Semantic-based Researcher Profile Management System: Case Study on VIVO

Abstract

The Internet has provided ample opportunity to this generation of scholars to communicate, share and discover information. Development of profile management system is crucial to organise research activities of an organisation and showcase them to the peer group. The semantic web is the extension web standard to organise the information through common data format and exchange protocol. This article explains about the semantic technologies such as; Resource Description Framework, Web Ontology Language, Open Linked Data. The purpose of this article is to discuss about what is profile management system, how it is used in the scholarly communication, etc. The article emphasis on semantic-based profile management system called: VIVO and its architecture, data integration tools and major features and functionalities, etc.