Draft Only of the VIVO 1.6 Release Announcement
Note: no date has yet been projected The first VIVO 1.6 release candidate is currently undergoing testing, with testing of a second release candidate expected by November 1. No date has set for the VIVO v1.6 release pending ongoing testing of the first release candidatecompletion of all tests and sample data migrations.
VIVO 1.6 is notable for new features, for a significant restructuring of improvements to the ontology, and for the expansion of the number of individuals and institutions directly contributing code to the releasenew contributors to the VIVO code base. VIVO 1.6 is also the first major release since completion of the National Institutes of Health VIVO Project, in August, 2012, and marks the first release by the VIVO community since the launch of under the VIVO Incubator Project with DuraSpace.
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In February, 2012, near the close of the NIH VIVO and VIVO (http://vivoweb.org) and eagle-i (https://www.eagle-i.net) projects to promote networking of researchers and research resources, the National Institutes of Health (NIH funded members of ) funded the CTSAconnect project (http://ctsaconnect.org) as a collaborative effort by the VIVO and eagle-i communities via the 18-month CTSAconnect Project to refactor, extend, and restructure their respective ontologies into a unified semantic framework serving broader needs by . By addressing research resources and clinical expertise as well as people, organizations, and their research activities and outputs in a single, modular ontology framework, the traditional focus area of the VIVO ontologyVIVO-ISF provides a more flexible and extensible ontology supporting the VIVO and eagle-i applications as well as innovative downstream applications consuming this growing pool of richly-structured semantic data about current research in North America and around the world.
The VIVO-Integrated Semantic Framework ontology, or VIVO-ISF, maintains key structural features of the VIVO version 1.5 ontology while providing a more modular and extensible structure. End users will initially see few differences in VIVO, and while those providing implementation and ontology support to existing VIVO sites will notice a number of new options, the emphasis in VIVO 1.6 has been on continuity and better positioning of VIVO for future growth, including improved alignment under the Basic Formal Ontology to facilitate interoperability with a large number of domain ontologies adhering to its fundamental structure and principles.
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