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Organizations Concepts in VIVO are entities with rdf:type foaf:Organization.  vivo:overview is used to provide a text description of the organization typically displayed on its profile page. A vcard is used to record contact information, URLs and geolocation.

VIVO provides a controlled vocabulary of organization types as rdfs: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. The "affiliatedOrganization" organization describes an organization affiliated with the primary organization.  The relationship is not symmetric, that is, the inverse is not inferred by the Inferencer.  Assert the reverse affiliation as needed.

Many other attributes and relationships are available for organizations.  The model shown here is typical for VIVO implementations.

modeled using the SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) ontology.  SKOS is quite simple, and is a good place to start for those learning about ontologies, and how VIVO uses ontologies to represent information as triples.

A concept is typically represented in VIVO as two triples, one declaring the URI of the concept as a skos:Concept, and one providing a text label for the concept.  A third triple may use the skos:prefLabel to repeat the text label for those applications expecting the concept to have a preferred label.  The triples might look like those below:

<http://vivo.myschool.edu> rdf:type skos:Concept .
<http://vivo.myschool.edu> rdfs:label "Molecular Biology"^^@en .
<http://vivo.myschool.edu> skos:prefLabel "Molecular Biology"^^@en .

Concepts are used throughout VIVO to indicate research areas for people and other entities.

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