NFDI4Biodiversity
A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI4Biodiversity Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying NFDI4Biodiversity Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.
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Ontologies
The following table comes from Semantic Farm collection
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| Prefix | Name | License |
|---|---|---|
abcd | AntiBodies Chemically Defined database | CC-BY-4.0 |
ahol | Animal Health Ontology for Livestock | CC-BY-4.0 |
AISM | Ontology for the Anatomy of the Insect SkeletoMuscular system | CC-BY-4.0 |
APTO | Agriculture Product Types Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
atol | Animal Trait Ontology for Livestock | CC-BY-4.0 |
BCO | Biological Collections Ontology | CC0-1.0 |
BFO | Basic Formal Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
biodivthes | Biodiversity Thesaurus | CC-BY-4.0 |
bohlmann | Bohlmann Ontology | CC0-1.0 |
BSPO | Biological Spatial Ontology | CC-BY-3.0 |
CARO | Common Anatomy Reference Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
CHEBI | Chemical Entities of Biological Interest | CC-BY-4.0 |
CL | Cell Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
COB | Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine | CC0-1.0 |
codata.rdmt | CODATA Research Data Management Terminology | CC-BY-4.0 |
COLAO | Coleoptera Anatomy Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
dcat | Data Catalog | CC-BY-4.0 |
dfg.fo | DFG Classification of Subject Areas Ontology - 2020-2024 | CC-BY-4.0 |
ECO | Evidence and Conclusion Ontology | CC0-1.0 |
edam | EDAM Ontology | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
ENVO | Environment Ontology | CC0-1.0 |
envthes | Thesaurus for long-term ecological research, monitoring, experiments | CC-BY-4.0 |
eol | Environment Ontology for Livestock | CC-BY-4.0 |
FLOPO | Flora Phenotype Ontology | CC0-1.0 |
geonames | GeoNames | CC-BY-4.0 |
gfbio.biobank | AMMOD Metabarcoding Ontology | |
gfbio.biol | Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary 0.2 (Core) | |
gfbio.botany | Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary 0.2 (Botany) | |
gfbio.ets | Ecological Trait-data Standard | CC-BY-4.0 |
gfbio.iho | IHO World Seas | |
gfbio.kingdom | Kingdom Ontology | CC0-1.0 |
gfbio.top | Thesaurus of Plant Characteristics | |
iadopt | I-ADOPT Framework Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
inbio | Invasion Biology Ontology | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 |
iso.3166 | ISO 3166-1 Country Code | |
itis | Integrated Taxonomic Information System | CC0-1.0 |
LEPAO | Lepidoptera Anatomy Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
lpt | Livestock Product Trait Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
NCBITaxon | NCBI Taxonomy | CC0-1.0 |
nfdi.core | NFDI Core Ontology | CC0-1.0 |
OBA | Ontology of Biological Attributes | CC0-1.0 |
oboe | The Extensible Observation Ontology | CC-BY-3.0 |
odm2.methodtype | Method Type Vocabulary | |
odm2.specimentype | Specimen Type Vocabulary | |
oim | Ocean Information Model | CC-BY-4.0 |
om | Ontology of units of Measure | CC-BY-4.0 |
PATO | Phenotype And Trait Ontology | CC-BY-3.0 |
PCO | Population and Community Ontology | CC0-1.0 |
PO | Plant Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
prov | PROV Namespace | W3C-20150513 |
qudt | Quantities, Units, Dimensions, and Types Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
RO | Relation Ontology | CC0-1.0 |
schema | Schema.org | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
sosa | Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator Ontology | Custom |
sumso | Sustainable Meat Systems Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
sweet | Semantic Web for Earth and Environment Technology Ontology | CC0-1.0 |
SWO | Software Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
taxonconcept | TaxonConcept Ontology | |
TAXRANK | Taxonomic rank vocabulary | CC0-1.0 |
tib.bk | Basic Classification | CC0-1.0 |
TO | Plant Trait Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
UBERON | Uber Anatomy Ontology | CC-BY-3.0 |
unesco.thesaurus | UNESCO Thesaurus | CC-BY-3.0-IGO |
VBO | Vertebrate Breed Ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
VT | Vertebrate trait ontology | CC-BY-4.0 |
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