VIVO Research Profiles
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VIVO: Connect, Discover, Share — open source research profiling on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, ready on Azure.
Deploy VIVO Research Profiles in minutes, not weeks. A single guided Azure Marketplace wizard is all it takes — no Java, Solr, RDF triplestore, or Nginx expertise required. Your institution's research profiling platform arrives fully configured, security-hardened, and ready for data ingestion from the first login.
Built around Connect, Discover, and Share, VIVO Research Profiles is open source software adopted by 150+ universities and research institutions in 25+ countries worldwide. VIVO creates an actionable, connected map of your organization's scholarly work — enabling research discovery, expert finding, network analysis, and research impact assessment.
The complete stack is pre-installed and integrated on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: VIVO 1.16.0 on Apache Tomcat, Apache Solr for full-text search, Jena TDB1 RDF triplestore for semantic data storage, Nginx with TLS 1.2+, and built-in internationalization (i18n) for multilingual deployments (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese). Admin credentials, RDF namespace, and interface language are configured at deployment time via ARM template parameters — no hardcoded credentials, no post-install configuration.
Why Choose VIVO on Azure
- Zero-to-production in minutes — no Java, Solr, RDF triplestore, or Nginx expertise needed; the full stack arrives pre-integrated, security-hardened, so your team focuses on research data, not DevOps
- Boost worldwide visibility of your institution's research expertise among media, funding agencies, government bodies, and international partners — opening doors to grants and strategic collaborations
- Uncover collaboration opportunities — identify experts, collaborators, and mentors through visual network analysis of co-authorship relationships
- Make data-informed decisions with publication timelines, research topic word clouds, and geographic collaboration maps
- Connect to external data sources — automatically link institutional profiles with ORCID, funding agencies, and publication aggregators into a single connected knowledge graph
- Participate in the open science ecosystem — retain full data ownership, avoid vendor lock-in (BSD license, LYRASIS community governance), and leverage global semantic web standards
- Low total cost of ownership — no dedicated DevOps or Java stack specialist required after deployment; routine operations (backups, TLS renewal, scaling) follow standard Azure practices, keeping ongoing administration costs predictable and accessible to any IT team
AI-Ready, FAIR by Design, and Digitally Sovereign
- FAIR research data — VIVO natively supports the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable): structured RDF profiles with persistent identifiers (ORCID, DOI), a live SPARQL endpoint, standard ontologies (VIVO-ISF, OWL), and open linked data exports
- Foundation for AI and RAG pipelines — VIVO's semantic knowledge graph can feed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows, contextual expert search, and LLM-powered research assistants, using structured institutional data as a trusted, curated source
- Digital sovereignty — all data, models, and configurations remain exclusively within your Azure tenant; no external SaaS dependency, no data leaves your jurisdiction, giving institutions full control over their research information assets
Who Benefits
- Researchers and faculty — build individual visibility, link grants and publications, find collaborators and funding opportunities
- Research administrators and VPs — data-informed visibility into institutional research strengths, collaboration networks, and impact
- Library and research IT teams — guided Marketplace wizard, full documentation, and a pre-hardened stack cut time-to-value from weeks to minutes; ongoing maintenance reduced to routine Azure operations
- Students and trainees — find mentors, research groups, seminars, and opportunities across your institution
Get Started
Follow the step-by-step Deployment Guide to deploy VIVO from the Azure Marketplace. The guide covers all configuration parameters for your institution's RDF namespace, languages, and admin account. After deployment, your VIVO instance is immediately accessible over HTTPS — ready to ingest data, connect to ORCID, and onboard users.
