v 1.0 July , 1, 2014 This version brings VIVO governance into conformity with the emerging DuraSpace model.
v 1.1 March 26, 2015 Remove references to legacy concepts and names. Substitute "VIVO" for "Project" for clarity. Improved formatting.
VIVO
VIVO is an open community, an open information model, and an open source semantic web application supporting the advancement of scholarship by integrating and sharing information about scholars, their activities and outputs at a single institution while supporting discovery of related work and expertise across a distributed network.
DuraSpace
DuraSpace is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit born from a vision to help save our shared scholarly, scientific, and cultural record. DuraSpace leads the development and improvement of open technologies that provide long-term, durable access to digital assets. DuraSpace is developing strategies for managing the 'data deluge' and addressing the challenge of converting the overwhelming amount of data produced by scholars and scientists into useful information.
VIVO has joined DuraSpace as the VIVO Project to realize a shared mission through an established legal and financial framework compatible with VIVO’s own vision and goals. DuraSpace provides the VIVO Project a range of services and staff support to enable the VIVO Project to best meet the needs of the VIVO community and accomplish its mission and goals. The DuraSpace Board of Directors provides financial and legal oversight of the VIVO Project, but the Board is not involved in setting strategic direction of the VIVO Project. That is the work of the VIVO Leadership and Steering Groups on behalf of VIVO stakeholders.
VIVO Project Vision
The VIVO software, information model, and community are fully open. The VIVO Project leads the development and enhancement of the VIVO information model, the VIVO software, and the VIVO community, along with associated tools, standards, data, services, and expertise for the benefit of all interested parties.
Mission
The VIVO Project within DuraSpace nurtures a growing community of developers, implementers, institutional stakeholders, and users through online and in-person training opportunities, requirements gathering, design exercises, coordinated software development activities, documentation, outreach, and events such as Implementation Fests and the annual VIVO Conference. The VIVO Project sustains and improves the VIVO software and information model, as well as related tools, data resources, and services including the VIVO Harvester, the VIVO-Integrated Semantic Framework Ontology (VIVO-ISF), the Vitro RDF and ontology editing platform, and the VIVOsearch multi-site discovery prototype.
Goals
The VIVO Project has the following overarching goals:
- Manage the VIVO/Vitro software as an open-source, community-developed tool for creating, collecting, managing, and delivering information about researchers and scholars together with the organizational, academic, research, and communications environment around their work;
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- Manage the VIVO-ISF Ontology as a Linked Data standard for exchanging information about researchers and scholars together with the organizational, academic, research, and communications environment around their work;
- Lead and support work by institutions and organizations to implement VIVO and the VIVO-ISF Ontology, to extend and develop the Ontology, to further develop and enhance the core VIVO/Vitro software for current and new domains of interest, and to build applications and tools that make use of data expressed using the VIVO-ISF Ontology;
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- Conduct conferences and other related events that support and facilitate efforts around topics of most interest to the VIVO community such as open data standards and the VIVO-ISF ontology; linked open data and semantic web languages and technologies; development, deployment, and engagement around research information representation systems, including data reporting and visualization efforts; collaboration, and research discovery.
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- Work together with partner institutions, commercial affiliates, and other institutions and organizations in support of the free and open exchange of information about researchers, research, research resources, scholars, and scholarship using Linked Open Data.
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Membership
Membership is administered through DuraSpace. DuraSpace defines member levels and offers DuraSpace membership benefits at each level. In addition, VIVO offers VIVO governance benefits to Member organizations that allocate their membership fees or other resources to the project. (See below for a more detailed discussion of DuraSpace Membership and Governance policies)
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Note: Organizations from developing nations, as identified by the United Nations[1] , are eligible to join DuraSpace as a Bronze Member for an annual fee of $250.
DuraSpace Membership Benefits
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| Level | Category | Benefit |
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| Bronze | Information | Annual review webinar for members |
| Information | Advanced news of project announcements and activities | |
| General | Project Member logo for member use | |
| General | Institution name and link on Duraspace and VIVO web sites | |
| Governance | Eligible to vote on an at-large Member representative to the DuraSpace board of directors | |
| Governance | One seat at annual DuraSpace Membership Summit | |
| Silver | All | All Bronze Benefits |
| Institution name, logo and link on the DuraSpace and Project web sites | ||
| 10% discount to new members on first year of either DSpaceDirect or DuraCloud | ||
| Discounted registration at VIVO training events | ||
| Gold | All | All Bronze and Silver Benefits |
| Platinum | All | All Bronze, Silver and Gold Benefits |
Level
Category
Benefit
Bronze & above
Information dissemination
Annual review webinar for members
Bronze & above
Information dissemination
Member organizations will receive advanced news of project announcements and activities[2]
Bronze & above
General
Project Member logo for member use
Bronze & above
General
Institution name and link on the DuraSpace and Project web sites
Bronze & above
Governance
Eligible to vote on an at-large Member representative to the DuraSpace board of directors
Bronze & above
Governance
One seat at annual DuraSpace Membership Summit
All the above benefits, plus:
Silver & above
General
Institution name, logo and link on the DuraSpace and Project web sites
Silver & above (for 1st year of sponsorship)
Discounts/Special Feature Access
10% discount to new members on first year of either DSpaceDirect or DuraCloud
Silver & above
Discounts/
Discounted registration at project training events
All the above benefits, plus:
Gold & above
Events
Preferred access (advance registration) to DuraSpace professional development opportunities
Gold & above
Events
Two seats at the annual DuraSpace Membership Summit
Gold & above
Governance
Eligible to play a role in project governance, as defined by each project’s governance policy
All the above benefits, plus:
Platinum
Governance
Eligible for one seat on Project Leadership Group
Governance
The purpose of VIVO governance is to establish principles and goals for the project, and to ensure a strategic direction and product roadmap, accountability, a sustainability plan, a management decision framework, and a means of conducting operations.
Governance is based on a representative, community-based membership model incrementally rewarding members who have made the greatest commitments to the project.
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