VIVO [Pronunciation: /viːvəʊ/ or vee-voh] is member-supported, open source software and an ontology for representing scholarship.  VIVO supports recording, editing, searching, browsing and visualizing scholarly activity. VIVO encourages research discovery, expert finding, network analysis and assessment of research impact.  VIVO is easily extended to support additional domains of scholarly activity.

What is VIVO?

• A short tour of VIVO | Technical specs | FAQs | Considering VIVO
• VIVO is used at many institutions around the world
• The latest version of VIVO is 1.9.3, released in October 2017. See what's new
• VIVO is a project of Duraspace
• Support VIVO through membership in Duraspace

VIVO developers and implementers

• VIVO is a Java Enterprise application built around the Jena Semantic Web Framework. Download VIVO's source code on GitHub
• VIVO technical documentation
• VIVO roadmap and release planning
• Want to quickly install and evaluate VIVO? Install a VIVO Vagrant

VIVO-ISF ontology

• VIVO uses a collection of ontologies to provide an extensible data standard for describing scholarship
• VIVO-ISF, the VIVO Integrated Semantic Framework, is the core VIVO ontology
• OpenRIF (Open Research Information Framework) is an open source project that works to develop and align information models including VIVO-ISF.
• SPARQL is the query language for semantic data. Learn more about SPARQL.

Participate in the VIVO community

• Join one of the VIVO email lists to participate in discussions, ask questions, learn more
• Follow us on social media – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blog
• Join Slack here: https://goo.gl/sSDGMn
• Participate in interest groups

  • Apps and Tools Interest Group

  • Implementation Interest Group

  • Development Interest Group

  • Outreach and Engagement Interest Group

• Join or create a task force to get work done

• To edit this wiki or post issues to the VIVO JIRA issue tracker, request a DuraSpace ID with access to JIRA.

• Contact sysadmin@duraspace.org for assistance with problems logging on to or accessing this wiki.