An ontology to support the interoperability of biodiversity data, including data on museum collections, environmental/metagenomic samples, and ecological surveys.

Prefix

bco

Preferred Prefix

BCO

Keywords

biodiversity biospecimen dataplant earth sciences ecology environmental material ess metagenomics obo ontology sample annotation taxonomic classification taxonomy

Version

2021-11-14

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Publications

2014 Semantics in support of biodiversity knowledge discovery: an introduction to the biological collections ontology and related ontologies

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Biological Collections Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000081   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Biological Collections Ontology should match this regular expression:
^BCO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

BCO:0000081

Pattern for RDF URIs

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BCO_$1

Example RDF URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BCO_0000081

Contact

Ramona Walls   0000-0001-8815-0078   ramonawalls

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

Appears In (1)

FOVT

In Collection (4)

DataPLANT Collection NFDI4Earth Collection FAIRagro Collection NFDI4Biodiversity Collection

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 12 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

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 0000081 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Biological Collections Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.