appears_in: []
contact:
  email: brycemecum@gmail.com
  github: amoeba
  name: Bryce Mecum
  orcid: 0000-0002-0381-3766
contributor:
  github: StroemPhi
  name: Philip Strömert
  orcid: 0000-0002-1595-3213
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: The Extensible Observation Ontology (OBOE) is a formal ontology for capturing
  the semantics of scientific observation and measurement. The ontology supports researchers
  to add detailed semantic annotations to scientific data, thereby clarifying the
  inherent meaning of scientific observations.
download_owl: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NCEAS/oboe/refs/heads/master/oboe.owl
example: Characteristic
example_extras: []
github_request_issue: 1276
homepage: https://github.com/NCEAS/oboe
keywords:
- biodiversity
- ecology
- environmental science
- observations
- ontology
license: CC-BY-3.0
mappings:
  aberowl: OBOE
  agroportal: OBOE
  bioportal: OBOE
  ecoportal: OBOE
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.5970hq
name: The Extensible Observation Ontology
preferred_prefix: oboe
prefix: oboe
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.05.004
  pmc: PMC8612252
  pubmed: '34817235'
  title: An ontology for describing and synthesizing ecological observation data
  year: 2007
repository: https://github.com/NCEAS/oboe
reviewer:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://ecoinformatics.org/oboe/oboe.1.2/oboe-core.owl#$1
