A gazetteer constructed on ontological principles. The countries are actively maintained.

Prefix
gaz
Preferred Prefix
GAZ
Keywords
environmental science geographic location obo ontology
License
CC0-1.0
Links
Homepage Repository OBO OWL
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Gazetteer should match this regular expression:
^\d{8}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
00620027   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Gazetteer should match this regular expression:
^GAZ:\d{8}$

Example CURIE
GAZ:00620027
Pattern for RDF URIs
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GAZ_$1
Example RDF URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GAZ_00620027
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Appears In (1)
SCDO
In Collection (3)
DataPLANT Collection NFDI4Earth Collection FAIRagro Collection
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 9 mappings to external registries with 4 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl GAZ
BioContext biocontext GAZ
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal GAZ
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.wkdjpb
OBO Foundry OBO Foundry logo obofoundry gaz
OLS EBI Ontology Lookup Service logo ols gaz
OntoBee OntoBee logo ontobee GAZ
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P6778
Wikidata (E) Wikidata Entity logo wikidata.entity Q81661634
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 00620027 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Gazetteer. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name Provider Code URI
Gazetteer gaz http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GAZ_00620027
Gazetteer (RDF) rdf http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GAZ_00620027
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/gaz:00620027
OBO Foundry obofoundry http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GAZ_00620027
EBI Ontology Lookup Service ols https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/gaz/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GAZ_00620027
BioPortal Prefixes bioportal https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/GAZ/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GAZ_00620027