DLib article: VIVO Creating a Virtual Life Sciences Community

[sjcp...@gmail.com]

Hi All,

an article in Dlib magazine has just come out describing Cornell
University's approach to Creating a Research Profile.

Article Link: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july07/devare/07devare.html

from the abstract:

VIVO draws on content from across the university through automated
ingest of core university human resource and grants information,
subscriptions to licensed and public domain publications databases,
department or college faculty reporting mechanisms, and manual
curation.

The output seems very impressive.

http://vivo.library.cornell.edu/

Regards,

Simon Porter

[sjcp...@gmail.com]

Another article on VIVO:Engaging and Connecting Faculty: Research
Discovery, Access, Re-use, and Archiving
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2007a.spring/abstracts/handouts/CNI_Engaging_McCue.pdf

This article is interesting because it highlights the role of the
library in building new collaborations between the library and
researchers to manage research data, and it provides and argument as
to why libraries play an important role in communication of a
University's research profile.:

quote:

For projects such as VIVO, the Library brings to the table credibility
as a neutral and a competent
information broker, in the game for the long haul. As data stewardship
and full lifecycle information
management become essential to research competitiveness and even
mandated by federal funding agencies,
research libraries have an important leadership role to play.
Libraries will need new skills and above all
new partners, within and beyond our own universities. The tasks will
challenge both our own and our
partners' traditional thinking, but in many ways the future of the
research library will depend on acquiring,
preserving, and delivering the data and knowledge essential to the
research enterprise today.

[Brian Caruso]

I work on the VIVO project at Cornell and would be happy
to answer any questions about the system. Simon directed
me to this group and it useful to hear from other people working
on similar projects.

On Jul 31, 2:55 am, sjcpor...@gmail.com wrote:
> Another article on VIVO:Engaging and Connecting Faculty: Research

> Discovery, Access, Re-use, and Archivinghttp://www.cni.org/tfms/2007a.spring/abstracts/handouts/CNI_Engaging_...