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# What is Vitro?
Vitro is a general-purpose web-based ontology and instance editor with customizable public browsing.
Vitro is an integrated ontology editor and semantic web application.
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 Apache Solr
Vitro was originally developed at Cornell University, and is used as the core of the popular
research and scholarship portal, [VIVO](http://vivoweb.org) .
For more information, contact the [VIVO community](http://vivoweb.org/contact).