enabling national 
Beth Auten,Paula King,Linda Butson,Hannah Norton,Michele R.Tennant,Kaitlin Blackburn,
Reference and Liaison Librarian,Director, Kresge Library,Consumer Health and                       Reference and Liaison Librarian,Assistant Director, Biomedical Marketing and Communications                            VIVO Collaboration* 

networking of scientists 
Health Science Center Libraries,The Scripps Research Institute Community Outreach Librarian,Health Science Center Libraries,and Health Information Services,Coordinator,VIVO Project,
University of Florida–Gainesville Health Science Center Libraries,University of Florida–Gainesville Health Science Center Libraries University of Florida–Gainesville 
University of Florida–Gainesville and Bioinformatics Librarian,

VIVO 
UF Genetics Institute,
University of Florida–Gainesville 
Sustaining our Future through Innovation—VIVO: Library-Based Support for Researcher Networking

Library Based 

• 
Neutral, trusted institutional entities 

• 
Expertise in information technology, management, and dissemination 

• 
Subject experts with experience in outreach roles 

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Knowledge of institutional, research, and instruction landscapes 

• 
Service ethic with a tradition of academic support 

• 
Recognition of challenges faced by various user communities 

• 
Experienced in resolving data integration problems endemic to legacy systems 



Librarians as Facilitators 

• Provide oversight of initial content development,  including identification of content  
types, ontology development, and interface refinement 
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Negotiate with campus data stewards for publicly visible data 

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Offer support and training at the local and national level,  including documentation and 



help-desk support 
• 
Engage with potential collaborators and participants 

• 
Create community of support via user forums 



• 
VIVO is an open source Semantic Web application that enables the 

    discovery of research & scholarship 

• 
VIVO is populated with detailed profiles of faculty and researchers 

• 
VIVO provides a faceted search functionality for easily identifying people,  


activities, organizations, and other research-related information 

• 
VIVO minimizes the need for manual data entry by pulling data from  


existing university and public sources, such as PubMed and NIH Reporter 

research interests • publications • grants • educational 

background • teaching • outreach activities • professional

a.liations • awards and more 



• 
Links local VIVO installations and other profiling applications producing  


Semantic Web-compliant data 

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Enables cross-institutional collaboration 

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Serves as a central portal for browsing and searching research and 


    scholarship at multiple institutions 





VIVO provides network analysis and visualization tools to maximize the 

benefits a.orded by the data available in VIVO 






Learn more about VIVO:


http://vivoweb.org 
Find out how your institution can participate:



http://vivoweb.org/participate 

Join us on Facebook:


http://www.facebook.com/VIVOCollaboration 



Attend the 2011 VIVO Conference:

http://vivoweb.org/conference