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May 18

Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series - Webinar 1 recoding now available

We'd like to thank everyone who was able to join us for last week's kick-off for the DuraSpace Hot Topics webinar series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking” curated by Dean Krafft, Cornell University.

We’d like to thank Brian Lowe, Jon Corson-Rikert and Dr. Krafft, who presented the first presentation, “An Introduction to VIVO.” A recording of this presentation along with the presentation slides is now available at http://duraspace.org/hot-topics.

We hope you can attend the next two webinars in our VIVO series on June 4th and June 11th .

Webinar 1: Overview of VIVO
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 11:00amEDT
Webinar 2: Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown, Duke & Weill Cornell Medical College
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 11:00amEDT
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Webinar 3: VIVO Technical Deep Dive
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 11:00amEDT
Register

Registration, recordings, and more information is available at http://duraspace.org/hot-topics.

May 10

2013 VIVO conference submissions due TODAY!

Just a reminder: abstracts for papers, posters, and panels at the annual VIVO conference are due today. Learn more about the conference at www.vivoweb.org/conference and submissions at https://www.eiseverywhere.com/docs/3877/vivocfp.

We look forward to seeing you there!

May 10

REGISTER for the DuraSpace Hot Topics Webinar Series: VIVO–Research Discovery and Networking

DuraSpace is pleased to announce its latest Hot Topics Webinar Series, VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking. DuraSpace web seminars fill up fast so be sure to reserve your spot today!

Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar  Series Five: VIVO–Research Discovery and Networking 

Curated by Dean Krafft, Chief Technology Strategist at Cornell University Library and Chair of the VIVO-DuraSpace Incubator Project Management Committee.

VIVO is an open community, an information model, and an open source^! semantic web^! application supporting the advancement of scholarship by integrating and sharing information about scholars, their activities and outputs at a single institution. Discovery of related work and expertise is supported across a distributed multi-institutional network. VIVO supports descriptions of the full academic context of scholars and researchers in any discipline, and it makes explicit the connections of researchers and scholars to their grants, publications, courses, creative works, co-authors, datasets, performances, research instruments, projects, and much more.

VIVO is joining DuraSpace as the VIVO Project, via the DuraSpace incubation program, to realize our shared mission in support of research and scholarship through an established legal and financial framework compatible with VIVO’s own vision and goals. This webinar series will introduce VIVO and the VIVO community, provide views into VIVO implementations at three quite different institutions, and conclude with a more technical session describing the VIVO ontologies, linked open data, and the community processes supporting VIVO as a new project with DuraSpace.

There are 3 webinars in this series:

Overview of VIVO

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 11:00amEDT

VIVO is an open-source research discovery tool that integrates information about researchers with additional context from their relationships to grants, publications, research facilities, projects, events, affiliations, and with other researchers. VIVO stores this information as a network for browsing or searching in a single tool across a university or other institution. This webinar provides an introduction to VIVO, to the open-source technologies and standards it builds on, and to the community of people and organizations in academia, government, non-profit, and corporate world engaged in VIVO and the exchange and interoperability of VIVO-compatible data. Highlights from VIVO implementations will include examples of VIVO's current and potential connections to related tools including institutional repositories, dataset registries, research resource discovery systems, and social networking platforms.

Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown, Duke, and Weill Cornell Medical College

Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 11:00amEDT

This second webinar in the VIVO series will highlight VIVO activity at four adopting institutions – the University of Colorado Boulder, Brown University, Duke University, and Weill Cornell Medical College. Presenters from each institution will show how VIVO has been configured, branded, and extended to meet local needs, and then briefly describe the teams implementing VIVO, VIVO's fit with other tools and services in their institutional setting, and the road map ahead locally and together with the VIVO community.

VIVO Technical Deep Dive

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 11:00amEDT

The third and final webinar will focus on technology and participation. We will look under the hood at the semantic technologies underlying VIVO, including the VIVO ontology^! and how the application architecture uses ontologies for configuration and extensibility. VIVO operates as a community organized around weekly or biweekly open ontology, implementation and development calls, with two significant annual face-to-face events that increasingly bring together a wider research networking community focused on open-source tools, internationally-driven standards efforts, and interoperability through linked open data.

Apr 17

VIVO release 1.5.2 is available

Release 1.5.2 is now available from SourceForge and on GitHub.The release files can be downloaded here:

VIVO:

Vitro:

On GitHub, developers can use the tag "rel-1.5.2" to retrieve this release. This change has also been added to the "develop" and "maint-rel-1.5" branches of the Vitro repository (commits b283c5d and d64fc39, respectively).

Apr 11

2013 VIVO Conference - Workshops & Early Bird Registration

Early Bird registration is now open!

Registration is now open for the 4th Annual VIVO Conference. The discounted Early Bird registration rate is only available through June 21st. Register online today!

Call for Papers and Apps

We are pleased to invite you to submit a proposal to speak at the 2013 VIVO Conference. We are accepting papers, panels and poster presentations exploring the many aspects of the global research community's vision for VIVO. Abstracts are due May 10, 2013. Click here for information on submission requirements, click here.

The conference is also sponsoring a competition for applications using VIVO data to support science. Entries are due July 31. Refer to the Call for Applications for submission information, including eligibility, evaluation criteria and prizes. Click here for details and to submit

Just Announced: 2013 VIVO Conference Workshops

All workshops below are just $225.00 each. Workshops will be held on August 14, 2013. Click here for workshop descriptions.

Morning Sessions (8:30 AM - 12:00 PM)

Workshop 1: An Introduction to VIVO
Presenters: The VIVO Team

Workshop 2: Online Privacy Policy: Policy Perspectives for the VIVO Platform
Presenters: Debra N. Diener, J.D. Certified Information Privacy Professional with a Government Specialization (Identity Ecosystem Steering Group, Privacy Committee); Hal Warren, Director, APA Trust Lab, American Psychological Association; Bryan Dennis, PhD, Project Consultant, APA Trust Lab, American Psychological Association; Eva Winer, Manager of Publishing Innovation, APA Trust Lab, American Psychological Association
Workshop 3: Going Under the Hood of Profiles RNS
Presenters: Griffin M Weber, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; and Eric Meeks, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Workshop 4: Tracking and Evaluation on the Individual and Enterprise Level
Presenters: Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences Tracking & Evaluation team: WU ICTS Administrative Core, WU Clinical Research Training Center, WU Center for for Public Health Systems Science, and Bernard Becker Medical Library

Afternoon Sessions (1:00 PM - 4:30 PM)

Workshop 5: Data Integration: Importing Data from External Systems into VIVO
Presenters: Stephen V. Williams, University of Colorado Boulder
Workshop 6: VIVO Data and Visualizations: Design and Usage
Presenters: Robert Light and Chin Hua Kong, Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, SLIS, Indiana University
Workshop 7: Integrating and Harvesting Multiple Data Sources with Symplectic Elements
Presenters: Graham Triggs, Head of Repository Systems, Symplectic Ltd
Workshop 8: Customize VIVO to Meet Your Needs
Presenters: Jim Blake and Tim Worrall, Cornell University

Apr 8

NISO webinar - Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service

NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, will host a webinar on May 22 to discuss a number of topics certain to be of interest to the VIVO community as well as anyone interested in representation and leverage of rich data about scholarly activities, interests, and expertise.

Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service
May 22, 2013
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
To learn more and register, please visit: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo.

About the Webinar

VIVO is a semantic web^! application focused on discovering researchers and research publications in the life sciences. The service, which uses open-source software originally developed and implemented at Cornell University, operates by harvesting data about researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments from academic, administrative, professional, and funding sources. Using a built-in, editable ontology^! for describing things such as People, Courses, and Publications, data is transformed into a Semantic-Web-compliant form. VIVO provides automated and self-updating processes for improving data quality and authenticity. Starting with a classic Google-style search box, VIVO users can browse search results structured around people, research interests, courses, publications, and the like -- data that can be exposed for re-use by other systems in a machine-readable format.

This webinar, held by a veteran at the Albert R. Mann Library Information Technology Services department at Cornell, where the VIVO project was born, presents the perspective of a software developer on the practicalities of building a high-quality Semantic-Web search service on existing data maintained in dozens of formats and software platforms at large, diverse institutions. The talk will highlight services that leverage the Semantic Web platform in innovative ways, e.g., for finding researchers based on the text content of a particular Web page and for visualizing networks of collaboration across institutions.

Speakers

John Fereira, a senior programmer/analyst and technology strategist at Cornell University, is a contributing member of the VIVO project team. He also consults on issues related to information technology in higher education with an emphasis on open-source, modular, distributed software systems and is currently working on systems based on VIVO software for international Agricultural Information systems communities.

Apr 5

2013 VIVO Conference Call for Submissions released

The Call for Papers and Call for Applications for the 2013 VIVO conference are now available and we look forward to hearing about the good work you're doing in the interest areas listed below - and beyond!

Call for Papers

All submissions are handled electronically through EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vivo13.
For information on submission requirements, visit https://www.eiseverywhere.com/docs/3877/vivocfp.

Call for Apps

The conference is sponsoring a competition for applications using VIVO data to support science. Entries are due July 31. Refer to the Call for Applications for submission information, including eligibility, evaluation criteria and prizes.

For details and to submit, visit https://www.eiseverywhere.com/docs/3877/CFA.

Topics of Interest

Looking for ideas? Submit papers and apps based on the following: Researcher collaboration and networking; Implementation and adoption of VIVO and related systems that interoperate through shared ontologies and Linked Open Data; Open research data and related issues in discovery, reuse, and attribution – including research dataset representation and linkages; Open representations of research and implications for the research process, collaboration, and virtual research communities; Team-based science; Theory and practice of working with the VIVO Ontology and the Integrated Semantic Framework; Applications that use VIVO-compliant Linked Open Data and/or SPARQL queries; visualization, analysis, and metrics; Managing and discovering knowledge about researchers across institutional, disciplinary, and geographic boundaries; The intersection of VIVO and international research information and identifier standards; Policy perspectives, planning, and modelling for compliance and/or knowledge mobilization; Perspectives on policy, research representation, and research impact, including questions of privacy, individual vs. institutional sourcing of data, and change over time; Semantic Web development and extensions of the VIVO platform to reach the full Web community; Development and extensions of the VIVO platform; Use of VIVO data for evaluation and strategic forecasting for institutions and organizations

Mar 25

Workshop proposals due this Friday!

Just a reminder: proposals for wokshop tutorials for this year's VIVO conference are due on Friday. The VIVO conference will be held in St. Louis August 14-16, with tutorials scheduled for the first day. Get more information about the Call for Workshops at http://vivoweb.org/blog/2013/03/call-workshop-proposals-2013-vivo-conference.

VIVO Conference: http://vivoweb.org/conference

Mar 22

Katy Börner at TEDxBloomington

The VIVO team is delighted to share with you that our very own Katy Börner will be presenting at TEDxBloomington today! Katy's session is part of the ENVISION session, scheduled from 3:45-5:00pm ET.

Watch the live webcast
View the program

More about Katy:

KATY BÖRNER is the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science, Adjunct Professor at the School of Informatics and Computing, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, Core Faculty of Cognitive Science, and Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS) (http://cns.iu.edu) at Indiana University.

CNS develops plug-and-play macroscope tools and services that convert data into insight and are used by more than 100,000 students, researchers, and practitioners around the globe to answer when (temporal), where (geospatial), what (topical), and with whom (network analysis) questions. She is a curator of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Scienceexhibit (http://scimaps.org) that demonstrates the power of maps for tracking and communicating human activity and scientific progress on a global scale.

Her books ‘Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know’ (2010), ‘Modeling Science Dynamics’ (2012), ‘VIVO: A Semantic Approach to Scholarly Networking and Discovery’ (2012), and the new Information Visualization MOOC aim to empower anyone to make sense of small and big data.

Learn more at http://info.slis.indiana.edu/~katy and follow her on twitter @katycns

Mar 14

Call for Workshop Proposals - 2013 VIVO Conference

We invite all interested parties to submit workshop proposals for the Fourth Annual VIVO Conference in August. Workshops will be taught on August 14 and each will be 3.5 hours long. We strongly encourage proposals which incorporate a lively presentation style and which use a variety of instructional approaches (e.g. lecture, demonstration, group discussion, brainstorming, hands-on exercises, case studies) and materials (e.g. slides, handouts, code snippets and sample data on the VIVO wiki) throughout the session.

Download PDF of the Call for Workshops

To apply, please submit a one-page document describing the following:

What content will be covered? Who will likely attend (what is the target audience)?
What is the expected outcome? Objectives?
Your instructional approach and proposed materials for the workshop.

Potential workshop topics:

VIVO, research discovery, and the semantic web^!
Implementation and adoption of VIVO
Theory and practice of working with the VIVO Ontology and the Integrated Semantic Framework
Building applications that use VIVO-compliant linked open data and/or SPARQL queries
Research dataset representation and linkages
Visualization, analysis, and metrics
Harvester and semantic data ingest techniques
Researcher collaboration and networking
Managing and discovering knowledge about researchers across institutional boundaries
The intersection of VIVO and international research information and identifier standards
Researcher workflows/representing open research
Policy perspectives, planning, and modelling for compliance and/or knowledge mobilization
Development and extensions of the VIVO platform
Use of VIVO data for evaluation and strategic forecasting for institutions and organizations
Componentizing Vitro/VIVO by integrating OSGi, OpenSocial, and/or other modular frameworks
VIVO for the humanities and social sciences
VIVO performance: optimizing and scaling

The deadline to submit a workshop proposal is Friday, March 29, at 5:00pm ET. Decisions will be announced via email by Friday, April 5. Accepted workshops may be recorded and all workshops will need to place instructional materials on the VIVO wiki (http://goo.gl/eYMTZ) for use by workshop participants. All chosen workshops will receive a portion of the workshop registration fees from their session to compensate them for the time it takes to prepare a high-quality workshop.

We'll select our conference workshops from the pool of submitted proposals. For further details or inquiries, and to submit proposals, please contact the Program Chair, Dean Krafft at conference2013@vivoweb.org. Please forward this message to colleagues who may be interested.

About VIVO
VIVO is an open source^!, open ontology^!, open process platform for hosting information about the interests, activities and accomplishments of scientists and scholars. VIVO supports open development and integration of science and scholarship through simple, standard semantic web technologies. Learn more at vivoweb.org.