Multi-institutional Search
The vivosearch.org prototype
The VIVO project has developed tools to support the creation of search indexes spanning multiple sites and established a website at http://vivosearch.org for demonstrating this capability, using the open source Drupal content management system and the Apache Solr search engine.
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- Linked Data Indexer - Brian Caruso
- vivosolr - Miles Worthington
Plans and opportunities
The vivosearch.org site demonstrates several key principles that the VIVO project believes are important for providing an effective multi-site searching solution.
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As the VIVO community evolves from a grant-funded project to an official DuraSpace incubator project, the future of vivosearch.org will factor prominently among the issues to be addressed by principal parties involved, and input is welcome from any quarter. The alignment of VIVO with DuraSpace was announced in a July, 2012 press release and detailed more fully in an October, 2012 prospectus.
Technical Status
What is compatible data?
The VIVO multi-institutional search is predicated on harvesting and indexing RDF compatible with the VIVO ontology beginning with version 1.3. We do not believe that subsequent changes to the ontology since version 1.3 have been significant enough to require changes to the indexer, but this will need to be confirmed with every new VIVO release.
The vivosearch.org site demonstrates that Harvard Profiles produces linked data compatible with VIVO
How does that data need to be made available to the linked data indexer?
Operational and Support Requirements
Service Opportunities
Background
NIH program mandate with respect to centralized infrastructure:
The VIVO project was funded from September, 2009 - August, 2012 by the National Institutes of Health under the terms of the Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Enabling National Networking of Scientists and Resource Discovery (U24). The terms of the RFA specifically discouraged reliance on a centralized infrastructure:
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