Karma is a popular and useful tool for data ingestion in VIVO – particularly for mapping relational data to RDF.  Violeta Ilik of Adelphi University has done a lot of work with Karma for VIVO and has put together YouTube videos of the mapping process. The following page contains detailed information about the mapping process: Using the Karma data integration tool.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb9vsw2XvZDzZtEwe0aH9eA

Karma itself can be downloaded and installed using these instructions:

https://github.com/usc-isi-i2/Web-Karma/wiki/Installation%3A-Source-Code

The Karma transformation models used at Northwestern are also on Github. 

https://github.com/NUBIC/R2RML-Karma

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