Overview
VIVO uses a collection of ontologies to represent scholarship. The Integrated Semantic Framework ontology modules for VIVO (the VIVO-ISF ontology) provide a set of types (classes) and relationships (properties) to represent researchers and the full context in which they work. Content in any local VIVO installation may be maintained manually, brought into VIVO in automated ways from local systems of record, such as HR, grants, course, and faculty activity databases, or from database providers such as publication aggregators and funding agencies. Additional ontologies provide context and meaning for attributes and entities defined in VIVO-ISF.
VIVO ontology is maintained by OpenRIF and is available here.
Figures included here are created and maintained by Mike Conlon based on original concepts by Jon Corson-Rikert. Mike uses the VUE software from Tufts University. The original figures and VUE files are available in the VIVO documentation wiki.
Ontology Modules
Ontology modules list consists of the ontology modules that are extracted from the external upstream ontologies (such as FOAF, VCARD, SKOS, VIVO-ISF etc.). In VIVO ontology, all these modules are merged and are delivered with the VIVO software.
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| Ontology Name | {{ontology.ontologyName}} ({{ontology.code}}) |
| Namespace | {{ontology.namespace}} |
| Ontology Version | {{ontology.ontologyVersion}} |