Exposing the data from NARCIS with VIVOChristophe Guéret (@cgueret)

Meertens Institute, January 18

Data Archiving and Networked Services

DANS is een instituut van KNAW en NWO

Data does not travel well...

● Publications from Frank van Harmelen● Decreasing number from system to system

148 38 13

Web of Science has 43 publications

and Google 283 !

Why is information lost ?

● Incentives○ Keeping one data source up to date is costly○ Keeping several is even more so!

● Standards ○ Information that can not be expressed is lost

● Confusion○ Re-invent the well & (partially) duplicate information

What do we want ?

● The dream: single, user-curated, consistent and up to date source that knows everything about someone

● Many aiming at being the one

OK then, let's do that !

● Need three ingredients:○ Web 2.0 platform○ Incentive○ Network effect

● Bonuses○ Generates a lot of data○ All the data is entered and store with the desired

schema

But...

● One-size-fits-all solutions are though to design. Users may be left unhappy.

● Incentives are hard: why would one update Academia.edu rather than ResearchGate ?

● There will always be several publishers of data and messy/incomplete/... data inputs

So let's try something else...

● Use the Web !

● Set up an ecosystem of○ Authorities: assign identifiers to things○ Vocabularies: define standards to express the data○ Publishers: expose the data they have○ Consumers: generate value out of the data

● Apply Linked Open Data principles to interconnect all the data

A research information ecosystem

Prototype worked on at DANS

● Use data harvested for NARCIS as CSV

● Use VIVO harvester to convert the CSV files and load the data into the VIVO portal

● So far○ running VIVO instance for the VU○ no link to other data sets○ no data consumer

Demo !

http://demo.datanetworkservice.nl:8080/vivo/