@inproceedings{krafft2010enabling, abstract = {The VIVO project is creating an open, Semantic Web-based network of institutional ontology-driven databases to enable national discovery, networking, and collaboration via information sharing about researchers and their activities. The project has been funded by NIH to implement VIVO at the University of Florida, Cornell University, and Indiana University Bloomington together with four other partner institutions. Working with the Semantic Web/Linked Open Data community, the project will pilot the development of common ontologies, integration with institutional information sources and authentication, and national discovery and exploration of networks of researchers. Building on technology developed over the last five years at Cornell University, VIVO supports the flexible description and interrelation of people, organizations, activities, projects, publications, affiliations, and other entities and properties. VIVO itself is an open source Java application built on W3C Semantic Web standards, including RDF, OWL, and SPARQL. To create researcher profiles, VIVO draws on authoritative information from institutional databases, external data sources such as PubMed, and information provided directly by researchers themselves. While the NIH-funded project focuses on biomedical research, the current Cornell implementation of VIVO supports the full range of disciplines across the university, from music to mechanical engineering to management. There are many ways a person?s expertise may be discovered, through grants, presentations, courses and news releases, as well as through research statements or publications listed on their profile{--}resulting in the creation of implicit groups or networks of people based on a number of pre-identified, shared characteristics. In addition to formal authoritative information and relationships, VIVO can also support the creation of personal work groups and associated properties to represent the informal relationships evolving around collaboration.}, author = {Krafft, Dean B. and Cappadona, Nicholas A. and Caruso, Brian and Corson-Rikert, Jon and Devare, Medha and Lowe, Brian J. and Collaboration, VIVO}, booktitle = {WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line}, interhash = {be9a22c8b28fcf00dc26025b5b127956}, intrahash = {87a568555fcc35532e9384337c1ce68a}, title = {VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists}, url = {http://journal.webscience.org/316/}, year = 2010 } @article{aguillo2009measuring, abstract = {Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an alternative, although complementary, system for the evaluation of the scholarly activities of academic organizations, scholars and researchers, based on web indicators, in order to speed up the change of paradigm in scholarly communication towards a new fully electronic twenty-first century model. Design/methodology/approach – In order to achieve these goals, a new set of web indicators has been introduced, obtained mainly from data gathered from search engines, the new mediators of scholarly communication. Findings – It was found that three large groups of indicators are feasible to obtain and relevant for evaluation purposes: activity (web publication); impact (visibility) and usage (visits and visitors). As a proof of concept, a Ranking Web of Universities has been built with Webometrics data. There are two relevant findings: ranking results are similar to those obtained by other bibliometric-based rankings; and there is a concerning digital divide between North American and European universities, which appear in lower positions when compared with their USA and Canada counterparts. Research limitations/implications – Cybermetrics is still an emerging discipline, so new developments should be expected when more empirical data become available. Practical implications – The proposed approach suggests the publication of truly electronic journals, rather than digital versions of printed articles. Additional materials, such as raw data and multimedia files, should be included along with other relevant information arising from more informal activities. These repositories should be Open Access, available as part of the public web, indexed by the main commercial search engines. It is expected that these actions could generate larger web-based audiences, reduce the costs of publication and access and allow third parties to take advantage of the knowledge generated, without sacrificing peer review, which should be extended (pre- and post-) and expanded (closed and open). Originality/value – A full taxonomy of web indicators is introduced for describing and evaluating research activities, academic organizations and individual scholars and scientists. Previous attempts for building such classification were incomplete and did not take into account feasibility and efficiency.}, address = {Bingley}, author = {Aguillo, Isidro}, doi = {10.1108/073788309}, interhash = {116e889174766cd359f7e79eb1a36302}, intrahash = {9734b1f272204883b30dedaa8069fdad}, issn = {0737-8831}, journal = {Library Hi Tech}, number = 4, pages = {540--556}, publisher = {Emerald Group Publishing Limited}, title = {Measuring the institution's footprint in the web}, url = {http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1812469&show=abstract}, volume = 27, year = 2009 } @article{ortega2009mapping, abstract = {A visual display of the most important universities in the world is the aim of this paper. It shows the topological characteristics and describes the web relationships among universities of different countries and continents. The first 1000 higher education institutions from the Ranking Web of World Universities were selected and their link relationships were obtained from Yahoo! Search. Network graphs and geographical maps were built from the search engine data. Social network analysis techniques were used to analyse and describe the structural properties of the whole of the network and its nodes. The results show that the world-class university network is constituted from national sub-networks that merge in a central core where the principal universities of each country pull their networks toward international link relationships. The United States dominates the world network, and within Europe the British and the German sub-networks stand out.}, author = {Ortega, Jose Luis and Aguillo, Isidro F.}, doi = {10.1016/j.ipm.2008.10.001}, interhash = {1c46addf1c5019aa75a11365a35da757}, intrahash = {f5960b8cb33d8b10b82abadd17b9a4e7}, issn = {0306-4573}, journal = {Information Processing & Management}, number = 2, pages = {272--279}, title = {Mapping world-class universities on the web}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457308001015}, volume = 45, year = 2009 } @article{ortega2008academic, abstract = {This paper shows maps of the web presence of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) on the level of universities using hyperlinks and analyses the topology of the European academic network. Its purpose is to combine methods from Social Network Analysis (SNA) and cybermetric techniques in order to ask for tendencies of integration of the European universities visible in their web presence and the role of different universities in the process of the emergence of an European Research Area. We find as a main result that the European network is set up by the aggregation of well-defined national networks, whereby the German and British networks are dominant. The national networks are connected to each other through outstanding national universities in each country.}, affiliation = {CINDOC-CSIC Cybermetrics Lab Joaquín Costa, 22 28002 Madrid Spain}, author = {Ortega, Jose and Aguillo, Isidro and Cothey, Viv and Scharnhorst, Andrea}, doi = {10.1007/s11192-008-0218-9}, interhash = {9c9dcd171a50875d82f75f5a12d3c41f}, intrahash = {22102ef820bb00f432c842edf6e98a1f}, issn = {0138-9130}, journal = {Scientometrics}, keyword = {Computer Science}, number = 2, pages = {295--308}, publisher = {Akadémiai Kiadó}, title = {Maps of the academic web in the European Higher Education Area — an exploration of visual web indicators}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-0218-9}, volume = 74, year = 2008 }