Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone had any comments on the http://www.vivoweb.org project and it's relationship ship to Drupal. VIVO in a nutshell, is a web application provides a semantic database that can be searched that contains information about scientists, their research interests, affiliations, publications, grants, etc. VIVO is in deployment at several universities and is being expanded through a $12.2m stimulus grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). see more at http://www.vivoweb.org/about/faq/about-project
It appears to be a java application that runs on Tomcat and used Jena/SDB as a triple store and apache lucene for searches. I've downloaded and looked at it, and it is amazing that they are using semantics for it, but, the application they have created to view and manipulate the RDF data needs a lot of work. Their security model is too simple and the editing screens jarring. No doubt they will work on it and it will improve it in the future.
That said, they have created their own rdf ontology for the VIVO project. --> http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core and I thought perhaps their ontology could be brought into Drupal (7) and the functionality of their application could be matched and surpassed quickly. The resulting application being compatible with the other VIVO sites since they would all talk the same ontology, as well as, the rest of the semantic web being RDF. The Drupal version of VIVO would then inherit the myriad of modules available in Drupal and far more robust CMS capabilities. Thoughts anyone?
Erich Bremer
erich@ebremer.com
http://www.ebremer.com