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- define top-level ontologies that will remain stable, organized by logical groupings influenced by existing accepted ontologies
- One template may be the Knowledgeweb and its modular organization
- Sometimes we will reuse existing ontologies directly
- For example, we have imported the Bibliographic Ontology (Namespace Bibo) to serve as our ontology of publications and to facility data transfer in and out of VIVO
- We may drop certain classes or properties (such as those for legal documents), but we will use the Bibontology namespace for VIVO data
- Sometimes we will use selected classes and/or properties from well-known ontologies
- E.g., foaf:Person
- Sometimes we will just establish mappings from VIVO classes and properties to another ontology
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