11:00 am Eastern time
Agenda
- Updates, issues, questions or feedback from sites
Indiana – Ying: Still working on the middle level schema using the Harvester's JDBC capability and XSLT (not D2R map any longer since it's not supported) to convert an intermediate relational database implementation into RDF – hopes to be done with this in the middle of May
Indiana is also preparing a proposal to extend the ontology to represent U.S. patent data
Indiana is also exploring how to convert VIVO data to nano-publications – simple assertions of facts such as co-authorship, and associated provenance information on the Concept Wiki. The Concept Wiki uses UUIDs to refer to concepts and people; IU is working with Katy and Barend Mons to put Katy's profile into nanopublication format as another way VIVO can be compliant with other international initiatives.
IU is also working with the initiative by 23 information schools around the US and Canada to use VIVO as the vehicle to create interoperable portals; Ying is working with Chin Hua Kong to curate data from Google Scholar, and also creating a demonstration portal for the IU School of Library and Information Science
North Texas (College of Information)-- Kathryn – provided denormalized data from faculty reporting system to test out middle-level schema at IU, as well as data from ISI Web of Science (pulled for all U of T faculty). A grad student is going through the whole process for WOS data and working with Google Scholar data as well as pulling all grants data from office of Research in CSV format, using processes that Cliff has already put in place. This is being a great learning experience – fits with the program curricular goal of engaging with the Semantic Web, tying in name authorities, and assigning research interests to Library of Congress subject headings.
Duke – Julia Trimmer and Pat Gamsby –
Recently loaded all of the faculty into pilot VIVO instance and are evaluating out how it looks – had previously had 100-200 faculty, but opened the faucets so have all appointments, affiliations, education, teaching, grants, contact information for all faculty. Reconfiguring VM configuration – going from 4 large VMs to 10 – will change where the Solr index runs. Believe are still using Oracle – may be some consideration of other options.
Still working with pilot group – implementing other tools to harvest publications – have a SciVal experts profiles for ~2200 faculty in the disciplines that SciVal harvests profiles for-- more than the medical school – business, engineering, school of the environment, natural sciences, evolutionary anthropology, math, computer science, statistical science. Will be submitting data to Reach NC, a statewide SciVal experts installation funded by the UNC system with contributions from Duke.
Will be harvesting publications into Symplectic Elements
Pat has joined the Duke team – will be involved with the Elements implementation and is coming to the Implementation Fest.
Weill Cornell Medical College – Paul Albert – ingesting pubs from Scopus and finding issues with the API – problems with co-authors, but the developers have been pretty responsive. Eliza has figured out how to sort publications by type. The Scopus types match the bibontology pretty well except for articles – some questions there. Paul will be circulating to the ontology list the matching table that Weill has used, including academic articles, review, erratum, comment, editorial article, letter, and then sometimes additional types lumped under bibo:Article.
Put publications that have a status not yet published in a section at the top since can't otherwise tell what type they are.
Question – are the PubMed publications types the same, or similar to, Scopus?
Nicholas (UF) – on Monday, completed course ingest so 7672 courses represented in 66,000 course sections that are automatically populated onto the professor's profiles – pretty happy with the results. Originally did not have any titles for courses, but now get at least a truncated version of the titles. If you go to the academic term, you see all of the course sections from a whole semester (another local extension). Don't have a link to departments – the course 3-letter prefixes don't correspond to departments.
The RDF for the course is picking up the semester object, but also all the other courses taught in that semester – the academic term is a time interval, and the extended linked data by default pulls back whatever's linked to the date time interval, which are otherwise never reused.
The next thing on the horizon at UF is updates on people – updates will be coming through as changes are made in the central Peoplesoft system.
Current open ontology issues
see comments made during the call on each of these issues
- representing citation count. ( VIVOONT-435 )
- should we add a "languages spoken" data property to a person's profile? ( VIVOONT-250 )
- also would apply to other things, such as a book or article.
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