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[heather flanagan <>]

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From: Jon Corson-Rikert <>
Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: VIVO and federated identity
To: Ken Klingenstein <>
Cc: Dean Krafft <>, Heather Flanagan <>

Ken,

Thanks for your message and the connection with Heather.

Heather, here are the other schools besides Cornell on the NIH VIVO project:

University of Florida (lead institution)

Indiana University

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Weill Cornell Medical College

Ponce School of Medicine

The Scripps Research Institute

Additional schools who have publicly adopted VIVO:

University of Colorado

Stony Brook University

Additional schools funded by VIVO with small development grants:

Duke University

University of Leicester (UK -- working on connection to ORCID)

University of Pittsburgh

Schools evaluating VIVO with no commitment yet:

Brown University -- Dean Krafft and I will be at Brown next Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning and could potentially meet at least briefly with people there then

MIT

(others I would have to get permission from to list)

Australian universities adopting VIVO as part of a national research data registry program:

University of Melbourne

Queensland University of Technology

Griffith University

Best,

Jon

On Apr 12, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Ken Klingenstein wrote:

Jon,

   Thanks for the note. It's rich with opportunities...

   I'll respond to a few of them below in a day or so, on a larger cc list, but this note is to connect you with a "point person" - Heather Flanagan, who manages our COmanage work and works with VO's. That may not be the right place to plug you in, given the number of items below, but Heather is excellent in cross-connects and can ride herd on the totality... After a few more notes, I'll drop out of the loop. 

  One good early item for you and Heather to discuss is to identify some schools that are adopting VIVO internally and who are also active in our federated identity/groups/comanage activities. I know Brown fits that category, but a few others like them could drive this work.

  More soon...

Ken

On Apr 10, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Jon Corson-Rikert wrote:

Ken,

Dean and I very much enjoyed your talk at CNI last week and our brief discussion afterwards.

I'm writing to confirm interest on the VIVO project in exploring ideas of federated identity as being addressed in the COmanage and Bedrock projects. VIVO has a number of use cases that call for identity management outside the home institution, and we are eager to take advantage of infrastructure that could let us interoperate with existing or emerging efforts rather than developing redundant functionality.

VIVO is not a typical virtual organization in that it has very little centralized web presence - the http://vivoweb.org site is a lightweight Drupal informational site, and we use http://vivo.sourceforge.net for the developer community.  Both these could take more advantage of federated identity, but I think the most interesting questions come up in thinking about how VIVO could help extend or augment a person's institutional identity with additional attributes, and do so for any faculty and researchers who have profiles in VIVO but are not necessarily active in the VIVO project itself.

We are also looking for ways to allow researchers from organizations that don't have VIVO to participate in the VIVO network with the same assurance that the person is affiliated with his or  her home institution.

In developing user scenarios for VIVO, the ability to bring information from VIVO to other application spaces has frequently been requested, with one use case being a set of researchers from several institutions wanting to work together in private on a grant proposal in a separate application like Confluence or Google Docs, but with access to each other's background information from distributed VIVO profiles.

 

We also have a number of use cases lumped under proxy editing, that in a multi-institutional context would support allowing researchers to annotate resources in another VIVO as part of notification or recommender services or as evidence of collaborative relationships, either public or private.

I think you mentioned that most virtual organizations want profile information on their members, and the ability to pull that information seamlessly from a VIVO instance (housed either by the VO or by home institutions) could also be compelling.

Another more complex use case I have just begun discussing with Hal Warren from the American Psychological Association is the use of OIX and OpenID to verify authorship information stored in an instance of VIVO run by the APA, using Shibboleth to allow an author to log into the APA VIVO and edit access privileges to metadata and/or annotations or supplementary materials on their articles, or allow others to do so.  Hal may contact you directly to explore his ideas.

We are working with Gudmundur Thorisson, Geoffrey Bilder, and Martin Fenner on a VIVO mini-grant to the ORCID project to explore ways that VIVO could enable an institution to submit profile information en masse to ORCID.  These scenarios become much more interesting if authors could additionally authenticate directly in ORCID to maintain attributes and claim or reject articles, and VIVO could perhaps facilitate that process by augmenting institutional credentials with verified ORCID ids (with ORCID or elsewhere).

Thanks again for your presentation, and I look forward to exploring ideas further.  We are willing to make improvements to VIVO to better support federated identity and would also be open to exploring joint funding opportunities for demonstration projects.

Best,

Jon

Jon Corson-Rikert

Head, Information Technology Services

201 Albert R. Mann Library

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853

607 255-4608

Jon Corson-Rikert

Head, Information Technology Services

201 Albert R. Mann Library

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853

607 255-4608