Creating Sustainable Communities in

Open Data Resources:

The eagle-i and VIVO Semantic Data

Tools in Action

Robert H. McDonald | Indiana University | @mcdonald

Nicole Vasilevsky | Oregon Health & Science University | @N_Vasilevsky

Outline

1 | History of eagle-i Network

2 | Basic features & functionality

www.eagle-i.net

http://bit.ly/1BIyrKM

Help researchers find scientific resources more easily

Reduce time-consuming and expensive duplication of resources

The eagle-i Resource Discovery

Network

www.eagle-i.net

Need a way to publish resource information

Open Information Publishing Platform

– allows institutions complete autonomy over their resource data

– supports multiple publishing formats

Common problems &

The eagle-i approach

No common way to describe resources

Ontology Driven Platform

– Drives consistency of description

– Allows easy updating of information to accommodate dynamic information

Need a way to searchall published resources

Federated Search Network

– Allows annotated information to be easily read and re-used by other websites and applications

Common Problem eagle-i Solution

39 Universities and growing!

www.eagle-i.net

eagle-i Research Resources

~100,000 boutiques hand curated research resources

Adding meaningful semantic

relationships between resources

Making this data available using

ontology-driven approach to research

resource annotation and discovery

eagle-i Resource Ontology

eagle-i is an ontology-driven application . . . for collecting

and searching research resources.

VIVO is an ontology-driven application . . . for collecting

and displaying information about people.

eagle-i

Resources

VIVO

People

Merging VIVO and eagle-i semantic infrastructure

eagle-i is an ontology-driven application . . . for collecting

and searching research resources.

VIVO is an ontology-driven application . . . for collecting

and displaying information about people.

CTSAconnect will produce a single Integrated Semantic

Framework, a modular collection of ontologies

VIVO

Semantic

Clinical activities

Merging VIVO and eagle-i semantic infrastructure

eagle-i

Outline

1 | History of VIVO

2 | Basic features & functionality

http://bit.ly/1BIyrKM

What is VIVO?

1. An open source

semantic web

application

2. An information model

3. An open community

VIVO

An open-source semantic web application that

enables the discovery of research and scholarship

across disciplines in an institution.

VIVO harvests data from verified sources and

offers detailed profiles of faculty and researchers.

Public, structured linked data about investigators

interests, activities and accomplishments, and

tools to use that data to advance science.

VIVO enjoys a robust open community space to

support implementation, adoption, &development

efforts around the world.

See http://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO

A VIVO profile allows you to:

Showcase credentials, expertise, skills, and professional

achievements for individuals and campus groups.

Connect within focus areas and geographic expertise.

Simplify reporting tasks and link data to external applications – e.g., to generate biosketches or CV or for reporting purposes.

Publish the URL or link the profile to other applications.

Discover potential colleagues or campus resources by

work area, authorship, & collaborations.

Display visualizations of expertise areas or complex

collaboration networks and relationships.

WCMC CTSI

Duke University

• PLATFORM: VIVO

• DATA: a variety of sources

– REACH NC – Scopus data

– Symplectic Elements

Data, Tools and Scientists

http://vivosearch.org/

http://vivosearchlight.org/

http://vivo.cns.iu.edu/gallery.html

What roles can the library play?

Librarians are successfully stepping up to the semantic

web plate in a variety of roles related to institutional

research networking platforms.

• Institutional profiling of researcher/faculty/staff expertise

• Ability to search for researcher expertise across federated networks for creating cross-institutional granting opportunities

• Assist researchers with sharing research resources to promote efficient and open science

• Ontology and controlled vocabulary expertise, extending the model to people, places, publications, data etc.

• …and more!

Research networking also provides an opportunity for libraries to become familiar with many concepts around

linked open data and the semantic web.

VIVO Federation Demo

Acknowledgements

OHSUMelissa Haendel

Shahim Essaid

Matthew Brush

HarvardDoug MacFadden

Daniela Bourges

Bhanu Bahll

Sophia Cheng

Richard Pearse

Tenille Johnson

Marc Ciriello

VIVO Steering Group

• Paul Albert (Weill Cornell Medical

College)

• Jon Corson-Rikert (Cornell University)

• Kristi Holmes (Northwestern

University)

• Melissa Haendel (Oregon Health and

Science University)

• Dean Blackmar Krafft, Chair (Cornell

University)

• Robert H. McDonald (Indiana

University)

• Mike Conlon, Project Director

(University of Florida)

• And many, many, many, others

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Contact usNicole Vasilevsky

vasilevs@ohsu.edu

@N_Vasilevsky

@eagleinetwork

Thank you

Robert H. McDonald

rhmcdona@indiana.edu

@mcdonald

@vivoweb

n et w o r k

http://bit.ly/1BIyrKM