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
VIVO Benefits