU.
http://www.aaup.org/reports-and-
publications/academe
(Re)Claiming Faculty Narratives
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31. Questions?
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