VIVO is an open source software and community that aims to facilitate research discovery by creating a platform to connect data about people, publications, funding, events, and more. It extracts and links this information using ontologies. VIVO generates HTML and RDF representations of the data to allow for presentation, search, and analysis tools like ScienceMap to examine collaborations. The VIVO community includes scientists, implementers, and developers who work to augment the data and develop new tools and visualizations to further research discovery goals.