The Common Core Ontologies (CCO) comprise twelve ontologies that are designed to represent and integrate taxonomies of generic classes and relations across all domains of interest.

CCO is a mid-level extension of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), an upper-level ontology framework widely used to structure and integrate ontologies in the biomedical domain (Arp, et al., 2015). BFO aims to represent the most generic categories of entity and the most generic types of relations that hold between them, by defining a small number of classes and relations. CCO then extends from BFO in the sense that every class in CCO is asserted to be a subclass of some class in BFO, and that CCO adopts the generic relations defined in BFO (e.g., has_part) (Smith and Grenon, 2004). Accordingly, CCO classes and relations are heavily constrained by the BFO framework, from which it inherits much of its basic semantic relationships.

Prefix
commoncoreontology
Keywords
ontology upper-level ontology
License
CC-BY-4.0
Links
Homepage Repository
Contact
Mark Jensen   0000-0001-9228-8838   mark-jensen
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier
DirectiveInformationContentEntity   Resolve
Example CURIE
commoncoreontology:DirectiveInformationContentEntity
Contributors
Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE commoncoreontology:DirectiveInformationContentEntity is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
Common Core Ontologies commoncoreontology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/DirectiveInformationContentEntity
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/commoncoreontology:DirectiveInformationContentEntity