At the invitation of Dr. Leyla Jael Castro, Dragan Ivanovic, VIVO Tech lead, and Christian Hauschke, (TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology) gave a lecture on 20 March 2025 in the Research Seminar Series of ZB MED, in which they gave an overview of VIVO and its possibilities as…
Projects
The Lab Open Research Information team of the Open Science Lab is involved in a number of research and development projects. An overview of completed projects can be found here.
Translation Rights - Historische Datenbank zum Übersetzungsmarkt für deutschsprachige Literatur und Literatur auf Deutsch
Literary-historical and statistical research of translations on the basis of open bibliographical metadata in a knowledge graph.

Development of a network and services for research information (HdN-FIS)
RIS are a central component for creating transparency and establishing reliable data for strategic decisions, external presentation and controlling. The heterogeneous development statuses in Lower Saxony are to be brought to a high minimum level for the establishment of a joint KDSF through cooperation and joint solutions. Interfaces and services should be developed jointly where this is possible and sensible. To this end, a competence network focussing on various tasks and topics is to be established. The task lies in the provision of reference models, solutions or services and the consolidation to a small number of systems. An advisory structure provides points of contact for the respective organisational and technical implementation at the individual universities.
Enabling Global Communities: VIVO ORCID Integration
Implement a direct integration of ORCID and VIVO to enable users to authenticate into VIVO with their ORCID iDs and populate their ORCID profile information from VIVO.
GROBI - Graphical observatories for bibliometric analyses
The GROBI project is researching and developing a reference implementation for bibliometric observatories based on open research information and open source software.
KOMET - collaborative enrichment of the metadata commons to foster a diverse open access ecosystem
The KOMET project promotes the transformation of science towards a diverse and participatory OA culture by supporting independent, oftentimes scholar-led OA journals in professionalising their metadata processes.
IDAHO - IDentificAtion of hurdles to open access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties - epistemic injustice in scientific publishing
IDAHO identifies barriers and hurdles to OA publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties, assesses the impact of OA journal policies and identifies ways to remove the hurdles.
GESAH - Digitisation and specialist indexing of the Individual Graphic Sheets of the Collection of Architect Albrecht Haupt

For the indexing of the individual graphic sheets of the Albrecht Haupt Collection, an indexing environment with Vitro is being set up that is geared to the subject-specific requirements. Data, data model and software are also to be made available as open source to comparable indexing projects.