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Christian Hauschke - German VIVO Updates
Christian gave a nice overview of German VIVO VIVO projects. The free big University of Berlin in Germany is moving to adopt evaluate VIVO starting next January (2021). Tapier TAPIR is the German acronym for Partially Automated Persistent Identifier-based Reporting. https://www.tib.eu/en/research-development/project-overview/project-summary/tapir for Partially automated persistent identifier based reporting. This is a grant that Christian got with his team. The call is about advancing quality in science., and specifically Specifically asked for applications regarding reporting. Christian’s grant award aims to use OpenVIVO with Aims to use open data sources connected with VIVO for reporting. Want to find out how far they can go with open data. DataCite is one DataCite Commons is one of these open data communitysources. Aim to foster the role of PID’s, and to harvest data into local VIVOs. The search stage will evaluate how good the data is that is pulled in, and does this data represent coverage well, is it complete, etc. Vitro query tool will be used to create reports. 4-5 German universities institutions use this the VQT already. Aligning their reporting with SERIF. CERIF
Ann: Discussed process for welcoming new VIVO institutions. Once an organization registers their VIVO site, the VIVO Membership and Community Engagement Interest Group reaches out to them to make them aware of the VIVO Community, and VIVO benefits. There is a template letter that includes a robust list of VIVO resources available to them, with links. This team is encouraged to customize these letters to engage with the new member. This kind of engagement encourages more active participation, especially as important developments in the VIVO Community arise.
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