A list of why VIVO is important to different constituencies - a very pragmatic list with practical examples. Please add to this list as you can.

Open Science & Discovery

• Point to data sets and research products

• Encourages sharing of data regarding scholarship

• Common data representations used across multiple systems

Basic scientists

• All data is linked within the context of a person - and that data can lead to other valuable sources

• You can individually brand yourself/research

• Links can help your search engine rankings rise quickly.

• Getting funding (linking research to grants).

• Opening research to the world (imagine having your citations displayed on your affiliate society pages and beyond).

• Finding collaborators (simplifies the process of identifying experts in a field and reaching out to them).

• Being "found" by potential collaborators.

• VIVO can help junior faculty and trainees identify mentors.

• Find campus events and take advantage of local opportunities.

• Highlight teaching expertise/responsibilities. Teaching is often a thankless job on campus.

• Keep current on research in my department, on my campus.

• Find core research facilities and people with expertise within the cores.

• Track collaborators.

• Track competitors.

• Find support services on campus - library liaison, support personnel within administrative groups, etc.

• Highlight a changed research direction. Publications often lag ~2 years behind what's actually being done in the lab (Research_Objective statement is a vehicle for this).

• VIVO's ontology makes information easily findable

Clinicians

• Search for upcoming conferences, seminars, workshops, and trainings

• Find resources (labs/facilities) for screening and assessment.

• Find related articles, research conducted within an institution.

• Connect with other research areas or groups within an institution.

• Create work groups for case studies.

• Re-purpose VIVO data for practice websites.

• Gain visibility of work.

• Organize fund raising events to assist with funding research or grants/scholarships.

• Start discussions about new clinical findings.

• Interact with colleagues within the same field to gather insight and ask questions.

• Utilize VIVO to educate and promote preventive health.

• Find referral doctors in other fields.

• Find an expert who specializes in a particular procedure or protocol.

• Enable a physician to identify potential clinical trials that her/his patient might find of interest .

• Enable community groups to identify physicians who might have similar interests for future collaborations (especially important in the age of translational science - taking the fruits of translational research out and ultimately benefiting the community).

• highlight links/content of interest to their patients. For example - a researcher who works with a particular genetic disease might wish to share a link to local and national support groups for patients and their advocates.

Librarians/IS people

• Will help them to stay in touch with their departments and integrate them into various research efforts.

• The semantic web allow them to take our rich research output and make it available, reducing information boundaries (this is what librarians do!)

• Use information gleaned from VIVO to help guide collection development and purchasing decisions.

• Use information gleaned from VIVO to help guide development of new services.

• VIVO's ontology makes information easily findable

Administrators

• Creates a one-stop shop for publicly-available institutional data. Institutional attitudes often come into play when determining what data is incorporated, however.

• The underlying application is created using semantic web compliant standards --making the data transferable between systems, if you later decide to go with another platform. linked open data is available, regardless of the platform.

• Showcase rich research output (showcase publications, grants, etc.) data is easily reusable - so opportunities to restructure the data are endless.

• Could possibly increase funding money, as it allows administrators to connect people and resources when targeted funding opportunities require specific details to be met.

• Assist with locating experts for review panels, symposia, etc.

• Assist journals in locating experts.

• Assists when highlighting research efforts to potential donors (has resulted to real funding for Cornell researchers).

Students

• Find mentors.

• Find research opportunities.

• Identify courses of interest.

• Useful for recruiting new graduate students, trainees.

• Find seminars of interest.

• All data is linked within the context of a person - and that data can lead to other valuable sources

• You can individually brand yourself/research

• Links can help your search engine rankings rise quickly.

Other Benefits

• Search across variety of disciplines.

• Promote your work.

• Maintain your resume/CV - not yet

• Put together review panels/committees

• Find collaborators on projects/grants

• View personal visualizations on co-author networks and grant funding.

• Open source, community-developed tool

• Create public/private groups

• Connect with colleagues

• Display course information

• Share research

• Highlight upcoming talks or presentations that you are giving.

• Get statistics on published papers