VIVO Overview – a quick tour for a hands-on workshop or self-tour

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 of the Tour

1. What's VIVO?
2. What's different (and noteworthy) about VIVO?
3. What's involved in starting a VIVO project?
4. What is an information ecosystem and how does VIVO fit in?
5. VIVO as data on the Linked Open Data Web
6. VIVO in production at sites around the worldsee and learn more