Meeting Notes: Preparing for Promotion: Vita Training — October 3, 2017

PowerPoint Presentation: “Getting Started with Vita” from Cricket Nardacci (OSU ODEE)

Cricket: My team is in the office during university business hours to help answer questions about Vita. There are only seven of us for the entire university. The OSU IT Help Desk has no training on Vita.

We moved from Research in View to Vita/Elements because the vendor for RIV decided to kill the program. We have an entire team dedicated to the data migration effort to move things from RIV to Vita; however, you will need to manage the final settings and clean up because you are the expert on your information.

Vita and Elements are two different programs. Because we have such a large institution and we have a diverse array of work, there is no system that can deliver everything for us. Our team wrote a new code that we call Vita that works with Elements. Vita is still glitchy right now.

On vita.osu.edu, there are dedicated sections with resources to help you use these systems.

The top three resources for you are:

  • “Getting Started with Vita” help article
  • “RIV to Vita Elements Conversion Chart” — this shows where things were managed in RIV and where it will be managed going forward in Vita Elements.
  • “Vita Dossier Display Map”

Debby: There will be OSUE training sessions coming in November.

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