The following sections describe the various functional aspects of VIVO

Online Access

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All content is indexed using Solr - a popular open source search platform built on Lucence.

Navigation

VIVO provides simple navigation through menus which lead to lists of various types of entities – people, organizations, research.  An Index provides access to lists of all types of entities.  The Capability Map provides a graphical method for finding people by concepts.

Optimisations for Google Indexing

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VIVO creates standard HTML and CSS that can be used in all modern browsers. Visualisations are mostly built using D3 - a standard JavaScript library - which allows them to be viewed even on mobile devices.

Getting

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Data into VIVO

Manual Data Entry

All screens in VIVO can provide for data entry, for users logged in with sufficient access. There are numerous roles that VIVO provides - from administrators that can edit any of the data in the system, to self editor privileges for users so that they can edit their own profile and related information.

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Automated Data Entry

 It is possible to add data to VIVO using automated tools. VIVO provides a SPARQL update endpoint, which can be used by external tools to manipulate the data, or the VIVO Harvester provides a means to acquire and transform data, and load it directly into the triple store.

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