Logo for Information Artifact Ontology An ontology of information entities, originally driven by work by the Ontology of Biomedical Investigation (OBI) digital entity and realizable information entity branch.

Prefix
iao
Preferred Prefix
IAO
Keywords
assay biomedical science data identity and mapping data management drug report experimental measurement knowledge and information systems obo ontology protocol reagent study design subject agnostic
Version
2022-11-07
License
CC-BY-4.0
Links
Homepage Repository OBO OWL
Contact
Jie Zheng   0000-0002-2999-0103   zhengj2007
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Information Artifact Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
0000030   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Information Artifact Ontology should match this regular expression:
^IAO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE
IAO:0000030
Publications
2012 An information artifact ontology perspective on data collections and associated representational artifacts
Ontology

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

Appears In (12) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )
AGRO CLYH DUO ECOCORE ECTO FOVT LABO MAXO MCRO PCO PSDO XPO
Metaregistry Information Artifact Ontology

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 10 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl IAO
BioContext biocontext IAO
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal IAO
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.gq1xtx
GO Gene Ontology Registry logo go IAO
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam iao
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t iao
OBO Foundry OBO Foundry logo obofoundry iao
OLS Ontology Lookup Service logo ols iao
OntoBee OntoBee logo ontobee IAO
RDF Information

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_$1

Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.

Code Name URL
legacy Legacy URI http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/2011/9/Ontology1317751904226.owl#IAO_0000030