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Ontologies
BCO
Biological Collections Ontology (BCO)
OWL
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Last submission date January 7, 2025
Summary
Classes
Properties
Instances
Notes
Mappings
Widgets
SPARQL

General information

The goal of the BCO is to support the interoperability of biodiversity data, including data on museum collections, environmental/metagenomic samples, and ecological surveys. The BCO covers distinctions between individuals, organisms, voucher specimens, lots, samples, the relations between these entities, and the processes governing the creation and use of "samples". Also within scope are properties including collector, location, time, storage environment, containers, institution, and collection identifiers., The BCO supports the interoperability of biodiversity and biodiversity related data, and ecological surveys. A key aspect of the BCO is distinguishing among material samples (i.e. specimens), observing processes, and data about either of those entities.
Initial created on January 7, 2025. For additional information, contact Ramona Walls (rwalls2008@gmail.com).

Languages

Keywords and classes

biodiversity
ecology
museum collections

Categories and subjects

Bio
Biodiv
Eco
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Metrics

FAIR score
Beta

Total score : 324.0 ( 67.0%)
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Ontology relations network

View of (bpm:viewOf) ×
Imports(omv:useImports) ×
Has equivalences with(door:isAlignedTo) ×
Generally related to or relies on(door:ontologyRelatedTo) ×
Backward compatible(omv:isBackwardCompatibleWith) ×
Incompatible(omv:isIncompatibleWith) ×
Comes from the same domain(door:comesFromTheSameDomain) ×
Similar to(door:similarTo) ×
Specializes(door:explanationEvolution) ×
Generalizes(voaf:generalizes) ×
Disparate modelling with(door:hasDisparateModelling) ×
Has part (has views)(dct:hasPart) ×
Used by(voaf:usedBy) ×
Translation(schema:workTranslation) ×
Translation of(schema:translationOfWork) ×

Submissions

Version
Modified Submitted
Actions

2021-11-14

 January 7, 2025
OWL CSV RDF/XML DIFF

unknown

 October 12, 2017
OWL

Identifiers

URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco.owl

Version IRI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco/releases/2021-11-14/bco.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco/releases/2021-11-14/bco.owl

Other identifier

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089606
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089606

AgroPortal URI

https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/BCO
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/BCO

Dates

Creation date

January 7, 2025

Submission date

January 7, 2025

Persons and organizations

Contact

Ramona Walls

Creator

Ramona Walls

Contributor

Barry Smith
John Deck
Biocode Commons Ontology Hackathon members
Barry Smith
John Deck
Robert Guralnick
Ramona Walls
John Wieczorek
Robert Guralnick

Funded or sponsored by

NSF

Other links

Projects and usage information

Projects using BCO

Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards

Known usage

This ontology can be used to describe physical samples and sampling processes (for example, collection, extraction, and preservation techniques), as well as biodiversity observations that involve no physical sampling.

Methodology and provenance

Created with

OWL API

Community

Repository

https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco
https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco

Bug database

https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco/issues
https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco/issues

Mailing list

local:bco-discuss@googlegroups.com

Notes

The Biological Collections Ontology was originally created at the Biocode Commons Hackathon at GSC14. Older versions can be viewed at http://code.google.com/p/biocode-commons/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fontologies%2Fbiocollections., This is the editor's version of the ontology. Use with caution. For the live version of the ontology, use http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco.owl. The Biological Collections Ontology was originally created at the Biocode Commons Hackathon at GSC14. Older versions can be viewed at http://code.google.com/p/biocode-commons/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fontologies%2Fbiocollections. Some of the classes in this ontology may be replaced by existing or newly requested terms from OBI or other ontologies.

Groups

OBO Foundry
GDR SemanDiv

Content

Root of obsolete branch

http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass
http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass

Identifier pattern

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BCO_[0-9]{7}
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BCO_[0-9]{7}

Preferred namespace URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco_
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco_

Preferred namespace prefix

bco

Example of resource

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco_0000036
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco_0000036

Visits

Views of BCO

No views available for BCO.
ID http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/BCO/BFO_0000006
Preferred name

spatial region

Raw data

rdf:type
rdfs:subClassOf
owl:equivalentClass
rdfs:label
spatial region
rdfs:isDefinedBy
obo_purl:IAO_0000116
Spatial region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the union of a spatial point and a spatial line that doesn't overlap the point, or two spatial lines that intersect at a single point. In both cases the resultant spatial region is neither 0-dimensional, 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, or 3-dimensional.
BFO 2 Reference: Spatial regions do not participate in processes.
obo_purl:BFO_0000179
s-region
obo_purl:BFO_0000180
SpatialRegion
obo_purl:IAO_0000600
A spatial region is a continuant entity that is a continuant_part_of spaceR as defined relative to some frame R. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [035-001])
obo_purl:IAO_0000601
All continuant parts of spatial regions are spatial regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [036-001])
obo_purl:IAO_0000602
(forall (x) (if (SpatialRegion x) (Continuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [035-001]
(forall (x y t) (if (and (SpatialRegion x) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)) (SpatialRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [036-001]
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ID http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002000
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002000
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/BCO/RO_0002000
Type http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#ObjectProperty
Preferred name
2D boundary of
Definitions
a relation between a 2D immaterial entity (the boundary) and a material entity, in which the boundary delimits the material entity

Raw data

owl:inverseOf
obo_purl:IAO_0000115
a relation between a 2D immaterial entity (the boundary) and a material entity, in which the boundary delimits the material entity
obo_purl:IAO_0000112
the surface of my skin is a 2D boundary of my body
obo_purl:IAO_0000116
A 2D boundary may have holes and gaps, but it must be a single connected entity, not an aggregate of several disconnected parts.
Although the boundary is two-dimensional, it exists in three-dimensional space and thus has a 3D shape.
obo_purl:IAO_0000118
2D_boundary_of
boundary of
is 2D boundary of
is boundary of
obo_purl:RO_0001900
rdf:type
rdfs:label
2D boundary of
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