These are informal slides using during the VIVOCamp discussions. The PPT contains the agenda and the slides on the topic Extension of the ontology.

1. Semantic Web in Libraries 2013
25 - 27 November 2013
Hamburg, Germany
VIVOCamp
VIVOCamp
Collaboration here: http://pad.okfn.org/p/vivo13
Exchanging experiences with and
information about VIVO
November 25, 2013 - 9:00-12:00 AM
Room No. 0.12
ground floor of Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg

2. Agenda
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Introduction of participants
Deciding on priorities - put the topics in the final order:
VIVOCamp
• Technical: server specs + software versions
Introduced by Lukas Koster (Library of the University of Amsterdam)
– How to get Vivo up and running, from a small pilot on a shared server to full production
environment on a dedicated server park.
• Using the VIVO Harvester for ingesting data into VIVO
Introduced by John Fereira (Cornell University)
• Making VIVO instances communicate between each other
• Extending the VIVO ontology for special needs: best practices
and tools
Introduced by Valeria Pesce (GFAR)
• VIVO-CERIF alignment
Introduced by Alberto Nogales Moyano (Universidad de Alcalá)
A tool that translates VIVO into CERIF and vice versa; Mappings between VIVO and CERIF; Case
study; VIVO export-import; Demo
• Customisation of VIVO templates - ?
Collaboration here: http://pad.okfn.org/p/vivo13

3. Useful links
• VIVOweb
http://www.vivoweb.org/
• VIVO under DuraSpace:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/
• VIVO search:
http://beta.vivosearch.org/
• VIVO at Cornell:
http://vivo.cornell.edu/
VIVOCamp

4. VIVOCamp
Semantic Web in Libraries 2013
25 - 27 November 2013
Hamburg, Germany
Extending the VIVO ontology

5. VIVOCamp
VIVO basic entities and relations

6. The whole ontology – just an overview
VIVOCamp

7. Examples of needed extensions
Extension of the ontology
VIVOCamp

8. Extension of the ontology
VIVOCamp
Examples of needed extensions
Organization
Person and education
Academy
Agricultural researcher
NGO
Farmer
Farmers Organization
Extension / communication agent
International Organization
Policy maker
Position
[Positions] Revise?
Sub-sub-class
Agricultural research
Institute
Sub-sub-class
Agricultural research
center
Senior Officer
Administrative staff
Information manager

9. Extension of the ontology: where?
VIVOCamp
• VIVO ontology editor?
 Issues of future compatibility with new versions of the VIVO
ontology
• Ontology extension published independently?
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If published independently, “domain-specific” or “scope-specific” ontology
extensions (e.g. for libraries) can be re-used by VIVO instances with the
same needs
•
Extensions that are general enough could be considered for inclusion in the
core or as a general-use extension package
 We created an ontology extension called “agrivivo” and
published it

10. Extension of the ontology
VIVOCamp
http://www.agrivivo.net/ontology
We used an RDF vocabulary editing tool called Neologism (a Drupal distribution)

11. Subset of organization
classes in AgriVIVO
VIVOCamp
Besides extending
the ontology with
necessary new
classes, we
decided not to
use some of the
existing VIVO
classes.
This is sort of an
“Application
Profile” with
selected VIVO
classes and
AgriVIVO classes
that are suitable
for the domain of
agriculture.