Research information system: Use of VIVO ontology in the context of Brazilian institutions

• Autor(a) principal: Rathke, Sandra Beatriz
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Rocha, Rafael Port da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Information Science
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/bjis/article/view/9275
• topic: VIVO; Sistemas de informação de pesquisa; redes de comunidades de pesquisa; ontologia; VIVO; Research information systems; research community network; ontology

This paper analyzes the characteristics of VIVO-ISF ontology concerning its use in the domain of Brazilian institutions, aiming at the use of VIVO as institutional research information system in Brazil. The paper identified the objectives, scope and modelling characteristics of the ontology, taking into consideration characteristics in ontologies that benefit the development of web applications.  It also analyzed VIVO-ISF ontology in the context of its use to describe a Brazilian institution, represented by the Faculty of Library Sciences and Communication (Fabico), part of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Resources, bodies, activities and administrative positions of Fabico/UFRGS were identified as they were defined by legal documents, such as statutes and bylaws, and they were described according to VIVO-ISF ontology. The study concluded that VIVO-ISF has a well-defined conceptual framework that utilizes high level BFO ontology, which provides facilities to represent the universe of the academic domain and to perform extensions that incorporate local institutional features. The ontology also provides interoperability between different applications, since it reuses generic BFO classes and it selects classes of popular domain ontologies, such as Foaf, Event, BiBO. The ontology is also capable of representing a Brazilian academic institution, providing a well-defined semantic framework for web data integration that streamlines the process of interdisciplinary and interinstitutional collaboration for the formation of research networks, including Brazilian institutions.