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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.
foaf:Person "participates in (obo:RO_00000056)" vivo:EducationalProcess foaf:Person "related by (vivo:relatedBy)" vivo:AwardedDegree vivo:EducationalProcess "has participant (obo:RO_00000057)" foaf:Organization vivo:EducationalProcess "has participant (obo:RO_00000057)" foaf:Person vivo:EducationalProcess "has output (obo:0002234)" vivo:AwardedDegree vivo:EducationalProcess "date/time interval" vivo:DateTimeInterval vivo:EducationalProcess "department or school within institution (vivo:departmentOrSchool)" "Department of Biology"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string> vivo:EducationalProcess "major field of degree (vivo:majorField)" "Cell Science"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string> vivo:EducationalProcess "supplemental information (vivo:supplementalInformation)" "cum laude"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string> vivo:DateTimeInterval "start (vivo:start)" vivo:DateTimeValue vivo:DateTimeValue "date/time value (vivo:dateTimeValue)" "1976-01-01T00:00:00"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime> vivo:DateTimeValue "date/time precision (vivo:dateTimePrecision)" <http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core#yearPrecision> vivo:DateTimeInterval "end (vivo:end)" vivo:DateTimeValue vivo:DateTimeValue "date/time value (vivo:dateTimeValue)" "1979-01-01T00:00:00"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime> vivo:DateTimeValue "date/time precision (vivo:dateTimePrecision)" <http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core#yearPrecision> foaf:Organization "assigns (vivo:assigns)" vivo:AwardedDegree foaf:Organization "participates in (obo:RO_00000056)" vivo:EducationalProcess vivo:AwardedDegree "output of (obo:RO_0002353)" vivo:EducationalProcess vivo:AwardedDegree "assigned by (vivio:assignedBy)" foaf:Organization vivo:AwardedDegree "relates (vivo:relates)" foaf:Person vivo:AwardedDegree "relates (vivo:relates)" vivo:AcademicDegree vivo:AcademicDegree "related by (vivo:relatedBy)" vivo:AwardedDegree
There is a simpler alternative that only represents the date on which the degree was earned, and avoids the need for a vivo:EducationalProcess. Note that this simpler version is not what the VIVO application itself produces via its custom form for interactively adding or editing a person's educational background – we include it here to explain possible alternative implementations. Note that this simpler version will not render correctly in VIVO v1.6 - v1.8.
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