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Overview
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In the examples that follow, we will use OpenVIVO. If your local VIVO is at version 1.9.0 or higher, it will have the capability map as described here.
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A Tour of the Capability Map
Think of a research area that interests you. Perhaps you study ontologies and want to find other people who are interested in ontology. Click on the Capability Map link in the menu bar on the VIVO home page (see below). You do not need to be logged on. If you are using your local VIVO and you do not see the capability map link on the home page, please contact your local VIVO support for more information.
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Let's add to the network. Click on Search and Expand. We now see the concepts of each of the four original people, with people associated with those concepts, connected in a graph showing common interests. Some people have many interests, some have just a few.
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. Note that concepts are always connected to groups of people who have that concept has a research interest.
Click on the group of people near the center of the map, between linked data and semantic web. You should see a display similar to the one below. The group is highlighted along with the concepts common to the group (linked data and semantic web). Not that the right hand display shows the group as being defined as those people who are interested in both linked data and semantic web.
The map is a little cluttered with the names of the people who are in groups with one member. Click hide group labels. You see a map similar to the one below.
Double click on ontology. Two things happen. The map zooms in one ontology, and the ontology term is highlighted. One of the groups connected to ontology is highlighted.
suppose we wish to reduce the number of terms that have been generated by expanding the graph – some of these are closely related to ontology, while others may be less so. Terms aon on the graph because someone who has ontology an an interest has one of these terms as an additional interest. Click on SQL (Computer Program Language), then in the right hand panel, click on "Search Terms" This lists all the terms currently in the graph.
Select five of the terms as shown and press "Delete Selected" The pruned graph is shown below. We seem more clearly the group of people interested in linked data and the semantic web.
We can search and expand at any time to add groups and terms related to those on the graph. And if we want to start over, we can press Reset.
Using the Capability Map we can find groups of people interest in common research areas, and we can discover which research areas are often held in common across researchers.
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