Background

Source ontologies may be imported in their entirety or included selectively by importing terms and the terms required to support the required terms.

Ontologies Used in the VIVO Ontology

The VIVO Ontology leverages the following ontologies in a unified, semantic structure:

• eagle-i Resource Ontology (ERO) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/ero.html
• Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/bfo.html
• Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO) – http://bibliontology.com/
• Event Ontology – http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html
• Friend of a Friend (FOAF) – http://www.foaf-project.org/
• Gene Ontology (GO) – http://obofoundry.org/ontology/go.html
• Geopolitical.owl, from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
• Information Artifact Ontology (IAO) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/iao.html
• Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/obi.html
• Ontology of Clinical Research (OCRe) – http://code.google.com/p/ontology-of-clinical-research/
• Relations Ontology (RO) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/ro.html
• Software Ontology (SWO) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/swo.html
• SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) – http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/
• vCard – http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/
• SPAR ontologies, including FABIO, CiTO, and C4O: https://purl.org/spar/fabio