The Experimental Measurements, Purposes, and Treatments ontologY (EMPTY) is a structured vocabulary designed to capture and standardize the scientific reasoning behind experimental measurements. It addresses a critical gap in existing metadata standards, which primarily focus on technical specifications rather than scientific intent. The ontology provides a common language to express why a measurement was taken and the conceptual conditions under which it should be interpreted. By focusing on experimental purposes and treatments, EMPTY is designed to significantly improve the findability, interoperability, and reusability of scientific data. This enables researchers to discover relevant datasets for meta-analyses and cross-disciplinary research based on shared scientific goals. (from https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io/issues/2753)

Prefix

empty

Keywords

ontology

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Experimental Measurements Purposes and Treatments ontologY should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

00000085   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Experimental Measurements Purposes and Treatments ontologY should match this regular expression:
^empty:\d+$

Example CURIE

empty:00000085

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

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 00000085 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Experimental Measurements Purposes and Treatments ontologY. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.