VIVO (software)
{{Short description|Web-based software for scholarly metadata}}
{{Infobox software
| name = VIVO
| author = Cornell University Library
| latest release version = 1.15.0
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2024|7|15|df=yes}}
| programming language = Java, Web Ontology Language
| license = Apache License
| website = {{URL|www.vivoweb.org/}}
| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO}}
}}
VIVO is a web-based, open-source suite of computer software for managing data about researchers, scientists, and faculty members. VIVO uses Semantic Web techniques to represent people and their work. As of 2020, it is used by dozens of universities and the United States Department of Agriculture.{{cite web|title=VIVO|url=http://www.vivoweb.org/|website=vivoweb.org|access-date=21 January 2020|language=en}}
History
The Cornell University Library originally created VIVO in 2003 as a "virtual life sciences community".{{cite journal|last1=Devare|first1=Medha|last2=Corson-Rikert|first2=Jon|last3=Caruso|first3=Brian|last4=Lowe|first4=Brian|last5=Chiang|first5=Kathy|last6=McCue|first6=Janet|title=VIVO: Connecting People, Creating a Virtual Life Sciences Community|journal=D-Lib Magazine|date=2007|volume=13|issue=7/8|url=http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july07/devare/07devare.html|access-date=21 January 2020|doi=10.1045/july2007-devare|doi-access=free}} In 2009, the National Institutes of Health awarded a $12.2 million grant to University of Florida, Cornell University, Indiana University, Ponce School of Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, and Weill Cornell Medical College to expand the tool for use outside of Cornell.{{cite journal|last1=García-Milian|first1=Rolando|last2=Norton|first2=Hannah F.|last3=Auten|first3=Beth|last4=Davis|first4=Valrie I.|last5=Holmes|first5=Kristi L.|last6=Johnson|first6=Margeaux|last7=Tennant|first7=Michele R.|title=Librarians as Part of Cross-Disciplinary, Multi-institutional Team Projects: Experiences from the VIVO Collaboration|journal=Science & Technology Libraries|date=April 2013|volume=32|issue=2|pages=160–175|doi=10.1080/0194262X.2013.791183|pmc=3700548|pmid=23833333}}
Data ingest
VIVO can harvest publication data from PubMed, CSV files, relational databases, or OAI-PMH harvest. It then uses a semi-automated process to match publications to researchers.{{cite book|last1=Barnes|first1=Chris|last2=Williams|first2=Stephen|last3=Sposato|first3=Vincent|last4=Skaggs|first4=Nicholas|last5=Raum|first5=Narayan|last6=Corson-Rikert|first6=Jon|last7=Caruso|first7=Brian|last8=Blake|first8=Jim|editor1-last=Börner|editor1-first=Katy|editor2-last=Conlon|editor2-first=Michael|editor3-last=Corson-Rikert|editor3-first=Jon|editor4-last=Ding|editor4-first=Ying|title=VIVO : a semantic approach to scholarly networking and discovery|date=2012|publisher=Morgan & Claypool|location=[San Rafael, Calif.]|isbn=9781608459933|chapter=Extending VIVO}} It also harvests information about researchers from Human Resources systems and student information systems.{{cite web|title=About VIVO|url=http://vivoweb.org/info/about-vivo|website=vivoweb.org|access-date=21 January 2020}}
Ontology
The VIVO ontology incorporates elements of several established ontologies, including Dublin Core, Basic Formal Ontology, Bibliographic Ontology, FOAF, and SKOS. The ontology can be used to describe several roles of faculty members, including research, teaching, and service.{{cite conference|last1=Ding|first1=Ying|last2=Mitchell|first2=Stella|last3=Corson-Rikert|first3=Jon|last4=Lowe|first4=Brian|last5=He|first5=Bing|title=The VIVO Ontology: Enabling Networking of Scientists|date=2011|url=http://www.websci11.org/fileadmin/websci/Posters/170_paper.pdf|access-date=21 January 2020}}
The Dutch Data Archiving and Networked Services and Indiana University worked to develop the ontology to enable bilingual modeling of researchers.{{cite journal|last1=Chambers|first1=Tamy|last2=Shah|first2=Sahil|last3=Urankar|first3=Ashish|last4=Kalyan|first4=Venkat|last5=Scharnhorst|first5=Andrea|last6=Reijnhoudt|first6=Linda|last7=Rideour|first7=Laura|last8=Guéret|first8=Christophe|last9=Ding|first9=Ying|title=Bilingual researcher profiles: Modeling Dutch researchers in both English and Dutch using the VIVO ontology|journal=Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology|date=2013|volume=50|issue=1|pages=1–4|doi=10.1002/meet.14505001137|doi-access=free}}