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- What do you think the value proposition is for VIVO?
- What do you see as VIVO’s top goals in the next 2-3 years?
- What do you think are the key issues and challenges for VIVO that need to addressed in the next 2-3 years?
Seventeen of 41 survey participants responded to the survey. The raw results are presented in for each of these questions by clicking the three tables links that follow.:
What do you think the value proposition is for VIVO?
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I don’t know.
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VIVO provides a research networking platform using semantic web technology and an ontology that is shared by other platforms and tools, as well as a community of experienced, engaged members
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Increased discoverability for the scholarly outputs and expertise of institution's faculty and researchers by providing search engine optimized web pages, engaging visualizations that summarize this information and encourage exploration, and innovative browsing and search capabilities in the web site.
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To raise the quality of data related to the above, by making this information public and encouraging institutions to curate and identify best sources and systems of record. High quality data is valuable.
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Enabling re-use of this high quality data, such as data syndication of VIVO data on other institution web sites, in a variety of public and internal reports, etc.
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Embracing and supporting Linked Open Data and the related network effect, to offer a viable open alternative to "closed platform" research tools like ResearchGate.
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The Vitro software offers a basic ontology editor, content entry and editing facilities, public-facing web display, and linked data services in a single, open source platform suitable for rapid prototyping of new semantic applications, especially for developing or testing a new ontology by populating it with data and sharing with domain users for evaluation and testing
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Structured, linked open data
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Platform for coordinated management of academic information and interoperability of systems that consume that information
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Enabler of cross-institutional research networking
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What do you see as VIVO’s top goals in the next 2-3 years?
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Ingest – select (or develop) an entry-level ingest tool and thoroughly support its use with tutorials, examples, and workshops.
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Core – continue to improve modularity, with plug-and-play triple-stores and reasoners.
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Core – lower the bar to entry with a binary distribution; no database, no Ant, no Tomcat, no Vagrant, just a Java runtime required.
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Outreach – convey usability, maturity, and coherence in all aspects of web presence. Crowdsourcing will not accomplish this.
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Increased open source commiter activity on the Vitro and VIVO projects, e.g. coordination of more code sprints and hackathons.
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Releasing VIVO Search or supporting a similar solution like DIRECT2Experts.
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Providing input for use case driven evolution of the VIVO-ISF data standard.
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Increased adoption by universities and research institutions, e.g. having more than 100 active VIVO implementations in production.
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Transforming an informal network of committed individuals into a sustainable community offering transparent governance, the capability to deliver production-quality software and ontology, and an openness to new ideas and directions
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Communicating where we are as a community, what we offer, and how we can partner with other organizations and movements to achieve goals such as shared identifiers and data interoperability
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Attracting new contributors (financial and in-kind) to the community by broadening VIVO’s reach in the sciences and biomedicine, in the humanities, and in libraries through closer integration with DuraSpace’s other communities supporting research data and repository technologies
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Increased adoption
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Progress on VIVO search
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More contributions to both the software and ontology from community members who are using the platform to solve real information problems and deliver services.
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What do you think are the key issues and challenges for VIVO that need to addressed in the next 2-3 years?
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Ontology developers must become user-oriented, and with an eye toward practical performance levels.
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To grow our community and strengthen the options for providing help and support to members.
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To avoid being fractured into too many initiatives and directions and to stick to our core missions.
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To solicit new leadership and find ways to get feedback from all of our member institutions.
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Best supporting backwards compatibility and data migration for older VIVO implementations as the VIVO-ISF ontology evolves.
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Encouraging more VIVO implementers to share their extensions as open source.
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Addressing performance issues in the application and its software dependencies.
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Identifying or providing more linked open data sources for commonly referenced individuals such as institutions, journals, and concepts (ex. MeSH).
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Explaining what we do, why we do it, and how newcomers (and even some long-timers) can effectively participate, meet their own goals, and contribute going forward
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Transitioning from reliance on a passive “build it and they will come” approach for data, ontology, and software to delivering coherent and robust tools and visualizations that show the significance of the data we have collectively gathered and how it can be applied to emerging information needs
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Establishing a evolving road map definition and evaluation process that reflects the best ideas in our community, makes those ideas more tangible, and points out where the biggest challenges remain
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Building confidence within our community that we can survive changes in personnel and even changes in partnerships as institutions, movements, and priorities change over time
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Complexity of implementation
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Commercial profile solutions
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