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- What version of VIVO are you currently running in production?
- Do you run on
- Dedicated physical server(s)
- Virtual server(s)
- Cloud service (please specify)
- How much memory is allocated to your production instance of VIVO?
- What database do you use?
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Do you use a triple store other than Jena SDB? if so, what?
- Do you use HTTP caching?
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- Which of the following person types do you capture?
- If in academia
- Tenure track faculty
- Instructors, lecturers, and other longer-term academics
- Postdocs/fellows/visiting faculty
- PhD students
- Other students
- Extension educators and/or research staff
- Technicians and lab/facility staff
- Other staff (list types)
- If in government or non-profit sector
- Researchers
- Administrators and managers
- Technicians
- Affiliates
- Other staff (list types)
- If in academia
- Which of the following data does your VIVO capture using other local or external sources?
- Preferred name
- Preferred title
- Positions
- Educational background
- Publications
- Artistic works/performances
- Consulting/professional practice
- Certifications
- Professional service
- Community service/outreach
- Honors and awards
- Teaching
- Advising
- Grants, agreements, and contracts
- Datasets
- Research projects
- Published datasets or databases
- Departments (in academia, Academic departments ( usually having degree-granting authority)
- Academic Sub-units or programs (often less formally constituted)
- Labs, facilities and equipment
- Research centers
- Degree programs
- Student organizations
- Research services
- Other research resources (e.g., seed banks or other genetic resources)
- Events
- News releases (written at your institution)
- Media coverage (articles written elsewhere about people/events/programs/publications/grants at your institution)
- Impact statements/extension success stories
- Other (please list)
- Which of the following data do you allow users to manually enter?
- Preferred name
- Preferred title
- Publications
- Grants, agreements, and contracts
- Positions
- Educational background
- Certifications
- Professional service
- Honors and awards
- Other
- How many of each of the following does your VIVO have?
- Internal persons
- Publications
- Grants, agreements, and contracts
- Internal organizations
- Honors and awards
- Events
- News items
- Other (please indicate)
- What is your source for disambiguate themdisambiguating the above?
- End user
- Administrator/developer
- Symplectic Elements
- ORCID
- Custom workflow
- What is your source for publications (check all that apply)
- Medline
- Web of Knowledge
- CrossRef
- Google Scholar
- Scopus
- SSRN
- MLA
- Mendeley
- Local sources (e.g., personal CVs or departmental databases)
- Other (please list)
- Do you display non-federal grants?
- Yes
- No
- How often do you update the following sources? (daily, weekly, monthly, variable)
- Persons
- Publications
- Grants, agreements, and contracts
- Positions
- Educational background
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- Events
- News
- other (please specify)
Community Participation
- Has anyone from your site made core contributions to a software project before?
- If any, how many people from your site
- have contributed to listserv traffic?
- have contributed to demos or webinars?
- have contributed to wiki pages?
- have submitted or commented on the JIRA issue tracker?
- have participated in sessions Implementation Fest(s)?
- have contributed to conference workshops or presentations?
- have participated in hackathon event(s)?
- have shared scripts or code for VIVO-related apps and tools on GitHub or elsewhere?
- have made contributions to VIVO core?
- What are some roadblocks that have prevented developers at your site from making core contributions?
- Failure to understand how the application works
- Don't know where to start
- Lack of perceived permission from the most common core developersor encouragement from current developers/contributors
- Competing projects
- Decision makers don't see the value
- Don't have any particular needs that could be addressed
- Where do you maintain your code base?
- Just on a local server or desktop
- Internally hosted Subversion repository
- Git-Hub
- Git
- Local copy of Microsoft Wordpad
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- Internally hosted Git repository
- GitHub
Ontology
Does someone from your institution participate in ontology calls?
- if not, why not?
- Have you included other established ontologies in your VIVO (e.g., VSTO)
- Have you made any local ontology customizations or extensions? If so,
How many custom classes does your VIVO use?
- How many custom properties does your VIVO use?
- Do you consider the VIVO-ISF ontology
- Impossibly complicated
- More detail than I need but I can ignore what I don't use
- About right
- Lacking in areas we need (please specify)
Size, 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 are key stakeholders with in your institution with VIVO's speed?
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- 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
- On a scale of 1-10, please rate the frequency with which you receive the following complaints:
- My data is wrong.
- Key data of mine is missing.
- I don't want VIVO to replace my institutional website.
- I'm not allowed to edit certain data from external sources.
Marketing
- Who first learned about VIVO?
- developer
- librarian
- provost or dean
- chief information officer
- other (please specify)
- On a scale of 1-10, what level of interest would your institution have in the following?
- support contracts
- canned hosting
- on-site training
- start-up consultations
- intensive development help from an experienced VIVO developer
- 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 and makes you more competitive.
- Other (please specify)
- On a scale of 1-10, which of the following messages would be most successful in marketing VIVO to your stakeholders?
- VIVO meets an adminstrative need
- VIVO saves staff and researcher time
- VIVO helps researchers find collaborators
- VIVO promotes your institution's work and makes you more competitive.
- Other (please specify)
- On a scale of 1-10, why do you suppose end users do not interact with their VIVO profile?
- Lack of time
- Too many competing places they are expected to provide and update informationThey have better things to do.
- Too many options on the VIVO profile
- Marketing needs to be better
- Other (please specify)
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- Which of the following apps and tools do you use?
- Ingest tools originally developed elsewhere (e.g., Harvester, UF tools, Brown tools, Karma)
- OpenSocial gadgets
- Duke widgets
- VIVO-Drupal integrations
- 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
- Duke's HTML embeds of SPARQL queries
- In what ways do your institution reuse your VIVO data?
- Data dashboard
- Business intelligence
- Other institutional sites
- Custom visualizations
- Faculty review tool
- Do you have a SPARQL endpoint?
- Yes, and it's publicly available
- Yes, but it is not publicly available
- No
- (If you have a publicly available endpoint), what is the URL?
- (If you have an endpoint but it's not publicly available), why not?
- Takes time to set up
- Worried about performance
- Concerned about sharing institutional data
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