A RoadMap Process for VIVO

Second, it serves the various constituents of the community. VIVO must serve end users, providing features that they can use in their daily work to advance scholarship. Data stewards and system administrators responsible for insuring local VIVO installations have quality data, and that the system accurately and effectively provides services to end-user must see improvement in VIVO relevant to their concerns.

And finally, technologists, including developers, ontologists and committers must have environments and tools that support their productivity and creativity in enhancing VIVO. In this poster we will present the VIVO roadmap process, describing its steps, its participants and the approach it takes to engaging the community and generating a prioritized set of features for future releases of VIVO.