Overview

VIVO provides the ability to use external vocabularies to represent the research areas of scholars, and the concepts pertaining to scholarly works.  External vocabularies that provide RDF can be used with VIVO.  Using an external service, a curator, or page owner may query the external vocabulary for terms, and select terms representing the work or scholar.  The terms are fetched from the external service and added to the VIVO triple store.  Links from the work or person and added to connect the person or work to the selected term or terms.

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Adding a new external vocabulary service to VIVO

External vocabulary services are defined in the graph http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/filegraph/abox/vocabularySource.n3.  You can explore the contents of this graph by navigating to System Admin / Ingest tools / Manage Jena models.  Find vocabularySource.n3 in the list of models.  Click Output Model.  You will get a file containing the assertions made to define external vocabulary services in your VIVO.