Presentation from "VIVO Talks!" with Prof. Ludo Waltman on "Open Research Information at the Berlin University Alliance for Responsible Research Assessment". Ludo Waltman, Professor and Deputy Director at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, illustrates how open research information enables a more responsible assessment of researchers, their projects and research. “VIVO Talks!” is organized by the project team of VIVO Research Information Platform for the Berlin University Alliance. Within this alliance, a four-member project team is currently developing a federated platform to present information of researchers, their research and activities using the open source software VIVO. This project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the state of Berlin within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder.