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Kristi says that this has been a theme at Wash U. In previous calls, we did role playing to help people craft responses well. This call is a great place to share best practices and information. Kristi will help locate this information on the wiki.
Mike C: how are you approaching self-editing? Will faculty be able to edit their data?
Michaeleen: we won't allow self-editing. This prevents profiles from being out of date.They have a library assistant who's editing profiles.
Michael B: At TAMU, they will be talking about this issue, whether they'll be updating from Elements and whether the data is correct.
Julia: at Duke, some of the data is fed from institutional records and some is editable in our VIVO.
Mike C: university administrators don't always understand the faculty record, but there's a lot of information about faculty than the administrators realize. This tells the full story about what the faculty members are doing.
Darrell: User adoption is one of his areas of expertise. Be sure to publicize success stories quarterly. Use the existing 50% to help with testimonials, buddy system, rewards so that you're leverage existing users. Continually work with users to make sure that the site is sticky and attractive.
Sharlini: People like stickers on back on tablets.
Alvin: We'd like to use to reuse VIVO data on curated web pages. That's an incentive to keep that profile up to date.
Darrell: Trust the community.
Michael B: Would we use SPARQL queries for populating websites?
Mike C: UFL both use SPARQL to populate various websites.
Alvin: Does this encourage usage?
Mike C: We think so – about 10% of UFL faculty have edited their profiles and we think it's mostly junior faculty. When departments are involved, it helps to promote the message and repeating it in a consistent way. It's important to repeat the message many times – you can't just launch it, you have to live it! The university adminsitrative message is not as strong, typically.