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Organizations in VIVO are instantiations of foaf:Organization.  VIVO adds attributes to record identifiers. A vcard is used to record contact information, URLs and geolocation.

VIVO provides a controlled vocabulary of organization types as subClassOf Foaf:Organization.  To create a list of the available organization types, use the SPARQL query below:

SELECT ?s
WHERE
{
    ?s rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Organization . 
}

Organizations may have relationships to other organizations.  The "part of" relationship describes an organization as part of another in a hierarchical sense.  For example, the History Department may be part of a College of Liberal Arts.  The "successor" relationship describes an organization which no longer exists, and for which a successor organization now exists.

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