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Walkthrough: Ontology Discovery and Review

Learn how to discover and review ontology terms across MatPortal. This walkthrough covers read-only exploration and clarifies the scope of the account-gated Ontology Editor.

MatPortal provides robust tools for finding and reviewing linked-data terms. This walkthrough demonstrates how to efficiently search for materials concepts, such as an aluminium search across ontologies like HTO, and explore concepts in the HTO classes view.

MatPortal search results for aluminium showing matches across nine ontologies with Details, Visualize, and Mappings actions
Ontology discovery tools help users find and review terms like aluminium across multiple ontologies.

Read-Only Discovery

The public search and discovery workflow is designed for read-only exploration. It allows users to review ontology classes, properties, and hierarchies. Please note that public discovery does not include live SPARQL execution capabilities.

Ontology Editor Access

Ontology Editor access remains account-gated. This walkthrough covers public read-only discovery only; it does not claim that editing, saving, publishing, or Assistant execution was verified.