We, at VIVO, want to take a moment and personally thank you for your continued and generous support of our program and community. It is because of the support of our member institutions that open technologies, like us, can continue to provide access to our collective educational, scientific and cultural materials. Your financial support ensures that we can continue delivering the VIVO application to its worldwide user-base and grow and expand the thriving community behind it. As a VIVO Member you have a voice in ensuring that we can serve the global communities that depend on our software to protect, preserve, share and make available  the priceless content contained within their institutions now and into the future.

As you know, VIVO is part of Lyrasis, a technology nonprofit that is home to six open source software communities. By being a part of Lyrasis, VIVO is able to leverage cost savings via shared infrastructure, new staff and expertise with a larger team, and increased investments in development and outreach. 

We are looking at the membership invoicing process starting in April and our Membership team will follow up shortly to confirm your details. Even though your invoice will arrive shortly, all of your 2022-2023 membership benefits will continue through June 30 and the new term will start on July 1, just as always. 

Membership represents VIVO's main source of unrestricted income and provides essential support for our staff and operations. If you would like to have a conversation about your VIVO membership renewal, or have any concerns about continuing your membership, please contact us at membership@lyrasis.org. We're here to help. We look forward to working with you during the upcoming membership year. 

The high-level summary below describes some of the accomplishments made possible by your membership contribution, as well as what you can expect in the coming year. If you missed it, please see our Annual Report for FY 2020 - 21 which highlights more exciting things that your membership dollars helped to accomplish.


VIVO FY 2023 Activities Supported by Membership

VIVO 1.13.0, a minor release that includes the following new features:


Many opportunities to connect with fellow VIVO users in person and online:

  • 15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS2022) in Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2022
  • 1st OECD MARIAD Webinar: Data Information Models for Scientific Research, June 2022
  • 6th German VIVO-Workshop, June 2022
  • Open Repositories Conference in Denver, US, June 2022
  • Weekly Interest Groups meetings
  • Joining National and Regional User Groups

Supporting the program with staff positions:

  • Dragan Ivanovic, VIVO Technical Lead
  • Michele Mennielli, Lyrasis Sr Global Strategist, spends 10% of his time supporting international membership and community engagement activities 
  • Laurie Arp, Director of DuraSpace Community Supported Programs, spends 16% of her time leading VIVO initiatives.

Responding to the needs of our community:

  • Moving the VIVO-DSpace Integration effort forward with the support of LYRASIS and both communities
  • Hosting the 2022 VIVO Conference online to provide easy access to our community members.
  • Entering into a Strategic Partnership with euroCRIS to work on the VIVO-CERIF mapping


Coming for VIVO and Our Community in 2023-2024

  • Continuation on the VIVO-DSpace integration project
  • Implementation of VIVO Dynamic API which will simplify VIVO extension with custom entry forms
  • Reengineering of the VIVO architecture
  • Improvements of performance with external graph storage and ingesting data
  • Support for faux data properties
  • Simplifying process of support new user interface language 
  • Publishing of minor releases in May 2023 (VIVO 1.14), and November 2023 (VIVO 1.15) should be in accordance with the Roadmap


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