VIVO Documentation
Old Release
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Overview
VIVO is built on a foundation of Vitro.
Vitro is an open source, general purpose, semantic web engine. Vitro has no domain knowledge. Given ontologies regarding a domain, Vitro supports the editing of the ontology, creation of individuals, management of individuals on "pages" which it generates, organization of individuals into "class groups," indexing, search, faceted browsing, query, import, and export.
VIVO is Vitro with an ontology for representing scholarship, and a set of displays and visualizations that support the use of data for expert finding, team building, assessment, and other VIVO use cases.
Software view
The arrangement of software in VIVO/Vitro is show below.
Component View
VIVO, with Vitro, as "made" out of components, including other open source software components. The figure below shows the various software components that are used in a VIVO/Vitro system.