{"id":75,"date":"2013-06-01T14:53:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T18:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/?p=75"},"modified":"2013-06-02T22:10:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T02:10:48","slug":"75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/2013\/06\/01\/75\/","title":{"rendered":"The VIVO Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electronic Research Networking (RN) tools use a variety of approaches to structure, organize, display, and share core data about individual researchers\u00a0obtained from a wide range of sources. One example is VIVO, which was\u00a0first devised, developed, and implemented at Cornell, but more importantly, it\u00a0is an open source <\/span>semantic web<\/a> platform\u00a0which has evolved to be the de facto standard for RN Tools.\u00a0The VIVO standard enables RN information to be accessible through locally controlled standardized search and browse.<\/span><\/p>\n

A key reason for popularity of VIVO as a standard is that it employs the\u00a0Resource Description Framework<\/a> (RDF).\u00a0RDF captures and permits attribution of meaning to the relationships between various academic resources (e.g. researchers, institutions, published papers, etc.).\u00a0This qualifies VIVO as a\u00a0semantic web<\/a> application and enables it to engage in\u00a0discovery of research and scholarship across disciplinary and administrative boundaries using interlinked profiles of people and other research-related information. For example, the RDF not only captures that Researcher A and B are both listed as authors on the same paper but more importantly these individuals are now considered co-authors. Now one can now surmise that they have collaborated at least once in the past. However with repeated instances of co-authorship noted between these two individuals, one could then infer with increasing certainty that these researchers are not only co-authors but in fact active collaborators.<\/p>\n

A VIVO compliant online RN tool, such as\u00a0BU Profiles<\/a>, is populated with researcher contact information, interests, activities, and accomplishments and enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines both internal and external to the local institution. Individuals are able to highlight their areas of expertise, display their academic credentials, visualize academic and social networks as well as display information such as publications, grants, teaching, service, and more. Local content can be maintained manually or be automatically populated from various authoritative data sources including Human Resources, institutional records, local repositories \/ databases (bibliographic, grants, course, and faculty activity), as well as from other data providers such as publication aggregators and funding agencies.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0VIVO software<\/a>, architecture, and\u00a0ontology<\/a> are publicly available along with content that supports implementation, adoption, and development efforts. VIVO compliant applications exist both as free (VIVO<\/a>,\u00a0BU-Profiles<\/a>,\u00a0Profiles RNS<\/a>,\u00a0Loki<\/a>,\u00a0Lattice Grid<\/a>) as well as proprietary (SciVal Experts<\/a>,\u00a0Research in View<\/a>,\u00a0etc.) applications.\u00a0The VIVO ontology, developed and supported by NIH-funds, continues to be developed through\u00a0SouceForge<\/a> and collaboration with\u00a0eagle-i<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Electronic Research Networking (RN) tools use a variety of approaches to structure, organize, display, and share core data about individual researchers\u00a0obtained from a wide range of sources. One example is VIVO, which was\u00a0first devised, developed, and implemented at Cornell, but more importantly, it\u00a0is an open source semantic web platform\u00a0which has evolved to be the de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47406],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/researchnetworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}