Registry Collection Ontology

An OWL 2 DL ontology developed for creating sets, bags and lists of resources, and for inferring collection properties even in the presence of incomplete information.

Prefix: co
Keywords: data type methods ontology semantic web subject agnostic
Links: Homepage Repository OWL Request Discussion
Publications: 2013 The Collections Ontology: Creating and handling collections in OWL 2 DL frameworks; 2019 Computational Reproducibility via Containers in Psychology

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier: Item Resolve
Example CURIE: co:Item

Contacts

Contact: Paolo Ciccarese 0000-0002-5156-2703 pciccarese
Contributor: creator Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt

Ontology

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

Appears In (1): fabio

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 2 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix	Curate
FAIRsharing	`fairsharing`	`FAIRsharing.thskvr`
LOV	`lov`	`co`

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 Item is used to demonstrate the providers available for Collection 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
Collection Ontology	`co`	http://purl.org/co/Item
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/co:Item

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0-1.0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("co")
'Collection Ontology'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("co")
'https://github.com/collections-ontology/collections-ontology'

Get the repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("co")
'https://github.com/collections-ontology/collections-ontology'

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("co")
'https://github.com/collections-ontology/collections-ontology/raw/refs/heads/master/collections.owl'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("co")
'Paolo Ciccarese'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("co")
'paolo.ciccarese@gmail.com'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("co")
'pciccarese'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("co")
'0000-0002-5156-2703'