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 For: Researchers Students Administrators Prospective students Prospective faculty Donors Legislators…

Background 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 ( Andy Goldsworthy

Sample VIVO faculty profile

VIVO as harvester and distributor Cornell News Service RSS feed Central course listings Cornell directory Faculty updates Cornell events calendar Workshops Departmental seminars Central course listings Grants, publications

Sources of Content

OHR - appointments OSP data warehouse Potentially from Registrar’s database Student/librarian entry OHR – name & title Student/librarian entry

Sources of Content Student/librarian entry Annual faculty reporting Potentially available via 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) –Additional publications (book chapters, tech reports) –Discipline, geography-specific elements –Keywords –Select data from CVs

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Phase I manual curation efforts 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