Overview of VIVO – a quick tour for a hands-on workshop or self-tour
Goals
- Learning about VIVO as software, as an ontology, and as a community with many active participating individuals and institutions
- Understanding how VIVO fits into several quite different environments, from small research organizations to whole universities and distributed consortia
- Gaining basic insights into the Semantic Web technologies VIVO uses
Outline
- What's VIVO?
- What's different (and noteworthy) about VIVO?
- What's involved in starting a VIVO project at your institution?
- What is an information ecosystem and how does VIVO fit in?
- VIVO as data on the Linked Open Data Web
- How to see and learn more