VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的工作将通过提供一个新的软件系统(VIVO)和支持使用VIVO的科学家来建立国家科学家网络。使用vivo的科学家将能够找到其他科学家和他们的工作。相反，使用VIVO的科学家会被其他做类似或免费工作的科学家发现。Vivo利用康奈尔大学在过去五年中所做的工作，通过展示关于研究人员及其活动的数据，包括出版物、奖项、演示文稿和合作伙伴，支持研究人员和研究人员的发现。Vio是完全可扩展的，并基于Sematic Web概念，确保了良好的数据表示，极大地改进了对现有基于文本的方法的搜索，并将数据与其他应用程序集成。对使用vivo的研究人员的支持将由研究机构的图书管理员完成。图书馆员为支持研究人员和国家网络提供现有和全面整合的资源。 该项目将提供六个交付成果：1)第一版软件，供七个参与机构使用，重点是机构资源。这一版本将用于帮助建立对系统的内部支持和对系统价值的理解；2)包含所有国家联网功能的第二版本，将被七个参与机构用来展示国家部署的可行性和实用性；3)第三版本包含国家卫生研究院和项目执行顾问委员会要求的功能，与相应的资源发现解决方案完全结合，实现全面的国家联网能力；4)确保可持续性的社区支持过程；5)可持续、开放的产品开发过程；以及6)国家持续治理过程。由vivo实现的全国科学家网络将为改善生物医学研究和人类健康提供基本的新能力。 公共卫生相关性(由申请人提供)建立国家科学家网络将显著改善美国的所有生物医学研究，因为它提供了跨所有学科的机会，以确定现有的和正在进行的工作，确定潜在的新合作，并改进和扩大现有的合作。国家网络为科学家提供了有关当前科学活动的关键新信息，以改善科学、知识和人类健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The proposed work will establish national networking of scientists by providing a new software system (VIVO) and support for scientists using VIVO. Scientists using VIVO will be able to find other scientists and their work. Conversely, scientists using VIVO will be found by other scientists doing similar or complimentary work. VIVO leverages work done over the past five years by Cornell University, supporting researchers and finding of researchers by representing data about them and their activities including publications, awards, presentations and partners. VIVO is fully extensible and based on Sematic Web concepts insuring sound data representation, vastly improved search over existing text based methods and integration of data with other applications. Support for researchers using VIVO will be done by librarians of the research institutions. Librarians provide an existing and fully integrated resource for enabling researchers and the national network. The project will provide six deliverables: 1) A first release of the software to be used at the seven participating institutions focused on institutional resources. This release will be used to help establish internal support for the system and build understanding of system value; 2) A second release incorporating all national networking features which will be used by the seven participating institutions to demonstrate the viability and utility of national deployment; 3) A third release incorporating features requested by the NIH and the project's Executive Advisory Board, fully integrated with the corresponding resource discovery solution, enabling full national networking capability; 4) a community support process to insure sustainability; 5) a sustainable, open product development process; and 6) a national, on-going governance process. The national networking of scientists enabled by VIVO will provide a fundamental new capability to improve biomedical research and human health. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by the applicant) Establishing national networking of scientists will significantly improve all of biomedical research in the United States by providing opportunities across all disciplines to identify existing and on-going work, identify potential new collaborations and improve and extend existing collaborations. National networking gives scientists critical new information regarding current scientific activity to improve science, knowledge and human health.