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Vitro is

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an open source, general

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purpose

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, semantic web engine. It is the application development platform underlying VIVO

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With Vitro, you can:

  • Create or load any ontologies in OWL format
  • Edit instances and relationships
  • Display a public web site to search and navigate your data
  • Search your data with Apache Solr

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. Vitro has no domain knowledge. Given ontologies regarding a domain, Vitro supports the editing of the ontology, creation of individuals, management of individuals on "pages" which it generates, organization of individuals into "class groups," indexing, search, faceted browsing, query, import, and export. Vitro has been used to manage collections of clinical trials, spaceships, library catalogs, datasets, and many more.

VIVO is Vitro with an ontology for representing scholarship, and a set of displays and visualizations that support the use of data for expert finding, team building, assessment, and other VIVO use cases.