Ontologies are important to all data-driven research, and this group serves as an intermediary to assess common goals, needs and opportunities across all Platform CoPs and working groups. The Platform’s INSPIRE projects provide a testbed for combining data sets to address a research question based on its recommendations.

The CoP aims at bringing together experts in ontology design, ontology-driven applications (fieldbooks, databases, annotation tools, query tools, etc), semantic web technologies, specialists from 15 CGIAR Centers, collaborative organizations, as well as sister Platform CoPs, for creating a critical mass of expertise to tackle major issues related to semantics for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data in agriculture. By promoting FAIR data principles, the Ontologies CoP fosters a culture that values data, and enables its members to solve global grand challenges faster, better and at greater scale.