VIVO Workshop at TIB Hannover. “Why should we use VIVO as a current research information system?” was the question asked by Lambert Heller, Head of the Open Science Lab of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), at the start of the first VIVO workshop held in German. Speakers presented their work on VIVO, and interfaces between VIVO and other systems, and how VIVO can be further developed for use at German universities and research institutes. The VIVO workshop held at TIB Hannover on September 9 drew sixty attendees. report Report available here
Representing Academic Degrees in VIVO. In case you missed it, there was a very active discussion regarding the representation of academic degrees in VIVO on the dev-all lists this week. Types of degrees, abbreviations for degrees, awards associated with degrees, local variations in the names of degrees, international degrees, extensions and local practices were discussed. Jon Corson-Rikert updated the VIVO-ISF 1.6 relationship diagrams: Educational Training to clarify some of the issues discussed and to show how awards pertaining to degrees (typically honors of various kinds) might be associated with degrees.
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