An ontology to support the interoperability of biodiversity data, including data on museum collections, environmental/metagenomic samples, and ecological surveys.

Prefix

bco

Preferred Prefix

BCO

Keywords

biodiversity biological sample biological sample annotation ecology environmental material metagenomics obo ontology taxonomic classification taxonomy

Version

2021-11-14

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Contact

Ramona Walls   0000-0001-8815-0078   ramonawalls

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Biological Collections Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000081   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Biological Collections Ontology should match this regular expression:
^BCO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

BCO:0000081

Publications

2014 Semantics in support of biodiversity knowledge discovery: an introduction to the biological collections ontology and related ontologies

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Appears In (1) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

FOVT

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 9 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BCO_$1

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 0000081 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Biological Collections Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.