VIVO Documentation
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Overview
VIVO can be used to mange the hierarchical structure, or organizational chart, of any organization. We describe how VIVO represents organizational structure, and how to create data that can be loaded into VIVO to represent the structure of an organization. The Sample Data has a sample university, with sample colleges and departments, illustrating the techniques described here.
"hasPart, partOf"
VIVO uses the Basic Formal Ontology "hasPart" to indicate that organization A "hasPart" organization B. Sample University has a College of Science. We say Sample University "hasPart" College of Science. VIVO will automatically assert College of Science "partOf" Sample University.
The Basic Formal Ontology has been implemented as part of the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO). They have coded "hasPart" as "BFO_0000051" and "partOf" is "BFO_0000050" VIVO uses the OBO representation which can be found here: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/
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