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Drawning Organization Charts Using VIVO

VIVO is a program that aims to show faculty, staff, and student organizational affiliations in a complex university structure. The document discusses using VIVO to automatically generate organizational charts, highlighting initial challenges in drawing large charts and improvements over multiple iterations. It also notes how the charts have helped uncover data problems and plan to extend the charts to depict people's relationships to departments.

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Drawning Organization Charts Using VIVO

VIVO is a program that aims to show faculty, staff, and student organizational affiliations in a complex university structure. The document discusses using VIVO to automatically generate organizational charts, highlighting initial challenges in drawing large charts and improvements over multiple iterations. It also notes how the charts have helped uncover data problems and plan to extend the charts to depict people's relationships to departments.

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Drawing Organization Charts Using VIVO

by Alex Rockwell

Introduction
Purpose Program Design Use Cases Extending to People

Purpose
One of the goals of VIVO is to show which

organizations faculty, staff, and students belong to. UF's academic structure is highly complex and does not correspond to its nancial structure. UF does not have a facility to create organizational charts. Most organization charts are created by hand.

Original Uses
Demonstrate how to work with VIVO's linked data Create org charts automatically for each institution Create poster sized drawings for marketing purposes

Program Design

Art vs Science
More than 60% of my time on the project has been spent drawing graphs. Over 100 graphs have been created. Drawing graphs with 500+ nodes and including labels is extremely difficult.

First Graph

Extends several feet in both directions This rst result was so bad I nearly scrapped the whole project...

Evolution

Evolution

Evolution

Evolution

Immediate Impact
The original picture generated substantial interest in the program. Showed that writing interesting 3rd party applications on the VIVO platform is possible. Many problems including missing, misplaced, and duplicated data have been uncovered by the crawler.

Finding all UF organizations


Over 100 external organizations were added to VIVO during CV entry of the showcase departments. SPARQL cannot do recursive queries, so we did not have a tool to automatically nd all sub-organizations of UF. Extended the ontology locally with a rootOrganization data property to mark organizations as children of UF.

Finding Data Problems


Looking at graphs generated by the program has uncovered many problems in our data, including missing, misplaced, and duplicated records. We can understand the organizational structure much faster by looking at the graph rather than manually following the links from one organization to another.

Extending to People
Plan to show the relationship between people and their affiliations with departments, centers and institutes. Need to import data to show the heads of departments. Finding the right representation will be challenging because UF's VVIO will include close to 30,000 people by the end of the grant.

Interactive Graph Demo


Demo available at http://qa.vivo.u.edu/ infovis/demo.html Created with JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit (http://thejit.org)

Contact Information
Alex Rockwell ([email protected]) Source code available at github.com/arockwell/vivo_org_chart

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