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Welcome to the RIALTO technology wiki!

What is this space?

This is a space for confirmed technical documentation and specifications for building out the RIALTO system.

What is RIALTO?

It is a scholarship & research output and impact data aggregator and dashboard for the campus to use. At core, RIALTO is a Stanford researcher social graph.

RIALTO is a multi-phase project. This first phase and related development work cycle (started in 2018 April) focuses on data aggregation, normalization, enhancements, and publication (either for programmatic use or a web UI). Later phases may look into more web UI reports and visualizations, faculty or entity profiles, a data aggregation pipeline administrative interface, and adding new or enhanced data sources.

Technically, RIALTO is a data aggregation system leveraging a data ETL pipeline, a canonical datastore system based on a triplestore with a subset of the VIVO-ISF ontology as RDF, and a simple web application serving up basic search and view functionalities of that data.

What is not RIALTO?

• At least in the short-term, a SDR researcher / depositor analytics dashboard.
• An SDR Authorities management space. This will be a different system influenced by this work.
• At least in the short to mid-term, a faculty research profiles web application.

Other RIALTO working docs

• RIALTO PO's Google drive
• RIALTO Consul Space
• Kick-off meeting promises list