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When external concepts are added to VIVO, they retain their original URI from the external vocabulary.  Since we have no way of knowing whether these URIs represent OWL classes or RDF instance data, VIVO does not assert a type for the concepts, which will therefore only be interpreted as being of type owl:Thing.

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Adding a new external vocabulary service to VIVO

External vocabulary services are defined in the graph http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/filegraph/abox/vocabularySource.n3.  You can explore the contents of this graph by navigating to System Admin / Ingest tools / Manage Jena models.  Find vocabularySource.n3 in the list of models.  Click Output Model.  You will get a file containing the assertions made to define external vocabulary services in your VIVO.Adding a new external vocabulary service to VIVO