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

Version

2016-03-26

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Contact

Bill Hogan

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

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 6 mappings to external registries for geogeo.

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.