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<h1>Some VIVO Things Blog</h1>
<p class="lead">Musings on the community, software, data, use, and whatever else comes to mind.</p>
<p class="lead">Musings on the ecosystem, community, software, data, use, and whatever else comes to mind.</p>
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terms. I have tried to provide citations for each term, recognizing that this will further lengthen the reading
for some. I felt it was better to address this topic in one post rather than break it in two. I hope that is
good for all.</i></p>
<p>The FAIR data principles (https://goo.gl/MFTfC6) developed by Force 11 (https://www.force11.org)
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/MFTfC6">The FAIR Data Principles</a> developed by
<a href="https://www.force11.org">Force 11</a>
are increasingly popular and provide a means for assessing whether data is being shared in a
useful manner for others.</p>
<p>VIVO sites produce data in the form of assertions about the connected graph of research and
scholarship. How does VIVO stack up against the FAIR data principles?</p>
<p>Findable. VIVO data is quite findable. VIVO includes schema.org tags (http://schema.org) on
its pages to improve search engine finding. VIVO has a registry of sites
(https://goo.gl/9Thaa8) with URLs for the sites. VIVO sites can participate in Direct2Experts
(http://direct2experts.org/), another finding tool. VIVO site data is aggregated by CTSAsearch
(https://goo.gl/Du3Fwn), yet another finding tool. OpenVIVO (http://openvivo.org) provides
its pages to improve search engine finding. VIVO has a
<a href="https://goo.gl/9Thaa8">registry of sites</a>
with URLs for the sites. VIVO sites can participate in
<a href="http://direct2experts.org/">Direct2Experts</a>, another finding tool. VIVO site data
is aggregated by <a href="https://goo.gl/Du3Fwn">CTSAsearch</a>, yet another finding tool.
<a href="http://openvivo.org">OpenVIVO</a> provides
its data as constantly updated text files on the web. These files are very easy to find using
a search engine (hint: search for "OpenVIVO data"). And with the addition of Triple Pattern
Fragments (TPF) (https://goo.gl/k1BtFQ), in the next release of VIVO, I expect additional tools
a search engine (hint: search for "OpenVIVO data"). And with the addition of
<a href="https://goo.gl/k1BtFQ">Triple Pattern
Fragments (TPF)</a>, in the next release of VIVO, I expect additional tools
to be developed to find VIVO data. The future is bright to further improve "find ability" of
VIVO data.</p>
<p>Accessible. If people can find your VIVO data, can they access it? The answer is yes. VIVO is
designed to share its data. Every page in VIVO can be accessed as HTML, which browsers use to
render the page for humans to read, and as RDF (https://www.w3.org/RDF/), a machine readable
render the page for humans to read, and as
<a href="https://www.w3.org/RDF/">Resource Description Framework (RDF)</a>, a machine readable
data format for computers to read. This is one of VIVO's strongest features, and one of its
biggest secrets. Programmers can access VIVO's data starting from almost any page in VIVO,
because VIVO provides a connected graph of scholarship and research. Starting at a person, one
can find papers, leading to co-authors. Starting at an organization, one can find people who
have positions in the organization. Starting at a grant, one can find the funding agency,
investigators, and so on. VIVO makes traversing the graph straightforward.</p>
<p>Additionally, sites may export their data to files accessible on the Internet, as OpenVIVO does,
or provide a SPARQL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL) endpoint. The TPF feature in the
or provide a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL">SPARQL</a> endpoint. The TPF
feature in the
next release of VIVO will make VIVO data even easier to access.</p>
<p>Interoperable. VIVO data, modeled using the VIVO ontology, is amazingly interoperable. Two sets
of VIVO data can be combined simply by putting them in the same file. No other work is needed.
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presenting the concepts underlying research areas of scholars, and subject areas of their
works.</p>
<p>Reusable VIVO data, modeled by the VIVO ontology, achieves the highest standards for
reusability. VIVO data is "Five Star Linked Data (https://goo.gl/GRN1RV)," a term coined by
Tim Berners-Lee. (https://goo.gl/rrjzmZ). VIVO data is 1) on the web; 2) machine readable
re-usability. VIVO data is "<a href="https://goo.gl/GRN1RV">Five Star Linked Data</a>," a term
coined by
<a href="https://goo.gl/rrjzmZ">Tim Berners-Lee</a>. VIVO data is 1) on the web; 2) machine
readable
structured data; 3) uses a non-proprietary format; 4) published using open W3C standards; and
5) links to other open data. Anyone on the Internet can reuse VIVO data.</p>
<p>And yet, there are things we can do to improve reusability. We can clarify the license under
<p>And yet, there are things we can do to improve re-usability. We can clarify the license under
which sites provide VIVO data, and provide that information with the data. We can clarify
where sites obtained their data and provide that information with the data. VIVO's current
practice is to "inherit" provenance information from the source providing the information --
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<h4>About VIVO</h4>
<p>VIVO is an open source, semantic web application for organizing information.
VIVO is often used by academic institutions to represent the scholarly work
<p>Vitro is an open source, semantic web application for organizing information.
VIVO is used by academic institutions to represent the scholarly work
of their faculty, staff and students. See <a href="http://vivoweb.org" class="btn
btn-xs btn-info">the
VIVO Project Web Site</a> for more info.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vivo.ufl.edu/individual/mconlon">Mike Conlon</a>,
2017. Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</p>
<><a href="http://vivo.ufl.edu/individual/mconlon">Mike Conlon</a>,
2017. Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License</a>.<br/>
VIVO is a project of <a href="http://duraspace.org">Duraspace</a>.
Visit the <a href="http://vivoweb.org">The VIVO Project Web Site</a> and <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO">The VIVO Wiki</a>
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