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There are three types of organisations that can benefit from the collaboration between VIVO and Research Graph.
Type A (Repositories, Research Institutes): These institutions can benefit from transforming their seed data (people, and/or publications) to an augmented graph of people, publications, grants, and datasets. Furthermore, these institutions will benefit from the smooth transformation of their augmented graph to a VIVO instance with no requirement of high technical expertise.
Type B (Semantic Web Sites): Government and research organisations such as GeoScience Australia who already have their research data in RDF format can use VIVO as a data exchange platform between Research Graph and their semantic web system. Furthermore, these sites will be able to take advantage of VIVO visualisations of their collaboration network -- the capability that is often missing from their local RDF-based research system.
Type C (Current VIVO Sites): Using the connection between VIVO and Research Graph, these sites can enrich their data and ingest new information into their systems.
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The organizations that expressed interest in the Research Graph VIVO Cloud Pilot have varying levels of knowledge of the projects and technologies. Two of the organizations are extremely knowledgeable and involved in the VIVO and Research Graph communities. They are located in Australia and Germany.
The collaborators on this project recommend taking a phased approach to the pilot, starting with the two organizations that are most knowledgeable and skilled in phase one and working with less knowledgeable and skilled organizations in phase two. We recommend the formation of a Working Group to implement the Cloud Pilot including the Pilot Team and representatives from each pilot organization.
This first phase will enable the Cloud Pilot Team to confirm what they consider to be the most important and unknown technical variable of the project, e.g. how large the seed data will grow after first and second level connections are made and what impact that will have on hosted server resources, cost, and performance.
The Cloud Pilot will also provide excellent information on scaling the service. Using subsets of Pilot Organization data, we can identify small to medium graph sizes. Using their entire faculty as seed data, we can load and scale test to large sizes. The organizations identified for the first phase of the Cloud Pilot are thought leaders in linked data, repositories, and the open science community. Their involvement lowers project risks and helps build understanding of a potential international service offering.
Pilot Deliverables
A successful, multi-phased Cloud Pilot will produce information suitable for a go-no go decision regarding the creation of a joint Research Graph VIVO Cloud Service, including:
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