Registry The Extensible Observation Ontology

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.

Prefix: oboe
Keywords: biodiversity ecology environmental science ess fair data spaces nfdi4chem observations ontology
License: CC-BY-3.0
Links: Homepage Repository OWL Request Discussion
Publications: 2007 An ontology for describing and synthesizing ecological observation data

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier: Characteristic Resolve
Example CURIE: oboe:Characteristic

Contacts

Contact: Bryce Mecum 0000-0002-0381-3766 amoeba
Contributors: submitter Philip Strömert 0000-0002-1595-3213 StroemPhi
Reviewer: Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt

Ontology

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

In Collection (4): NFDI4Chem Collection NFDI4Earth Collection FAIRagro Collection NFDI4Biodiversity Collection

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 8 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`OBOE`
AgroPortal	`agroportal`	`OBOE`
BiodivPortal	`biodivportal`	`OBOE`
BioPortal	`bioportal`	`OBOE`
EcoPortal	`ecoportal`	`OBOE`
FAIRSharing	`fairsharing`	`FAIRsharing.5970hq`
Prefix Commons	`prefixcommons`	`oboe`
TIB-TS	`tib`	`oboe-core`

Providers

Suggest

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 Characteristic is used to demonstrate the providers available for The Extensible Observation 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.

Provider Name	Provider Code	URI
The Extensible Observation Ontology	`oboe`	http://ecoinformatics.org/oboe/oboe.1.2/oboe-core.owl#Characteristic
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/oboe:Characteristic

Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Provider Name	Provider Code	URL
Bio2RDF	`bio2rdf`	http://bio2rdf.org/oboe:Characteristic

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("oboe")
'The Extensible Observation Ontology'

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("oboe")
'CC-BY-3.0'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("oboe")
'https://github.com/NCEAS/oboe'

Get the repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("oboe")
'https://github.com/NCEAS/oboe'

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("oboe")
'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NCEAS/oboe/refs/heads/master/oboe.owl'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("oboe")
'Bryce Mecum'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("oboe")
'brycemecum@gmail.com'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("oboe")
'amoeba'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("oboe")
'0000-0002-0381-3766'