Notes

1. The entity of interest here is the AwardedDegree (dark blue in the center of the figure).  The AwardedDegree is a relationship between a Person and an AcademicDegree.  The AcademicDegree can be considered "abstract."  The AwardedDegree is concrete – a person received the degree from a university at a particular time.  VIVO provides a controlled vocabulary of AcademicDegrees. Note that the label for the degree is on the AcademicDegree.
2. The AwardedDegree has an associated EducationalProcess, which contains attributes of the AwardedDegree.  The EducationalProcess has a DateTimeInterval.  See DateTimeValue and DateTimeInterval Models for detail.
3. See Organization Model for details regarding the modeling of organizations

4. For a list of AcademicDegrees, use the SPARQL query below

   Code Block
   SELECT ?s ?name WHERE { ?s a vivo:AcademicDegree . ?s rdfs:label ?name . } ORDER BY ?name

5. See Person Model for details regarding the modeling of people

 This diagram reflects what VIVO's custom form for educational background creates.  Note that we have also included a draft proposal for asserting that an AwardedDegree is also an instance of vivo:AwardOrHonorReceipt to handle the times when a degree is received with an honor such as "cum laude," in which case there would be an additional set of vivo:relates and vivo:relatedBy relationships to an instance of a vivo:AwardOrHonor, much as an instance of the class vivo:AcademicDegree is also related.