asis&t webinar people directories access innovations

Using Taxonomies to Create People

Directories and Author Networks

Bert Carelli, Vice President Business Developmentwww.accessinn.com

Goals and Agenda Why is it important right now that we

develop better resources about people? What roles can taxonomies play in this

effort? What opportunities are being created for

knowledge discovery and collaboration? What broad initiatives and technologies

should we be aware of?

Access Innovations Background Founded 1978: more taxonomies built than any other

company worldwide Thought leaders and educators in taxonomy standards Data Harmony Software: field tested, battle hardened,

award winning software

"Cut search time 50%." The Weather Channel"Cut search time 50%." The Weather Channel

"7-fold productivity increase" - ProQuest CSA

"7-fold productivity increase" - ProQuest CSA

The Semantic Roadmap: Knowledge Organization Systems

Semantic network Ontology Thesaurus Taxonomy Controlled vocabulary Synonym set/ring Name authority file Uncontrolled list

• Unrelated Entities• Ambiguity

• Linked Entities• Contextual Specificity

• Simple• Low Value

• Complex• High value

The Web Transformed…

Web 1.0 = Getting Content Online (over 120 million websites and growing)

Web 2.0 = Getting People Online

Mobile Social

Facebook: 700 Million Users Projected for 2011 (Open-First)

Twitter: Over 9 Billion Updates per Month

Linkedin: Over 200 Million People Searches per Month

A highly trusted source

Social technologies will boost the utility of this long-trusted source

Business Applications of Social Media

Sharing ideas for innovation Co-developing new products or services Enabling customers to get help from other

customers Generating brand awareness and visibility Peer review Assisting the selling process by sharing

contacts in a community

Company or Member Profiles

User pastes or uploads CV

Button to auto-extract taxonomy attributes

User Reviews tagging for accuracy

One Person, Many Representations

VIAF: Virtual International Authority File

http://viaf.org/viaf/95216565/

Creating an Author Authority Database

Tag all articles in the repository with standard subjects

Export author names, subjects, institutions, locations, etc.

Disambiguate authors with the same or similar names

Author Data: View by Connections…

… or by location…

…Or in the Document itself:http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000228.x001

Many Repositories for Names

VIAF: Virtual International Authority File

http://viaf.org

Project VIVO

Designed around linked data standards Resource Description Framework (RDF)

VIVO’s ontology integrates data from human resource systems, grants databases, faculty annual reporting systems, and publication databases

Free open-source software download: http://vivo.sourceforge.net

Explore a research area

Focus the results

Locate the PI for a grant

Contact a researcher with the desired expertise and research

activity

Detailed Profiles of Medical/BioMedical Researchers

Data is structured in the form of “triples” as subject-predicate-object.

Concepts and their relationships use a shared ontology to facilitate the harvesting of data from multiple sources.

Information stored as Resource Description Framework (RDF)

Jane Smith

is member of

author of

has affiliations with

Dept. of Genetic

sCollege

of Medicine

Journal article

Book chapter

Book

Genetics Institute

Subject Predicate Object

Detailed Data Relationships

David Nelson

Mike Conlon

Biomedical Informatics

Gene Anderson

Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI)

Ed Tech Magazine

Development of an Observational Instrument to Measure Mother-Infant Separation Post Birth

has research areais research area of

featured in

has position in

features

organization with position for

has authorauthor of

organization with position for

has position in

author of

has author

Inverse relationships are created

Connections among scientists illustrated

Current and accurate data revealed

Visualizations: co-author networks

125 Participant Organizations

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ORCID

ORCID

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Testing Possible Matching Algorithms:• VIAF matching technology from OCLC• Author Resolver from ProQuest• Matching capability from OKKAM Access Innovations Author Authority

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ORCID Profile Exchange

Integrating Identity into Publisher Systems

Manuscript Submission

• Confirm background and authenticity of submitting authors

Peer review

• Confirm background and authenticity of prospective reviewers and identify potential conflicts of interest

Connection to publications and other works

• Linking ORCID profiles with scholarly output enables disambiguation and improves publisher decision-making.

Social networks

• Integrating profile information into publishers social network systems enhances value and stickiness of these services (e.g. Nature Networks)

Questions?

Bert CarelliVice President, Business Development

Access Innovations / Data HarmonyBert_carelli@accessinn.com

510-551-3784Corporate Number: 505-998-0800