VIVO

VIVO is an extensible semantic web application for research discovery and showcasing scholarly work

Fork A fork of vivo-project/VIVO; the README may describe the upstream project.

Overview

VIVO is an open source semantic web tool for research discovery -- finding people and the research they do.

This fork adds capabilities inspired by the UK Research Knowledge Graph project:

Links to the three public pages are in the site footer (wilma theme), the dashboard has action buttons, and an "Ask VIVO" button sits beside the site search box. The ingest tool requires the Advanced Data Tools permission (log in as an admin).

The container now enforces vitro.local.solr.url (pointing at the vivo-solr service) on every start, so a stale runtime.properties pointing at localhost:8983 can no longer break startup with "Could not set up the Solr search engine".

An automatic PubMed harvest on startup can be enabled with ingest.pubmed.onStartup = true in runtime.properties (see example.runtime.properties for the related keys).

Known limitations of the fork additions:

From the project’s README on GitHub.

At a glance

Repository	Kentucky-Open-Science/VIVO
Research area	Forks of other projects
Primary language	Java
Languages	Java 48.4%, FreeMarker 22%, JavaScript 19.9%, CSS 7.6%, HTML 1.2%, Less 0.6%
License	BSD-3-Clause
Stars / forks	0 / 0
Open issues and pull requests	0
Created	2026-08-10
Last push	2026-08-10
Default branch	`main`
Homepage	http://vivoweb.org
Forked from	vivo-project/VIVO — VIVO is an extensible semantic web application for research discovery and showcasing scholarly work

What the README covers

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Get the code

git clone https://github.com/Kentucky-Open-Science/VIVO.git