Using VIVO and Other Tools toAchieve a Strategic Vision

Bruce Herbert, Texas A&MLaurel Haak, ORCIDAndrea Michalek, Plum Analytics

This panel will explore how Texas A&M, selected and implemented a technology stack and is using it to achieve their strategic plan, “Vision 2020: Creating a Culture of Excellence.” Their stack includes VIVO, ORCID, Vireo & DSpace repositories, and PlumX.

The panel will discuss the components and the interactions between them.

Hosted by: Plum Analytics

Presenters and Panel

A Brief History:Initial Implementationq

•Currently, we are on our second ramp up of a VIVO installation.

•We were introduced to VIVO a few years ago and immediately saw the potential for its use.

• So like anyone with a new toy. We started digging up any dataset we could find and load them into VIVO.

VIVO Implementation at Texas A&M

Original VIVO project focused on representingbiomedical research

VIVO at TAMU has morecomplex use cases.

Sociotechnical systems are understood and improved if both ‘social’ and ‘technical’ aspects are brought together and

treated as interdependent parts of a complex system

http://lubswww.leeds.ac.uk/stc/what-we-do/stc-logo/

VIVO as a Sociotechnical System

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DESIGN

Faculty ReputationDiscovery of expertise when building collaborative teamsOrganizational practices for faculty, departments and collegesVPR and TEES Proposal developmentResearch funding complianceInforming Society

TAMU Use Cases

HR: people and their positionsSymplectic Elements Harvester: Faculty PublicationsRegistrar: coursesFaculty reporting: awards, professional service, education, research areas, research blurbInstitutional Repository: ETDs, publications, grey literatureEvents calendarMARCOMM: internal and external newsExtension: outreach, technology transferResearch administration: grants & contracts

TAMU Data Sources

Representing faculty reputations Dirty dataLack of common definitions of organizational structure or who’s “faculty”Data ownership and use by CollegesMany dimensions of privacy beyond simple “opt-in vs. opt-out”Short-term “go it alone” vs. common goodInstitutional risk

Policy Issues

TAMU Researcher Profile Information Ecosystem

TAMU Data

Profile EditorFaculty Data

SQL Databa

seHarvest

Reports

ManualInput

CuratorQC

Harvest

Crosswalk

Harvest

Widgets

HarvestWidgets

Scholarly Impact Metrics

Faculty Profiles in PlumX

Identity

Control

Evaluations

Strategic Decision Making

Alternative metrics critical for many different types of scholarly work

Make grey literature accessible and valued through integrated metrics

TAMU’s Institutional Repository

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INTERFACING WITH PLUMX

Answer the questions and tell the stories about your research

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MetricsCategories

USAGE(clicks, downloads, views, library

holdings, video plays)

CAPTURES(bookmarks, code forks, favorites,

readers, watchers)

MENTIONS(blog posts, comments, reviews,

Wikipedia links)

SOCIAL MEDIA(+1s, likes, shares, tweets)

CITATIONS(citation indexes, patent citations,

clinical citations)

5 categories in actionArticle level

metrics are the building blocks

for PlumX

ANALYZE• By metrics category• By type of output• By person• By grant• By department• By institution

Article level metrics can be embedded in VIVO through the Plum Print widget.

Embedding the Plum Print in VIVO

PlumX harvests automatically from VIVO.

Dashboards are kept in sync.

Connecting VIVO profiles to PlumX Dashboards

http://vivo.library.tamu.edu/display/n90ed2027

Analytics across all researchers

http://vivo.library.tamu.edu/display/n90ed2027

Analytics across DSpace

TAMU Researcher Profile Information Ecosystem

TAMU Data

Profile EditorFaculty Data

SQL Databa

seHarvest

Reports

ManualInput

CuratorQC

Harvest

Crosswalk

Harvest

Widgets

HarvestWidgets

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INTEGRATING ORCIDS

ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and

innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions and

affiliations across time, disciplines, and borders.

ORCID

ORCID provides PIDs

Persistent digital identifiers to distinguish researchers from each otherMember-built integrations that connect researchers and their activities/affiliationsA hub for synchronizing machine-readable connections between identifiers for people, organizations, and research activities

✔ Plumbing for research information ✔ Tools to build trust in digital information

Organizations are using ORCID APIs to authenticate, collect, display, and connect persistent identifiers for people, places, and things in research workflows

Enabling assertions

NIH Video

Publisher requirement page TAMU LibGuide

Oxford LibGuideVireo ETD posterDSpace -Fedora- VIVO Webinar

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IMPACT

Manage data at its appropriate source with appropriate privacy

HR, grants management, registrar, graduate school, colleges and schools, research centers, extensionDepartment/agency/division/geographic location/research unit

Consciously derive public data for exchangeEngage stakeholders and build relationshipsRecruit power users for training and local knowledge

Data that are visible get corrected!

Data Stewardship

Engaging the TAMU Community

Library VIVO Project

• Librarians• IT Specialists• Governance by Dean

of Faculties• Implemented at the

College-level

Faculty want control of their narrative

An integrated VIVO system supports the complex variety of narratives at TAMU.

http://www.aaup.org/reports-and-publications/academe

(Re)Claiming Faculty Narratives

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Questions?