Vitro

See also: Vitro user wiki

Integrated Ontology Editor and Semantic Web Application

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
• Search your data with Lucene

Download Vitro

The latest source code may be downloaded from our Subversion repository. See the Vitro Deployment Guide for details. Note that this code is in active development; we encourage feedback about bugs or desired functionality.

In the future we plan to tag the stable releases and offer them as packaged downloads.

• Vitro Deployment Guide (last modified 20 July 2009)

• VIVO
• Global Access to Information
• Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences research portal

Contact us

Interested in using Vitro? Got a bug report? Ideas for improvement? We'd love to hear from you!

• Jon Corson-Rikert (jc55 at cornell dot edu) head, Information Technology Services, Albert R. Mann Library
• Brian Caruso (bdc34 at cornell dot edu) software developer
• Brian Lowe (bjl23 at cornell dot edu) software developer

Licensing and acknowledgements

Vitro uses a number of open-source libraries, including HP's Jena semantic web framework and Clark & Parsia's Pellet OWL reasoner. Vitro itself is currently offered under the terms of the Cornell Copyrights Notice and Permit, which allows unrestricted use for non-commercial purposes. Other terms may be possible; contact the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization at 395 Pine Tree Road, Suite 310, Ithaca, NY 14850; email:cctecconnect@cornell.edu; Tel: 607-254-4698; FAX: 607-254-5454 for a commercial license.

This page last modified 10 July 2009.