Background

Source ontologies may be imported in their entirety or included selectively through the MIREOT approach – minimum information to reference an external ontology term – used when importing an entire ontology would include unnecessary classes, properties, or axioms.

Imports vs. modules

The Integrated Semantic Framework is maintained in a file repository (currently on Google code) that reflects the source ontologies while creating distribution modules grouping classes and properties more by function, such as grants, agents, education, etc.

Ontologies Integrated into the VIVO Ontology

The VIVO ISF ontology incorporates classses and properties used in both the VIVO and eagle-i projects, from several other well-known ontologies, including the following:

• OBO Foundry ontologies
  
  • Basic formal ontology (BFO)
  • Relations ontology (RO)
• Other ontologies
  Friend of a Friend (FOAF)
  • Friend of a Friend (FOAF)
  • The Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO, namespace bibo)
    
    • BIBO includes the Event Ontology
• eagle-i, the research resource ontology developed by the NIH-funded eagle-i Consortium
• • Geopolitical.owl, from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
  • SKOS
  • Vcard