Each year, we survey the VIVO sites regarding their implementations. The results of the survey are available at the conference, presented as a poster or short talk. Survey results help the community identify opportunities for the VIVO roadmap, and provide basic metrics regarding community size and vitality.
2018 Survey
The VIVO action planning Governance and Structure group conducted a survey of the community in 2018. They will report their findings in 2019.
2017 Survey – Oops
We didn't have a 2017 survey.
Perhaps this means we only survey every two years (see 2015).
2016 Survey
The survey was conducted with Google Forms and can be found here: https://goo.gl/rkr964 With 36 respondents, the 2016 survey was the largest survey yet. Simplifying the survey and designing for three groups "conceiving", "implementing" "in production" with questions for each, appears to have helped.
The survey results were presented in a poster at the 2016 VIVO Conference. The poster is available here: http://openvivo.org/display/doi10.6084/m9.figshare.3596883
If you have ideas for the 2017 survey, please contact Mike Conlon or Paul Albert.
Thanks!
2015 Survey – Oops
We didn't have a 2015 Survey.
In the past, the survey was very detailed and quite technical. This limited responses. In 2016, we expect to have a much shorter survey, generating additional responses, and providing additional input to the formation of strategy and roadmap.
2014 Survey
The survey form is here.
Results from the 2014 survey are listed here:
- Summary presentation (PDF)- presented at 2014 VIVO Annual Conference
- Raw data (XLS) - now includes anonymized responses for those who asked for anonymity
Other Surveys
Other surveys related to the VIVO-ISF data standard, research networking technologies, or social networking for academics/researcher are listed here:
- Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network – A Nature survey explores academic social networks
- NPG 2014 Social Networks survey – raw data on figshare
All questions are not required unless otherwise specified.
Background
- What is the name of your institution?
- How would you describe your institution?
- research university
- undergraduate college
- medical school
- governmental organization
- non-governmental organization
- non-profit
- other (please specify)
- In what country is your institution located?
- Would you like your submission using this survey to be anonymized?
- Is your VIVO in production?
- Yes
- Yes, but it's in beta.
- No, but our institution has made a commitment to VIVO and we're in the development stage.
- No. We still haven't decided whether to adopt VIVO, but we're in the exploratory stage.
- If yes, what is the URL for your VIVO?
Server and application configuration
- What version of VIVO are you currently running on production?
- How much memory is allocated to your production instance of VIVO?
- What database do you use?
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Do you use caching?
Personnel
- (If in production), how many FTE-years were needed to get VIVO ready for production?
- For example, if three people worked on VIVO for three years that would be 9 FTE-years.
- What is the average number of FTEs that have worked on your VIVO implementation in the last year?
Contents
- Which of the following data does your VIVO capture using external sources?
- Preferred title
- Publications
- Grants, agreements, and contracts
- Positions
- Educational background
- Certifications
- Professional service
- Honors and awards
- Which of the following data do you allow users to manually enter?
- Preferred title
- Publications
- Grants, agreements, and contracts
- Positions
- Educational background
- Certifications
- Professional service
- Honors and awards
- How many of each of the following does your VIVO have?
- Publications
- Grants, agreements, and contracts
- Honors and awards
- What is your source for disambiguating publications?
- End user
- Administrator/developer
- Symplectic Elements
- Custom workflow
- What is your source for publications (check all that apply)
- Medline
- Web of Knowledge
- Google Scholar
- Scopus
- Do you display non-federal grants?
- Yes
- No
Performance and caching
- (If in production), how many rows are in your quads table?
- Run SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Quads;
- When caching is not turned on, how long does it take your largest organization or person profile page to load?
- On a scale of 1-10, how happy is your institution with VIVO's speed?
Challenges
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Outreach and feedback
- How would you characterize your users response to VIVO?
- engaged
- engaged but highly critical
- apathetic
- In what ways have you reached out to your users?
- Online documentation
- Video tutorials
- Trainings
- Focus groups
Marketing
- Who first learned about VIVO?
- developer
- librarian
- provost or dean
- chief information officer
- On a scale of 1-10, what level of interest would your institution have in the following?
- support contracts
- canned hosting
- on-site training and start-up consultations
- On a scale of 1-10, which of the following messages would be most successful in marketing VIVO to your users?
- VIVO saves you time.
- VIVO helps you find collaborators.
- VIVO promotes your work.
- Other (please specify)
Apps and tools
- Which of the following apps and tools do you use?
- OpenSocial gadgets
- On a scale of 1-10, how interested would your institution be using the following apps and tools?
- Export to CV/biosketch
- VIVO Dashboard, a tool which allows user to create multi-faceted reports using publication metadata from VIVO
- ORCID integration
Sample questions
- how many FTEs work on VIVO (and what is their domain expertise?)
- what data are captured
- what additional tools are used
- can put the results in http://vivo.vivoweb.org
- perhaps do a dry run at the I-Fest
- useful for DuraSpace to understand community growth, member prospects?
- production environment specs/config?
- platform details (maybe also some info on dev/test environment)
- priorities for addressing gaps
Who wants to help?
Paul will facilitate a call to write out the questions and has a way to host it, and we can circulate it with this group and others enough by the I-Fest to solicit input
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