Lambert Heller ICSTI 2015: ITOC workshop on Open Science and Open Data

July 4th, 2015

Data sovereignity for researchers, open data for everyone – the VIVO approach to CRIS

About me

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•  I’m working for academic libraries since 2004. • 2013 I kicked off TIB “Open Science Lab”, a small

interdisciplinary team. • Context: Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0 • The net enables research to be more open and

collaborative. Together with researchers communities, we examine and cultivate new opportunities. Last not least: Which specific problems may libraries help to solve?

• More: @Lambo and http://biblionik.de/about-me/

A person-centric view on research metadata

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„Profile“ view supports competition & collaboration

Researcher  

Iden,ty  

Research  products  

Social  graph(s)  

Impact  data  

Research  area(s)  

Ins,tu,onal  role(s)  

Scholarly profiles: Three and a half approaches

• Target audience: Publishers, orgs & individuals • Value proposition:Disambiguate authors & aggregate

info on one hub available to all • Business model: Multi-stakeholder operation • Data reusability: High

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1. ORCID

Scholarly profiles: Three and a half approaches

• Target audience: Individual researchers • Value proposition:Conveniently reach out

& connect on the web • Business model: Commercial service • Data reusability: Low

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2. ResearchGate, academia.edu et al

Scholarly profiles: Three and a half approaches

• Target audience: Research administration • Value proposition:Analyse, report & manage your

institutional research portfolio • Business model: Commercial software & services

• Data reusability: Low (often not even on public web)

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3.a TR Converis, Elsevier Pure and similar CRIS

Scholarly profiles: Three and a half approaches

• Target audience: Research admins & individuals • Value proposition:Publish & connect academic

institutions’ profile data • Business model: Open source software & standards

• Data reusability: High (complements or even replaces 3.a)

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3.b VIVO & other Linked Open Data based profiles

Scholarly profiles: Three and a half approaches

• Target audience: Research admins & individuals • Value proposition:Publish & connect academic

institutions’ profile data • Business model: Open source software & standards

• Data reusability: High (complements or even replaces 3.a)

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3.b VIVO & other Linked Open Data based profiles

Hint: Next week I‘ll publish a

more detailed version of this

comparison on the LSE „impact

of social sciences“ blog.

Scholarly profiles: What young researchers look for

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Some results from my DHI Paris workshop last month

Prototype Open Science VIVO beta

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Harvested data – researchers are fully in control of data

Prototype Open Science VIVO beta

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Interactive visualizations, e.g. co-authorship graphs

Prototype Open Science VIVO beta

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Visualizations for research administration purposes

Next: TIB VIVO

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New: Visualizations of author – title – keyword triples

Background: Everything is modelled in RDF triples

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Example: Person – authorship (role) – article

What else do we do with VIVO?

•  ...invite for a much anticipated first german workshop for VIVO users on September 9th this year

•  ...match the upcoming official german CRIS standard „Kerndatensatz Forschung“ with VIVO ontologies

•  ...advice & collaborate with institutes from Leibniz Association, maybe towards a large-scale VIVO based aggregation of german researcher profiles.

•  Ina Blümel (eScience professor HsH Hannover) leads our VIVO development efforts with students, thereby growing a new generation of „linked data librarians“.

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Currently, we...

Some questions and challenges

•  ...all CRIS subjects and objects have PIDs, including objects and relations that are institution-specific? (cf. Den Haag Manifesto 2011)

•  ...project ideas, grant proposals, running projects etc. can be well represented in a scholarly profile? („Realtime information“ on a researchers activity)

•  ...small contributions and conversations scattered all over the web are timely, automatically captured within a researchers profile? (ORCID OAuth & push API?)

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How can we make sure that...

Thank you for your attention!