Bert Carelli, Vice President Business
Development www.accessinn.com

 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?

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 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
"7-fold productivity increase"
ProQuest CSA
"Cut search time 50%."
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Semantic network
Ontology
•Linked Entities
•Contextual Specificity
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Thesaurus
Taxonomy
Controlled vocabulary
Synonym set/ring
Name authority file
 Uncontrolled list
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•Low Value
•Unrelated Entities
•Ambiguity

Mobile Social
 Web 1.0 = Getting Content Online (over
120 million websites and growing)
 Web 2.0 = Getting People Online

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
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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 autoextract 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…

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000228.x001

VIAF : Virtual International
Authority File http://viaf.org

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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

Detailed Profiles of Medical/BioMedical Researchers
Explore a research area
Focus the results desired expertise and research activity

Information stored as Resource Description Framework (RDF)
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Data is structured in the form of “triples” as subjectpredicate-object.
 Concepts and their relationships use a shared ontology to facilitate the harvesting of data from multiple sources.
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Smith is member of has affiliations with author of
Book chapter
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Genetics
Institute
College of
Medicine
Journal article
Book
Subject Predicate Object

Detailed Data Relationships
Connections among scientists illustrated
David Nelson
Biomedical Informatics organization with position for is research area of has research area has position in featured in
Mike Conlon
Clinical Translational
Science Institute (CTSI) organization with position for
Ed Tech Magazine
Gene Anderson features has author author of author of
Development of an Observational Instrument to
Measure Mother-Infant Separation Post Birth
Current and accurate data revealed has author

Visualizations: co-author networks

125 Participant Organizations
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ORCID Profile
Exchange
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Testing Possible Matching Algorithms:
VIAF matching technology from OCLC
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• Author Resolver from ProQuest
Matching capability from OKKAM
Access Innovations Author Authority
ORCID
F67572010
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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)

Bert Carelli
Vice President, Business Development
Access Innovations / Data Harmony
Bert_carelli@accessinn.com
510-551-3784
Corporate Number: 505-998-0800