The Organization Ontology
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The Organization Ontology (ORG) is an ontology for 
representing organizations of all kinds.

The Organization Ontology uses |BFO|_ as an upper level ontology, and conforms to 
|OBOP|_ for constructing interoperable ontologies. 

The Organization
Ontology is a one of several ontologies developed for the representation of
scholarship by the `VIVO Project <https://vivoweb.org>`_. The Organization Ontology is 
not limited to the representation of 
scholarship -- it can be used to represent organizations in any setting.

In :ref:`VIVO 1 <glossary>`, organizational representation was part of the VIVO 
ontology.  In the new VIVO ontology, organizational
representation has been removed in favor of this new Organizational Ontology.  The
Organizational Ontology  
is independent of VIVO and 
can be used in any setting where information about organizations needs to be 
represented.

An organization is a group of people with a purpose. It is not merely a group of 
people -- that would be a collection of people, not an organization. The purpose
may be explicit or implicit. Organizations may be legally constituted or informal.
Organizations may be parts of other organizations.

See :ref:`Organizations <organizations>` for subsumption and subtypes.

The Organization Ontology is designed to insure it can represent 
`Research Organization Registry <http://ror.org>`_ data. ROR is a curated, CC0 
collection of facts regarding over 97,000 research organizations in the world. The
Organization Ontology can represent these facts for use in graph-based systems such
as VIVO.

See :ref:`the domain definition <domain-definition>` for an extended defintion with 
competency questions, 
and consequences.

Tools are provided with the Organization Ontology for retrieving ROR data and
creating individuals with assertions as RDF triples using the Organization Ontology.


.. toctree::
   :titlesonly:
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Contents
   
   domain-definition
   organizations
   identifiers
   addresses
   facilities
   locations
   datetimes
   associations
   annotation-properties
   classes
   object-properties
   datatype-properties
   named-individuals
   out-of-scope
   vivo-to-org
   ror-to-org
   schema-to-org
   data-dates
   ontology-authors
   documentation-authors
   notes-and-sources
   glossary
   
List of Tables
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- :ref:`Table 1`
- :ref:`Table 2`
- :ref:`Table 3`
- :ref:`Table 4`
- :ref:`Table 5`
- :ref:`Table 6`
- :ref:`Table 7`
- :ref:`Table 8`
- :ref:`Table 9`
- :ref:`Table 10`
- :ref:`Table 11`
- :ref:`Table 12`
- :ref:`Table 13`
- :ref:`Table 14`
- :ref:`Table 15`
- :ref:`Table 16`
- :ref:`Table 17`
- :ref:`Table 18`
- :ref:`Table 19`

List of Figures
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- :ref:`Figure 1 Representation of organizations <Figure 1>`
- :ref:`Figure 2 Types of Organizations <Figure 2>`
- :ref:`Figure 3 Representation of dates and times <Figure 3>`
- :ref:`Figure 4 Representation of memberships <Figure 4>`
- :ref:`Figure 5 Representation of employment <Figure 5>`

* :ref:`genindex`