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 |
URI | http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco.owl |
bug Database | https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco/issues |
deprecated | false |
endpoint | ![]() |
example Identifier | http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco_0000036 |
funded By | NSF (http://www.nsf.gov/) |
Contributors | John Wieczorek, Biocode Commons Ontology Hackathon members, Barry Smith, John Deck, Robert Guralnick |
Creators | Ramona Walls (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8815-0078) |
has Formality Level | http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology |
has License | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
Ontology Syntax | http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/RDF_XML |
identifier | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089606 |
keywords | biodiversity, ecology, museum collections |
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. |
mailing List | local:bco-discuss@googlegroups.com |
Natural Language | |
ontology Related To | PCO, ENVO |
preferred Namespace Prefix | bco |
preferred Namespace Uri | http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ |
Release date | 2016-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 |
repository | https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco |
URI Lookup Endpoint | http://data.agroportal.lirmm.fr/search?ontologies=BCO&require_exact_match=true&q= |
used Ontology Engineering Tool | OWL API |
Version IRI | http://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 |