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VIVO Release 1 V1.3 Installation Guide

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VIVO Release 1 V4 Installation Guide

- July 29, 2011 + December 9, 2011 - - - -

Release anouncement for V1.3

- VIVO Release 1.3 incorporates changes to the search - indexing, user accounts, menu management, ontology, and visualizations, and begins - integration of VIVO Harvester functions with VIVO's own ingest tools.
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Search

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- VIVO 1.3 will feature notable improvements to the local search, primarily to - improve relevance ranking but also to boost the influence of semantic relationships - in the search. This will improve recall by including text from related resources - (e.g., adding a person's grant and publication titles to his or her search entry) - and by boosting overall relevance ranking based on the number and nature of - connections from one individual to others. -

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- VIVO is now using Apache Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) in place of - Apache Lucene to improve indexing and faceting of search results. The migration - to Solr also aligns the local search with the VIVO multi-site search site under - development for release prior to the 2011 VIVO Conference. -

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Authorization

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- Release 1.3 provides an entirely new model of authorization within the - VIVO application to allow more granular control over system - configuration and editing. The first phase of the new user account - interface is included in V1.3. This interface provides a user search, a - root acount, and password reset functionality where the password gets - emailed to the user. The next phase will provide the ability to create - new roles. -

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Menu management

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- The menus across the top of the site (Home, People, Organizations, - Research, Events) can now be managed in a web form instead of editing - an RDF file. In addition to making site management much easier, - form-based editing also allows more control over what classes of data - are displayed and provides a mechanism to limit certain menu pages to - content identified as internal to the institution. -

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FreeMaker template improvements

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- While less directly visible to the public, version 1.3 also includes - additional changes focused directly on supporting open source community - involvement in extending and customizing VIVO. The development team - began a year ago to transition VIVO's code base away from Java Server - Pages to the FreeMarker page templating system that much more cleanly - separates internal application programming logic from page display. -

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Visualization

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- The visualization team has implemented a Map of Science visualization, - which allows users to visually explore the scientific strengths of a - university, school, department, or person in the VIVO instance. Users - will be able to see where an organization or person's interests lay - across 13 major scientific disciplines or 554 sub-disciplines, and will - be able to see how these disciplines and sub-disciplines interrelate - with one another on the map of science. Wireframes and design - documentation for upcoming enhanced versions of the Map of Science - visualization have already been developed; the Map of Science - visualization will most likely be in the form of a PDF that a user can - download. -

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- Several visualization also now provide a caching feature that improves - performance after the initial processing. -

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QR Codes

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- Pages for people in VIVO now have an icon for displaying QR codes to allow - capturing names and available contact information on mobile devices. -

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Harvester Integration

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- VIVO sites have the option with Release 1.3 of coordinating the configuration - of VIVO and the Harvester to enable many Harvester functions to be initiated - from the VIVO Ingest Tools menu in support of more unified and centralized - management for data ingest. -

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Ontology changes

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Linked open data

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- Responses to linked data requests have been enhanced to include - additional context about any individual, in working toward a goal of - being able to provide all the data in a person's profile available as - RDF via a single web request. -

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Installation process for V1.3

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Installation process for V1.4

This document is a summary of the VIVO installation process. This and other documentation can be found on the support page @@ -274,8 +157,8 @@ support websites.

- * Note that VIVO V1.2 or V1.3 will not run on older versions of MySQL that - may have worked with 1.1.1. Be sure to run VIVO 1.2 with MySQL 5.1 or + * Note that VIVO V1.4 will not run on older versions of MySQL that + may have worked with 1.1.1. Be sure to run VIVO 1.4 with MySQL 5.1 or higher. Using unsupported versions may result in strange error messages related to table formatting or other unexpected problems.

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- Download the VIVO application source as either rel-1.3.zip - or rel-1.3.gz + Download the VIVO application source as either rel-4.zip + or rel-1.4.gz file and unpack it on your web server:
http://vivoweb.org/download @@ -701,7 +584,7 @@ The number of grants and publications is large. - VIVO V1.3 mitigates this problem by the way of a caching + VIVO V1.4 mitigates this problem by the way of a caching mechanism and hence we can safely set this to be enabled by default.