Overview
VIVO is an enterprise class software system relying on numerous open source software components. Fundamentally, VIVO relies on Vitro (see below). VIVO adds a collection of ontologies (see Ontology Reference) to represent data about scholarship.
Vitro
Vitro can be built an operated independently of VIVO. VIVO is completely dependent on Vitro.
VIVO
VIVO is a customized Vitro. The table below shows how VIVO compares to Vitro.
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Component View
VIVO, with Vitro, as "made" out of components, including other open source software components. The figure below shows the various software components that are used in a VIVO/Vitro system.
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Additional Resources