VIVO Documentation
Old Release
This documentation relates to an old version of VIVO, version 1.11.x.
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Background
Source ontologies may be imported in their entirety or included selectively through the MIREOT approach – minimum information to reference an external ontology term – used when importing an entire ontology would include unnecessary classes, properties, or axioms.
Imports vs. modules
The Integrated Semantic Framework is maintained in a file repository on GitHub [full ISF] [VIVO-ISF]) that reflects the source ontologies while creating distribution modules grouping classes and properties more by function, such as grants, agents, education, etc.
Ontologies Used in the VIVO Ontology
The VIVO Ontology leverages the following ontologies in a unified, semantic structure:
- eagle-i Resource Ontology (ERO) – https://open.med.harvard.edu/wiki/display/eaglei/Ontology
- Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) – http://www.ifomis.org/bfo
- Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO) – http://bibliographic-ontology.org/
- Event Ontology – http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html
- Friend of a Friend (FOAF) – http://www.foaf-project.org/
- Gene Ontology (GO) – http://geneontology.sourceforge.net/#code
- Geopolitical.owl, from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
- Information Artifact Ontology (IAO) – https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/
- Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) – http://obi.sourceforge.net/ontologyInformation/
- Ontology of Clinical Research (OCRe) – http://code.google.com/p/ontology-of-clinical-research/
- Relations Ontology (RO) – http://obofoundry.org/ro/
- Software Ontology (SWO) – http://theswo.sourceforge.net/
- SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) – http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/
- vCard – http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/
- SPAR ontologies, including FABIO, CiTO, and C4O: http://purl.org/spar