Create a

National

Network of

Scientists

Public, structured

linked data about

investigators

interests, activities

and

accomplishments,

and tools

to use that

data to

advance

science

Record data as triples:

subject, predicate, object

Every piece of data has an address

Faculty

express their

interests using

controlled

vocabularies

Institutions record activities

Archives record

accomplishments

Tools for science

Search for Science

Find Scientists

Study

Science

Discover

Connections

Semantic

Annotation

Data, Tools and Scientists

Collaborate with

everyone

Open data, open tools, open process

Collaboration and Coordination • At UF – Libraries, CTSI, IT, Office of Research, Faculty Senate, BSD, Registrar, …

• Federal agencies – OSTP, NIH, NLM, NSF, VA, USDA, FDP, STAR Metrics, …

• Publishers and Aggregators – Elsevier/Collexis, Thomson Reuters, ORCID, CiteSeer, Arxiv, Dspace, …

• Press – Nature, Science, The Chronicle, AP, Information Today, IEEE, …

• Professional Societies – APA, AAAS, AIRI, AAMC, ABRF, …

• International – Australia, China, Netherlands, UK, Costa Rica, Iceland, Brazil, Mexico, …

• Semantic Web community – DERI, Tim Berners-Lee, MyExperiment, ConceptWeb, Open Phacts (EU), Linked Data, Hackathon, …

• Research resources – Eagle-I, BRO, eBIRT, RDS, …

• Social Network Analysis Community – Northwestern, Davis, UCF, INSNA, …

• Six sub-awards to Duke, Pittsburgh, Leicester, Stonybrook, Weill, Indiana

• Schools and Consortia – CTSAs, CIC, Pitt, Emory, Iowa, Harvard, UCSF, Stanford, MIT, Brown, Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, OHSU, Minnesota, …

• Four annual events – conference, workshop, hackathon, implementation fest

• Software downloads and contact list – how many?

vivo.sourceforge.net

Some VIVO Highlights

• Version 1.3

• Amazon machines

• Thomson-Reuters

• University of Melbourne

• Symplectics

• Wellspring

• NRN visualization

• University of Rochester

• APA

• Colorado

• Booz Allen Hamilton

• VIVO search

• SciVal Experts and RDF

• Version 1.4