appears_in:
- agro
- clyh
- duo
- ecocore
- ecto
- fbbi
- fovt
- labo
- maxo
- mcro
- pco
- psdo
- xpo
contact:
  email: zhengj2007@gmail.com
  github: zhengj2007
  name: Jie Zheng
  orcid: 0000-0002-2999-0103
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: An ontology of information entities, originally driven by work by the
  Ontology of Biomedical Investigation (OBI) digital entity and realizable information
  entity branch.
download_obo: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.obo
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl
example: '0000030'
example_extras: []
homepage: https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/
keywords:
- assay
- biomedical science
- data identity and mapping
- drug report
- experimental measurement
- fair data spaces
- nfdi4chem
- nfdi4ing
- nfdixcs
- obo
- ontology
- study design
- subject agnostic
license: CC-BY-4.0
logo: https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/13591168?v=3&s=200
mappings:
  aberowl: IAO
  bartoc: '583'
  biocontext: IAO
  bioportal: IAO
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.gq1xtx
  go: IAO
  miriam: iao
  n2t: iao
  obofoundry: iao
  ols: iao
  ontobee: IAO
  prefixcommons: iao
  tib: iao
  wikidata.entity: Q55118415
name: Information Artifact Ontology
namespace_in_lui: false
owners:
- name: University of Pennsylvania
  ror: 00b30xv10
pattern: ^\d{7}$
preferred_prefix: IAO
prefix: iao
providers:
- code: bio2rdf
  description: Bio2RDF is an open-source project that uses Semantic Web technologies
    to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the Life Sciences.
    Bio2RDF defines a set of simple conventions to create RDF(S) compatible Linked
    Data from a diverse set of heterogeneously formatted sources obtained from multiple
    data providers.
  homepage: https://bio2rdf.org
  name: Bio2RDF
  uri_format: http://bio2rdf.org/iao:$1
- code: legacy
  description: A URI from the semanticweb.og
  homepage: http://www.semanticweb.org
  name: Legacy URI
  uri_format: http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/2011/9/Ontology1317751904226.owl#IAO_$1
publications:
- doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-101-4-68
  pubmed: '22874154'
  title: An information artifact ontology perspective on data collections and associated
    representational artifacts
  year: 2012
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_$1
repository: https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_$1
version: '2026-03-30'
