We're thrilled to join the excitement of Science Online again this year! Science Online, to be held January 19-21 in Raleigh, NC, is the premier event to discuss science, communication, information and the web. The event is structured as an "unconference," presenting numerous opportunities for engagement on a wide range of topics throughout the three days both in and beyond the formal conference sessions. You can learn more about the event in this recent post, ScienceOnline2012 – the Unconference, the Community. The conference sold out quite quickly again this year and attendees will visit from across the United States and overseas. If you aren't able to attend, there are ways that you can follow the discussions - most notably at #scio12 across social media.
VIVO's Kristi Holmes will participate in two sesisons where she'll have an opportunity to talk about VIVO at the conference: a discussion on the Semantic Web with Antony Williams (ChemSpider and Open PHACTS, the Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store) and a VIVO demo during the Blitz Talks and Demos "Credit, Identity, & Making Science Available" session.
Friday 10:45-11:45 AM
The Semantic Web (discussion) - Kristi Holmes and Antony Williams
Semantic Web-based projects are becoming increasingly more popular across a wide variety of disciplines. The session will provide a basic introduction to the topic and highlight different perspectives from people working in this space. We'll show *why* this technology is being used in so many areas – and demonstrate the benefits of linked data (especially in areas related to data reuse for visualizations, research discovery, and more). Open PHACTS, VIVO, and a number of the open government initiatives are good examples and there are many others. This session can serve as an introduction to the concept and highlight interesting and different ways that this technology is being used successfully.
Friday 3:00-3:15 AM
Research Discovery: Finding Networking Nirvana on the Semantic Web - Kristi Holmes
VIVO is an open source!, open ontology! research discovery platform for hosting information about scientists and their interests, activities, and accomplishments. The rich data in VIVO can be repurposed and shared to highlight expertise and facilitate discovery at many levels. Across implementations, VIVO provides a uniform semantic structure to enable a new class of tools which can use the rich data to advance science. There are currently over 50 VIVO implementations in the United States and over 20 international VIVO projects. This presentation will provide a brief description of VIVO and will demonstrate how diverse groups are not only using VIVO, but are also developing apps to consume the semantically-rich data for visualizations, enhanced multi-site search, discovery, and more. Learn more at http://vivoweb.org.
Science Online London
See our sessions from last year's conference
ScienceOnline2011 - Interview with Kristi Holmes