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Once you have logged into VIVO, clicking on the “Site Admin” link takes you to the “Site Administration” page. As an administrator, you will be able to access all five feature and content areas of VIVO: Data Input, Ontology Editor, Site Configuration, Ontology Editor, Advanced Data Tools, and Refresh Content.Separate guides for ontology editing, data ingest, and manual data input are in development for individuals who will administer local ontologies and data sources. For additional guides please visit http://vivoweb.org/support .Site Maintenance. Each is introduced below.

Data Input

There are two three ways to manually input data into VIVO. On 1) on the Site Administration Menu, a new individual of any type class may be added directly through the Data Input menu.  2) Selections can be made on many of the pages to add individuals.  For example, on user profile pages, users with editing privileges can add, change and remove data. 3) Data can be added as a batch, a collection of RDF triples in a format known to VIVO and expressed in the ontologies known to VIVO.

On the Site Administration page, you can enter a new individual of any type by selecting the type from the drop down menu. Once , and pressing "Add Individual of this class."  VIVO will add an individual of the class you have selected, creating a new URI for the individual, and creating an assertion that the individual is a member of the class you have selected. Once an individual has been created, object and data properties may be added for that individual on the page displaying the individual’s profile. The object and data properties presented for editing will vary by the type of the individual, in accordance with the ontology.;

Ontology Editor

In VIVO, information is identified by references to Unique Resource Identifiers (URIs). URIs can be used by other web pages and applications to locate and retrieve specific chunks of data. The detailed level to which VIVO captures information enables complex relationships among data to be represented.

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