Concise Summary: Detailed Summary: Comparison table: VIVO and other 19 websites. Semantic web. Service offered. Number of profiles

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1 Page 1 of 11 comparison with VIVO Concise Summary: Among these 19 systems: - Harvard catalyst is the most complete one, providing many services, such as Medvane, SHRINE, In/out Patient Resources, Harvard Trials - Majority of the systems have grant writing, submission and collaboration support (e.g. Loki, ResearchCrossroads, Research.gov ) - Very few use semantic web (Wiki Professional claimed itself as a semantic Wiki for Life and Medical Sciences ) - Some systems provide automatic services to generate research profiles based on PubMed, publications, (e.g., ResearchCrossroads, CTSADigitalVita, OCTRI Synergy) - Some systems provide network analysis support (such as Collexis BioMedExperts, and Sciologer) - One facebook like, e.g. NSF facebook, - Some have blogs and posts: network.nature.com -Large number of user profiles: wikiprofessional, LinkedIn also has a huge pool of registered users. Detailed Summary: Comparison table: VIVO and other 19 websites website Open source API Offer open data Semantic web Number of profiles Number of users and institutions Service offered traits Vivo 4693 faculty profiles; 1948 academic staff profiles; 3386 professional staff profiles Info about experts profiles, academic units, events and seminars and research facilities and centers, and institutes and programs Loki Info about investigators (researchers); related Use of MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)Terms

2 Page 2 of 11 comparison with VIVO grants information See ontent/research-resourcesoverview for an overview of provided resources Harvard Catalyst AEGIS Influenza is part of AEGIS (the Automated Epidemiolog ical Geotempora l Integrated Surveillance System), an open source suite of population health monitoring tools. ( catalyst.harv ard.edu/aegi s- flu/about.ht ml) Used in search functions ch.catalys t.harvard. edu/searc h/about.js p see picture for one sample search image1 image2 22,000 profiles 1,000 users per day; The software is also being used at UCSF. (she also suggests the following website which are not covered by our survey Scopus, Authoratory, Epernicus, Community of Science, ISI Web of Knowledge, Northwestern C- iknow, Google Scholar) Provides a list of services about funding, AEGIS, law, medications and etc. see esources.html for an overview. Also some outside websites are integrated with this website, including Medvane, a lot of resources provided: Pilot funding, AEGIS influenza, Atlas, Community-based participatory research, Core facilities, HarvardTrials, Health Disparities Research Programs, In/Outpatient Resources, Pathology Specimen Locator, SHRINE, Webdash Collexis BioMedExp erts Bringing the right researchers together and allowing them to grow their scientific network Social network

3 Page 3 of 11 comparison with VIVO ResearchCr ossroads 11,000 registered users that have updated their profiles If you're asking how many institutions use the site, that's hard to say because it's free and public, but it's in the thousands. They proactively create these profiles based on public research, they have over 400,000 currently. transparent access to the world of publicly funded research whole and transparent view on funding (including grants, and cost) CTSAfunded Digital Vita at Pittsburgh Digital Vita is based on a social network and allows users to manage CV and NIH biosketch information, and to create and edit an online profile. It automatically imports data from external sources and propagates publications to co-authors. OCTRI Synergy Application It talks about co-author information. Basic traits of social network in

4 Page 4 of 11 comparison with VIVO at Oregon// national research network Sciologer They have used the system to conduct our own research; however, currently they do not have any regular users of the system outside of Columbia. They are planning to develop the system further and make it available during the next several months. academia. //it is free for registration. Sciologer, a Web-based, social network visualization tool that helps investigators to explore scientific communities, discover groups, understand major topics of research and search for collaborators. // Sciologer is a search system designed to help researchers understand complex scientific communities. Sciologer may be useful for identifying experts and potential collaborators, identifying journals in which to consider publishing, finding hidden patterns in scientific communities and hot research topics,

5 Page 5 of 11 comparison with VIVO NSF's use of FaceBook, facebook.c om/us.nsf?_fb_noscri pt=1 Research.g ov - Researcher Profile Update Service Google Wave API 3483 fans (data got on 11/2/2009 5:11:43 PM) API Google Wave was extended to nearly 1 million users beginning September 30, 2009 (source: wikipedia, understanding how a field is organized, and learning about results in other fields. The system queries the Medline bibliographic database. Sciologer uses the same syntax as PubMed, including PubMed Tags. Under the facebook framework Grant application; Research spending and results. online tool for real-time communication and collaboration; strong support by Google technology

6 Page 6 of 11 comparison with VIVO en.wikipedia.org /wiki/google_w ave) Neurocom mons project Open source(acco rding to their replies) They did not track the numbers (according to their replies) Technique: applying text mining and natural language processing to open biomedical abstracts; and development of a data analysis software system Their Neurocommons project works to combine various knowledge sources from Gene Ontology to PubMed content to MeSH headlines and so on. The project and its various components are also all available for free on the Web, and all open source. This allows others to fork or mirror the distribution, contribute to the RDF distribution or build applications that

7 Page 7 of 11 comparison with VIVO depend on the triple store, for example. Refer to s.org/page/main_pag e Stanford Community Academic Profiles profiles of 4,379 faculty, primary investigators (PIs), postdocs, and physicians active in the hospital. rk.nature.c om/ A blog service provider for scientists. Forum, blog and posts; social newwork: it provides some nature network hubs, such as Boston, NewYork and London. Wiki Profession al Wiki provides open source Wiki profession al is a semantic Wiki for Life and Medical Sciences

8 Page 8 of 11 comparison with VIVO LinkedIn LinkedIn has over 50 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the world. n.com/about One social network services website Plaxo social network services website chnology.c om high-performance enterprise-class graph database built for rapid traversal of complex information commercial products CTSciNet munity.scie ncecareers. org/ctscinet / with 12 scientific and professional societies partnering with AAAS in various ways. The partners include the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the American Physician Scientists Association, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. for people pursuing careers in clinical and translational research

9 Page 9 of 11 comparison with VIVO MySciNet munity.scie ncecareers. org/myscin et/ MySciNet is a collaboration by AAAS and 10 other professional societies including the Association for Women in Mathematics, the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, and the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science network focused on nurturing diversity in the scientific workforce PubZone It provides a discussion forum and Wiki for each publication. Works esp for database community.

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