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+title: 'VIVO: a system for research discovery'
+tags:
+  - ontology
+  - semantic-web
+  - linked-data
+ - research-discovery
+  - open-scholarship
+  - linked-open-data
+  - open-science
+  - Java
+authors:
+ - name: Michael Conlon
+   orcid: 0000-0002-1304-8447
+   affiliation: 1
+ - name: Andrew Woods
+   orcid: 0000-0002-8318-4225
+   affiliation: 2
+ - name: Graham Triggs
+   orcid: 0000-0001-8530-8917
+   affiliation: "2, 3"
+ - name: Ralph O'Flinn
+   orcid: 0000-0003-4002-1335
+   affiliation: 5
+ - name: Muhammad Javed
+   orcid: 0000-0001-9770-7640
+   affiliation: 4
+ - name: Jim Blake
+   orcid: 0000-0002-2487-2554
+   affiliation: 4
+ - name: Benjamin Gross
+   orcid: 0000-0002-7908-1987
+   affiliation: "9, 10"
+ - name: Qazi Azim Ijaz Ahmad
+   orcid: 0000-0001-8959-6370
+   affiliation: 3
+ - name: Sabih Ali
+   orcid: 0000-0002-7140-8754
+   affiliation: 6
+ - name: Martin Barber
+   orcid: 0000-0001-7924-0741
+   affiliation: 3
+ - name: Don Elsborg
+   Orcid: 0000-0003-0100-716X
+   affiliation: 7
+ - name: Kitio Fofack 
+   orcid: 0000-0002-6187-4436
+   affiliation: 8
+ - name: Christian Hauschke
+   orcid: 0000-0003-2499-7741 
+   affiliation: 3
+ - name: Violeta Ilik
+   orcid: 0000-0003-2588-3084
+   affiliation: 11
+ - name: Huda Khan
+   orcid: 0000-0001-5156-4621
+   affiliation: 4
+ - name: Ted Lawless
+   orcid: 0000-0002-3287-5202
+   affiliation: "10, 12"
+ - name: Jacob Levernier
+   orcid: 0000-0003-1563-7314
+   affiliation: 13
+ - name: Brian Lowe
+   orcid: 0000-0002-8143-6345
+   affiliation: 14
+ - name: Jose Luis Martin
+   orcid:
+   affiliation: 15
+ - name: Steve McKay
+   orcid:
+   affiliation: 16
+ - name: Simon Porter
+   orcid: 0000-0002-6151-8423
+   affiliation: 6
+ - name: Tatiana Walther
+   orcid: 0000-0001-8127-2988
+   affiliation: 3
+ - name: Marijane White
+   Orcid: 0000-0001-5059-4132
+   affiliation: 17
+ - name: Stefan Wolff
+   orcid:
+   affiliation: 18
+ - name: Rebecca Younes
+   orcid:
+   affiliation: 4
+affiliations:
+ - name: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, US
+   index: 1
+ - name: Duraspace, Inc., Beaverton, OR, US
+   index: 2
+ - name: Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – German National Library of Science and Technology, Hannover, DE
+   index: 3
+ - name: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
+   index: 4
+ - name: University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, US
+   index: 5
+ - name: Digital Science, London, UK
+   index: 6
+ - name: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, US
+   index: 7
+ - name: Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, CA
+   index: 8
+ - name: UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder, CO, US
+   index: 9
+ - name: Clarivate Analytics, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, US
+   index: 10
+ - name: Columbia University, New York, NY, US
+   index: 11
+ - name: Brown University, Providence, RI, US
+   index: 12
+ - name: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, US
+   index: 13
+ - name: Ontocale SRL, Bucharest, RO
+   index: 14
+ - name: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, ES
+   index: 15
+ - name: Plum Analytics, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, US
+   index: 16
+ - name: Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, US
+   index: 17
+ - name: Sächsische Landesbibliothek Staats und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden, DE
+   index: 18
+date: 19 July 2018
+bibliography: paper.bib
+---
+
+# Summary
+
+VIVO [Pronunciation: vee-voh] is member-supported, enterprise open source 
+software and an ontology for representing scholarship.  VIVO supports recording, editing, 
+searching, browsing and visualizing scholarly activity. VIVO encourages research 
+discovery, expert finding, network analysis and assessment of research impact.  
+VIVO is easily extended to support additional domains of scholarly activity.
+
+VIVO uses an ontology to represent people, papers, grants, projects, datasets, resources,
+and other elements of research and scholarship as linked open data.  The ontology can
+be used to create RDF that can be loaded into VIVO.  VIVO RDF data is easily exported for
+use in other applications.
+
+VIVO includes Vitro, a domain-free engine for managing linked open data, the JFact 
+reasoner, SolR for search, SPARQL query, Jena as a triple store, supporting both TDB 
+and SDB on MySQL, uses D3 for visualizations, and provides multiple APIs, including
+Triple Pattern Fragments for rapid remote access to specified data.
+
+Using VIVO, organizations can represent the activities and accomplishments of their 
+scholars as linked open data, and share that data with others.
+
+# Acknowledgements
+
+The authors wish to acknowledge the foundational work done on VIVO, and VIVO concepts by 
+the team at the Mann Agricultural Library, Cornell University, led by Jon Corson-Rikert.  
+The authors also wish to acknowledge NIH grant 1U24RR029822-01 to the first author, which 
+funded the work of more than 120 co-investigators in the further development of the 
+VIVO software, and NIH grant xxxxxxx to Dr. Melissa Haendel of Oregon Health Science 
+University which funded significant advances in the VIVO Integrated Semantic Framework, 
+which VIVO uses to represent scholarship.  Finally, the authors wish to acknowledge the 
+many hundreds of members of the VIVO community around the world, who volunteer their 
+time and effort to advance the art of representing scholarship as linked open data. The 
+work described here builds on the work of many others.
+
+# References