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Biological Collections Ontology

ontology for biodiversity data
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Key Facts

  • Instance of: knowledge graph[1]
  • Maintained by: Ramona L Walls[2]
  • Copyright license: Creative Commons CC0 License[3]
  • Part of: Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry Ontologies[4], BLOD: Biomedical Linked Open Datasets[5]
  • Catalog code: bco[6]
  • Contributor to the creative work or subject: John Deck[7], Ramona L Walls[8], John Wieczorek[9], Christopher J. Mungall[10], Robert Guralnick[11], Katrin Leinweber[12]
  • Official website: https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco[13], https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/bco[14]
  • Source code repository URL: https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco[15]
  • Described by source: Q109302681[16], BioPortal[17], Ontobee[18]
  • Depends on software: Ontology Development Kit[19]
  • Short name: bco[20]
  • Uses: Basic Formal Ontology[21]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco.owl[22]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [15] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . bioportal.bioontology.org. bioportal.bioontology.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . ontobee.org. ontobee.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . obofoundry.org. Retrieved . obofoundry.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . ifomis.uni-saarland.de. ifomis.uni-saarland.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . obofoundry.org. Retrieved . obofoundry.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Lemoncheddar · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imported from → —
    Wikidata description → ontology for biodiversity data
    Short name → {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'bco'}
    Bartoc id → 17799
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Source code repository url: https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco, Sourced metadata correction; https://github.com/SteveHedden/open-knowledge-graphs/issues/14"
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