Creating a Data Interchange Standard for Researchers, Research, and Research Resources: VIVO-ISF

Dean B. Krafft
Director of Information Technology, Library
Cornell University

Brian Lowe
Lead Developer, Library
Cornell University

The VIVO project is an international community effort to provide linked open data about researchers in the context of their research activities. A key component of this effort is an ontology that serves as a data interchange standard for information about researchers and research across different software platforms, including Harvard Profiles, VIVO, Loki, and SciVal Experts. Through collaboration with ontologists at Oregon Health & Science University, the VIVO ontology has recently been merged with the eagle-i research resources ontology to become VIVO-ISF (Integrated Semantic Framework).

This presentation will include examples of the kinds of applications that can be developed to take advantage of the rich semantic data enabled by VIVO-ISF. It will also include descriptions of how VIVO-ISF reuses elements of popular linked data ontologies while remaining based on a philosophically sound foundational ontology, and how it enables linking to subject terminologies used by particular scientific disciplines. The briefing will provide a report on the community effort to test, develop and extend VIVO-ISF for maximum possible benefit to diverse research communities, and it will include discussion about how the process of extending the initial VIVO ontology to VIVO-ISF can serve as a model for further extensions to assist in the description and discovery of research and scholarship across a wide range of academic disciplines.

http://vivoweb.org

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