VIVO AS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK

Abstract

Exposing interoperable Linked Open Data (LOD) in RDF notation is one of the six main use cases for the semantic web. Semantic web technology is the foundation of VIVO, and as such each VIVO installation can act as a source for LOD. However, the potential of LOD in VIVO remains relatively unexploited. The Université du Québec (UQ) is a network of 10 institutions throughout Québec, with over 102,000 students in some 1300 programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This presentation will cover the following: (1) a brief overview of the LOD needs in the UQ network and how these may be met with solutions based on VIVO; (2) VIVO functionalities that can be exploited in the context of LOD; (3) the integration, reuse and design of standardized open vocabularies contained in the Linked Open Vocabulary (LOV); (4) the design and integration of a competency vocabulary; (5) a description UQ's technological architecture, and specifically at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), the largest institution in the UQ network..

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VIVO AS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR
THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK
Michel Héon – Université du Québec à Montréal
Nicolas Dickner , Université du Québec à Montréal
Alexander Jerabek , Université du Québec à Montréal
Rachid Belkouch , Université du Québec à Montréal
Exposing interoperable Linked Open Data (LOD) in RDF notation is one of the six main
use cases for the semantic web. Semantic web technology is the foundation of VIVO,
and as such each VIVO installation can act as a source for LOD. However, the potential
of LOD in VIVO remains relatively unexploited. The Université du Québec (UQ) is a
network of 10 institutions throughout Québec, with over 102,000 students in some 1300
programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This presentation will cover the
following: (1) a brief overview of the LOD needs in the UQ network and how these may
be met with solutions based on VIVO; (2) VIVO functionalities that can be exploited in
the context of LOD; (3) the integration, reuse and design of standardized open
vocabularies contained in the Linked Open Vocabulary (LOV); (4) the design and
integration of a competency vocabulary; (5) a description UQ's technological
architecture, and specifically at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), the
largest institution in the UQ network..

VIVOConference 2020
VIVOConference 2020
VIVO AS A LINKED OPEN DATA
ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU
QUÉBEC NETWORK
Michel Héon
Nicolas Dickner
Rachid Belkouch
Alexander J. Jerabek

VIVOConference 2020
TheContext
UniversitéduQuébecNetworkOverview
TheUniversité duQuébec(UQ)isa:
•Networkof10institutionsthroughout
Québec
•Distributedin58cities
•Withover102,000students
•Insome1300programsatthe
undergraduateandgraduatelevels
•7200professorsandlecturers
Université duQuébecàMontréal(UQAM)
isanimportantmemberoftheUQ
network.
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 2
UQandUQAMwishtouseVIVOasaplatformtodistributetheexpertiseprofileoftheiracademicstaff

VIVOConference 2020
PresentationObjective
•PresentingthevisionofVIVO'suseasaLinked‐Open‐Datanodefor
theUniversityofQuébecnetwork
•Thispresentationwillcoverthefollowing:
1. abriefoverviewoftheLODneedsintheUQnetworkandhowthesemaybe
metwithsolutionsbasedonVIVO;
2. VIVOfunctionalitiesthatcanbeexploitedinthecontextofLOD;
3. theintegration,reuseanddesignofstandardizedopenvocabularies
containedintheLinkedOpenVocabulary(LOV);
4. thedesignandintegrationofacompetencyvocabulary;
5. adescriptionofUQ'stechnologicalarchitecture,andspecificallyatthe
Université duQuébecàMontréal(UQAM).
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VIVOConference 2020
What IsLinked Open
Data(LOD)?
•Usecaseof thesemantic web
•Project tobuild awebofdata
•Entrypointforvocabularyreuseand
dataextensibility
•1,255datasetsworldwideopenand
accessiblethroughaSPARQLendpoint
•ahighvalue‐addedfunctionalityof
researchdatainterconnectionforthe
VIVOcommunity
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 4

VIVOConference 2020
VIVOSemantic WebServer
VIVOasaSemantic WebServer
SemanticwebservercharacteristicsthatVIVOincludesinitsarchitecture
5VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐
SPARQLEndpoint
RDFTripleStore •HTTP(S)Communicationprotocol
•RDF(S)DataNotation
•IRI(URI/URL)ResourceAddressing
Ready forLinked OpenData

VIVOConference 2020
LinkedOpenVocabulary
(LOV):a'lovely'solution
forexpertisevocabulary
reuseatUQ
•LOVisagatewaytoreusablesemantic
vocabulariesontheWeb
•ForUQLOVisasolutionforobtainingor
publishingstandardizedexpertise
vocabulariesacrossinstitutions
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 6
https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/

VIVOConference 2020
PublicURLpurl.org
•APURLisapersistentURL
•itprovidesapermanent
addresstoaccessaresource
ontheweb.
•FortheUQprojectthePURL
normalizes:
•theURLsforaccessingthe
serversontheweb
•theIRIdomainofthedatasets
publishedbyVIVO.
•E.g.:http://purl.org/vivo‐
dev.uqam.ca/crdc toaccess
theCRDCvocabulary
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 7

VIVOConference 2020
UQ&UQAM
LODCapability Map Explorer
UQ‐LODProofOfConcept
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VIVOConference 2020
POC's goal
Demonstratethatitispossibleto
publishonthewebaCapability
MapExplorerthatfederates
expertisenavigationbetweenUQ‐
networkandUQAMresearchers
POC‐ UQ&UQAMCapability Map Explorer
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 9

VIVOConference 2020
UQNetworkintheLODWithVIVO
TheHighLevelVision
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VIVOConference 2020
CanadianResearchandDevelopment
Classification 2019(CRDCVocabulary)
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 11
https://www.sshrc‐crsh.gc.ca/funding‐financement/nfrf‐fnfr/crdc‐ccrd‐eng.aspx
BR5

Diapositive 11
BR5 Ici il est important de dire que ce vocabulaire ne sort pas de nulle part et est une adaptation du standard
australien et néo-zélandais ANZSRC qui est lui-même considéré comme une des meilleures classification des
disciplines en recherche dans le monde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Standard_Research_Classification
Belkouch, Rachid; 2020-06-15

VIVOConference 2020
DataTransformationProcess
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 12

VIVOConference 2020
CRDCVocabulary
Dataset
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 13
1
1. UQAM‐DEV
ontology editor
perspective:
•ManagebyTopbraid
ComposerFE
2. CRDCClass
taxonomy
3. CRDCProperty
taxonomy
4. CRDCIndividuals of
RDF10201Class
5. CRDCResource
Form for
crdc:RDF1020101
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3
4
5

VIVOConference 2020
UQAM–Expertand
Normalized Expertise
with CRDC
1. Locationof
Researcherrefencein
VIVOOntology
2. DescriptionofUQAM
expert
3. URIListof
Researcher's
Competencies
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 14
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2
3

VIVOConference 2020
CrossLocalVIVOFederated SPARQLUpdate
Query BySERVICECall
prefix crdc-serv: <http://purl.org/ vivo-dev.uqam.ca/crdc/api/sparqlQuery?ema il=OO&password=OO>
prefix uq-serv: <http://purl.org/vi vo-dev.uqam.ca/expert-uq/api/sparqlQuery? email=OO&password=OO>
prefix uqam-serv: <http://purl.org/ vivo-dev.uqam.ca/expert-uqam/api/sparqlQu ery?email=OO&password=OO>
prefix expert-serv: <http://purl.or g/vivo-dev.uqam.ca/expertise/crdc/api/spa rqlQuery?email=OO&password=OO>
INSERT { GRAPH <http://vivo-i18n.dev. uqam.ca:8080/expertise/graph> {
?s ?p ?o .
?se ?pe ?oe .
?suq ?puq ?ouq .
?seuq ?peuq ?oeuq .
?scrdc ?pcrdc ?ocrdc .
}}
WHERE {{{
SERVICE uqam-serv: {
GRAPH <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu /filegraph/abox/expert-uqam.ttl> {?s ?p ?o}
} }
UNION {
SERVICE uqam-serv: {
GRAPH <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.e du/filegraph/abox/expertise-uqam.ttl> {?se ?pe ?oe}
} }
UNION {
SERVICE uq-serv: {
GRAPH <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.e du/filegraph/abox/expertise-uq.ttl> {?suq ?puq ?ouq}
} }
UNION {
SERVICE uq-serv: {
GRAPH <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.e du/filegraph/abox/expert-uq.ttl> {?seuq ?peuq ?oeuq}
} }
UNION {
SERVICE crdc-serv: {
GRAPH <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.e du/filegraph/abox/crdc.ttl> {?scrdc ?pcrdc ?ocrdc}
} }
}}
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 15

VIVOConference 2020
VIVOUQ‐UQAMCapability Map Application
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐ 16
http://purl.org/vivo‐dev.uqam.ca/expertise

VIVOConference 2020
VIVOConference 2020
CONCLUSION
• LOD is a cloud of RDF triples that makes accessible data sets, vocabularies,
ontologies and can be cross-referenced to feed specific applications.
• A VIVO instance in the semantic web can also be a node in the LOD cloud
• The domain data can be distributed in several VIVO instances and be
federated by a SPARQL Services query.
• A VIVO instance on an institution's intranet is also a useful graph data source.
VIVOAS A LINKED OPEN DATA ENABLER FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC NETWORK ‐VIVOCONFERENCE 2020‐

VIVOConference 2020
VIVOConference 2020
VIVO
AS A
L
INKED
O
PEN
D
ATA
E
NABLER FOR THE
U
NIVERSITÉ DU
Q
UÉBEC
N
ETWORK
Michel Héon
Nicolas Dickner
Rachid Belkouch
Alexander J. Jerabek
Welcometothissessionontheuseofvivoinathecontextofthe
LinkedOpenDataandhowitisplannedtouseitIntheUniversité du
QuébecNetworkandUniversité duQuébecàMontréal
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VIVOConference 2020
TheContext
UniversitéduQuébecNetworkOverview
TheUniversité duQuébec(UQ)isa:
•Networkof10institutionsthroughout
Québec
•Distributedin58cities
•Withover102,000students
•Insome1300programsatthe
undergraduateandgraduatelevels
•7200professorsandlecturers
Université duQuébecàMontréal(UQAM)
isanimportantmemberoftheUQ
network.
VIVO
AS A
L
INKED
O
PEN
D
ATA
E
NABLER FOR THE
U
NIVERSITÉ DU
Q
UÉBEC
N
ETWORK
‐VIVOC
ONFERENCE
2020‐ 2
UQandUQAMwishtouseVIVOasaplatformtodistributetheexpertiseprofileoftheiracademicstaff
•Let'sfirsttalkabouttheinstitutionalcontextwhichisattheorigin
oftheproject.Infact,theUniversités duQuébecisanetworkthat
includesadozeninstitutionsspreadacrossfifty‐eightcitiesinthe
provinceofQuebec.
•Itisattendedbyonehundredandtwothousandstudentswho
haveachoiceofonethousandthreehundredundergraduateand
graduateuniversityprogramswhosetrainingisprovidedbynearly
seventhousandtwohundredprofessorsandlecturers.
•TheUniversité duQuébecàMontréal,whichisalsoamemberof
theUQnetwork,isalsoanimportantpartnerinthisproject.
UQandUQAMwishtouseVIVOasaplatformtodistributetheexpertiseprofileoftheir
academicstaff
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VIVOConference 2020
PresentationObjective
•PresentingthevisionofVIVO'suseasaLinked‐Open‐Datanodefor
theUniversityofQuébecnetwork
•Thispresentationwillcoverthefollowing:
1. abriefoverviewoftheLODneedsintheUQnetworkandhowthesemaybe
metwithsolutionsbasedonVIVO;
2. VIVOfunctionalitiesthatcanbeexploitedinthecontextofLOD;
3. theintegration,reuseanddesignofstandardizedopenvocabularies
containedintheLinkedOpenVocabulary(LOV);
4. thedesignandintegrationofacompetencyvocabulary;
5. adescriptionofUQ'stechnologicalarchitecture,andspecificallyatthe
Université duQuébecàMontréal(UQAM).
3VIVO
AS A
L
INKED
O
PEN
D
ATA
E
NABLER FOR THE
U
NIVERSITÉ DU
Q
UÉBEC
N
ETWORK
‐VIVOC
ONFERENCE
2020‐
ThefirstobjectiveofthislectureistopresentavisionwhereVIVO
wouldbeanodeintheLODtobroadcastdatarelatedtothe
scientificexpertiseheldbyUQAMandUQresearchstaff.
Thepresentationwillcoverthefollowingpoints:
•first,presentinganoverviewoftheLODneedsintheUQ
networkandhowtheycanbemetbyVIVO‐basedsolutions;
•secondly,outliningthefunctionalitiesofVIVOandhowthey
canbeexploitedintheLODcontext
•thirdly,explainhowtouseVIVOasastandardvocabulary
provideranddemonstratehowthesestandardvocabularies
canbepartoftheLOD.
•Fourth,outlinetheprinciplesofskillvocabularydesignand
integration.
•Finally,concludethepresentationwithaproofofconcept
onthetechnologyarchitecturedemonstratingtheVision.
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VIVOConference 2020
What IsLinked Open
Data(LOD)?
•Usecaseof thesemantic web
•Project tobuild awebofdata
•Entrypointforvocabularyreuseand
dataextensibility
•1,255datasetsworldwideopenand
accessiblethroughaSPARQLendpoint
•ahighvalue‐addedfunctionalityof
researchdatainterconnectionforthe
VIVOcommunity
VIVO
AS A
L
INKED
O
PEN
D
ATA
E
NABLER FOR THE
U
NIVERSITÉ DU
Q
UÉBEC
N
ETWORK
‐VIVOC
ONFERENCE
2020‐ 4
•WhatistheLinkedOpenData.
•LinkedDataisoneofthefiveusecasesofthesemanticweb.
•TheLODisitsversionenhancedbytheworldwideopeningofdata
•ItisthefoundationofwhatTimBerners‐Leecallsthe"webof
data",thislargeglobalnetworkthatconsidersthewebasan
interoperabledatabaseofuniversalandinterconnecteddata.
•Itisalsoapointofaccesstostandardized,reusableand
interoperablevocabularies.
•Thecloudpresentedbelowisthecurrentrepresentationofthe
LOD.
•Tod ay,itcontainsnearlyonethousandtwohundredandfifty‐five
datasetsdistributedaroundtheworld,coveringfieldsasvariedas
medicine,business,cultureandscienceingeneral.
•Thesemanticwebistheonlytechnologythatisfreeofaccess
rightsandfreeofchargeandthatfacilitatesthesharingand
linkingofopendata.
•Let'snoteinpassingthattheresearchdatapublishedbyVIVOis
compatiblewiththeLOD.
•Finally,VIVOintheLODisahighvalue‐addedresearchdata
interconnectionfeaturefortheVIVOcommunity.
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VIVOSemantic WebServer
VIVOasaSemantic WebServer
SemanticwebservercharacteristicsthatVIVOincludesinitsarchitecture
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SPARQLEndpoint
RDFTripleStore •HTTP(S)Communicationprotocol
•RDF(S)DataNotation
•IRI(URI/URL)ResourceAddressing
Ready forLinked OpenData
•WhyisVIVOasemanticwebserver?
•Firstofall,itstoresitsdatainaRDFtriplestorethatitmakes
accessiblethroughaquerywebservicecalledSPARQLendpoint.
•TosharethisdatavivouseswebtechnologiessuchastheHTTP
protocoltotransmititsdatabyformingRDFusingIRIasthe
addressingmechanismforwebresources.
•Finally,VIVOhasallthenecessaryfeaturestobeintegratedinto
theLOD.
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LinkedOpenVocabulary
(LOV):a'lovely'solution
forexpertisevocabulary
reuseatUQ
•LOVisagatewaytoreusablesemantic
vocabulariesontheWeb
•ForUQLOVisasolutionforobtainingor
publishingstandardizedexpertise
vocabulariesacrossinstitutions
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•AnimportantuseoftheLODisthediffusionofopenstandardized
vocabulary.
•TheLOVprojectisinfactthedatahubwhosedatasetsare
standardized,interoperable,andRDF‐formingvocabularies.
•IntheUQproject,itisplannedtouseavocabularytobe
standardizedfromtheCanadiangovernment,whichwillbeput
intoRDFanddistributedintheLODwithLOV.
•ForUQ,theLOVisanappropriateplatformtobroadcastthe
Canadianskillsvocabulary.
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PublicURLpurl.org
•APURLisapersistentURL
•itprovidesapermanent
addresstoaccessaresource
ontheweb.
•FortheUQprojectthePURL
normalizes:
•theURLsforaccessingthe
serversontheweb
•theIRIdomainofthedatasets
publishedbyVIVO.
•E.g.:http://purl.org/vivo‐
dev.uqam.ca/crdc toaccess
theCRDCvocabulary
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•AnimportantaspectofdatadisseminationintheLODisthe
standardizationofURLscontainedinthedataset.
•Tobeprocessedbytheweban URLmustpointorredirecttoa
physicalwebserverwithauniqueURLaddressintheweb.
•Thepurl.orgprojectallowstobuildpublicURLsthatareredirected
toaURLassociatedwithaphysicalwebserver.
•Intherightsectionofthepresentation,itisnotedthatseveral
addressesfromUQAMserversareredefinedbyURLslabeledwith
publiccontent.
•Thispracticemakesitpossibletodissociatethepublicvalueofthe
URLfromthephysicaladdresswherethedataisstored.
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UQ&UQAM
LODCapability Map Explorer
UQ‐LODProofOfConcept
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Atthisstageofthepresentationwewillpresentaproofofconcepts
called"UQ&UQAMLODCapability Map Explorer"
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POC's goal
Demonstratethatitispossibleto
publishonthewebaCapability
MapExplorerthatfederates
expertisenavigationbetweenUQ‐
networkandUQAMresearchers
POC‐ UQ&UQAMCapability Map Explorer
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Thepurposeofthis section isdemonstratethatitispossibleto
publishonthewebaCapabilityMapExplorerthatfederates
expertisenavigationbetweenUQnetworkandUQAMresearchers
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UQNetworkintheLODWithVIVO
TheHighLevelVision
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•Thediagrambelowpresentsthevisionassociatedwiththeproof
ofconcept.
•ToachievethegoalofthePOC,thefirststepistoextractunlinked
datafromthedifferentdatasourcesofdifferentformatsand
notation,andtransformthemintoRDFnotationtobestoredin
VIVOtriplestore.
•Inthepresentedexample,threeexpertdatasourcesare
convertedandstoredinVIVOthatareontheinstitutions'intranet.
•Thedatasetsarethuslinked,butnotopendata.
•SomedatacomefromUQAMdatasources,otherscomefromthe
UQnetwork,whileothersmaycomefromotherinstitutions.
•Asforthefourthdatasource,theycomefromtheexpertise
vocabularystandardizedbytheCanadiangovernmentanddirectly
disseminatedinavivothatisintheLOD.
•Eventhoughitisnotpartofthisproofofconcept,theCanadian
vocabularycouldalsobeincludedintheLOD.
•Thelastcomponentoftheproofofconceptistheoneintheright‐
handcolumn.
•TheApplicationpopulatorisanapplicationthatisinfacta
federatedSPARQLquerythatlinksdatafromdifferentlocalVIVO's
toextractopendataandaggregateitintoavivothatwillbethe
FederatedLODApplication.
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CanadianResearchandDevelopment
Classification 2019(CRDCVocabulary)
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https://www.sshrc‐crsh.gc.ca/funding‐financement/nfrf‐fnfr/crdc‐ccrd‐eng.aspx
BR5
•Let'stalkaboutstandardizedvocabulary.
•TheCanadian Governmentisproposingastandardizedvocabulary,
called"CanadianResearchandDevelopmentClassification"
(CRDC).
•Thegovernmentagencyopensthisvocabularywhichisstoredin
anExcelfileandisnotusableasitisintheLOD.
•AstepoftransformationoftheExcelfileintoanRDFdatasetis
thereforenecessarytocompleteinordertopublishthe
vocabularyintheLOD.
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BR5 Ici il est important de dire que ce vocabulaire ne sort pas de nulle part et est une adaptation du standard
australien et néo-zélandais ANZSRC qui est lui-même considéré comme une des meilleures classification des
disciplines en recherche dans le monde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Standard_Research_Classification
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DataTransformationProcess
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•Quickly!Theprocessoftransforminglocaldataintoopendatais
carriedoutinthreemajorstepswhicharerepresentedhereby
ovals.
•Thefirststepistoextractthelocaldataandreplacethe
organizationalvocabularyskillswiththestandardizedskillsthat
areintheCRDC.
•Oncetransformed,thedataistranslatedintotheTURTLEnotation
andreadyforprocessinginthenextstep.Steptwoistopublish
theTURTLEfilesinVIVOtriplestore whichareineach
organization'sinstitutionalintranet.
•ProcessthreeisaSPARQLquerythatfederatesthedatacontained
inthesetoforganizationaltriplestore toextracttheopendata
aboutskillsandexpertisetopushthemintotheUQUQAM
CapabilityMaptriplestore,whichthenbecomesanodethatis
partoftheLOD.
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CRDCVocabulary
Dataset
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ontology editor
perspective:
•ManagebyTopbraid
ComposerFE
2. CRDCClass
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3. CRDCProperty
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RDF10201Class
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•WewillfocushereonthepresentationoftheCRDCvocabulary.
•TopresentthevocabularyweuseUQAM‐DEV,adevelopment
environmentthatallowsustodevelopvivocomponents.
•NotethatUQAM‐DEVwillbepresentedinmoredetailinafurther
presentation.
•AsadevelopmenttoolUQAM‐DEVincorporatesanothertool
calledTopBraidCo mpose F reeEditionwhichisinfactanontology
editor.
•Thepresentation(inpointone)isdividedintoseveralviews.
•Inpointtwo,weseethetaxonomyofthevocabularythatcomes
fromthetransformationoftheExcelfileofferedbytheCRDC.
•Weseethetaxonomyoftheexpertiseclassescontainedinthe
vocabulary.
•Viewthree,presentsthepropertiesassociatedwiththeCRDC
vocabulary,includingthehasLevel property.
•Viewfourpresentsthesetofindividualscontainedintheclass
selectedinviewtwo.
•Theselectedindividualispresentedintheforminviewfivewhere
thedifferentattributesassociatedwiththisvocabularyelement
canbeseen.
•OnecanseethelabelofexpertisewhichisinbothFrenchand
EnglishCanadian.
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UQAM–Expertand
Normalized Expertise
with CRDC
1. Locationof
Researcherrefencein
VIVOOntology
2. DescriptionofUQAM
expert
3. URIListof
Researcher's
Competencies
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•Let'sseetogetherhowthedataistransformedafterthefirst
transformationstep.
•Inthefirstviewwenoticethetaxonomyofthreeontologiesused
tostructurethedata:FOAF,OpenBiologicalandBiomedical
Ontologies andVIVO.
•Inthisontology,thereareonehundredandforty‐oneindividuals
ofFacultyMember type.
•Thesecondviewistheformthatpresentsindividualn4503,who
isinfactaUQAMexpert.
•Thereisasetofattributesandmorespecifically,inpointthree,
attributesthatarerelatedtotheexpert'sfieldofresearch.
•WenotethattheyarestandardizedwiththeCRDCvocabulary.
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CrossLocalVIVOFederated SPARQLUpdate
Query BySERVICECall
prefix crdc-serv: <http://purl.org/vivo-dev.uqam.ca/crdc/api/s parqlQuery?email=OO&password=OO>
prefix uq-serv: <http://purl.org/vivo-dev.uqam.ca/expert-uq/ap i/sparqlQuery?email=OO&password=OO>
prefix uqam-serv: <http://purl.org/vivo-dev.uqam.ca/expert-uqa m/api/sparqlQuery?email=OO&password=OO>
prefix expert-serv: <http://purl.org/vivo-dev.uqam.ca/expertis e/crdc/api/sparqlQuery?email=OO&password=OO>
INSERT { GRAPH <http://vivo-i18n.dev.uqam.ca:8080/expertise/grap h> {
?s ?p ?o .
?se ?pe ?oe .
?suq ?puq ?ouq .
?seuq ?peuq ?oeuq .
?scrdc ?pcrdc ?ocrdc .
}}
WHERE {{{
SERVICE uqam-serv: {
GRAPH <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/filegraph/abox/expert-uqam.t tl> {?s ?p ?o}
} }
UNION {
SERVICE uqam-serv: {
GRAPH <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/filegraph/abox/expertise-uqa m.ttl> {?se ?pe ?oe}
} }
UNION {
SERVICE uq-serv: {
GRAPH <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/filegraph/abox/expertise-uq.ttl> {?suq ?puq ?ouq}
} }
UNION {
SERVICE uq-serv: {
GRAPH <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/filegraph/abox/expert-uq.ttl> {?seuq ?peuq ?oeuq}
} }
UNION {
SERVICE crdc-serv: {
GRAPH <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/filegraph/abox/crdc.ttl> { ?scrdc ?pcrdc ?ocrdc}
} }
}}
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•Hereisnowthequerythatallowstofederatethedatafromthe
differentinstitutionalserversinordertopopulatetheVIVOthat
willbeintheLOD.
•Withoutgoingintothedetailsofthisqueryexplanation,let's
simplynotethatusingthe"service"command,thequerycan
delegatethesearchtoclientwebserversandthatitisthereforea
groupingofdatacomingfromaclusterofdataservers.
•InthisquerywerefertotheCRDCexpertisevocabularyservers,
theUQAMandUQexpertiseontologyservers.Theserverwiththe
NameSpace expert‐servisinfact,theonethathoststheUpdate
command,meaningthatitupdatesthedatainitsowntriplestore.
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VIVOUQ‐UQAMCapability Map Application
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http://purl.org/vivo‐dev.uqam.ca/expertise
•ThisviewshowstheresultoftheVIVOUQ‐UQAMCapabilityMap
application.
•Infact,itpresentstheexpertisegrapharoundthe"ontology"
expertise.
•Theapplicationidentifiesthreeprofessionalswiththisexpertise.
•Intheviewontheright,therearetwoprofessionalswhobelong
totheUniversityofQuebecnetworkandoneprofessionalwho
belongstotheUniversityofQuebecinMontreal.
•Thisisthereforeanapplicationthatfederatestheexpertiseof
professionalsfromseveralinstitutionswhosedatasourcesare
distributedinseveralVIVOsandthatusesastandardizedopen
vocabularytoidentifyexpertise.
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ONCLUSION
• LOD is a cloud of RDF triples that makes accessible data sets, vocabularies,
ontologies and can be cross-referenced to feed specific applications.
• A VIVO instance in the semantic web can also be a node in the LOD cloud
• The domain data can be distributed in several VIVO instances and be
federated by a SPARQL Services query.
• A VIVO instance on an institution's intranet is also a useful graph data source.
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• In conclusion, let's just say:
• That LOD is a cloud of RDF triples that makes
accessible data sets, vocabularies, ontologies and
can be cross-referenced to feed specific applications.
• A VIVO instance in the semantic web can also be a
node in the LOD cloud
• The domain data can be distributed in several VIVO
instances and be federated by a SPARQL Services
query.
• A VIVO instance on an institution's intranet is also a
useful graph data source.
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