This paper describes our efforts on developing a platform for presenting structured, transparent, categorized, and linked information about researchers and their research activities within the framework of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA). This will improve the discoverability of expertise, connect researchers to their work across disciplines and boundaries, and facilitate new research collaborations. The platform is established using the open-source, web-based VIVO software, which uses semantic web techniques to connect research outputs, organisations, people, things, and research activities. This is achieved by developing ontologies that relate and connect these entities within the alliance.
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