appears_in:
- fovt
contact:
  email: rlwalls2008@gmail.com
  github: ramonawalls
  name: Ramona Walls
  orcid: 0000-0001-8815-0078
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: An ontology to support the interoperability of biodiversity data, including
  data on museum collections, environmental/metagenomic samples, and ecological surveys.
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco.owl
example: 0000081
example_extras: []
homepage: https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco
keywords:
- biodiversity
- biospecimen
- dataplant
- earth sciences
- ecology
- environmental material
- ess
- metagenomics
- obo
- ontology
- sample annotation
- taxonomic classification
- taxonomy
license: CC0-1.0
mappings:
  aberowl: BCO
  agroportal: BCO
  biocontext: BCO
  biodivportal: BCO
  bioportal: BCO
  ecoportal: BCO
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.8ktkqy
  obofoundry: bco
  ols: bco
  ontobee: BCO
  tib: bco
  wikidata.entity: Q55118250
name: Biological Collections Ontology
namespace_in_lui: false
pattern: ^\d{7}$
preferred_prefix: BCO
prefix: bco
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089606
  pmc: PMC3940615
  pubmed: '24595056'
  title: 'Semantics in support of biodiversity knowledge discovery: an introduction
    to the biological collections ontology and related ontologies'
  year: 2014
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BCO_$1
repository: https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BCO_$1
version: '2021-11-14'
