The VIVO "rich export" functionality was developed by Stella Mitchell, then at Cornell, to complement the Digital Vita Docs (DV Docs) for VIVO mini-grant work conducted in 2011 at the University of Pittsburgh.
Rich export is designed to provide a means of executing one or more pre-defined queries via a URL within the VIVO application in order to receive the results in a form consumable by another application.
The DV Docs mini-grant developed a means of exporting a full CV for a person. The DV Docs library takes the results from VIVO, transforms them into XML, and converts the data into rich text (RTF) format or a PDF.
The rich export queries involved may be useful in other contexts.
