Organizations

You will want to have organizations in your VIVO for a number of reasons:

1. Organizations are the units of your institution -- your colleges, academic departments, administrative units, and laboratories. By representing your organization and its structure (which organizations are parts of others) you will be able to produce reports and visualizations based on your organizational structure, and answer questions such as number of faculty per organization, number of mentors, expertise at the organizational level, productivity and other other assessments.
2. Organizations are the places where your people had positions prior to being at your institution.
3. Organizations are the places where your people were educated.
4. Organizations are the places that provided grant funding to your organization.
5. Organizations are the places where your faculty have collaborators that they work with on scholarship.
6. Organizations are the places where your graduates are now employed.

To put organizations in VIVO, you will want to have a spreadsheet of the organizations that you can use to manage the organizational data. As organizations come and go, add and remove them from your spreadsheet. As more information about organizations becomes available, or as organizational information changes (contact information, web pages, etc), make the updates in your spreadsheet. Use Simple VIVO to update VIVO using the values in your spreadsheet (see below).

examples/orgs

examples/orgs contains the files you need to manage organizations using Simple VIVO.