VIVO Documentation
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Organizations in VIVO are entities with rdf:type foaf:Organization. VIVO adds attributes to record identifiers. A vcard is used to record contact information, URLs and geolocation.
VIVO provides a controlled vocabulary of organization types as subClassOf Foaf:Organization. To create a list of the available organization types, use the SPARQL query below:
SELECT ?s WHERE { ?s rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Organization . }
Organizations may have relationships to other organizations. The "part of" relationship describes an organization as part of another in a hierarchical sense. For example, the History Department may be part of a College of Liberal Arts. The "successor" relationship describes an organization which no longer exists, and for which a successor organization now exists.
Many other attributes and relationships are available for organizations. The model shown here is typical for VIVO implementations.
Light blue – entities dependent on the entity being modeled. These will typically be created along with the entity being modeled, and should be removed if the entity being modeled is removed.
Green – independent entities. These typically pre-exist in your VIVO when adding the entity being modeled. These should not be removed if the entity being modeled is removed.