Overview

VIVO supports the concept of an Institutional Internal Class, a class that you can create and assign to your people, and other entities, to indicate that they are part of your institution. Using an Institutional Internal Class, you can limit VIVO's displays of entities to those in your institution.

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Ontology name: Whatever you want.  The name you give will appear in the list of VIVO ontologies.

Namespace: Something like http://vivo.youruniversity.edu/ontology/vlocal#  Must have Must be your domain name as specified in your runtime.properties, followed by "/ontology/" in the namespace to be recognizedfollowed by a name of your choice, followed by the '#' sign. 

Namespace prefix: a short word.  This word will appear in the prefix list in your SPARQL windows and will be used by you in any SPARQL queries referring to your local ontology.

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Class label:  Text, describes the class. This will be visible on the VIVO interface.

Class Group:  None People.  This allows the class to be used to define local People, Buildings, Organizations, and other entitiesto restrict the display of people to those people who have the institutional class you are defining.

Ontology:  Select your previously created local ontology from the drop down menu

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Define institutional internal class

Go to Site Admin > Institutional internal class

Select your new class from dropdown the dropdown menu

To restrict display to only those people in your institution, go

Go to Site Admin > Page Management >

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People

Click the plus sign to expand the ‘Browse Class Group’ box

Check ‘Only display people within my institution'

Click "Save this Content'