Resources to educate a variety of groups about the VIVO project, platform, and technology. These pages aim ensure effective adoption of and support for local VIVO installations through coordinated engagement with users at participating institutions and beyond.

Support Information

• VIVO Benefits - Information about how the power of VIVO can be leveraged, by role.
• VIVO FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions that have been raised during local outreach presentations, conferences, and emails to project members.
• Semantic Web resources - Resources to learn about the semantic web, linked open data, and more.
• VIVO in the Press - Articles that discuss or reference VIVO
• Comparison with other research networking systems

Materials

• Introduction to VIVO workshop at the 2014 VIVO Conference in Austin
• Introduction to VIVO workshop at the 2013 VIVO Conference in St. Louis
• View the slides and/or video recordings of the Spring, 2013 DuraSpace Community Webinar Series Five: VIVO -- Research Discovery & Networking
  
  • Webinar 1: Overview of VIVO | presentation slides | webinar recording
  • Webinar 2: Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown, Duke, & Weill Cornell Medical College | presentation slides | webinar recording
  • Webinar 3: VIVO Technical Deep Dive | presentation slides | webinar recording
    
• Follow the self-paced Short Tour: VIVO Overview on this wiki, with links to the vivo.vivoweb.org community sandbox and VIVO adopters
• Materials to support local outreach efforts. Also see Resource: Training and Workshops & Tutorials
• Local Adoption resources - includes an introduction to a library-based model of support and dissemination, background information, ideas, strategies, and materials for local outreach efforts within institutions or organizations.
• Included are files about VIVO, presentation materials, poster templates, and more. (in progress)
  
  • download VIVO flyer (updated flyer in progress, will be posted to http://vivoweb.org/about

Learn more about VIVO

• The historical About page includes a list of the partner institutions on the NIH-funded VIVO Project (2009-2012)
• Publications and Presentations on SourceForge (from the NIH-funded effort 2009-2012)
• VIVO in the Press provides a list of articles that discuss or reference the project.
• Upcoming Events
• Check out the Comparison of Research Networking Tools and Research Profiling Systems on Wikipedia – somewhat bewildering, but note the comparative adoption rates and that VIVO shows up prominently as green for open source – and also provides linked open data.