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Source ontologies for VIVO

Created by Dragan Ivanovic, last modified on Oct 04, 2022

Background

Source ontologies may be imported in their entirety or included selectively by importing terms and the terms required to support the required terms.

Ontologies Used in the VIVO Ontology

The VIVO Ontology leverages the following ontologies in a unified, semantic structure:

eagle-i Resource Ontology (ERO) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/ero.html
Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/bfo.html
Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO) – http://bibliontology.com/
Event Ontology – http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html
Friend of a Friend (FOAF) – http://www.foaf-project.org/
Gene Ontology (GO) – http://obofoundry.org/ontology/go.html
Geopolitical.owl, from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
Information Artifact Ontology (IAO) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/iao.html
Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/obi.html
Ontology of Clinical Research (OCRe) – http://code.google.com/p/ontology-of-clinical-research/
Relations Ontology (RO) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/ro.html
Software Ontology (SWO) – http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/swo.html
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: https://purl.org/spar/fabio

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