VIVO supports the concept of an Institutional Internal Class, a class that you can create and assign to your people, and other entities, to indicate that they are part of your institution. Using an Institutional Internal Class, you can limit VIVO's displays of entities to those in your institution.

Creating an Institutional Internal Class

Create a new local ontology if you do not already have one.  If you have one, add a class to your existing local ontology.

Go to   Site Admin > Ontology list > Add new ontology

Add your new ontology (see the example below)

Ontology name: Whatever you want.  The name you give will appear in the list of VIVO ontologies.

Namespace: something like http://vivo.youruniversity.edu/ontology/vlocal#  Must have "/ontology/" in the namespace to be recognized.  

Namespace prefix: a short word.  This word will appear in the prefix list in your SPARQL windows and will be used by you in any SPARQL queries referring to your local ontology.

Submit Changes

Add a new class ro your new ontology

  - ‘Hierachy of Classes Defined in This Namespace’ > Add New Class

  - Fields can be whatever you want, except make sure to pick your new local ontology from the dropdown for ‘Ontology’

Assigning an Institutional Internal Class

Assert that your employees are a member of the new class

  - Either upload RDF with triples like Mike showed, or go to that person in the UI, ‘Edit this individual’, and ‘Add Type'

Using an Institutional Internal Class

Define institutional internal class

   - Site Admin > Institutional internal class

   - Select your new class from dropdown 

Go to Page Management > ‘People’ > Click the plus sign to expand the ‘Browse Class Group’ box > Check ‘Only display people within my institution.