VIVO: A Semantic Approach to Scholarly Networking and Discovery (Paperback)

The world of scholarship is changing rapidly. Increasing demands on scholars, the growing size and complexity of questions and problems to be addressed, and advances in sophistication of data collection, analysis, and presentation require new approaches to scholarship. A ubiquitous, open information infrastructure for scholarship, consisting of linked open data, open-source software tools, and a community committed to sustainability are emerging to meet the needs of scholars today.

This book provides an introduction to VIVO, http://vivoweb.org/, a tool for representing information about research and researchers—their scholarly works, research interests, and organizational relationships. VIVO provides an expressive ontology, tools for managing the ontology, and a platform for using the ontology to create and manage linked open data for scholarship and discovery. Begun as a project at Cornell and further developed by an NIH funded consortium, VIVO is now being established as an open-source project with community participation from around the world. By the end of 2012, over twenty countries and fifty organizations will provide information in VIVO format on more than one million researchers and research staff, including publications, research resources, events, funding, courses taught, and other scholarly activity.

The rapid growth of VIVO and of VIVO-compatible data sources speaks to the fundamental need to transform scholarship for the twenty-first century.

學術界正在迅速變化。對學者的需求不斷增加，需要解決的問題和問題的規模和複雜性也在增加，而數據收集、分析和呈現的技術也在不斷進步，這就需要新的學術方法。一個普遍存在的、開放的學術信息基礎設施正在崛起，它由連接的開放數據、開源軟件工具和致力於可持續發展的社區組成，以滿足當今學者的需求。

本書介紹了 VIVO（http://vivoweb.org/），這是一個用於表示關於研究和研究人員的信息的工具，包括他們的學術作品、研究興趣和組織關係。VIVO提供了一個豐富的本體論、管理本體論的工具，以及一個使用本體論創建和管理連接的開放數據的平台，用於學術研究和發現。VIVO最初是康奈爾大學的一個項目，並由NIH資助的聯盟進一步開發，現在正在成為一個開源項目，並得到來自世界各地的社區參與。到2012年底，超過二十個國家和五十個組織將以VIVO格式提供超過一百萬名研究人員和研究人員的信息，包括出版物、研究資源、事件、資金、授課課程和其他學術活動。

VIVO和兼容VIVO的數據源的快速增長反映了將學術研究轉型為21世紀的根本需求。