Opportunities for shared data
There are many resources for authoritative, identified, shared data that can be leveraged by the VIVO community and also opportunities for the VIVO community to contribute to a growing effort to create and disambiguate stable URIs for people, organizations, events, journals, subject headings, and other types of data.
This need has been recognized in the VIVO community for some time but there don't appear to be simple solutions, even if we as a community are willing to host some form of registry to crosswalk identifiers from different sources (where that would even make sense or be permitted under licenses on the data).
Leslie McIntosh of Washington University in St. Louis contributed two datasets during the NIH VIVO grant (2009-2012) that are still available in the VIVO Sourceforge file repository in the data ingest section:
- World educational institutions
- World educational institutions filtered to the U.S. and territories
- Universities
Chris Barnes from the University of Florida has been investigating funding organizations, and has talked about this on an Apps & Tools call and at the VIVO Hackathon in October, 2014