Acronym | TOP |
Visibility | Public |
Description | The Thesaurus Of Plant characteristics (TOP), aims to harmonize and formalize concepts for plant characteristics widely used in ecology. TOP concentrates on two types of plant characteristics: traits and environmental associations. Characteristics are modelled as the ‘Quality’ of an ‘Entity’ used in the context of Open Biological Ontologies. Whenever possible, the Entities and Qualities are taken from existing terminology standards, mainly the Plant Ontology (PO) and Phenotypic Quality Ontology (PATO) ontologies. TOP provides names, definitions, units, synonyms and related terms for about 850 plant characteristics. |
Status | Production |
Format | OWL |
Contact | Baptiste Laporte, baptiste.laporte@fondationbiodiversite.fr Éric Garnier, Eric.GARNIER@cefe.cnrs.fr |
Categories | Biodiversity and Ecology, Plant Phenotypes and Traits, Plant Science and Plant Products |
Groups | GDR SemanDiv |
URI | http://top-thesaurus.org/trait# |
deprecated | false |
endpoint | ![]() |
example Identifier | http://top-thesaurus.org/trait#TOP598 |
Contributors | Éric Garnier, Jens Kattge, Marie-Angélique Laporte, Ulrike Stahl, Stefan Klotz, Ingolf Kühn, Lutz Maicher, Isabelle Mougenot, Farshid Ahrestani, Bernard Amiaud, Gerhard Bönisch, Dan Bunker, Hans Cornelissen, Sandra Díaz, Brian Enquist, Sophie Gachet, Pedro Jaureguiberry, Michael Kleyer, Baptiste Laporte, Sandra Lavorel, Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy, Hendrik Poorter, Mark Schildhauer, Bill Shipley, Cyrille Violle, Evan Weiher, Christian Wirth, Ian Wright. |
has Formality Level | http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#thesaurus |
Ontology Syntax | http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/RIF_XML |
identifier | http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12698 |
is Aligned To | PO, PATO |
is Of Type | http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#DomainOntology |
keywords | biodiversity, ecology, plant characteristics, plant environmental association, plant trait |
known Usage | Harmonizing definitions of concepts, as proposed by TOP, forms the basis for better integration of data across heterogeneous data sets and terminologies, thereby increasing the potential for data reuse. It also allows enhanced scientific synthesis. TOP therefore has the potential to improve research and communication not only within the field of ecology, but also in related fields with interest in plant functioning and distribution. |
Natural Language | |
preferred Namespace Prefix | top |
preferred Namespace Uri | http://top-thesaurus.org/trait# |
Release date | 2018-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 |
URI Lookup Endpoint | http://data.agroportal.lirmm.fr/search?ontologies=TOP&require_exact_match=true&q= |
version | 1.0 |
No views of TOP available
Classes | 864 |
Individuals | 863 |
Properties | 0 |
Maximum depth | 6 |
Maximum number of children | 197 |
Average number of children | 7 |
Classes with a single child | 20 |
Classes with more than 25 children | 8 |
Classes with no definition | 6 |