An ontology of information entities, originally driven by work by the Ontology of Biomedical Investigation (OBI) digital entity and realizable information entity branch.

Prefix

iao

Preferred Prefix

IAO

Keywords

assay biomedical science data identity and mapping data management drug report experimental measurement knowledge and information systems obo ontology protocol reagent study design subject agnostic

Version

2022-11-07

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Jie Zheng   0000-0002-2999-0103   zhengj2007

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000030   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Information Artifact Ontology should match this regular expression:
^IAO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

IAO:0000030

Publications

2012 An information artifact ontology perspective on data collections and associated representational artifacts

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

Appears In (12) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AGRO CLYH DUO ECOCORE ECTO FOVT LABO MAXO MCRO PCO PSDO XPO

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 10 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/IAO_$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 0000030 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Information Artifact Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.