Comparison of Digital Vita and Vivo Data Models

Titus Schleyer, DMD, 1

PhD ,
William Shirey, Charles Borromeo, 2
MS , 2 1
BS ({ Center
for Dental Informatics;
2Department of Biomedical Informatics}, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)

BACKGROUND COMPARISON OF SELECTED CLASSES AND ATTRIBUTES CONCLUSION

 Development and implementation of research Biography, Education and Position  One to one data mapping
Publication
networking systems a strong trend in biomedicine between parts of VIVO
 Future landscape most likely to consist of a and Digital Vita possible
variety of systems of different provenance  Overlap in person’s
 Interoperability at the data layer important first bibliographic,
consideration biographic, education
 NCRR-funded VIVOWeb project primarily and activity information
intended as a data platform  Preferred approach:
 Digital Vita, a CV-based research networking standardized service
application developed at the University of calls that encapsulate
Pittsburgh, as potential VIVOWeb end user data structure
application

Legend: Exact Match Similar No Match

OBJECTIVE
 Perform an initial comparison of the respective Results
data architectures and models to assess feasibility
of implementing Digital Vita as an application on  Digital Vita and Vivo domain models  Vivo’s domain model based on several
top of VIVOWeb intersect on the following information: standard ontologies (e.g. FOAF, Dublin Core
 Bibliographic and Bibontology), Digital Vita’s on a custom
 Education information model
METHODS  Collaboration  Certain overlap at the field level, less so at
the child/parent class levels
 Analysis of Digital Vita 2.0 and VIVO 1.0 models  Biographic
 Data fields, types and structure to be
 Class by class comparison of the two models  Activity
reconciled during mapping
 Comparison at the attribute level of intersecting  The models diverge with regard to: Please take one:
 Mapping complicated by internal and
classes  Geographic location [VIVO] external evolution of domain models
 Organization [VIVO]
 Colleague status [DV]
Contact:
Titus Schleyer, Center for Dental Informatics, University of
Pittsburgh, titus@pitt.edu, ph. 412-648-8885

University of Pittsburgh Department of Biomedical Informatics