I believe this directory is where you would add serialized RDF to be automatically loaded when VIVO bootstraps. @brianjlowe does a great job of describing these files, and pointing out some highlights. I did a poor job of capturing this information in realtime, but this pull request is my bookmark to follow up. Action Items: - [ ] capture highlights covered by @brianjlowe in #vivoifest15 session - [ ] identify best place to document all of the existing files in this directory, e.g. a table in this Markdown doc versus in the files themselves? - [ ] identify where to document @ShahimEssaid recommendations regarding best practices for local ontology extensions: * Don't create without discussing use case with vivo ontology mailing list on sourceforge -- new classes and new properties * Don't re-use existing vocab to VIVO-ISF mailing list