An organization that provides services for commercialization and licensing of technologies at an institution. PERSON: Nicole Vasilevsky PERSON: Nicole Vasilevsky Technology Transfer Office A person or organization that has a manufacturer role A distinct, usually specialized educational unit within an educational organization. Endodontics (department within a College of Dentistry); English (department within a College of Liberal Arts) A formal organization of people or groups of people around a subject or practice. A group of persons or organizations organized for a common purpose. Special Libraries Association; Association for Computing Machinery(ACM); American Medical Informatics Association(AMIA) A place where a particular activity or service is concentrated. Alchohol Education Center; Center for Arts and Public Policy; Hearing Research Center An organization where a specified activity is concentrated. Short Definition take from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/center. Any organization that offers significant health services or routinely provides medical care to patients. Any organization with a significant clinical function as a matter of course and not just through occasional clinical roles In the future we may be able to make this a defined class that would not need to be directly asserted, but the consensus seems to be that some organizations "are" clinical and some "are" research organizations and that the distinction is important enough to warrant the additional class and class assertions A primary academic unit within a University or a free-standing higher education organization without graduate degree programs A primary academic unit within a University or a free-standing higher education organization without graduate degree programs. College of Arts & Sciences; Ivy Tech Community College A group of people organized for a specific purpose (e.g., a reporting or advisory role), often with a charge and for a specific duration A group of people organized for a specific purpose, whose members are often selected from a larger group to serve for designated periods of time. Curriculum Steering Committee; PhD Advisory Committee There could be many subclasses such as thesis committee or tenure committee, but these may typically be differentiated via the moniker unless distinct properties become important. A legally-recognized business organization A legally-recognized business organization. from Wikipedia: "A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies ... This collection, group or association of persons can be made to exist in law and then a company is itself considered a "legal person". The name company arose because, at least originally, it represented or was owned by more than one real or legal person." A group of independent organizations working together toward a common goal, under an expressed agreement. Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC); The Five Colleges of Ohio A lab providing services such as training, protocols, or access to instruments or software A unit within a larger organization that addresses a specific subject or area of activity. Definition modified from the definition here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/department. It is difficult to tell the difference between and department and a division. Legal (department within a company); Use for any non-academic department A major unit or section within a larger organization. Cardiovascular Medicine (division within medicine) Definition modified from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/division. It is difficult to tell the difference between a division and a department. A unit devoted primarily to extension activities, whether for outreach or research A unit devoted primarily to extension activities, whether for outreach or research. Alachua County Extension Office An institution founded with an endowment to support educational, research, artistic or other charitable activities. Definition take from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/foundation. The Ford Foundation A defined class of organizations that fund Grants An organization that provides financial support to individuals or organizations to carry out specified activities. National Institute of Health (NIH) A unit of government responsible for oversight and regulation of certain activities or the administration and provision of specific services. Definition take from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_agency. United States Library of Congress A person who has already received a bachelor's degree and is working toward a Master's or Doctoral degree. An institution that provides medical, surgical, psychiatric or nursing care. Definition take from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hospital. Shands at the University of Florida An Institute normally has a research focus but may also fulfill instructional or outreach roles An organization founded to pursue or promote certain research, educational or public policy interests or activities. Institute for Fundamental Theory An organization unit that facilitates or conduits observation, testing, experimentation, or research in a field of study or practice. An organizational unit (as opposed to the physical facility) that performs research, provides services, or processes materials An organization maintaining one or more collections of physical and/or electronic information resources for access or lending. Marston Science Library Used information from this definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/library. An organization devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value. Definition was take from here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/museum The Getty Museum A private company is one that is privately-owned, and thus, is not publicly-traded in the stock market. Members of the general public cannot purchase stock in a private company unless that company chooses to go public and become a public company. Definition obtained here: http://answers.ask.com/Business/Finance/what_is_a_private_company. Examples of private companies found here: http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/03/largest-private-companies-biz-privates08-cx_sr_1103private_land.html Publix Super Markets; Ernst & Young; PricewaterhouseCoopers A Cornell graduate field (http://vivo.cornell.edu/index.jsp?home=65535&collection=820) An ongoing academic initiative not formalized with department or division status. A person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc. Definition found here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/publisher Elsevier; Harper & Row; Indiana University Press Any organization (likely also asserted as another class of Organization) with a primary, ongoing research function, not just through occasional roles An institution for instruction in a particular skill or field. Definition take from here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/school. School of Architecture; School of Music A laboratory that provides services Ideally a defined class -- a Laboratory the provides some Service via the property A person who is enrolled in an educational institution. Use only if no specific subclasses of core:Student describe the person. A student organization is an organization, operated by students at a university, whose membership normally consists only of students. Dancin' Gators Definition take from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_society A group of people working together. An informal organization brought together for the purposes of a project or event VIVO Outreach Team; VIVO Ontology Team A person registered in an undergraduate program leading to a bachelor's degree or an undergraduate diploma or certificate. An institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects, and provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education. Definition taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University University of Florida; Washington University in St. Louis Agents are things that do stuff An agent PERSON: Scott Hoffmann Things that do stuff. agent see: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_Agent Used to describe any "agent" related to bibliographic items. Such agents can be persons, organizations or groups of any kind. A collection of individual agents (and may itself play the role of a Agent, ie. something that can perform actions). A collection of individual agents. A group A group can also be an organization but need not be; typically used for looser associations of people or organizations acting together in some fashion, not necessarily through formal agreement or on a long-term basis. Added to the VIVO ontology to be able to support informal and perhaps even private groups of people around an idea, funding opportunity, or event. see: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_Group PERSON: Scott Hoffmann group A generic class encompassing several types of organizations. A kind of Agent corresponding to social instititutions such as companies, societies etc. An organization Only use if no specific subclasses of foaf:organization desribe the organization. PERSON: Scott Hoffmann This class will display all the instances in the subclasses below it, as well as any organizations that were added as part of this generic class because there wasn't a specific class available. organization Ued to describe an organization related to bibliographic items such as a publishing company, etc. A person An instance of a human being (Homo sapiens) PERSON: Melissa Haendel The most general classification of a person person