The Research Lifecycle: Partnering for Success

March 15, 2013 Salt Lake City, Utah

Michael Conlon, PhDClinical and Translational Science Institute

University of Florida

Six Trends

1. Rise of the small

2. Increasing volume of science

PubMed new publications per year

The Problems Got Hard

3. Increasing complexity of scientific problems

Data Got Big (IDR Slide)

4. Big Data

Lots of Competitors

2012 Shanghai ranking of world universities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities

5. Competition rises

6. Internet disintermediation of science continues

How can we know what is going on,

build teams, solve data-driven problems?

Research Discovery

ResearchDiscovery

… And the connections between them

VIVO: Data, Tools and Community

Simple tools for presentation, traversal,

search

ScienceMap. Examine collections of publications for individuals, work groups, institutions

Co-Funded Network

2008 2012

Main Component: what changes have occurred between 2008 and 2012?• More of Health Science Center comes under the CTSI umbrella• The CTSI has a broader reach in the whole network• Increasingly the CTSI incorporates all researchers in relevant areas (areas not relevant to

CTSI research fields naturally remain out of its network)

Chris McCarty & Raffaele Vacca, UF Bureau of Business and Economic Research

• Data source: UF Division of Sponsored Research award data• Each node represents one Contract PI, Project PI or Co-PI linked by a common PeopleSoft Contract number• Nodes are sized by Total Awarded in UF fiscal year (July-June)

Ontology Process

Everything has identifiers

processOrg<-function(uri){ x<-xmlParse(uri) u<-NULL name<-xmlValue(getNodeSet(x,"//rdfs:label")[[1]]) subs<-getNodeSet(x,"//j.1:hasSubOrganization") if(length(subs)==0) list(name=name,subs=NULL) else { for(i in 1:length(subs)){ sub.uri<-getURI(xmlAttrs(subs[[i]])["resource"]) u<-c(u,processOrg(sub.uri)) } list(name=name,subs=u) }}

VIVO produces both HTML and RDF

Software reads VIVO RDF and displays

Community

Augmenting data

VIVO Searchlight

Mentoring