VIVO 1.9 Release Planning

Release 1.9 is expected to be a features release, aligned with VIVO Roadmap Process, and addressing its four major themes: 1) getting data out of VIVO using APIs, 2) getting data in to VIVO using best practices, 3) improved VIVO performance, 4) improved VIVO visualizations

Suggestions for the next release

• Modularization: Continue modularization: abox reasoner.
  • Break out the ABox reasoner, with options to:
    • Disable the SimpleReasoner
    • Use the SimpleReasoner only to find most specific type
    • Use the SimpleReasoner as we currently do
    • Use an alternate reasoner
• Performance: alternative triple-stores
  • TDB becomes the default, SDB is deprecated.
  • Distributed with adapters for Virtuoso and others.
  • Test performance with different triple stores:
    • Rendering large profiles
    • Inferencing
    • Indexing
• Performance: Search indexer
  • Restructure the indexer for:
    • Better multi-threaded performance
    • Fewer unnecessary SPARQL queries
    • More configuration options
• Ease of use: move the theme to the home directory
  • New themes or modifications won't require re-building VIVO
  • Enables wider usage of the Binary release (below)
• Ease of use: Binary release
  • Installation instructions:
    • unpack the Zip,
    • set configuration options,
    • run.
  • Based on TDB and Jetty (instead of Tomcat)
  • Requires: Java Runtime Environment
  • Does not require:
    • Ant,
    • MySQL
    • Tomcat
    • Java Development Kit
    • Vagrant
• Ease of use: Installation recommendations
  • For testing and experimenting, the binary release
    • Allows theme changes (see above), configuration changes, RDF changes
    • Anything that doesn't require changes to the code.
  • For enterprise installations or Java changes, the three-tier build.
  • Don't recommend the two-tier build.