VIVO Overview – a quick tour for a hands-on workshop or self-tour
VIVO is an open source, semantic-web tool for research and scholarship discovery. Emerging tools enable participants to visualize research activity, discover linkages between people, programs, funding, scholarly works, events and more.
When VIVO is installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information.
Content in any local VIVO installation may be maintained manually, brought in to VIVO in automated ways from local systems of record, such as HR, grants, course, and faculty activity databases, or from database providers such as publication aggregators and funding agencies.
Goals of this Tour
- 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 of the Tour
- What's VIVO?
- What's different (and noteworthy) about VIVO?
- What's involved in starting a VIVO project?
- What is an information ecosystem and how does VIVO fit in?
- VIVO as data on the Linked Open Data Web
- VIVO in production at sites around the world
