VIVO Features
See the Magic of VIVO
Your VIVO can be automatically populated with information from many different verified sources, allowing you link a great variety of data and metadata and to transform them into meaningful information.
Visualize the Research Landscape
Quickly evaluate the nature of research in a particular topic at your institution.
Water-Related Research at Texas A&M
This image represents a map of water-related research at Texas A&M across Agriculture, Climate, Aquatic Systems, Energy, Materials and Drinking subtopics. Relationships across publications and researcher profiles serve as the basis for the visualization.
Connect People
Visualize researchers' collaborations across publications to understand which connections already exist surface new opportunities for collaboration.
UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Explore collaborations on awarded grants to understand which teams work well and where connections need to be strengthened.
UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Examine the network of professional connections generated across graduate students and their thesis advisors.
IBICT (Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia)
CREATE YOUR RESEARCHERS AND SCHOLARS PAGES
You can easily see the strengths of your scholars and researchers, looking at their research areas of expertise, the production and outcome.
TIB VIVO - Scholar page
FULL LIST OF FEATURES
Enterprise application
VIVO is a full enterprise application, capable of showcasing the work of institutions of all sizes. More than 150 sites in 25 countries use VIVO to provide consistent, open, shared information regarding the work of their scholars.
BUILT-IN QUERY ENGINE
VIVO supports SPARQL, the industry standard for querying triple stores. Using SPARQL, queries can be developed and executed to meet any data retrieval requirement.
BUILT-IN ONTOLOGY EDITOR
VIVO includes the Vitro Ontology editor, supporting the management of all ontologies used in VIVO, including the ability to add classes, properties, and organize elements as needed to support local extensions to the VIVO data models.
API
The VIVO SPARQL API supports authorized querying and updating of the VIVO triple store from an application. Using the API, developers can access all VIVO data
TOOLS / PLUGINS / THEMING
The VIVO community produces and supports a wide variety of tools for managing and using VIVO data. VIVO supports the OpenSocial framework for web plug-ins. VIVO is easily themed to meet the branding requirements of your institution.
Permissions
VIVO allows you to control permissions at the individual level, including support for proxy access. Profile information can be managed by the scholar, or the scholar’s designate.
Semantic Web
VIVO is a semantic web application. Its data is represented using a common, extensible data model consisting of ontologies and controlled vocabularies, providing a high degree of transparency and simplifying access and sharing of data. VIVO supports RDF in NT, N3, and TTL formats.
BUILT-IN SEARCH ENGINE
VIVO includes Apache Solr. Solr is an enterprise search server providing fault-tolerant, reliable, scalable, faceted access to VIVO data.
Inference Engine
The Vitro inference engine computes inferences from the ontology and maintains them in an inference graph, streamlining the creation of triples for all VIVO entities.
Visualizations
VIVO includes an extensive collection of visualizations of scholarly activity, including co-author and co-funded network visualizations, a map of science at the personal, departmental, or institutional level, and a capability map for inspecting the connections of scholars and concepts.
Sign On
VIVO supports OAuth, Shibboleth and application sign-on technologies, integrating with the institutional identity management and access strategy.
Languages
VIVO is internationalized and available in many languages.