Original posted on confluence.cornell.edu
Release 1 Version 1.0
The VIVO project is pleased to announce the first public release of VIVO since the announcement of the NIH award "VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists" (U24 RR029822). VIVO includes code and documentation from the three development sites on the project - Cornell University, University of Florida, and Indiana University Bloomington - both in the release package itself and on the project website at http://www.vivoweb.org/support. The version 1.0 ontology and documentation also reflect feedback from the additional implementation sites for the project.
The major new feature in this release is the ability of VIVO installations to respond to requests for RDF data following linked data standards (http://linkeddata.org). Sharing content from VIVO as RDF data and not just as human-readable web pages will permit integration across multiple VIVO sites for the project itself, and also enables VIVO data to interoperate on the Semantic Web with an increasing number of other important data sets, especially in the biomedical and life sciences.
This release also incorporates new features and documentation to enable the upgrade of existing installations of VIVO at the seven partner institutions with minimal local effort. Important new work by the semantic development team supports migration of each site's VIVO database to reflect changes in the ontology underlying the VIVO software. The project has placed a high priority on being able to evolve the core VIVO ontology to support new and modified data elements and relationships, while also continuing to allow sites to extend the ontology for local requirements.
This 1.0 release also includes significant improvements to the editing interface, especially to combine several closely-related data elements on single, more intuitive editing forms. We anticipate continued evolution of important editing features as well as local branding and display customization features in the coming months. Feedback from implementation sites will be instrumental in shaping the priorities for improvements.
With this release, the VIVO application is being made publicly available as an open-source project under the BSD Software License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php); the VIVO 1.0 ontology is also publicly available for evaluation and comment through http://www.vivoweb.org/download.
Vivoweb.org also serves as the public home for information about the project, technical and user documentation, contact information, and software downloads.
