Dear Professionals, The Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET), Inter-University Centre of UGC, Gandhinagar is organising "*Three-day National Workshop on VIVO Profile Management System and Discovery’*’ during 26th – 28th November, 2015 at INFLIBNET Centre, Infocity, Gandhinagar. *About the workshop* VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell University, USA, now widely used in the western countries. Duraspace is an incubator for community based development and promote the VIVO software to the academic and research community all over the world. VIVO is an open-source, shared platform for connecting faculty, scientist, scholars, research communities, institutions, and outside peer group using Linked Open Data (LOD). The research and discovery tool enables the administrator to import data such as personal information, grants, courses and publications from various internal as well as external sources including faculty databases, grants management system and academic identity such as ORCID ID, Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. *Objective of the Workshop* The main objective of this Workshop is to enable the participants to develop standard profile management system for their institutions using VIVO. The Workshop will present comprehensive overview of the profile management system, introduction to VIVO, installation, configuration and data ingestion from various sources, etc. Participants may also learn more about Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies such as RDF and SPARQL. *Target Participants* Library and information science professional, information scientists, system administrator, content developer interested in obtaining a understanding of how VIVO work and what could be possible to develop research discovery using Open Linked Data. *Details information about the workshop is available at the following link* About INFLIBNET Centre: http://inflibnet.ac.in About Workshop : http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/vivo.pdf Registration Form : http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/vivo_form.pdf *Limited seats are available. * Thanks and Regards Dinesh Ranjan Pradhan Scientist-B (LS) INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.