Ontologies
BCO
Biological Collections Ontology (BCO)
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Last submission date January 7, 2025
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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. See more...
Initial created on January 7, 2025. For additional information, contact Ramona Walls (rwalls2008@gmail.com).

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Keywords and classes

biodiversity
ecology
museum collections

Categories and subjects

Eco
Bio
Biodiv
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Submissions

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

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

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

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