1. Connect UNAVCO, a VIVO for a Scientific Community
M. Benjamin Gross1, Linda R. Rowan1,
Matthew Mayernik2, Michael D. Daniels2,
Huda Khan3 and Dean B. Krafft3
UNAVCO, Boulder, CO
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2. About UNAVCO
UNAVCO is a non-profit university-governed consortium which facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy.
Geodesy: the study of Earth’s shape, gravity field, and rotation
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3. About EarthCollab EarthCollab goals EarthCollab
A National Science Foundation EarthCube building block
Partnership between UNAVCO, NCAR, and Cornell University
EarthCollab goals
Support scientific collaboration, and increase the discoverability and usability of scientific resources, via semantic and linked data technologies.
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4. Connect UNAVCO – connect.unavco.org
Ontology
Controlled research vocab
Geospatial info
Faceted search
PIDs
Data facility
Distributed community, for specific domain and as such can be, should be customized for our domain.
Ontology, Controlled research vocab, Geospatial info, Faceted search, PIDs, Data facility
Data facility: datasets, stations, external collaborators (consortium)

5. User Engagement EarthCollab Survey conducted in 2014 and 2015
Survey about how researcher find and share research.

6. Requirements and Challenges
Site must be easily searchable – survey takers indicated they use search for most tasks
Connect data with people, publications, and tools in a discoverable way and point user toward data source
Use unique IDs whenever possible, e.g. DOIs
Minimize duplication of data by crosslinking VIVO instances
Extend VIVO ontology to capture UNAVCO concepts
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7. Requirements and Challenges
Ontology requirements
Describe Earth observations – ships, networks, platforms, temporal and spatial aspects
Capture relationships between the UNAVCO facility and member universities and their representatives
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8. Local ontology extensions

9. Local ontology extensions

10. vocabulary comparison

11. Ingest Process
Challenges: Distributed and variable data stores, no institutional subscription to publication indexing service, publications authored by external collaborators, not employees

12. Connect UNAVCO stats http://connect.unavco.org
Events: mostly scientific conferences
Locations: includes GPS/GNSS stations
~ 555,000 asserted triples, running v1.9

13. Connect UNAVCO Research Terms
Expertise
Community members and employees can select from a list of 120 research and expertise terms
Software
Engineering Expertise
Research area

14. Connect UNAVCO Research Terms
Limited vocabulary > longer lists of people

15. Geospatial info

16. Facets in Connect UNAVCO
Find member reps
Find people with expertise

17. Facets in Connect UNAVCO
Filter publications by publication year, sort by Altmetric score

18. Facets in Connect UNAVCO
Elasticsearch 1
Facetview2
Ingest scripts and themes
Workflow: Query VIVO → Map to JSON → load to Elasticsearch A

19. Facets in Connect UNAVCO
Query VIVO → Map to JSON → load to Elasticsearch
Use VIVO SPARQL API to pull out necessary info
Station name, location, PIs, retirement date, related datasets, image thumbnail
CONSTRUCT queries: Better performance than DESCRIBE, more complicated to write A

20. Facets in Connect UNAVCO
Query VIVO → Map to JSON → load to Elasticsearch
Create JSON file
Optionally, create schema file for Elasticsearch that defines each field
Define data type and type of tokenizing that should be done on it by Elasticsearch’s analyzers A
data.json

21. Facets in Connect UNAVCO
Data is loaded to Elasticsearch via the load API
$ curl –XPOST ‘ –
Query VIVO → Map to JSON → load to Elasticsearch A
For more on Elasticsearch and facetview2 in VIVO…

22. Altmetric scoreS VIVO displays Altmetric badges on demand…
But we need Altmetric score in database for sorting...
Get score by doi using API

23. Altmetric scoreS Fetch scores for 5,400 publications daily
Can buy commercial license or get free license for academic research projects A

24. Future Work Integrate crosslinking work
Elasticsearch/facetview geospatial capabilities
Refine and enhance faceted browsing
Survey community for dataset and publication connections A

25. Other EarthCollab presentations at VIVO 2016
Thursday, 5pm, Colorado Ballroom A-D: EOL Artic Data Connects – Don Stott, John Allison, and C. Brooks Snyder
Friday, 11am, Colorado Ballroom G: Using VIVO for Scientific Applications - Matthew Mayernik, Anne Wilson and John Furfey
Friday, 3:30pm, Colorado Ballroom E-F: Extending VIVO Infrastructure to Support Linking Information between EarthCollab VIVO Instances - Huda Khan et al.

26. Thank you!
connect.unavco.org git.io/vG9AJ earthcube.org/group/earthcollab
Contact: Benjamin Gross
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