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Ontology workshop. This past week I had the distinct pleasure to participate in a three day workshop on ontologies for the representation of social entities in biomedicine. Sponsored by the Clinical and Translation Science Ontology Group (CTSOG), and chaired by Barry Smith of the University of Buffalo, and Bill Hogan of the University of Florida, the workshop considered the representation of social entities and documents using the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and the Information Artifact Ontology (IAO), both of which are used extensively in VIVO. I presented on the use of ontologies in VIVO. You can find my presentation on Figshare here. You can find my notes on the workshop here. VIVO is a prominent example of the use of these ontologies. As VIVO progresses, we expect to see more alignment of VIVO representations with these standards. You can learn more about the Basic Formal Ontology
VIVO SHARE webinar series. SHARE and VIVO will be co-sponsoring a three part webinar series, VIVO plus SHARE: Closing the Loop on Scholarly Activity beginning this Wednesday. Learn more about how SHARE and VIVO are collaborating on joint projects to enhance the scholarly ecosystem in both representation and reuse of metadata. Webinars will be held February 24, March 11, and March 21. All webinars are at 1 PM US Eastern time. Register today!
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