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What's different (and noteworthy) about VIVO?
Our tour example –
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openvivo.org
Vivo.vivowebopenvivo.org is a VIVO community tool to help connect users of VIVO based on geographic location, institutional type or affiliation, stage of implementing VIVO, or individual expertise. It's largely populated and updated by the community using a shared login, and provides a place for people new to VIVO to try out the software while learning about the larger VIVO community.The vivo.vivoweb.org site extends the standard ISF/VIVO ontology with a few classes and relationships to highlight VIVO installations and the typical range of skills needed to set up, populate, and maintain a VIVO instance (as discussed more in part 3 of this tour).
VIVO's not just another profiling system and not just people
VIVO is not just people profiles. Try a search for 'ontology' in our tour example and you'll see results about people, events, organizations, installations, and research. Each distinct type of entity represented in VIVO has its own attributes and relationships to others of itself or of other types, sometimes directly or sometimes through intermediate connections indicating roles or a time frame for the relationship. VIVO has to be able to change as people take on new projects, are promoted, or move to a different department or institution.
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