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In keeping with previous practice, the VIVO 1.6 release automatically invokes a data migration script to convert existing content to the new ontology as part of the upgrade process. A new application configuration ontology allows more context-dependent labeling and will be extended in the next release to allow additional customization of page displays without programming.
Internationalization
VIVO 1.6 offers the option of displaying menus, content, and ontology labels in alternative and/or multiple languages, a key step in supporting wider VIVO adoption beyond the English-speaking world. By extracting English labels from menus, page templates, and the ontology, the language of VIVO's application interface can be fully modified outside of the core code base by copying and translating a small number of files without risk that subsequent releases will overwrite changes. And when multiple language support is enabled by local option, VIVO will respect a user's preferred browser language setting to display the closest matching content identified using standard RDF language tags.
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VIVO's search indexing has also been extended to support re-indexing a specific subset of data known to have changed, allowing more efficient processing of incremental updates to publications or other content. Responses to linked data requests are faster and include a terms of use statement modifiable by the implementing institution.
Look and feel
VIVO keeps the same overall look and feel while sporting a new and more dynamic home page including rotating features highlighting individual research areas, researchers, and departments as well as more prominent statistics on key content elements. An optional map view highlighting the global, national, or regional geographic research focus may also be activated and customized to local preference.
- caching
- ability to update only a specific list of new URIs in the search index
extensibility, through RDF web service
internationalization, with caveats that support for administrative functions and managing duplicate content in different languages through the same URI will come in 1.7
new home page features including an optional map
application configuration ontology designed for 1.5 implementation and used for ISF simpler properties
And many more improvements
In addition to the above major features, VIVO 1.6 includes many updated libraries, including an upgrade to the Apache Solr search engine, and offers implementing sites additional control over building, deployment, access control, and supplementing VIVO pages with additional queries and reports. VIVO's internal SPARQL query endpoint may be configured for authorized access and now supports HTTP content negotiation and JSON-LD.
For additional detail on these and other improvements, please review the full VIVO 1.6 Release Notes.others
Code Contributors
Stephen Williams from the University of Colorado Boulder, Ted Lawless from Brown, and Mark Fallu from Griffith
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