Research, Representation, and Recognition through ORCID

"Research, Representation, and Recognition through ORCID" presented by Kristi Holmes (Northwestern University) at the ORCID US Roadshow in Chicago on April 27, 2017

Getting More From Your VIVO

Workshop/tutorial slides for introducing the VIVO-ISF ontology via SPARQL queries.  No prior SPARQL experience is required

Understanding Academic Research: Free and Low-Cost Tools & Workflows

<div>ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group: Understanding Academic Research: Free and Low-Cost Tools & Workflows <div><i></i><b>Saturday, June 24 </b></div><div><i></i><b>1:00 PM - 2:30 PM </b></div><div><i></i><b>Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Clark/CC 22AB </b></div><div></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Much of the academic research world remains available only to institutions that are able to pay for subscriptions to specific tools and resources. However, over the last few years, vendors, funders, and other organizations have developed a number of free and low-cost tools targeted to a range of stakeholders. These tools and resources help support users inside and beyond institutions to discover, understand and use academic research.</div

Getting More From Your VIVO: Generating Reports and Functional Datasets For Analysis

<p>Research information systems are important tools for individuals, institutions, and consortia and can inform decision making, assessment, and collaborative activities. This workshop will cover the concept of research impact and indicators of impact within the VIVO ontology, business processes, and workflow for generating reports and datasets from your VIVO. Attendees of the workshop will gain a better perspective of strategies to identify and monitor research impact using their systems and a recipe book (including sparql queries) to generate meaningful reports and data sets. Attendees will be able to participate in hands-on work with the VIVO-ISF ontology to identify existing indicators and brainstorm possible ontology extensions for incorporation into the data framework. Finally, an open discussion on consortial approaches for use of this data will conclude the session.</p

An ecosystem of contributions

Slides for opening of the openRIF workshop at Force2016. <div>There exists an ecosystem of different projects that aim to represent the different aspects of the research ecosystem. OpenRIF aims to bring these efforts together to help support interoperability, improved attribution, and use of research data for analytics and team science.</div

Attribution of Work in the Scholarly Ecosystem

In this project we have outlined a list of contributor roles identified by the Force 11 Attribution Working Group. Contributor roles from existing taxonomies were leveraged (CRediT) and further enhanced with more finely-resolved contributor roles based on an in-depth investigation of activities and outputs. We have also collated and reviewed existing efforts on scholarly contribution taxonomies to determine their unique aspects, and how they complement each other. We reviewed the landscape of taxonomies and systems in order to compare and contrast key types of contributions.  We also considered the objectives needed to create a contributorship model that is robust enough to cover various fields of research, and specific enough to adequately describe contribution in a meaningful way.<br><br>We found there to be a diverse landscape of projects and groups working in this area, though each with its own perspective. A brief outline of the coverage, goals and relevant factors of these projects or groups is provided. Several projects were identified as being relevant to this inquiry, including Contributor Roles Taxonomy Project (CRediT), VIVO-ISF ontology, Provenance (PROV), the Becker Model and other impact frameworks, Transitive Credit, Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN Project), and the Scholarly Contributions and Roles Ontology (SCoRO). Additionally, several working groups were identified: Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and the Force 11 Attribution Working Group.<br><br>Through the in-depth study of different contribution roles in the scholarly process, we were able to better understand how these contributions might be structured – in terms of a particular output (manuscript, dataset, etc.) and also contributions to the project as a whole.  Moreover, we developed a 2-level hierarchy to enable more complete representation of these roles through major classes such as author, communication, data, IP, project and team management, regulatory administration, software development, and so on.<br><br>While there are projects and ongoing efforts to better understand the diverse roles that professionals take on when contributing to the scholarly ecosystem, it is clear that more work is needed to fully explore the area of contributorship roles. Several leaders in this area have proposed projects to define an informatics infrastructure that enables the collection and dissemination on contributor attribution data to various stakeholder audiences. Projects of that nature bring excitement and expectation, as we wait to see where they will take us and how greatly they will impact the scholarly ecosystem. Perhaps most important is the need to accomplish this work in an open, collaborative manner, leveraging data standards along the way to enable interoperability and integration with existing architectures. <br><br

Supporting the spectrum of scholarship in DigitalHub

<div><div><div>Galter Health Sciences Library is at the forefront of building and implementing technical systems that enable the Northwestern Medicine community to build, curate, acquire, and preserve a diverse range of scholarly outputs. DigitalHub preserves intellectual works, enhances the visibility of Northwestern Medicine scholarship, and promotes its authors by enabling discovery and accessibility of these works by the international scientific community. DigitalHub was envisioned specifically to support and promote the diverse range of scholarly products created during the research process. Submissions of traditional works, such as research papers, and non-traditional outputs, such as white papers, case reports, technical reports, survey instruments, educational materials, protocols and other research documents are encouraged. With DigitalHub, Northwestern Medicine gains the ability to promote a spectrum of attractive, functional, and citable scholarly outputs, digital collections and exhibits. DigitalHub meets the following core needs: • Positioned to best take advantage of emergent semantic capabilities of linked open data, as well as hierarchical and structured metadata schema. • Provides usable access to diverse file formats (objects, images) and types (born-digital, digitally reformatted), as well as accompanying metadata. • Displays materials in accordance with their types and curatorial requirements (e.g., using IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) server and OpenSeadragon image viewer for high resolution zoomable images). • Exposes items via harvesting and APIs. • Enables curators to create collections and exhibits. • Provides adjustable access levels, allowing materials to be made openly available or restricted to Northwestern community through granular permissions at the item and collection level. • Has well-communicated policies for acquisition, preservation, retention, lifecycle management, and rights assessment. • Provides unique identifiers to each scholarly work by automatic assignment of DOI.</div></div></div><div><br></div

Who we are and what we contribute: The Open Research Information Framework as a means to understand scholarship

OpenRIF poster presented at VIVO 2016 and PNC/MLA 2016

OpenVIVO: A VIVO anyone can join

Poster presented June 14, 2016 at OR2016, Dublin I

From theory to practice: Case studies and commentary from libraries, publishers, funders and industry

From theory to practice: Case studies and commentary from libraries, publishers, funders and industry has been published by Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, following on from the release of their State of Open Data Report 2023 and its key recommendations. From theory to practice is the first time in the nine-year history of The State of Open Data that a supplementary publication has expanded upon the main report’s years of survey results about open data, involving tens of thousands of researchers globally.Each case study and commentary is told from the perspective of a research stakeholder group:Funding bodies: The NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative: meeting community needs for FAIR data sharing and discoveryScholarly Publishers: Operationalize data policies through collaborative approaches – the momentum is nowUniversity Libraries: One size does not fit all: an investigation into how institutional libraries are tailoring support to their researchers’ needsIndustry: How Open Pharma supports responsible data sharing for pharma research publications.</p