Ontologies
BIODIVTHES
Biodiversity Thesaurus (BIODIVTHES)
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Last submission date September 27, 2022
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General information

This bilingual thesaurus organizes the key concepts of biodiversity sciences, in their basic and applied ecological components. It uses polyhierarchy and includes 818 reciprocal associative relationships. The 1654 French and English descriptors (designating 827 concepts) are enriched with a large number of synonyms (1860) and hidden variants (7020) in both languages. Concepts are grouped into 82 collections, by semantic categories, thematic fields and EBV classes (Essential Biodiversity Variables). Definitions are given with their sources. It could be utilized as a controlled vocabulary to enrich metadata of biodiversity data portals, enhancing semantic interoperability. It aims to extend (via narrower concepts, and synonyms) generic environmental science thesauri/ontologies., Ce thésaurus entièrement bilingue organise les concepts clés des sciences de la biodiversité, dans leurs composantes écologiques fondamentales et appliquées. Il utilise la polyhiérarchie et comprend 818 relations associatives réciproques. Les 1654 descripteurs français et anglais (désignant 827 concepts) sont accompagnés d'un grand nombre de synonymes (1860) et de variantes cachées (7020) dans les 2 langues. Les concepts sont regroupés en 82 collections, par catégories sémantiques, domaines thématiques et classes de VEB (variables essentielles de biodiversité). Les définitions sont données avec leurs sources. Cette ressource est alignée sur les thésaurus internationaux AGROVOC, GEMET (GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus) et EnvThes (Environmental Thesaurus), ainsi que sur l'ontologie ENVO (Environment Ontology)., thematic fields and EBV classes (Essential Biodiversity Variables). Definitions are given with their sources. This resource is aligned with the international thesauri AGROVOC, GEMET (GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus) and EnvThes (Environmental Thesaurus), as well as with the ontology ENVO (Environment Ontology). See more...
Initial created on January 1, 2015. For additional information, contact Biodiversity Thesaurus Contact (contact-terminologietal@inist.fr) and Dominique Vachez (dovachez@outlook.fr).

Languages

Keywords and classes

biodiversity
ecology

Categories and subjects

Nat Res
Eco
Biodiv
Env
Ecology
Environmental Sciences
Ecology, Environmental Sciences
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Total score : 282.75 ( 59.0%)
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Identifiers

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/BLH
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/BLH

Version IRI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/BLH/2.1
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/BLH/2.1

Other identifier

http://dx.doi.org/10.13143/lotr.4647
http://dx.doi.org/10.13143/lotr.4647

AgroPortal URI

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

Dates

Creation date

January 1, 2015

Submission date

September 27, 2022

Modification date

September 1, 2022

Persons and organizations

Contact

Biodiversity Thesaurus contact
Dominique Vachez

Contributor

Dominique Vachez
Isabelle Gomez

Publisher

INIST (http://www.inist.fr/)

Other links

Projects and usage information

Projects using BIODIVTHES

Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards
Data to Knowledge in Agronomy and Biodiversity

Known usage

Concepts and terms included in Biodiversity Thesaurus have been originally used to index the CNRS multilingual bibliographic database. The thesaurus has been developed for the purpose of homogenization and structuring of key-concepts of ecology and biodiversity within the framework of GDR SemanDiv (Research Group on Semantics of bioDiversity).

Designed for task (as defined by OMV).

http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IntegrationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IntegrationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IndexingTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IndexingTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#MediationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#MediationTask

Methodology and provenance

Created with

VocBench

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Notes

This new edition 2.1 is the result of a complete revision of version 1.2. It has been enriched with 212 new concepts and 1000 new alternative terms, with a redesigned hierarchical structure, reducing the number of top level concepts by half. , This new edition 2.1 is the result of a complete revision of version 1.2. It has been enriched with 212 new concepts and 1000 new alternative terms, with a redesigned hierarchical structure, reducing the number of top level concepts by half. Alignments have been updated with AGROVOC (2022-02-01) and GEMET 4.2.3 (2021) versions, and performed with two new semantic resources: ENVTHES 3 (2020-07-03) and ENVO (2021-05-14).

Groups

GDR SemanDiv

Content

Preferred namespace prefix

bdt

Example of resource

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/BLH-FHNG3BCR-H
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/BLH-FHNG3BCR-H

Metadata vocabulary used

skos
http://purl.org/iso25964/skos-thes#
rdfs
dc
http://www.inist.fr/Ontology#
owl
dct
cc

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