Much of this documentation remains the same across VIVO releases, but some may not have been fully updated to the most recent release. While we will attempt to identify and alert you in such cases, please be aware that your VIVO may look and act slightly differently from what is represented here.

Introduction

This document provides an overview of the data ingest process for VIVO.

The early sections describe some typical data sources for VIVO and the challenges often associated with multiple values, representing information that is only true for certain periods of time, and the like.
Later sections describe different technical and workflow options for loading data into VIVO.
Some more specific examples are provided, but readers should expect to have to modify or extend examples to reflect their local data needs, the format of sources, and the depth of technical skills available to them, such as the ability to write or modify XSLT scripts

Other sources of information

Karma: A Data Integration Tool