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
301-654-2512