VIVO: Promoting Research and Collaboration

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VIVO Promoting Research and Collaboration

• Jill Powell, Jon Corson-Rikert, Kirsten Hensley,
  Medha Devare,
• Brian Caruso, Brian Lowe and Nick Cappadona
• ASEE National Conference, Pittsburgh, June 25,
  2008

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Outline

• What is Vivo?
• How did it extend to engineering?
• How does it promote the library?
• How does it promote
• Research
• Collaboration
• Recruitment

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Vivo.cornell.edu/all
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Library Involvement

• Demand for making life sciences resources and
  people findable across many disciplines
• Expertise in information organization, curation,
  management, dissemination
• Creation of new position area of expertise
• Life Sciences/Bioinformatics Librarian

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VIVO Develops

• Uses semantic web, ontologies, RTD classes,
  attributes, relationships among entities
• Very successful at integrating life sciences
• University President uses VIVO
• Hope to expand VIVO to the rest of the university

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RDF Resource Description Framework
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Faculty Webpage Before VIVO
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VIVO Faculty Webpage
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VIVO Expands to Rest of Disciplines

• Received internal grant to expand
• Librarians identified as curators
• Students hired as editors
• Talking with various schools

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Create Buy-In

• VIVO curators talk to faculty, vice-provosts,
  deans, IT staff in various colleges
• Various faculty reporting systems
• Demonstrate
• Patience

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How to Keep it Up-to-Date

• Automate whatever we can
• Office of Sponsored Programs
• Human Resources
• Course listings
• Editors enter information from existing web sites
  (picture, education, research, graduate fields),
  seminars, campus news feeds
• Enable Self-Editing

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Self-Editing Screen
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Research, Collaboration, Recruitment

• Research locator - locate researcher expertise
  and pursue collaborations
• Recruiting students easier to find programs,
  people, resources
• Recruiting partners, donations
• Library liaisons can find information easier on
  their departments
• Librarians can promote their services in VIVO by
  appearing in it themselves

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Vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu
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Contacts

• VIVO - vivo.cornell.edu
• Jon Corson-Rikert,Vivo Project,
  vivo-contact-L_at_cornell.edu
• Jill Powell, jhp1_at_cornell.edu