Overview

VIVO, and Vitro, its underlying technology, are open and flexible.  There is significant opportunity to extend VIVO and/or Vitro to accommodate the needs of your institution.  No extensions are needed – VIVO contains a comprehensive information representation for scholarship.  Vitro provides a general purpose platform for semantic data management.

Some of the topics in this section are very common – most sites want to local their branding, many sites use external authentication, and many sites use VIVO in languages other than english.  Other topics are more advanced and less common – creating custom editing forms, for example.a

Take what you need and leave the rest.