NTNU has already established open resources for course and research related purposes so that the public can conduct searches according to article title, ...
Implementation of Open Scholar Platform and Integration of Open Resources in National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Chao-Chen Chen, Chia-Hsiang Chen, Chung-Chin Lai, Chih-Hwei Lu, and Chung-Yen Yu Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies National Taiwan Normal University {joycechaochen,chiahsiang.chen,chris2.lai,lukelucila, emmet.yu}@gmail.com
Abstract. This paper introduces a semantic approach to open scholar and scholarly identify based on VIVO, an open-source semantic social network platform for researchers. The research demonstrate NTNU library how to build a semantic framework using VIVO technologies and integrate open educational resources. Keywords: open scholar, VIVO, open educational resources, Semantic Social network.
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NTNU has already established open resources for course and research related purposes so that the public can conduct searches according to article title, department name, course name or author. However, the academic community is used to searching for related research field and cooperative partners according to scholars, and hence academic achievements and international standing of scholars are extremely critical to the fame and evaluation of universities. In the spirit of open scholar [1], VIVO uses the open academic resource program developed by RDF and Ontology technologies to link researchers and promote research collaboration [2]. This research aimed to use VIVO technology to build personal files of scholars and integrate OCW [3], Institutional Repository [4], and Subject Resource Guide in NTNU [5], and make NTNU into a worldwide VIVO node by establishing an open scholar platform.
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To integrate NTNU open resources using VIVO, the following problems must be resolved: 1. related NTNU open systems must have corresponding RDF to import data into VIVO ; 2. content field must be comparable and filing format must be H.-H. Chen and G. Chowdhury (Eds.): ICADL 2012, LNCS 7634, pp. 344–346, 2012. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
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uniform ; 3. the related NTNU open systems must have uniform URI to provide VIVO links. The figure 1 shows the framework of NTNU VIVO integration platform and figure 2 show the ontology and RDF schema of scholar’s profile.
Fig. 1. An example of NTNU’s VIVO integration platform
Fig. 2. The graphical display of ontology is implemented by NTNU VIVO
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This study used VIVO ontology-based tools in this projects, NTNU Open Scholar platform is an extension of VIVO semantic framework, where URI’s identify people, groups, publications, expertise etc. The combination of them makes it easier to assist interoperability and provide researchers an opportunity of world-wide scholarly communication.
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