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If your ontology assertions contain an owl:Ontology assertion giving the URI of your ontology, your ontology will appear in Site Admin → Ontology List.  Otherwise, your ontology assertions will be added to be VIVO and will be fully functional as classes, object properties, and data properties, but will not be associated with a named ontology.

Ontologies added to VIVO should use the .owl file type, and should be written in OWL DL.  Ontologies written in RDF or OWL FULL are not supported by VIVO.

Using the Web Interface

Create an Ontology from the Web Interface

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After restart, go to Site Admin → Ingest Data → Manage Jena Models.  Review the named graphs.  You should see:

Modifying or removing Removing the myOntology.owl file in from the filegraph directory and restarting Tomcat will automatically remove the named graph.  This will remove all ontology assertions made in myOntology.owl.  It will not remove any abox assertions using myOntology.owl from the content triple store.

Namespace Prefixes

owl:Ontology statements result in the ontology being added to VIVO's Ontology List.  You might see an entry such as:

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