Jonathan Breeze, CEO @breezier

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2694-6729

Alex Viggio, Senior Technical Consultant

@aviggio

#VIVO2015

Reflections of the service provider

We serve the open source profile community

symplectic.co.uk

What motivated us?Already part of the community.

No reason to ‘reinvent the wheel’.

Open platforms are more discoverable.

Mitigate the technical barriers to VIVO adoption and contribution.

Provide institutions a choice.

State of the market today

Competing institutional priorities.

Competing platforms (mostly closed).

VIVO implementations can be complex and time-consuming.

Advantages of VIVO are hard for institutions to visualise.

Our strategy

Our real strategyContinuous engagement with the community.

• DuraSpace members • VIVO Leadership & Steering

groups • Engage at events and festivals • Actively contribute to VIVO

development

Offer full installation and hosting services for institutions.

Provide consultancy and expertise in Open Profile implementations.

In-house expertise

Alex ViggioSenior Technical Consultant

VIVO Leadership

John GeischenClient Services Manager

Open Profiles

Cezar LicaSenior Infrastructure Engineer

Hosting and Infrastructure

…plus the rest of our team!

Case Study #1

Leading US Medical School

Profiles RNS installation, implementation and configuration.

Fully hosted system.

Stand-alone.

Case Study #1: Schema

Case Study #2

Top US Public School

Elements and VIVO install hosted by client

VIVO 1.4 implementation in 2 weeks using Elements Harvester for data

Winter upgrade to VIVO 1.7 in test and production in four weeks

Extended Elements Harvester tool to handle new client use case and Elements API 4.9 with additional profile metadata*

* contributed code back to Elements Harvester open source

Case Study #3

Research Funding institution in Europe.

Symplectic hosted system.

Using Elements to collect and feed scholarly works to Profiles RNS

Case Study #3: Schema

symplectic.co.uk

How can you help?

More reference sites!

Commit local customisations and code back to VIVO.

Help make ‘out-of-the-box’ experience more compelling.

Ask not what your Open Profile system can do for you.

Ask what you can do for your Open Profile system.

symplectic.co.uk

Come to our session on Friday

Find out first-hand about our new ‘Zero to VIVO in 7 days’ service.

Check out the card in your delegate pack for details.