[Asis-l] NISO/DCMI Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service

[Cynthia Hodgson]

Join NISO and DCMI for the next event in their joint webinar series for
2013.

Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions:
Experiences from the VIVO Service

Date: May 22, 2013

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time)

Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR

VIVO is a semantic web application focused on discovering researchers and
research publications in the life sciences. The service, which uses
open-source software originally developed and implemented at Cornell
University, operates by harvesting data about researcher interests,
activities, and accomplishments from academic, administrative, professional,
and funding sources. Using a built-in, editable ontology for describing
things such as People, Courses, and Publications, data is transformed into a
Semantic-Web-compliant form. VIVO provides automated and self-updating
processes for improving data quality and authenticity. Starting with a
classic Google-style search box, VIVO users can browse search results
structured around people, research interests, courses, publications, and the
like -- data that can be exposed for re-use by other systems in a
machine-readable format.

This webinar, held by a veteran at the Albert R. Mann Library Information
Technology Services department at Cornell, where the VIVO project was born,
presents the perspective of a software developer on the practicalities of
building a high-quality Semantic-Web search service on existing data
maintained in dozens of formats and software platforms at large, diverse
institutions. The talk will highlight services that leverage the Semantic
Web platform in innovative ways, e.g., for finding researchers based on the
text content of a particular Web page and for visualizing networks of
collaboration across institutions.

SPEAKER

John Fereira, a senior programmer/analyst and technology strategist at
Cornell University, is a contributing member of the VIVO project team. He
also consults on issues related to information technology in higher
education with an emphasis on open-source, modular, distributed software
systems and is currently working on systems based on VIVO software for
international Agricultural Information systems communities.

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on May 22, 2013 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available
for NISO and DCMI members and students.

Can't make it on the webinar date/time? Register now and gain access to the
recorded archive for one year.

Visit the event webpage to register and for more information:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo

 

 

Cynthia Hodgson

Technical Editor / Consultant

National Information Standards Organization

hodgsonca at verizon.net

301-654-2512

 

 

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