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The development of DV Docs described in this proposal has three goals: (1) develop a method to output personal profile data stored in VIVO as structured, well-formatted documents in rtf or pdf format; (2) provide a generalized, template-based approach for developers to modify the format and/or content of generated documents in order to allow them to create new documents based on the VIVO data model; and (3) provide a basic, standalone Web application to edit and generate full NIH biosketches based on functionality currently implemented in DV. The first two of these goals provide an important addition to the VIVO infrastructure by allowing VIVO developers to leverage document generation functions that we have implemented already in Digital Vita. Generalizing these functions through our second goal enables developers to create customized documents that are adapted to the local, regional or national context. The third goal offers end users the important capability to edit and output NIH biosketches based on their VIVO data. This application will be available to end users at the end of the project period, and we anticipate that its functionality will be integrated with the VIVO application code base subsequently.
See also: Rich export and Rich export queries