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Melanie
Gardner USDA,
NAL
 Manager,
Innovation
&
Collaboration NAL
Digital
Repository,
AgNIC,
VIVO March
25,
2011

USDA
Effort
  Desire
for
VIVO
started
with
AgNIC
–
last
May  60+
institutions  USDA
exploring
at
same
time  NAL
Director
volunteered
to
support
USDA
effort
  USDA
began
with
core
science
agencies
–
  Agricultural
Research
Service  Forest
Service  National
Agricultural
Statistics
Service  Economic
Research
Service  National
Institute
for
Food
&
Agriculture

Challenges
  Two
years
into
new
administration  Reorganizations
underway  Each
agency
is
[fairly/mostly]
independent
of
all
others
 but
grouped
under
“mission
areas”
for
those
with
similar
 missions  No
central
HR
system  No
consistent
tracking
of
research,
except
ARS  Approximately
50,000
researchers
&
scientists
in
USDA  USDA
wants
better
exposure
of
science
they
do
and
 networking
among
scientists

Status
  One
IT
person
–
established
an
agreement
with
Cornell
to
help  VIVO
current
version
installed  Have
all
5
agencies
organizational
structure
[needs
slight
 modifications]  Have
two
agency’s
“people”
data
in  Still
behind
the
firewall  Awaiting
3
other
agencies
people
data  Other
science
agencies
are
asking
to
join  Have
a
USDA
VIVO
Board
–
high‐level
“champions”
and
 include
UF
and
Cornell
participants
with
ARS
lead
–
Sharon
 Drumm  Have
USDA
Technical
Team
–
representatives
from
each
 participating
agency
‐
determining
the
data
sources  Includes
UF
and
Cornell
participants