Biological Collections Ontology

Last uploaded: October 12, 2017
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Acronym BCO
Visibility Public
Description 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.
Status Production
Format OWL
Contact Ramona Walls, rwalls2008@gmail.com
Categories Biodiversity and Ecology, Taxonomic Classifications of Organisms
Groups GDR SemanDiv, OBO Foundry
Additional Metadata
URIhttp://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco.owl
bug Databasehttps://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco/issues
deprecatedfalse
endpoint
example Identifierhttp://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco_0000036
funded ByNSF (http://www.nsf.gov/)
ContributorsJohn Wieczorek, Biocode Commons Ontology Hackathon members, Barry Smith, John Deck, Robert Guralnick
CreatorsRamona Walls (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8815-0078)
has Formality Levelhttp://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology
has Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Ontology Syntaxhttp://www.w3.org/ns/formats/RDF_XML
identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089606
keywordsBiodiversity, Ecology, Museum collections
known UsageThis 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.
mailing Listlocal:bco-discuss@googlegroups.com
Natural Language
ontology Related Tohttp://data.agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/ENVO, http://data.agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/PCO
preferred Namespace Prefixbco
Release date2016-12-14T00:00:00+00:00
repositoryhttps://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco
URI Lookup Endpointhttp://data.agroportal.lirmm.fr/search?ontologies=BCO&require_exact_match=true&q=
used Ontology Engineering ToolOWL API
Version IRIhttp://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco/releases/2016-12-14/bco.owl
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Classes 157
Individuals 28
Properties 209
Maximum depth 9
Maximum number of children 38
Average number of children 3
Classes with a single child 19
Classes with more than 25 children 1
Classes with no definition 24
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