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Notes
We had a handful of new folks today (Ethel Mejia and Dong Joon Lee, both from Texas A&M who talked about their VIVO, vivo.library.tamu.edu, as well as Marijane White from Oregon Health Sciences University) and a few others who joined quietly, which is fine!
Dong Joon talked about TAMU's previous implementation of VIVO which they are re-doing to improve its data structure. They will be going live with the College of Medicine faculty soon and will follow with other departments like English, Engineering and Nursing. TAMU would like to connect publications to six research themes in order to support their mission as a land-grant university. They think subject headings will be useful for industry collaborations.
Alex Viggio says that CU Boulder has identified 10 or 12 campus initiatives and will associate these with faculty research terms to display on their Experts Map. This is in beta now and will continue to be built out in the next few months. Alex, can you please demo this map in a future Outreach call?
Ted Lawless from Thomson Reuters suggested the Web of Science Core Collection (http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS515B5/help/WOS/hp_subject_category_terms_tasca.html) which maps 250 categories to journals so these categories would enable grouping of journals and researchers.
Mike Conlon explained that researchers typically want very detailed subject headings but administrators and users want many fewer, broader subject headings so ideally, the vocabulary would have a hierarchy. The FAST vocabulary in OpenVIVO (OpenVIVO.org) does have a hierarchy but is not strong on medical terms. The MeSH vocabulary also has a hierarchy but combining those would probably create too broad a hierarchy at the top level. We will continue to ponder this and welcome other ideas!