Membership in the VIVO Project. Is your institution a member of Duraspace, providing financial support to VIVO? You can find a list of financial supporters of VIVO here. Is your institution not on the list? It's easy to become a member. Membership starts at just $2500. Your institution can easily become a member. Just follow this link to support VIVO. Membership dollars support staff coordinating efforts of the project, including the efforts leading to improved software and documentation. Your support enables travel and presentations by VIVO to the world community of scholarship and participation by VIVO in efforts to improve the scholarly ecosystem. The VIVO project depends on its members to move the project forward. If your institution is already a member, we thank you and greatly value your support. If your institution is not a member, please consider starting a conversation within your institution regarding becoming a member.
SPARQL endpoint. One of the great advantages of VIVO is its ability to share data through the use of a SPARQL endpoint. You can establish a SPARQL endpoint to accompany your VIVO, supporting the sharing of data to people visiting your endpoint to run SPARQL queries. For an example of such an endpoint, see http://sparql.vivo.ufl.edu at the University of Florida. The UF SPARQL end point uses Fuseki, an Apache Project tool for serving RDF via the web. UF has a database synchronization between Fuseki and VIVO, ensuring the VIVO data is always up to date as served by Fuseki. There was a good discussion and review of Fuseki and its use with VIVO on the tech list this week. You can follow the thread here. For documentation on using Fuseki with VIVO, see Setting up a VIVO SPARQL Endpoint in the VIVO wiki.
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Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
