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Exploring VIVO

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This page walks you through the VIVO interface after a successful deployment. It covers logging in, searching, browsing profiles, and using the site administration tools.

The examples below assume the Loading-Sample-Data has been loaded. On a fresh empty instance, search results will be empty until real or sample data is added.

Logging in

Navigate to https://<public-ip>/ and click Log in in the upper-right corner.

Field Value
Username The email address set as vivoAdminEmail at deployment
Password The password set as vivoAdminPassword at deployment

First login note: VIVO's built-in root user email is set in runtime.properties as rootUser.emailAddress. On this Marketplace deployment that value is pre-configured from the vivoAdminEmail parameter. You will be prompted to change the password on first login.

After logging in, the header shows your name and a Site Admin link becomes visible.

Navigating the interface

The VIVO header provides the main entry points:

Element Description
Search box Full-text search across all VIVO entities
Browse menus Browse by People, Organizations, Research, Events, etc.
Log in / name Authentication and profile access
Site Admin Administration panel (visible to site admins only)

The home page displays a summary of the data in your VIVO — counts of people, publications, and organizations.

Searching

The search box performs a full-text search across all indexed entities.

Try these queries with the sample data:

Query Expected results
Chemistry Department and related people and publications
Roberts Faculty members with that surname
Pringle A specific researcher profile
grant Funded projects and grants

Search results display the entity type (Person, Organization, Grant, etc.), a short description, and a link to the full profile.

Use filters on the left side of the results page to narrow by entity class (People, Publications, Organizations, etc.).

Browsing profiles

Person profile

Click on any person in search results to open their profile. A profile page shows:

  • Name, title, and institutional affiliation
  • Research areas and expertise keywords
  • Publications, grants, and awards
  • Co-authorship and collaborator connections
  • Teaching activities (courses, advising)

Organization profile

An organization page shows its members, sub-organizations, and associated grants and publications.

Verbose property display (admin)

When logged in as a site administrator, you can enable verbose property display on any profile to see the underlying RDF properties VIVO is using.

  1. Open any person or entity profile
  2. Click Turn On at the top of the page (next to "Verbose Property Display")
  3. Each field now shows its RDF property URI alongside its value
  4. Click Turn Off to return to normal view

This is useful for understanding how VIVO models scholarly data as a connected graph.

Editing an individual (admin)

From any profile page (while logged in as admin):

  1. Click Edit this individual in the Individual Control Panel
  2. You will see an internal view with:
    • Datatype properties: literal string values (name, title, email, etc.)
    • Object properties: links to other entities (member of, co-author with, etc.)
  3. Click the edit icon next to any property to modify it
  4. Changes are reflected immediately in the profile

Site Administration

The Site Admin panel (accessible from the header when logged in as admin) provides access to:

Section Description
Add/Remove RDF Data Load or delete RDF triples (N3, Turtle, RDF/XML)
Ingest Menu Harvest data from external sources
User Accounts Create and manage user accounts
Site Configuration Theme, contact info, and display settings
SPARQL Query Run SPARQL queries directly against the triplestore
Index Rebuild or check the Solr search index

Visualizations

VIVO includes built-in visualizations accessible from person and organization profiles:

  • Co-authorship network — graph of collaborators connected through shared publications
  • Publication timeline — chronological view of scholarly output
  • Geographic map — distribution of collaborators by location (when location data is present)

These are available under the Visualization tab on profile pages.

References

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