This project is funded by the National Institutes of Health, U24 RR029822, "VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists".

How is the VIVO Ontology Structured?

Paul Albert

Subject Walter Mondale

Data in VIVO is stored using Resource Description Framework (RDF)

Predicate head of

Object Trilateral Commission

Data Storage

Andrew McDonald

author of

has author

research area research area for

academic staff  in

academic staff

Susan Riha

Mining the record: Historical evidence for…

author of has author

teaches research area for

research area

headed by

crop management

CSS 4830 head of

faculty appointment in

faculty members

taught by

featured in

features person

NYS WRI

Cornell’s supercomputers crunch weather data to help farmers manage chemicals

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Semantic Representation of Data

Reasoning with Ontologies

Organization

College Library

Department Museum

•  All Colleges are Organizations. •  All Libraries are Organizations. •  All Departments are

Organizations. •  All Museums are

Organizations.

Reasoning adds triples to your system-

creates new data.

VIVOs Core Ontology

• Dublin core •  Event ontology •  FOAF • Geopolitical •  SKOS •  BIBO

VIVO  Core  Ontology  –  Bubble  diagram  

Example: Modeling a Person

•  Research (bibo:Document, vivo:Grant, vivo:Project, vivo:Software, vivo:Dataset, vivo:ResearchLaboratory)

•  Teaching (vivo:TeacherRole, vivo:AdvisingRelatioship)

•  Services (vivo:Service, vivo:CoreLaboratory, vivo:MemberRole)

•  Expertise (vivo:SubjectArea)

VIVO Ontology Localization

•  Different localization required by different institutions –  UF, Cornell, IU, WASHU, Scripps

•  How to make localization: –  Adding local namespace:

•  UF: http://vivo.ufl.edu/ontology/vivo-ufl/ •  core: http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core#

–  Local classes are the subclasses of the VIVO Core

•  foaf:Agent à foaf:Organization à ufVivo:Non-Governmental Organization

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