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Background Materials

Semantic Web Background Materialsprimer lists some key references for the core technologies used on the semantic web, and in the VIVO software.

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• VIVO Stack is the collection of software components from the project and beyond that make up a running VIVO system.
• VITRO Vitro is the semantic web tool kit and ontology editor that provides a foundation for VIVO
• VIVO Core are the central applications that make a particular instance of VIVO work
• VIVO Harvester is a semantic web extract-translate-load (ETL) tool for getting data from source systems and providing it to VIVO.
• VIVO Visualizations provide visual display of VIVO data
• VIVO Connectors provide access to VIVO data to external software
• VIVO Mini-Grant Projects are additional efforts to provide additional functionality for VIVO. Some software will become part of the VIVO core, while other projects will result in stand-alone applications that use VIVO as a supporting data infrastructure.
• Virtual Appliances provide easy-to-install instances of VIVO for development and testing purposes