VIVO is an open source, semantic-web tool for research and scholarship discovery. Emerging tools enable participants to visualize research activity, discover linkages between people, programs, funding, scholarly works, events and more.

When VIVO is installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information.

Content in any local VIVO installation may be maintained manually, brought in to VIVO in automated ways from local systems of record, such as HR, grants, course, and faculty activity databases, or from database providers such as publication aggregators and funding agencies.

Installation guide

http://www.vivoweb.org/support/user-guide/installation

Upcoming and Recent Events

VIVO 2013 Conference

The 4th Annual VIVO Conference will be held in St. Louis on August 14 to 16. See the VIVO 2013 Conference web site for more information.

VIVO 2013 Implementation Fest

The 2013 Implementation Fest was hosted at the University of Colorado in Boulder on April 25 & 26. Any session slides or other materials and notes that will be shared will be linked on 2013 VIVO Implementation Fest wiki page.

Release Announcements

VIVO 1.5.1 Release Announcement October 15, 2012 (and earlier releases)

VIVO Source Code on GitHub

https://github.com/vivo-project

Release Planning

VIVO 1.6 Release Planning (and earlier releases)

VIVO Ontology v1.6 Planning

Getting Involved

We're building the VIVO Community, as a number of institutions, organizations and individuals outside of the VIVO Grant are getting involved. Here is how you can get more involved.

Anyone may read this wiki (and the accompanying JIRA issue tracker)
Anyone may sign up for an account on this wiki (and the accompanying JIRA issue tracker)
Want to be more involved? Get a connection to the project.

New Here?

New to VIVO and/or the VIVO Wiki? Scroll through the information and take a look at how you might learn more and get involved in the software, projects, implementation efforts and more.

Semantic Web Developers

VIVO is a Java Enterprise application built around the Jena Semantic Web Framework.
Here is some information to help you find your way around the code base.

SPARQL is the query language for semantic data. SPARQL Resources will help you get started and provide you with basic queries.

Ontologists

Scientists, Faculty, Researchers

Librarians, Research Administrators, Communications and Outreach Providers

Are you tasked with introducing VIVO to your community? You might find the resources in the Learning about VIVO section of interest. Here you'll find support information such as VIVO Benefits which discusses how different stakeholders can leverage VIVO and VIVO data, VIVO FAQs that have been raised during local outreach presentations, conferences, and emails to project members, and a Semantic Web resources to help you learn about the semantic web, linked open data, and more.

Join us on the biweekly Adoption and Outreach Call which offers an opportunity to ask questions, share information and connect with the larger VIVO community on issues related to policy, outreach and adoption, material and strategy development and so on.

Notes from VIVO Global Call  at 4 pm EST Wednesday, February 20

This call brought the North American VIVO community together with representatives from the European, Central American, and Asia Pacific community to hear about the Research Profiles Conference 2013 held February 18 in Melbourne. For details and topics discussed please see the agenda and call-in information page

Institutions Implementing or Evaluating VIVO

Institutions Participating in the 2009-2012 VIVO Grant

Cornell VIVO

IU VIVO

Ponce VIVO

Scripps VIVO

UF VIVO

WUSTL VIVO

 

 

Public VIVO Implementations

please add your institution's VIVO as it becomes public

VIVO Implementations In Progress

Map of VIVO projects we know about – tell us about yours!

Many institutions run VIVO behind a campus firewall during an evaluation or initial data population and review phase, so public links to their VIVO instances are not yet available.  In addition, not all implementations mature into production projects. You may reach many of these via the VIVO implementation mailing list.

Other implementation resources

Getting in Touch

If your questions or concerns are not answered by this wiki, here is how to best reach someone on the VIVO Team.

Contact the VIVO Team.

Please find information about communicating with us.

Attending a conference? Check the Upcoming Events table to connect with VIVO colleagues in the US and around the world.

Calendars