Katy Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science, Adjunct Professor at the School of Informatics and Computing, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (http://cns.iu.edu) at Indiana University.Her research focuses on the development of data analysis and visualization techniques for information access, understanding, and management. Within the VIVO project, she led the team at Indiana University and directed the development of social network visualizationsYing Ding is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Previously, she worked as a senior researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and as a researcher at the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has been involved in various NIH-funded and European Union-funded Semantic Web projects. She has published 130+ papers in journals, conferences, and workshops.She is the coeditor of a book series called Semantic Web Synthesis from Morgan & Claypool Publishers. She is co-author of the book Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce and is co-author of book chapters in Spinning the Semantic Web and Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management. Her current interest areas include social network analysis, Semantic Web, citation analysis, knowledge management, and the application of web technology.Michael Conlon is Associate Director and Chief Operating Officer of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Director of Biomedical Informatics at the UF College of Medicine, and Principal Investigator of the NIH project “VIVO: Enabling National Network ing of Scientists.” His responsibilities include development of academic biomedical informatics, expansion and integration of research and clinicalinformation resources, and strategic planning for academic health and university research. As PI of the VIVO project, Dr. Conlon leads a team of 120 investigators at 7 schools in the development, implementation, and advancement of an open source Semantic Web application for research discovery. He earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of Florida, undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Bucknell Uni versity, and is the author of over 150 scholarly publications and presentations. His current interests include enterprise change and organizational issues in the adoption of information technology, or ganization of research resources, and enterprise architecture. See vivo.ufl.edu/individual/mconlon for connections, works, and shared scholarly information.Jon Corson-Rikert is the head of Information Technology Services at Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Library. He was the initial VIVO developer at Cornell starting in 2003 and has served as the development lead and a member of the ontology team for the NIH project “VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists.” He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and worked in cartography, geographic information systems, and computer graphics before joining the Cornell University Library in 2001.
