The conference begins with a full day of workshops for those new to VIVO, those implementing VIVO and those wishing to develop applications using VIVO.
Keynote addresses, invited speakers, scientific panels, contributed papers and posters will cover a range of topics, including the semantic web, linked open data, VIVO sustainability, adopting and implementing VIVO, research networking, network visualization, ontology and the role of VIVO in support of team science.
Topics will include:
VIVO, research discovery, and the semantic webImplementation and adoption of VIVOTheory and practice of working with the VIVO Ontology and the Integrated Semantic FrameworkBuilding applications that use VIVO-compliant linked open data and/or SPARQL queriesResearch dataset representation and linkagesVisualization, analysis, and metricHarvester and semantic data ingest techniquesResearcher collaboration and networkingManaging and discovering knowledge about researchers across institutional boundariesThe intersection of VIVO and international research information and identifier standardsResearcher workflows/representing open researchPolicy perspectives, planning, and modelling for compliance and/or knowledge mobilizationDevelopment and extensions of the VIVO platformUse of VIVO data for evaluation and strategic forecasting for institutions and organizationsComponentizing Vitro/VIVO by integrating OSGi, OpenSocial, and/or other modular frameworksVIVO for the humanities and social sciencesVIVO performance: optimizing and scaling
