Film
comment: aka movie.
short def: Audiovisual recording in film format

Room
short def: Room that provides a particular service or is used for a particular activity.
example annot: 100 Caldwell Hall; 114 Martha Van Rensselaer (Rushmore Conference Room)

Chapter
comment: A chapter of a book.
short def: A main division of a book

Seminar
short def: A meeting for an exchange of ideas.

ReserachProposal
short def: A proposal for a research grant that has been submitted but not approved; does not represent an existing activity

Periodical
comment: A group of related documents issued at regular intervals.

Committee
short def: 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
example annot: Curriculum Steering Committee; PhD Advisory Committee

Note
comment: Notes or annotations about a resource.
short def: Notes or annotations about a resource

Report
comment: A document describing an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc..
short def: A document describing an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.

disputed
short def: Teritories subject to disagreement and debate.
example annot: West Sahara

Standard
short def: A specification giving a precise statement of a process or a service requirement, often sanctioned by a nation or industry
comment: A document describing a standard

area
short def: Top level of the geopolitical.owl ontology.
example annot: Not meant for use in classifying areas. But can display all areas.

LegalDocument
comment: A legal document; for example, a court decision, a brief, and so forth.
short def: a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right

AcademicTerm
example annot: Fall 2009; Summer 2010
short def: An explicit individual academic term, quarter, or semester rather than the generic fall, spring, or summer semester

Continent
short def: A large contiguous landmass that is at least partially surrounded by water, together with any islands on its continental shelf.
example annot: The seven commonly recognized continents are Africa; Antarctica; Asia; Australia; Europe; North America; South America

CoreLaboratory
short def: A lab providing services such as training, protocols, or access to instruments or software

BlogPosting
short def: An online article or commentary appearing on a blog
example annot: A specific blog posting

Collection
example annot: Hill Ornithology Collection; Wiley Interscience Online Books Biochemisty Collection
comment: A collection of Documents or Collections
short def: Collection of documents or information resources that have a unified identity

CaseStudy
short def: A qualitative descriptive research study of individuals or a group

SeminarSeries
short def: An organized series of a meeting for an exchange of ideas, typically put on by a department or center.
example annot: Applied Microeconomics Seminars; Future of Rural New York Seminar Series

Review
short def: An article reviewing one or more other information resources (a book, one or more other articles, movies, etc)

DocumentStatus
comment: The status of the publication of a document.
short def: The status of document.
example annot: Working; Submitted; Accepted; Published

USPostalAddress
example annot: 1320 East 10th Street, Wells Library 021 Bloomington, IN 47405
short def: Formal address in US postal address system.

AcademicDegree
example annot: B.A. Bachelor of Arts
short def: An academic degree at any level, both as reported by individuals for employment and as offered by academic degree programs.

Legislation
comment: A legal document proposing or enacting a law or a group of laws.
short def: Enactments of legislative bodies, published in either statute or code form

economic region
short def: Region divided by economic factors.
example annot: Arab Maghreb Union (AMU); Central American Council of Agriculture (CAC); Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)

StateOrProvince
example annot: Minnesota; Michigan; Indiana; New York; Quebec; Manitoba; Ontario
short def: One of a number of areas or communities having their own governments and forming a federation under a sovereign government, as in the US.

Activity
example annot: Only use if no specific subclasses of core:Activity desribe the activity.
short def: A generic class encompassing several types of activities frequently reported on CVs or in annual reporting systems.

non self governing
short def: Countries that, according to the United Nations, are non-decolonized.
example annot: American Samoa; Anguilla; Aruba; Guadeloupe; Puerto Rico; United States Virgin Islands
comment: UN Cartographic Section

Location
example annot: Use subclasses of core:Location when classsifying items.
short def: Top level of all location classes.

Webpage
comment: A web page is an online document available (at least initially) on the world wide web. A web page is written first and foremost to appear on the web, as distinct from other online resources such as books, manuscripts or audio documents which use the web primarily as a distribution mechanism alongside other more traditional methods such as print.
short def: One section of a website that appears at a unique address within the parent site's address or URL on the World Wide Web

College
short def: A primary academic unit within a University or a free-standing higher education organization without graduate degree programs
example annot: College of Arts & Sciences; Ivy Tech Community College

AudioDocument
example annot: phonograph record; tape; CD; DVD; DAT
comment: An audio document; aka record.
short def: Recorded audio in any format

BookSection
short def: A section of a book
comment: A section of a book.

WorkingPaper
short def: A document created as a basis for discussion or a very early draft of a formal paper

Email
comment: A written communication addressed to a person or organization and transmitted electronically.
short def: A written communication addressed to a person or organization and transmitted electronically

LegalDecision
comment: A document containing an authoritative determination (as a decree or judgment) made after consideration of facts or law.
short def: The written determination of a case, motion or claim by a court or tribunal

NonAcademicPosition
example annot: Accounting & Research Services Assistant; Director of Information Technology
short def: A position classified as professional, staff, support, or any other non-academic role

other
short def: Territories not belonging to self-governing, non-self-governing, and disputed classes.
example annot: Antarctica

TimeInterval
short def: A period or duration.
example annot: Normally not used for classifying items. But, will display instances from the subclasses.

AudioVisualDocument
short def: Audiovisual recording in any format
example annot: film; video; Blu-ray
comment: An audio-visual document; film, video, and so forth.

Country
example annot: Afghanistan; Antigua and Barbuda; Cameroon; Iceland; Jamaica; Nigeria; United States of America
short def: An area of land distinguished by its political autonomy. Politically independent territories.

ExtensionUnit
short def: A unit devoted primarily to extension activities, whether for outreach or research

GeographicRegion
short def: A location having coordinates in geographic space.
example annot: Prefer core:Geographic Region subclasses instead of this class.

Interview
short def: A conversation between two or more people where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from the interviewee.
example annot: radio or newspaper interview
comment: A formalized discussion between two or more people.

Patent
short def: A document describing the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years
comment: A document describing the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.

Quote
short def: An excerpted collection of words
comment: An excerpted collection of words.

Journal
comment: A periodical of scholarly journal Articles.
short def: Contains original scholarly research or review articles by experts in the field
example annot: Journal of Information Science; IEEE Intelligent System; Scientometrics

Newspaper
comment: A periodical of documents, usually issued daily or weekly, containing current news, editorials, feature articles, and usually advertising.
short def: Contains news articles, opinions, features, advertising, and is usually issued daily or weekly
example annot: USA Today

NonFacultyAcademicPosition
short def: A position involving academic work but without faculty status
example annot: Researcher; Academic Extension Associate; Postdoctoral Associate

LegalCaseDocument
short def: Official court papers for a case
comment: A document accompanying a legal case.

PersonalCommunicationDocument
comment: A personal communication manifested in some document.
short def: A personal communication manifested in some document

CourtReporter
short def: Collection of legal cases
comment: A collection of legal cases.
example annot: Supreme Court Reporter

FundingOrganization
short def: A defined class of organizations that fund Grants

Screenplay
short def: Written script for a film production, including dialogue and descriptions of gestures, actions, shooting directions

AwardOrDistinction
example annot: 2003, Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
short def: An award, honor, or distinction received by a person on a particular date (not the award itself as given repeatedly, and not a grant award).

OutreachActivity
short def: An outreach or community service activity directed outside a person's primary profession and institution
example annot: Communicating Astronomy to the Public

Facility
example annot: Prefer core:Facility subclasses instead of this class.
short def: Something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function or activity affording a convenience or service.

AdvisingActivity
short def: The activity of a professor advising a student, typically including start and end date and the title of the student's project or thesis work.
example annot: R statistical tools for regression analysis

Person
short def: The most general classification of a person

EditorialArticle
short def: An article of opinion, typically published in a newspaper. For academics, most commonly Op Ed pieces

Series
comment: A loose, thematic, collection of Documents, often Books.
short def: A thematic collection of documents, usually books, issued at regular or irregular intervals
example annot: Methods in Molecular Biology

Blog
example annot: Library of Congress Blog
short def: Regularly updated online journal or newsletter by one or more writers, called bloggers, containing articles and commentary of interest to the blogger

organization
example annot: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
short def: International organizations.

SubjectArea
short def: academic disciplines or more detailed research area
example annot: semantic web; information visualization

Slideshow
short def: A presentation of a series of slides, usually presented in front of an audience with written text and images
comment: A presentation of a series of slides, usually presented in front of an audience with written text and images.

Service
example annot: UITS service
short def: A regularly offered service in support of an academic, research, or administrative function (not personal or professional service by an individual)

Manual
comment: A small reference book, especially one giving instructions.
example annot: SDB User Manual
short def: A book of instructions or guide to a specific topic

EducationalBackground
example annot: Currently any abstract name is given to members of this class. This could change in the future.
short def: Education once received. Contains department or school, major field of degree, year, and supplemental information.

TransnationalRegion
short def: Any region that goes beyond national boundaries and does not fit into any subclass of core:TransnationalRegion.
example annot: None as yet.
comment: sub-Saharan Africa, North America

URLLink
short def: Uniform Resource Locator (URL) specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.
example annot: http://info.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/

Campus
example annot: Cornell Ithaca; Cornell Geneva; Cornell New York City; Cornell Qatar
short def: The grounds of a school, college, university, or hospital. Or, a large, usually suburban, landscaped business or industrial site.

FacultyAdministrativePosition
example annot: Associate Dean
short def: An academic administrative position (associate dean, etc.) as distinct from a professional administrative position (non-academic)

Equipment
short def: Something provided for specific purpose, task or occupation.
example annot: server; Bruker Vector-33 FT-IR

DependentResource
example annot: Director of Admissions and Placement
short def: Resource dependent on other entities

EventSeries
short def: Two or more events that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
example annot: Only use if no specific subclasses of core:EventSeries desribe the activity.

Building
short def: Building that provides a particular service or is used for a particular activity.
example annot: Martha Van Rensselaer Hall (VR); Caldwell Hall (CD); University Auditorium

County
example annot: Alachua; Baker; Bradford; Kenora; Ottawa; Waterloo
short def: The largest administrative division of most states or provinces.

Article
short def: A written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a periodical or book
comment: A written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
example annot: A specific journal article

Slide
comment: A slide in a slideshow
short def: A slide in a slideshow

Position
example annot: Director of Admissions and Placement; Core Faculty of Cognitive Science
short def: Particular position in an organization, commonly identified by job title

NonAcademic
example annot: A person working in a position not considered to be an academic appointment

Manuscript
comment: An unpublished Document, which may also be submitted to a publisher for publication.
short def: Works prepared by hand including handwritten or typescript drafts of pre-publication papers or works not otherwise reproduced in multiple copies

Statute
comment: A bill enacted into law.
short def: A bill enacted into law

Laboratory
short def: An organizational unit (as opposed to the physical facility) that performs research, provides services, or processes materials

NonFacultyAcademic
example annot: A person not considered a faculty member but holding an academic appointment

Excerpt
comment: A passage selected from a larger work.
short def: A passage selected from a larger work

Code
example annot: Code of Federal Regulations
short def: A work consisting of texts of rules and regulations related to statutes issued by executive or administrative agencies
comment: A collection of statutes.

SubnationalRegion
comment: For example, the Midwest, northeast U.S.
short def: Smaller administrative division into which a country may be divided.
example annot: Boroughs; townships; districts; the Midwest

Proceedings
comment: A compilation of documents published from an event, such as a conference.
short def: A compilation of documents published from an event, such as a conference

territory
short def: A type of geopolitical area. Not meant for use. Use subclasses within.
example annot: Not meant for use in classifying areas. But can display all territories.

DocumentPart
short def: A distinct part of a larger document or collected document
comment: a distinct part of a larger document or collected document.

ServiceActivity
short def: An activity of an individual within his or her profession or institution; use outreach activity for community service or other activities outside the profession.
example annot: Member of the International Conference on Complex Systems Organizing Committee

GeographicLocation
example annot: Prefer core:Geographic Location subclasses instead of this class.
short def: A location having coordinates in geographic space.

Score
short def: Written musical composition for voice or instruments or both

Grant
example annot: An intramural or extramural award to support scholarly work, such as UF09179 (VIVO)
short def: Financial assistance mechanism providing money, property, or both to an eligible entity to carry out an approved project or activity

Book
short def: A written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers
comment: A written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.

ResearchLaboratory
short def: A laboratory that exists primarily to conduct research vs. to provide services

Institute
short def: An Institute normally has a research focus but may also fulfill instructional or outreach roles

Performance
comment: A public performance.

Letter
comment: A written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
short def: Personal or professional correspondence

Dataset
short def: A named collection of data, usually containing only one type of data
example annot: US Patent Data; US Job Data

Competition
example annot: Intel Talent Search; poetry contest
short def: An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants.

ConferencePaper
short def: A paper presented at a conference; optionally collected into a Proceedings or a special Journal issue

Software
short def: Computer program and its related documentation; directs the operation of a computer

ConferencePoster
short def: The digital file (or physical equivalent), if available after the conference, vs. the act of attending/presenting: use ConferencePresentation for information about date/time/location/name of the event where the poster was presented

Website
example annot: Facebook; VIVOweb.org; Flickr
short def: A group of webpages available within a specific parent address or URL on the World Wide Web
comment: A group of Webpages accessible on the Web.

group
short def: A type of geopolitical area. Not meant for use. Use subclasses within.
example annot: Not meant for use in classifying areas. But can display all groups.

Hearing
comment: An instance or a session in which testimony and arguments are presented, esp. before an official, as a judge in a lawsuit.

Association
example annot: Special Libraries Association; Association for Computing Machinery(ACM); American Medical Informatics Association(AMIA)
short def: A formal organization of people or groups of people around a subject or practice.

WorkshopSeries
short def: An organized series of workshop events, whether repetitions of the same workshop or multiple different workshops.

Brief
comment: A written argument submitted to a court.
short def: A document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case

Video
short def: Audiovisual recording in video format

CollectedDocument
comment: A document that simultaneously contains other documents.
short def: Work consisting of collections of previously published works

Issue
short def: something that is printed or published and distributed, esp. a given number of a periodical
comment: something that is printed or published and distributed, esp. a given number of a periodical

TeachingActivity
example annot: Information visualization
short def: Use for teaching experiences other than specific for-credit courses within a person's home institution.

Newsletter
short def: Usually issued periodically, prepared by or for a group or institution to present information to a specific audience, often also made available to the press and public
example annot: The Ornithological Newsletter

Event
short def: Something that happens at a given place and time.
example annot: Only use if no specific subclasses of event:Event desribe the activity.

AcademicYear
short def: The period considered by an academic institution to be its primary academic cycle.
example annot: 2009-2010

Course
short def: Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; typically given in a single semester.
example annot: ENGL 4940 - Honors Essay Tutorial II; BIOAP 4250 - Gamete Physiology and Fertilization

Team
short def: An informal organization brought together for the purposes of a project or event

PresentationActivity
example annot: User-Friendly Cyberinfrastructures and Their Utility for Scholarly Knowledge Management
short def: A talk, poster presentation, or demo at a conference; use Conference Paper or Conference Poster for the product of the talk.

special group
short def: Groups created for special needs.
example annot: Least developed countries (LDC); Low income and food deficit countries (LIFDC); World

Program
example annot: A Cornell graduate field (http://vivo.cornell.edu/index.jsp?home=65535&collection=820)
short def: An ongoing academic initiative not formalized with department or division status

ThesisDegree
short def: The academic degree of a Thesis.
comment: The academic degree of a Thesis
example annot: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Magazine
example annot: New Yorker
comment: A periodical of magazine Articles. A magazine is a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports.
short def: Contains articles of current events or general interest, geared to the reading public as being informative or recreational

Address
example annot: University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
short def: A code and abstract concept expressing a location on the Earth's surface. To classify US specific addresses, use core:US Postal Code.

Center
example annot: Alchohol Education Center; Center for Arts and Public Policy; Hearing Research Center
short def: A place where a particular activity or service is concentrated.

LibrarianPosition
example annot: Librarian; Library Systems Analyst; Music Bibliographer
short def: A position held by library and information science professionals, or academic or technical experts, in support of providing information services or materials

Image
short def: A visual representation such as a photograph or graph
comment: A document that presents visual or diagrammatic information.
example annot: photograph; diagram

Thesis
short def: Works created to satisfy the requirements for an academic certification or degree; also called dissertation
comment: A document created to summarize research findings associated with the completion of an academic degree.

VocabularySourceReference
example annot: http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATHierarchy
short def: The concept name, URL, and source vocabulary name of a Subject Area.

Document
comment: A document (noun) is a bounded physical representation of body of information designed with the capacity (and usually intent) to communicate. A document may manifest symbolic, diagrammatic or sensory-representational information.
short def: A bounded physical representation of a body of information designed with the capacity (and usually intent) to communicate

Bill
comment: Draft legislation presented for discussion to a legal body.
short def: Draft legislation presented for discussion to a legal body

CourseSection
short def: A section of a course taught by one or more people, in a semester, at a time, in a place.
example annot: Section A; Section III

AcademicArticle
short def: Written by scholars for other scholars, typically published in an academic journal with an abstract and bibliography
example annot: A specific academic journal article
comment: A scholarly academic article, typically published in a journal.

ReferenceSource
comment: A document that presents authoritative reference information, such as a dictionary or encylopedia .
short def: A document that presents authoritative reference information, such as a dictionary or encylopedia

NewsRelease
short def: A short written piece focused on an event or announcement of note, having a defined publication time and of less enduring interest than a news feature.

geographical region
short def: Region divided by a demarcated area of the Earth.
example annot: Africa; Americas; Asia; Caribbean; Polynesia; Middle Africa; Northern America; Southern Asia

Authorship
short def: Contains the authors name, their rank in the publication, and whether or not they are a corresponding author on the publication.
example annot: Currently any abstract name is given to members of this class. This could change in the future.

Workshop
comment: A seminar, discussion group, or the like, that emphasizes zxchange of ideas and the demonstration and application of techniques, skills, etc.

FacultyPosition
short def: Academic position in a university or institution
example annot: Professor; Associate Professor; Assistant Professor

EditedBook
example annot: Best American Science Writing 2009
comment: An edited book.
short def: An edited collection of stand-alone articles published as a book

PersonalCommunication
short def: A communication between an agent and one or more specific recipients.
comment: A communication between an agent and one or more specific recipients.
example annot: Phone call; Email

Map
comment: A graphical depiction of geographic features.
short def: A graphical depiction of geographic features, scientific discipline, scientific data analytical results

PostDoc
short def: A Person holding an academic employment appointment focused on research rather than teaching; temporary (or for some defined term)

self governing
short def: Politically independent territories.
example annot: Afghanistan; Antigua and Barbuda; Cameroon; Iceland; Jamaica; Nigeria; United States of America
comment: UN Cartographic Section

Database
short def: A structured file of information or a set of logically related data stored and retrieved using computer-based means
example annot: PubMed

Translation
short def: The result of rendering a work from one language to another

GeopoliticalEntity
example annot: Prefer core:GeopoliticalEntity subclasses instead of this class.
short def: A geographical area which is associated with some sort of political structure.

AbstractInformation
short def: Information (typically not physical in nature) and not used for primary display, but instead contributing to the primary display of people, events, and other top level classes and their subclasses.
example annot: Normally not used for classifying items. But, will display instances from the subclasses under core:Abstract Information

InternationalActivity
short def: An activity explicitly international in nature, typically involving collaboration, informal or formal agreements for ongoing overseas work, and special expertise in the international domain involved.
example annot: International discussion on semantic web

Conference
comment: A meeting for consultation or discussion.
example annot: 2010 International Congress on Autoimmunity; American Libraries Association 2009
short def: A meeting for consultation or discussion.

ResearchActivity
short def: An activity involving research (funded or unfunded), only sometimes linked to a grant
example annot: Bacteria-resistant bandage; Termite prevention system; Hurricane resistant houses

Catalog
example annot: NLM Catalog
short def: A list of items in a collection; an ordered compilation of item descriptions and sufficient information to afford access to them