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Jonathan Breeze, CEO @breezier
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2694-6729
Alex Viggio, Senior Technical Consultant
@aviggio
#VIVO2015
Reflections of the service provider
We serve the open source profile community
symplectic.co.uk
What motivated us?Already part of the community.
No reason to ‘reinvent the wheel’.
Open platforms are more discoverable.
Mitigate the technical barriers to VIVO adoption and contribution.
Provide institutions a choice.
State of the market today
Competing institutional priorities.
Competing platforms (mostly closed).
VIVO implementations can be complex and time-consuming.
Advantages of VIVO are hard for institutions to visualise.
Our strategy
Our real strategyContinuous engagement with the community.
• DuraSpace members • VIVO Leadership & Steering
groups • Engage at events and festivals • Actively contribute to VIVO
development
Offer full installation and hosting services for institutions.
Provide consultancy and expertise in Open Profile implementations.
In-house expertise
Alex ViggioSenior Technical Consultant
VIVO Leadership
John GeischenClient Services Manager
Open Profiles
Cezar LicaSenior Infrastructure Engineer
Hosting and Infrastructure
…plus the rest of our team!
Case Study #1
Leading US Medical School
Profiles RNS installation, implementation and configuration.
Fully hosted system.
Stand-alone.
Case Study #1: Schema
Case Study #2
Top US Public School
Elements and VIVO install hosted by client
VIVO 1.4 implementation in 2 weeks using Elements Harvester for data
Winter upgrade to VIVO 1.7 in test and production in four weeks
Extended Elements Harvester tool to handle new client use case and Elements API 4.9 with additional profile metadata*
* contributed code back to Elements Harvester open source
Case Study #3
Research Funding institution in Europe.
Symplectic hosted system.
Using Elements to collect and feed scholarly works to Profiles RNS
Case Study #3: Schema
symplectic.co.uk
How can you help?
More reference sites!
Commit local customisations and code back to VIVO.
Help make ‘out-of-the-box’ experience more compelling.
Ask not what your Open Profile system can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your Open Profile system.
symplectic.co.uk
Come to our session on Friday
Find out first-hand about our new ‘Zero to VIVO in 7 days’ service.
Check out the card in your delegate pack for details.