# What is Vitro?

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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](https://duraspace.org/vivo/).

For more information, contact the [VIVO community](https://duraspace.org/vivo/resources/contact/).