An ontology and inventory of geopolitical entities such as nations and their components (states, provinces, districts, counties) and the actual physical territories over which they have jurisdiction. We thus distinguish and assign different identifiers to the US in "The US declared war on Germany" vs. the US in "The plane entered US airspace".

Prefix

geogeo

Preferred Prefix

GEOGEO

Keywords

human geography obo ontology physical geography

Version

2016-03-26

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Contact

Bill Hogan   0000-0002-9881-1017   hoganwr

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Geographical Entity Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{9}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

000000021   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Geographical Entity Ontology should match this regular expression:
^geogeo:\d{9}$

Example CURIE

geogeo:000000021

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource includes the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. The actual part that gets prefixed before the local unique identifier regex, otherwise known as the banana, is GEO_. Therefore, you might see local unique identifiers written out as CURIEs.

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for geogeo with 3 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE geogeo:000000021 is used to demonstrate the provides available for geogeo. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.