diff --git a/app/controllers/institutions_controller.rb b/app/controllers/institutions_controller.rb
index c076847269..fc2c3654d3 100644
--- a/app/controllers/institutions_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/institutions_controller.rb
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ def show
       # format.json { render layout: false, json: JSON.parse(JbuilderTemplate.new(view_context).api_format!(@institution).target!) }
       #format.json { render json: @institution } #normal json
       format.json {render json: @institution, include: [params[:include]]}
+      format.rdf { render template: 'rdf/show' }
     end
   end
 
diff --git a/app/models/institution.rb b/app/models/institution.rb
index b44f65504f..70efb97b2d 100644
--- a/app/models/institution.rb
+++ b/app/models/institution.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 class Institution < ApplicationRecord
-
   acts_as_yellow_pages
 
   auto_strip_attributes :web_page, :title
diff --git a/lib/seek/rdf/jerm_vocab.rb b/lib/seek/rdf/jerm_vocab.rb
index db8a381d1a..bfd34bdc87 100644
--- a/lib/seek/rdf/jerm_vocab.rb
+++ b/lib/seek/rdf/jerm_vocab.rb
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ def self.defined_types
           Investigation => :Investigation,
           Publication => :Publication,
           Strain => :Strain,
-          Sample => :Sample
+          Sample => :Sample,
+          Institution => :Institution
         }
       end
 
diff --git a/test/unit/util_test.rb b/test/unit/util_test.rb
index 557296b7ed..5605ca1281 100644
--- a/test/unit/util_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/util_test.rb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def teardown
   test 'rdf capable types' do
     types = Seek::Util.rdf_capable_types
     expected = %w[Assay DataFile Investigation Model ObservationUnit Organism Person Programme Project Publication 
-Sample Sop Strain Study]
+Sample Sop Strain Study Institution]
     assert_equal expected, types.collect(&:name).sort
   end