OpenVIVO: Transparency in Scholarship

Abstract

OpenVIVO is a free and open hosted semantic web platform anyone can join that gathers and shares open data about scholarship in the world. . OpenVIVO, based on the VIVO open source platform, provides transparent access to data about the scholarly work of its participants. OpenVIVO demonstrates the use of persistent identifiers, automatic real-time ingest of scholarly ecosystem metadata, use of VIVO-ISF and related ontologies, attribution of work, and publication and reuse of data -all critical components of presenting, preserving, and tracking scholarship. The system was created by a cross-institutional team over the course of three months. The team created and used RDF models for research organizations in the world based on Digital Science GRID data, for academic journals based on data from CrossRef and the US National Library of Medicine, and created a new model for attribution of scholarly work. All models, data and software are available in open repositories.

A systematic scoping review of the ethics of contributor role ontologies and taxonomies

“…Three papers discuss role assignment [1, 25, 39]. Brand and colleagues recommend corresponding authors to assign CRediT roles and to provide the review and confirmation opportunity to other contributors [1].…”

“…Another aspect where CROTs can benefit research assessment pertains to the peer review process. Integrating CROTs into review processes could improve efficiency by means of connecting reviewers to specific contributions based on proficiency and expertise (Ilik et al, 2018; McNutt et al 2018; McLaren & Dent, 2021).…”

“…Brand et al (2015) and colleagues recommended corresponding authors to assign CRediT roles and to provide the review and confirmation opportunity to other contributors. However, in describing how to use CRO, Ilik et al (2018, p. 7) proposed a different workflow for role assignment, calling it the “claim process”. In this process, which is part of the paper production stage, authors, non-authors, editors and others report their own contributions using the list of roles (instead of the corresponding author assigning these and having contributors confirm).…”

“…Two papers introduced open community-developed resources and mechanisms to collect user feedback as useful tools for engagement with the academic community, which also promote collaborative approaches in managing activities related to CRO and CRediT (Ilik et al, 2018; Vasilevsky et al, 2021). Borek et al (2016) highlighted using similar strategies for maintenance of TaDiRAH and note that versioning and issue tracking features of GitHub have been conducive to their efforts.…”