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VIVO provides the capability to add ontologies and use them to describe your data and for query.  You can add your own, or pre-existing ontologies.  In each case, the ontology to be added will appear in the VIVO Ontology list and can be used.

Web Interface

Create an Ontology

To create an ontology from the web interface, follow the steps in Create, Assign, and Use an Institutional Internal Class.  These instructions show how to create an ontology using the web interface, and add a class, the Institutional Class to the ontology.

Load an Existing Ontology

You can add a into VIVO is to use the Add/Remove RDF Data feature shown on the Site Admin page.  This loads an ontology directly into the triple store.  The disadvantage is that all additional ontologies and local edits are loaded into a single graph.  This can make it cumbersome to update individual ontologies to reflect edits made outside of VIVO.

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