API

An Application Program Interface (API) is a collection of programming routines and definitions for requesting data or actions from a piece of software, and receiving results from software.

DOI

Document Object Identifier. A Unique identifier assigned by the publisher of a work to unqiuely identify the work.

EISSN

Electronic ISSN. The ISSN for the electronic (on-line) version of a journal. See ISSN.

graph

The collection of triples representing the scholarship of an organization can be represented as a graph of nodes and arcs, where nodes represent entities and literal values, and arcs represent relationships between the nodes.

ISNI

The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a sixteen digit number assigned to persona and organizations in the publishing ecosystem. See isni.org

ISSN

International Standard Serial Number. An eight digit identifier assigned to each journal in the world to uniquely identify that journal. See issn.org

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a data format that is easy for machines and people to read and write. See JSON.org and the JSON Wikipedia Page

Ontology

"In computer science and information science, an ontology is a formal naming and definition of the types, properties, and interrelationships of the entities that really or fundamentally exist for a particular domain of discourse." Wikipedia

VIVO uses several ontologies in common use on the semantic web, as well as VIVO-ISF, an ontology for scholarship, developed for use with VIVO.

Orcid

The Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier. A sixteen digit number assigned to a researcher for the purpose of uniquely identifying that researcher in the scholarly publishing ecosystem. See orcid.org

Python

Python is a popular programming language for scientific, graphical and text programming. See python.org

Pump

The VIVO Pump is python software for adding, removing and updating data in VIVO using spreadsheets.

RDF

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a way to represent information that is useful for machines. RDF uses triples to represent information.

Semantic Web

The semantic web is an effort to provide open data in standard formats for reuse at web scale.

Triples

RDF represents data using triples of the form

subject predicate object

Each element of the triple is defined to be a URI or a literal value. Using triples represented using RDF, and ontologies that provide standard meaning for the elements of the triples, VIVO can represent scholarship in a scalable, sharable, well-defined, way.

Triple Store

A triple store is a database designed to manage triples.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator. An address that can be used on the Internet to uniquely identify a resource.

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier. A pattern that can be used to uniquely identify a resource. All URL are URI, but not all URI identify resources on the the network. Some URI are designed for internal or off-line use.

VIVO

VIVO is an open source, semantic web software system for creating and maintaining an integrated view of the scholarly work of an organization. See the VIVO Home Page

VIVO Vagrant

Vagrant is software for providing a self-contained computing environment on your machine. VIVO Vagrant is a full featured VIVO that runs in a Vagrant environment.

VIVO-ISF

The VIVO Integrated Semantic Framework, the ontology used by VIVO to represent scholarship.