All questions are not required unless otherwise specified.
Background
- What is the name of your institution?
- How would you describe your institution?
- research university
- undergraduate college
- medical school
- governmental organization
- non-governmental organization
- non-profit
- other (please specify)
- In what country is your institution located?
- Would you like your submission using this survey to be anonymized?
- Is your VIVO in production?
- Yes
- Yes, but it's in beta.
- No, but our institution has made a commitment to VIVO and we're in the development stage.
- No. We still haven't decided whether to adopt VIVO, but we're in the exploratory stage.
- If yes, what is the URL for your VIVO?
Server and application configuration
- What version of VIVO are you currently running on production?
- How much memory is allocated to your production instance of VIVO?
- What database do you use?
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Do you use caching?
Personnel
- (If in production), how many FTE-years were needed to get VIVO ready for production?
- For example, if three people worked on VIVO for three years that would be 9 FTE-years.
- What is the average number of FTEs that have worked on your VIVO implementation in the last year?
Contents
- Which of the following data does your VIVO capture using external sources?
- Preferred title
- Publications
- Grants, agreements, and contracts
- Positions
- Educational background
- Certifications
- Professional service
- Honors and awards
- Which of the following data do you allow users to manually enter?
- Preferred title
- Publications
- Grants, agreements, and contracts
- Positions
- Educational background
- Certifications
- Professional service
- Honors and awards
- How many of each of the following does your VIVO have?
- Publications
- Grants, agreements, and contracts
- Honors and awards
- What is your source for disambiguating publications?
- End user
- Administrator/developer
- Symplectic Elements
- Custom workflow
- What is your source for publications (check all that apply)
- Medline
- Web of Knowledge
- Google Scholar
- Scopus
- Do you display non-federal grants?
- Yes
- No
Performance and caching
- (If in production), how many rows are in your quads table?
- Run SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Quads;
- When caching is not turned on, how long does it take your largest organization or person profile page to load?
Challenges
- Rate on a scale of 1-10 how much of a challenge each of the following have been to date?
- Getting adequate resources from administrative leadership to proceed
- Cleaning up dirty data from institutional sources
- Being allowed to ingest data from institutional sources
- Understanding VIVO's data model
- Ingesting data
Outreach and feedback
- How would you characterize your users response to VIVO?
- engaged
- engaged but highly critical
- apathetic
- In what ways have you reached out to your users?
- Online documentation
- Video tutorials
- Trainings
- Focus groups
Marketing
- Who first learned about VIVO?
- developer
- librarian
- provost or dean
- chief information officer
- On a scale of 1-10, what level of interest would your institution have in the following?
- support contracts
- canned hosting
- on-site training and start-up consultations
- On a scale of 1-10, which of the following messages would be most successful in marketing VIVO to your users?
- VIVO saves you time.
- VIVO helps you find collaborators.
- VIVO promotes your work.
- Other (please specify)
Apps and tools
- Which of the following apps and tools do you use?
- OpenSocial gadgets
- On a scale of 1-10, how interested would your institution be using the following apps and tools?
- Export to CV/biosketch
- VIVO Dashboard, a tool which allows user to create multi-faceted reports using publication metadata from VIVO
- ORCID integration
Sample questions
- how many FTEs work on VIVO (and what is their domain expertise?)
- what data are captured
- what additional tools are used
- can put the results in http://vivo.vivoweb.org
- perhaps do a dry run at the I-Fest
- useful for DuraSpace to understand community growth, member prospects?
- production environment specs/config?
- platform details (maybe also some info on dev/test environment)
- priorities for addressing gaps
Who wants to help?
Paul will facilitate a call to write out the questions and has a way to host it, and we can circulate it with this group and others enough by the I-Fest to solicit input
- Jon volunteers Kristi (and himself)
- Julia -- we have something to discuss on the last day of the I-Fest, but busy with the March 7 rollout and I-Fest prep before then
- Paul -- have a proposed outline/survey before IFest, and then discussed at IFest as Julia suggests
- look for one response per institution
