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VIVO has now partnered with DuraSpace to chart a path forward as an open, self-sustaining community with working groups, a management team, executive committee, and sponsors committeetask forces, a steering group, and a leadership group. Working groups will continue the strong community-driven efforts on ontology, implementation, core development, and engagement with a new group focusing on apps and tools complementing VIVO.
Decentralized infrastructure with local control
NIH believed firmly in In funding the VIVO and eagle-i initiatives that a top-heavy, centralized infrastructure was not the way to go.
For more information
View the slides and/or video recordings of the Spring, 2013 DuraSpace Community Webinar Series Five: VIVO -- Research Discovery & Networking
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2009-2012 VIVO project, the National Institutes of Health stated clearly that it was "interested in distributed or federated approaches to both research networking and resource discovery with local control of information sources." We believe local control is key to information quality, stewardship, and long-term sustainability for research networking efforts in the U.S. and around the world.
next: what's different about on to part 2 of the Tour: what's different about VIVO?
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