1. VIVO architecture March 1, 2010

2. Major Components Vitro is a general-purpose Web-based application leveraging semantic standards VIVO is a customized Vitro application ▫Ontology ▫Look and feel VIVO is becoming a national network of RDF data sources

3. > Local and national VIVO local sources nat’l sources > share as RDF website data search browse visualize via http://www.vivoweb.org share as RDF search browse visualize Cornell Florida Indiana Ponce Scripps Wash U Weill Local National text indexing filtered RDF

4. VIVO Local VIVO components MySQL relational database MySQL relational database Jena Java RDF library Jena Java RDF library Tomcat Java servlet container Tomcat Java servlet container Vitro ontology editing | content editing | simple content management system Vitro ontology editing | content editing | simple content management system Apache web server Apache web server Java JavaServer Pages Java JavaServer Pages core ontology custom theme custom theme customization application delivery foundation Lucene Java search library Lucene Java search library Pellet reasoning engine

5. VIVO’s 3 functional layers Search and browse interface Editing Display, search and navigation setup Curator editing Ontology Editing Data ingest Data export curators ontology editing & data ingest end users

6. Local data flow (schematic) local systems of record national sources data ingest ontologies (RDF) data ingest ontologies (RDF) > > VIVO (RDF) VIVO (RDF) > shared as RDF interactive input interactive input

7. National data flow (schematic) local VIVO instances local VIVO instances 1 or more distributed national indexes 1 or more distributed national indexes full text search terminology enhanced search browse RDF external data sources analysis & visualization text indexing filtered RDF semantic search Lucene index semantic search engines text search engines