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Special Presentation on Karma by Pedro Szekely

Karma is a data integration tool used to map USC faculty data to VIVO developed by a team led by Pedro Szekely of  of the USC Information Sciences Institute will give a special presentation on the VIVO call this week.

Abstract

We present Karma, an open-source information integration tool that allows a user to quickly map legacy data sources into RDF that can then be loaded into VIVO.  Karma provides the ability to

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The capabilities provided by Karma allow users to quickly load a dataset, map each data field to the appropriate terms in the VIVO ontology, normalize and integrate data as required, and then generate the appropriate RDF.  This RDF data can then be loaded directly into the VIVO application and immediately made available. 
 
In this webinar, we will perform a live demonstration of the tool.  We will show how one can rapidly go from an existing dataset with USC faculty members to the data loaded into VIVO.  More information about Karma is available at www.isi.edu/integration/karma, including a link to our GitHub repository where you can download the software.  

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