VIVO: Connecting People, Creating Communities M. Devare, J. Corson-Rikert, B. Caruso, B. Lowe, and the Life Sciences Working Group (K. Alpi, h.a. brown, K. Chiang, J. Powell, L. Solla, M. Schlabach, and S. Whitaker) 5th “Reference in the 21st-Century” Symposium at Columbia University New York City, March 9, 2007
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VIVO: Connecting People,
Creating Communities
M. Devare, J. Corson-Rikert, B. Caruso, B. Lowe, and the Life Sciences Working Group
(K. Alpi, h.a. brown, K. Chiang, J. Powell, L. Solla, M. Schlabach, and S. Whitaker)
5th “Reference in the 21st-Century” Symposium at Columbia University
New York City, March 9, 2007
What is VIVO?
• single point of access for information on scholarly activity in the life sciences
• uses entity – relationship model to organize and present an integrated view of Cornell life sciences:
- People
- Research
- Education
Goal
Present the depth and breadth of research and scholarship at Cornell,
Across the life sciences,
Independently of Cornell’s administrative structure
Genomics (1997) and New Life Sciences (2002/2003) Initiatives launched
Aims:
– promote collaboration among faculty
– recruit competitive faculty and students
– attract donors
The problem
Access to information
– Potential collaborators
– Competitive faculty/student candidates
– Donors
CUL Approach
Development of life sciences charge- Life Sciences Working Group
Creation of new position – area of expertise - Bioinformatics and Life Sciences Specialist
Creation of web site targeted to NLSI needs
The solution: VIVO (http://vivo.library.cornell.edu)
Andy Goldsworthy
Sample VIVO faculty profile
VIVO as harvester and distributor
Cornell News Service RSS feed
Central courselistings
Cornell directory
Faculty updates
Cornell events calendar
Workshops
Departmental seminars
Central courselistings
Grants, publications
Sources of Content
Sources of Content
OHR - appointments
OSP data warehouse
Potentially from Registrar’s database
Student/librarian entry
OHR – name & title
Student/librarian entry
Student/librarian entry
Sources of Content
Student/librarian entry
Annual faculty reporting
Annual faculty reporting
Potentially availablevia faculty reporting
VIVO: Research Tools, Facilities
VIVO search
The typical search engine VIVO
Andy Goldsworthy
Sample search in VIVO: “proteom*”
Future?
Expansion of the VIVO-life sciences model to include all Cornell faculty
Phase I focus on most likely early partners/consumers
– Social Sciences (CHE, A&S, Hotel, ILR…)
– Physical Sciences and Engineering (CoE, A&S, CALS…)
– International-themed research (all colleges)
– Weill Cornell Medical College
Phase I efforts
Expansion to full faculty– HR data with appointments– OSP grants for all colleges– Publications (via PubMed, Web of Science, Biosis)– Graduate field affiliations
Increase in data gathered via faculty reporting– VIVO providing an impetus to faculty reporting group
Integration of additional automated feeds as available– News– Events (depending on calendar task force)
Phase II efforts
Data acquisition
– Courses
– CCTEC patents
Individual-specific curation (ideally via college faculty reporting; self-update)
Cross-cutting– International activities, Ithaca-WCMC collaborations
Subject area specific– Research centers, institutes– Research areas, special initiatives– Major equipment and facilities
Individual specific – Photos– Faculty profile, lab/research group URLs– Research descriptions– Association with research areas, centers, facilities, initiatives