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Note: 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 completion of all tests of the application and sample data migrationsdata migration from version 1.5.2.
VIVO version 1.6 is notable for new features, for significant improvements enhancements to the ontology, and for new contributors to the VIVO code base. VIVO contributions from institutions beyond the seven partners participating in the 2009-2012 National Institutes of Health grant, "VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists" . VIVO version 1.6 also marks the first release under the VIVO Incubator Project with DuraSpace.
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In February, 2012, near the close of the 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 the CTSAconnect project (http://ctsaconnect.org) as a collaborative effort by the VIVO and eagle-i communities to refactor, extend, and restructure their respective two distinct ontologies into a unified semantic framework. By addressing combining information about researchers, research resources, and clinical expertise as well as people, organizations, and their research activities and outputs in a single, modular ontology framework, VIVO-ISF provides a more flexible and extensible ontology supporting for both the VIVO and eagle-i applications as well as and for 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.
, including Plumage (https://github.com/CTSIatUCSF/plumage) and CTSAsearch (http://research.icts.uiowa.edu/polyglot/). While end users of VIVO will not sense more continuity than change, under the hood the VIVO-ISF ontology aligns more consistently under the Basic Formal Ontology (http://www.ifomis.org/bfo) and positions VIVO for interoperability with other ontologies. The modular structure of VIVO-ISF also affords adopting sites more flexibility in determining scope and domain focus.
In keeping with VIVO practiceAs with past VIVO releases, the VIVO 1.6 release incorporates a script to migrate existing content to the new ontology . This script that will be automatically invoked as part of the upgrade process to accomplish as much as possible of the migration to the ISF automatically. In some cases local review will be necessary to confirm that existing data have been interpreted and categorized correctly.
Internationalization
VIVO 1.6 offers the option of displaying menus, content, and the ontology in multiple languages, a key step in supporting wider adoption outside the English-speaking world. Data with different standard RDF language tags may be ingested and VIVO's display will respect a user's preferred language setting as configured in the web browser. VIOV will provide the closest available match based on standard nationalSupport for Interactive addition and editing of content in multiple languages is limited restricted to entity labels with version 1.6 and will require further design work to complete, but the application interface can be fully modified outside of the core code base without risk that subsequent releases will overwrite changes.
New Features
VIVO 1.6 addresses:
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