Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series

"As scholarship continues to become more collaborative and virtual, scholarly impact can no longer be tracked through publications alone.  Scholars are participating in conference panels, mentoring future colleagues, publishing data sets, and participating in scholarly forums.  In order to gauge true scholarly impact, efforts to capture this scholarly activity have been driven both at the community and institutional level.  SHARE is a higher education initiative whose mission is to maximize research impact by making a comprehensive inventory of research widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. To fulfill this mission SHARE is building a free, open data set about research and scholarly activities and artifacts produced throughout the life of a research project and a researcher.  VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell and stewarded by DuraSpace. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution and beyond.  VIVO captures information only available at the local level, and SHARE harvests activity from almost 100 community sources, not just repository data.  This series will explore how the effort to link VIVO and SHARE together will bring us closer to a wider picture of today’s scholarship. This series consists of 3, 1-hour webinars ..."