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About VIVOVIVO, the Virtual Life Sciences Library, brings together in one site all library resources that support the Cornell New Life Sciences Initiative. VIVO also serves as a curated index to life science research, facilities, and instruction at Cornell, and to selected external resources. Search VIVO for information about courses, genomics services, faculty, departments, undergraduate majors, graduate fields --- anything related to the Life Sciences at Cornell. VIVO is currently in pilot release and may be missing significant content or relationships. Please contact us with any corrections, comments or suggestions for improvement. VIVO is a project of the Life Sciences Working Group in the Cornell Libraries. VIVO runs on the Vitro ontology editor and semantic web application software. The October, 2003 presentation Ontologies for Open Ended Web Resources describes the original VIVO motivations, design, and goals. Please contact Jon Corson-Rikert in Mann Library with any questions about the VIVO ontology or the web site implementation. |
AcknowledgementsMany aspects of the visual organization of this application's pages and interface controls were inspired by and adapted from the University of Washington Healthlinks web site, especially the Bioresearcher Portal curated by Mark Minie. The underlying structure of this application is an ontology most closely adapted from the AKT reference ontology, developed by the Advanced Knowledge Technologies project, winner of the Semantic Web Challenge 2003. VIVO extensions to this ontology have been based in part on concepts from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' report on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, and from the Harmony Project as reported in ABC: A Logical Model for Metadata Interoperability. |
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