Topics
- Managing/discovering knowledge about researchers across institutional, disciplinary, and national boundaries
- Facilitating researcher collaboration and networking
- The intersection of VIVO and international research standards
- Approaches to the adoption of VIVO and related systems that interoperate through shared ontologies and Linked Open Data
- Open representations of research and implications for the research process, collaboration, and virtual research communities
- Research representation ontology! development
- Semantic Web development and extensions of the VIVO platform to reach the full Web community
- Perspectives on policy, research representation, and research impact, including questions of privacy, individual vs. institutional sourcing of data, and change over time
- Open research data and related issues in discovery, reuse, and attribution
Who should Attend
Scientists, Scholars, Developers, Researchers, Funding Agency Representatives, Publishers, Students, Research Officers and Institutional Officials.
VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution. supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information.
