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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).

It was developed by the BITS project (BluePrints for the Integration of Terminology Services in Earth System Sciences), which was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (project number 508107981, July 2023 – June 2026). The ESS collection's terminologies were firstly chosen by the three project partners TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), and the Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research (SGN) in close cooperation with NFDI4Earth and the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration.

Identifier
0000045
Contributors
Anette Ganske   ORCiD logo 0000-0003-1043-4964   anganske
Angelina Kraft   ORCiD logo 0000-0002-6454-335X   kraftalin
Markus Stocker   ORCiD logo 0000-0001-5492-3212   markusstocker
Size
43
Related Collections
tib.collection:ess
Downloads
AberOWL AgroPortal BARTOC BioContext BiodivPortal Biolink BioPortal Bioregistry Cellosaurus CHEMINF CropOCT EcoPortal EDAM FAIRSharing GO HL7 Integbio LOV Identifiers.org N2T NCBI OBO Foundry OLS OntoBee Pathguide Prefix.cc Prefix Commons re3data RRID TIB-TS TogoID UniProt Wikidata Wikidata (E) Zazuko OLS Configurations
Prefix Name License Download
bco Biological Collections Ontology CC0-1.0
bodc.cf Climate and Forecast Standard Names CC-BY-4.0
bodc.sdn SeaDataNet device categories CC-BY-4.0
chebi Chemical Entities of Biological Interest CC-BY-4.0
dcat Data Catalog CC-BY-4.0
dcterms Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms CC-BY-4.0
dfg.fo DFG Classification of Subject Areas Ontology - 2020-2024 CC-BY-4.0
dpvocab Data Privacy Vocabulary W3C-20150513
dsw Darwin-SW CC0-1.0
duo Data Use Ontology CC-BY-4.0
ecso The Ecosystem Ontology CC-BY-4.0
edam EDAM Ontology CC-BY-SA-4.0
efo Experimental Factor Ontology Apache-2.0
envo Environment Ontology CC0-1.0
envthes Thesaurus for long-term ecological research, monitoring, experiments CC-BY-4.0
flopo Flora Phenotype Ontology CC0-1.0
gemet.concept General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus Concept CC-BY-4.0
geosparql GeoSPARQL Apache-2.0
gfbio.ets Ecological Trait-data Standard CC-BY-4.0
gndo GND-Ontologie CC0-1.0
n4e NFDI4Earth Ontology CC0-1.0
oboe The Extensible Observation Ontology CC-BY-3.0
om Ontology of units of Measure CC-BY-4.0
pato Phenotype And Trait Ontology CC-BY-3.0
po Plant Ontology CC-BY-4.0
prov PROV Namespace W3C-20150513
sbo Systems Biology Ontology Artistic-2.0
schema Schema.org CC-BY-SA-3.0
sio Semanticscience Integrated Ontology CC-BY-4.0
sosa Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator Ontology Custom
ssn Semantic Sensor Network Ontology Custom
stato The Statistical Methods Ontology CC-BY-3.0
sweet Semantic Web for Earth and Environment Technology Ontology CC0-1.0
t4fs terms4FAIRskills CC-BY-4.0
tdwg.abcd Access to Biological Collection Data Schema CC-BY-4.0
tib.bk Basic Classification CC0-1.0
tib.cgo Common Greenhouse Ontology Apache
tib.meth Analytical methods for geochemistry Apache-2.0
time Time Ontology in OWL CC-BY-4.0
to Plant Trait Ontology CC-BY-4.0
uat Unified Astronomy Thesaurus CC-BY-SA-3.0
uo Units of measurement ontology CC-BY-3.0
wlmo Wildlife Monitoring Ontology CC-BY-4.0