UC Libraries Forum 2021: Leading with Innovation, Stronger through Collaboration

Aggie Experts is a joint partnership between the Office of the Provost and the UC Davis Library. whose purpose is to create a central registry of UC Davis faculty, researchers, experts and creators and showcase the scholarship created at the university. The use cases for the project include expertise discovery for collaborations and reducing administrative workload by replacing manual data entry.

The project has brought us in contact with multiple offices on campus, jump-starting partnerships with programs that want to showcase the work of their affiliates, and has the potential to continue expanding as we build out functionalities for data reuse. We are applying the principles of FAIR to public institutional data. Using the VIVO platform as inspiration, and a source for a schema of scholarly outputs, we have developed an innovative digital platform to showcase and navigate an aggregation of existing authoritative sources of information, including UCPath for names, titles and affiliations; CDL’s Open Access Publication Management System; and UC Davis grants information. In this talk we describe the project, our collaborations and technical implementation. Our work is designed for reuse, with the common UC sources making it easy to deploy at other campuses.