abstract
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VIVO is an open source, open ontology research discovery platform for hosting information about people and their interests, activities, and accomplishments. VIVO facilitates integration of science through simple, standard semantic web technologies. Funded by the NIH (U24 RR029822), this application showcases scholars’ interests, activities and accomplishments in order to enable interdisciplinary research. VIVO harvests public data from trusted sources, at the personal level (e.g. bibliographic data from RefWorks), institutional level (e.g. sponsored research awards and human resources data) and beyond (e.g. PubMed), and links them to investigator profiles and each other. Grants, scholarly works, people, datasets and research resources are linked within and across institutions. This linked set of structured data provides a foundation for search, navigation and research discovery across domains. The VIVO software and ontology are publicly available on SourceForge ( http://vivo.sourceforge.net). The implementation of VIVO at UF involves integration of position data (HR, PeopleSoft), courses taught (Office of the Registrar, ISIS), photos (Business Services Division, Gator1), publications (PubMed and Thomson-Reuters Web of Science) and grant awards (Division of Sponsored Research local systems). VIVO provides a fundamental information infrastructure for emerging applications including faceted cross-site search, vitae production, collaborator visualizations and expert finding.