About Vitro

First developed for a research and scholarship portal at Cornell University, Vitro is a general-purpose web-based ontology and instance editor with customizable public browsing. Vitro is a Java web application that runs in a Tomcat servlet container.

With Vitro, You Can:

Create or load ontologies in OWL format

Edit instances and relationships

Build a public web site to display your data

Download Latest Source Code for Vitro

The latest source code may be downloaded from the VIVO project’s GitHub repository. The latest branch is a stable release, while the develop branch is the most current version of the code. Since this code is in active development; we encourage feedback about bugs or desired functionality via the vivo-tech mailing list.

Download Latest Vitro Source Code

Give Feedback About BUgs

Give suggestions for desired functionality

Where is Vitro being used?

Vitro is primarily used as a key software component in the open-source VIVO project, a community-supported incubator project under the Lyrasis umbrella.

Licensing & Acknowledgments

Vitro uses a number of open-source libraries, including Apache Jena semantic web framework. Vitro itself is currently offered under the terms of the Open Source Initiative BSD License.

See also: VIVO/Vitro Architecture on the VIVO Lyrasis wiki.