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- See the agenda and schedule of presentations
- The presentation by Jack Rejtman on The Conversation stimulated discussion on now to publish a channel of information on research for public consumption, and also pointed out opportunities for pushing content into VIVO as well as pulling from it.
- There were also presentations from Figshare --a site for keeping research datasets online – and on Altmetrics -- ratings of researchers by analyzing alternative sources like the number of tweets about a project
- A speaker from the Group of Eight, an association of the top research universities in Australia, and the Astra Project, an application of STAR METRICS in Australia.
- One thought to emerge from discussions: "Serendipity should be an explicit research strategy."
Impressions of the Australian research environment
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- Federico Sancho from Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, an international organization specializing in agriculture and serving government and public institutions throughout Central and South America, is pursuing an endeavor to improve science through linking agriculture professionals, including connectors to the US Department of Agriculture and their VIVO system.
- Internationalization of VIVO is very important to this effort, and they are working with the Collegio de Postgraduados in Mexico to facilitate a Spanish language translation of the VIVO interface that could take advantage of Multiple Language Support in VIVO, planned for VIVO v1.6
- IICA is also investigating hosting VIVO in the cloud.
Upcoming VIVO events
- 2013 VIVO Implementation Fest April 25 & 26 in Boulder, Colorado, on the University of Colorado campus
- 2013 VIVO Conference August 14-16 in St. Louis, Missouri
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