Overview of VIVO – a quick tour designed for a one-hour, hands-on workshop

Goals

• 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

• Why VIVO?
• What's different (and noteworthy) about VIVO?
• What's involved in starting a VIVO project at your institution?
• What is an information ecosystem and how does VIVO fit in?
• VIVO as data on the Linked Open Data Web
• How to see and learn more