VIVO Scholar Diagram-02.pngVIVO Scholar is under development. The beta version is planned to be released in spring of 2020.
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The VIVO Scholar Task Force addresses one of the goals in the Product Direction for 2019, "Modernize the Presentation Layer," which is a priority for many existing and prospective VIVO implementers. VIVO Scholar builds on the work of the Product Evolution Task Force, employing many of the ideas and technologies explored by that group. VIVO Scholar is also informed by the work of participants in the Architectural Fly-in Meeting held in January 2019.
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VIVO Scholar consists of these components:
- A Spring Data middleware component, Scholars Discovery which includes:
- Data from the existing VIVO implementation
- A Solr index
- A GraphQL endpoint to provide an easy, developer-friendly mechanism for obtaining VIVO data (see video for interacting with GraphQL interface)
- The VIVO Scholar site, a read-only user interface that displays public profiles, provides a faceted search, and enables users to browse VIVO data
- The VIVO Scholar interface will conform with the Worldwide Web Consortium Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0, Level AA Conformance (WCAG 2.0 Level AA)
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Goals
VIVO Scholar is being designed to be:
- Fast–-when loading pages and when retrieving VIVO data in near real-time
- Developer-friendly so it's easy to implement and customize
- Attractive and modern
- Responsive to many devices and accessible for users with disabilities
- Fully supportive of multiple languages
Existing VIVO implementations can:
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- At Duke, almost 85% of faculty have department profiles using VIVO data.
- Faculty and staff are very motivated to update their local websites, which updates VIVO.
- Widgets save web developers significant time by re-using data with little development effort.
- VIVO provides an institutional workflow for faculty to update their data in one place. "Update once, use everywhere."Using GraphQL, data is updated when VIVO is updated, nearly in real time.
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What’s the difference between VIVO and VIVO Scholar?
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Some components of VIVO Scholar will be are available for testing in December 2019exploring now, including the Scholars Discovery middleware and the GraphQL endpoint. The beta version of VIVO Scholar will be ready in April June 2020. The production version depends on the community; we'll need help testing and implementing the beta version in order to refine it for production. For more info, please see our Development plans page. Keep up with progress by checking out the demo VIVO Scholar at http://vivo-scholars-scholars.cloud.duke.edu.
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Will VIVO Scholar replace VIVO?
No, VIVO is not going away. If accepted by the community, VIVO Scholar will join the VIVO Project’s suite of applications for representing scholarship, any of which can be used together or separately. All of these applications will continue to be upgraded and enhanced to meet the diverse needs of the VIVO community:
VIVO represents scholars and their scholarship using the VIVO ontology and Vitro.
Vitro is a general-purpose, semantic web platform that can create web pages using any ontology -- for example, to show items in a collection of artifacts.
The VIVO ontology, with components from related ontologies, represents scholars and scholarship as a collection of RDF triples. The VIVO ontology can be used with any ontology-based software and any triple store.
VIVO Scholar (under development) will display scholarly profiles with data maintained in VIVO and simplify sharing VIVO data with other websites and systems.