Beyond university-focused research profiles with VIVO: perspectives of a service provider

Abstract

The presentation discusses ways in which semantic Web-based open source software is being used to integrate data from diverse sources and provide features that go beyond display and discovery of researcher’s activities and outputs in the context of a single academic institution. Brian describes developments in adapting VIVO for discovery of activity within a specific research domain across countries and institutions, and challenges involved in and approaches not only to integrating and disambiguating data across sources but also in setting appropriate boundaries to the resulting semantic graph so as to offer focused and useful results to a researcher in a given domain. The presentation will also discuss related activities in a growing area of interest around extending research networking systems for analysis of and insight into patterns of inter-organizational collaboration in the context of specific research areas.