These resources were listed in Sharing biological data: why, when, and how, which prompted further novel curation of the Bioregistry which included the addition of GenBank, Panorama Public, EMPIAR, and SSBD. It also prompted the curation of mappings to FAIRSharing when possible.

Resources used in the semantic web, drawing from lists in BioContext and LinkML as well as W3C recommendations.

The data sources used in xrefs in the ChEBI ontology. More information in the "Data Sources" section of this document.

This collection contains the many prefixes for the different repackaging of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) throughout its major revisions.

This collection contains various brain atlases from the Allen Institute.

The Semantic Publishing and Referencing (SPAR) Ontologies are a suite of orthogonal and complementary OWL 2 ontologies that enable all aspects of the publishing process to be described in machine-readable metadata statements, encoded using RDF.

Prefixes useful in annotating documentation provenance.

Prefixes exported for the epidemiology domain knowledge graph in the ASKEM project.

Prefixes mentioned on the external list on the FHIR Code Systems page. This list is mostly complete. Notably, some entries that have not been curated:

The Global Biodata Coalition released a curated list of 37 life sciences databases in December 2022 that they consider as having significant importance (see criteria here).

A collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NDFI4Cat Consortium.

A collection of clinical trial registries appearing in the World Health Organization's International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)

These resources represent software repositories

A collection of ontologies relevant within the NFDI4Chem project that is mostly based on the overview paper Ontologies4Chem: the landscape of ontologies in chemistry.

A collection of resources added during Biocuration 2025 in Kansas City, MO, USA.

A curated list by Sage Bionetworks of external resources that are automatically linked on Synapse.org and affiliated data portals

Prefixes relevant for the Data Literacy Alliance (DALIA) project

The prefixes appearing in this collection correspond resources whose entities could appear as values for target groups, media types, educational levels, and other fields in OER data models. It can also include parts that are used to construct schemas for OERs

Prefixes relevant for the digital humanities

KonsortSWD (Strengthen, Widen, Deepen) is the German National Data Infrastructure (NFDI) consortium for social, educational, behavioral, and economic sciences. This collection reflects the prefixes collected by NFDI Section Metadata for ontologies and controlled vocabularies used by members of the consortium.

Prefixes for ontologies relevant for the NFDI4Energy

A collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for engineering and the NFDI4Ing Consortium. Ontologies are chronologically imported from the corresponding TIB Terminology Service collection.

A collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the DataPLANT Consortium seeded from corresponding the TIB OLS collection. See also a recent review on ontologies for plant research data.

A collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the FAIRmat Consortium seeded from corresponding the TIB OLS collection.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI4Culture Consortium seeded from corresponding the TIB OLS collection.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the DAPHNE4NFDI Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying DAPHNE4NFDI Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the MaRDI Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying MaRDI Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.

A collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the BERD@NFDI Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI4DataScience Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping.

A collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI4Earth Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping.

A collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI-MatWerk Consortium created in cooperation with the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the PUNCH4NFDI Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying PUNCH4NFDI Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection. PUNCH4NFDI is notable in that its sub-disciplines (e.g., astronomy, high energy physics, nuclear physics, etc.) have a large variety in data and metadata needs.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the FAIRagro Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying FAIRagro Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.

A collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, database, and schemas relevant for NFDI4BIOIMAGE

A collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDIxCS Consortium.

A collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI4Objects Consortium imported from the consortium's official BARTOC record https://bartoc.org/en/node/18961.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI4Memory Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying NFDI4Memory Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the Text+ Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying Text+ Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the GHGA Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying GHGA Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI4Biodiversity Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying NFDI4Biodiversity Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI4Health Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying NFDI4Health Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI4Microbiota Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying NFDI4Microbiota Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.

A placeholder collection of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and schemas relevant for the NFDI4Immuno Consortium created by the NFDI Section Metadata WG Ontology Harmonization and Mapping. The working group is in the process of identifying NFDI4Immuno Consortium members appropriate for maintaining this collection.

PID4NFDI is a Base4NFDI service that provides documentation about a small number of well-known identifier schemes (e.g., DOI) and services for registering identifiers within them (e.g., DataCite). This collection reflects their PID Providers page. This comes with the following caveats:

The Earth System Sciences (ESS) collection contains terminologies (ontologies and vocabularies) for describing Earth System Sciences (e.g., bodc.cf, envo), data and structures (e.g., prov-o), physical units (e.g., time), as well as measurements and observations (e.g., tib.meth).