From ac85ebf8c80ea607b99b7d63c89e644c580c89d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: j2blake Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:41:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Added the README file. --- README.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..28066ec39 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# 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). +