Open Research Information at TIB

The Lab Open Research Information (LORI) pursues the goal of making information about research activities interoperable, findable, reusable and accessible in open infrastructures.

  • We foster a commons of open research information
  • We are committed to ethical and responsible handling of research information.
  • We are guided by the FAIR principles.
  • We promote open source software for handling research information.
  • We support knowledge organisations in presenting their scientific output.
  • We work with and on open standards for describing research information, such as CERIF or the Core Data Set for Research.
  • We connect experts from research and administration.

We consider ourselves as a competence centre for the open source software VIVO. Learn more about our commitment, our service portfolio and our developments and materials.

Introduction to VIVO (in German)

News

At the invitation of Dr. Leyla Jael Castro, Dragan Ivanovic, VIVO Tech lead, and Christian Hauschke, (TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology) gave a lecture on 20 March 2025 in the Research Seminar Series of ZB MED, in which they gave an overview of VIVO and its possibilities as…


Together with representatives from the ARL - Academy for Spatial Development and the ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, members of our team presented the open source research information system VIVO and invited participants to a hands-on session.


There are many terms that sound similar but have different meanings: Effectiveness and efficiency. Sympathy and empathy. In discourses on information science, the digitisation of science and research and currently in connection with the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, another…