Abstract
OpenVIVO is a free and open hosted semantic web platform open to anyone that gathers and shares open data about scholarship around the world. OpenVIVO, based on the VIVO open source platform, provides transparent access to data about the scholarly work of its participants. OpenVIVO demonstrates the use of persistent identifiers, automatic real-time ingest of scholarly ecosystem metadata, use of VIVO-ISF and related ontologies, attribution of work, and publication and reuse of data – all critical components of presenting, preserving, and tracking scholarship. The system was created by a cross-institutional team over the course of three months. The team created and used RDF models for research organizations in the world based on Digital Science GRID data, for academic journals based on data from CrossRef and the US National Library of Medicine, and created a new model for attribution of scholarly work. All models, data, and software are available in open repositories.
Highlights
OpenVIVO is a free and open-hosted semantic web platform that anyone can join and that gathers and shares open data about scholarship in the world
The team created and used RDF models for research organizations in the world based on Digital Science Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) data, for academic journals based on data from CrossRef and the US National Library of Medicine, and created a new model for attribution of scholarly work
OpenVIVO offers the VIVO team a platform to experiment with various features and decide which ones will eventually end up in the VIVO main code
Summary
The growth of scholarship worldwide and the proliferation of scholarly output types—from papers and monographs to preprints, conference papers, datasets, posters, and presentation slides—have fundamentally changed the scholarly ecosystem from an environment dependent on libraries to one that is dependent on the electronic resources made available by libraries to support discovery and knowledge transfer This shift clearly drives a need for the representation of scholarly works using standard metadata formats to facilitate indexing and discovery. OpenVIVO: Transparency in Scholarship (2016) each provide open APIs that can be used to identify and collect metadata regarding scholarly works. Using VIVO ontological models for representing scholarship, open APIs, and persistent identifiers, OpenVIVO provides transparent access to the metadata of the scholarly works of its participants
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