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National Networking of Scientists for Accelerated Team Science

The National Networking of Scientists project aims to provide information on scientists' interests, activities, and accomplishments to facilitate collaborations. Supported by institutions like the University of Florida and Cornell University, the project utilizes technology such as Semantic Web and Ontologies to improve competitiveness and visibility in the scientific community.

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National Networking of Scientists for Accelerated Team Science

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  1. VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists Michael Conlon, PhD Principal Investigator University of Florida

  2. National Networking of Scientists • What is it? • Information regarding scientists’ interests, activities, and accomplishments • Scientists using software tools based on this information in new and existing collaborations and teams • Why? • Support the acceleration of team science • Improve visibility (accuracy, currency, breadth) of information about science • Improve competitiveness • How? • Institutionally hosted information provided and maintained by institutions and scientists • Facilitation and support through the libraries

  3. National Networking Team • University of Florida, Gainesville, FL • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN • Washington University, St Louis, MO • Weill-Cornell Medical College, NY, NY • The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA • Ponce Medical School, Ponce, PR

  4. What will the National Network Do? • Provide scientists’ interests, activities and accomplishments • Identify current work • Find scientists with precision and veracity • Group colleagues, maps, networks, lineages, publications, … • Support collaboration with existing and emerging tools • Simplify reporting tasks • Route information based on interests

  5. Technology for the National Network • Semantic Web • RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, … • Ontologies • FOAF, SKOS, MESH, … • Federated Identity Management • SAML 2.0, Shibboleth, … • Interoperability • Identity, Semantics, Applications

  6. Institutional Architecture • Three sources of VIVO information • Institutional data • Provider data • User data • Two formats for output • Web Pages for users • RDF for applications

  7. National Architecture • National Network Users access applications • Applications access RDF triples • VIVOs are independent • Apps are independent • Other systems can provide triples

  8. Institutional Role • Authoritative data source • Identity Management • Employment • Scoping • Hosting responsibility • Local or outsourced • Institutional benefits • Precise information regarding activity • Reporting, response to requests, faculty benefits

  9. Collaboration and Coordination Open engagement to foster national networking • Resource Discovery – Eagle-i • Federal agencies – NIH, NSF, … • Search Providers – Google, Bing, Yahoo, … • Professional Societies – AAAS, … • Publishers – Elsevier, Springer, … • Semantic Web community – DERI, … • Consortia of schools– SURA, CTSA, CIC, … • Existing services – over 30

  10. VIVO Roadmap for National Networking • Developed at Cornell in 2004 • Find faculty by interests, activities, accomplishments • Release 1 to 7 schools now • Standard ontology • Local search • Application support • Release 2, open adoption • Federated identity • Network search • Grouping, interfaces • Release 3, national network • Most requested features VIVO at Cornell: http://vivo.cornell.edu

  11. Sustainability • Information is institutionally hosted and maintained • VIVO software is open source, community maintained • National network applications can be commercial or open source • Institutions may use commercial versions of VIVO or other platforms that provide data to the national network

  12. Project Status • Development Interfaces, packaging at UF, ontology and social networking at Indiana, semantic web, user experience at Cornell • Implementation Cornell (existing), UF (underway), Indiana (11/2009), Washington U (11/2009), Weill (12/2009), Scripps (1/2010), Ponce (1/2010) • Outreach Presentations, inquiries, collaboration • Governance TAB, SAB, EAB • Evaluation Plan complete, 1st report 1/2010 • Contact Mike Conlon, mconlon@ufl.edu

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