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Project Summary

Many VIVO implementers find collecting, mapping, and loading data into VIVO to be quite difficult. For example, data on publications, grants, and datasets produced by an institution’s faculty can be difficult to find and disambiguate. Understanding the ontologies used to describe data in VIVO and mapping faculty data to those ontologies involves a steep learning curve. Also, transforming the data to a linked data format, such as VIVO RDF, has proven difficult for most implementers due to gaps in skills and knowledge. These barriers have prevented organizations from joining the VIVO community and adopting the technology that enables access, discovery, and analysis of scholarship data.

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Pilot participants will be asked to pay a participation fee of between $1,000 and $4,700 USD depending on the data retrieval and preprocessing assistance needed (provided at cost by Research Graph). The Cloud Pilot will be executed in two phases over a three month term, running from February 2018 to April 2018.  This will provide suitable results for a presentation at the 11th RDA Plenary Meeting in Berlin, Germany, March 21-23, 2018.

Conclusion

The project will determine the value and potential of a long term collaboration between VIVO and Research Graph in the form of new services that could reduce barriers for organizations that want to find, disambiguate, transform, and map research data. 

Please contact Contact: Erin Tripp, Business Development Manager at DuraSpace with questions about this project at etripp@duraspace.org.

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