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Ontologies

Community of Practice

 

Welcome!

Community members gathered at the 2018 PhenoHarmonIS workshop, the biennial event hosted by the Ontologies Community of Practice.

The Ontologies Community of Practice brings together researchers, modelers, information specialists, data managers, and ontology experts from the CGIAR research network, academia, and the private sector, thus creating a critical mass of expertise to tackle the major issues related to semantics for FAIR data in agri-food science. 

The CoP provides the ideal forum for co-learning and knowledge exchange on ontologies and for guiding consistent data annotation, as well as the deployment of quality ontologies in databases and repositories. The CoP stimulates exchanges between domain experts and experts in ontology design, knowledge modeling, ontology-driven applications, and semantic web technologies 

The CoP is led by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and was launched by the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture. 

This webpage presents the different working groups of the CoP, lists the tools developed by CoP members, and displays the latest news. For further details on the CoP’s goals and achievements, read the paper published in Patterns. 

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Ontologies are important to all data-driven research, and this CoP serves as an intermediary to assess common goals, needs, and opportunities across the CoPs and working groups of the Platform. 

The Ontologies CoP harnesses in-house and external expertise in the development of ontologies and supports the other BIG DATA CoPs toward finding adequate ontologies for data description. The Ontologies CoP has the objective of establishing best practices and guidelines in the selection of ontologies of reference and developing and curating ontologies in the agri-food domain.  

The Ontologies CoP works to include data generated by the latest technologies and to expand beyond crops to data on fisheries and aquaculture, livestock, socio-economics, water management, and agroecology. The Ontologies CoP’s thematic working groups currently develop ontologies such as the Crop Ontology (CO), the Agronomy Ontology (AgrO), and the Socio-Economic Ontology (SEOnt). 

Get in touch

CoP Lead

Elizabeth Arnaud | Email
Elizabeth leads the Ontologies CoP and is a scientist at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in Montpellier, France

CoP Communication

Céline AubertEmail
The International Food Policy Research Institute, France

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Webinar - An introductory journey to the Virtual Knowledge Graph approach to data access and data integration

Webinar – An introductory journey to the Virtual Knowledge Graph approach to data access and data integration

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This webinar by the Ontologies Community of Practice features a presentation on accessing scientific data stored in (relational) databases through ...
New webpage featuring the most used ontologies in the agri-food domain

New webpage featuring the most used ontologies in the agri-food domain

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The Ontologies Community of Practice has developed a webpage providing at a glance the most popular ontologies in the agri-food ...
Webinar - The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance

Webinar – The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance

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This webinar by the Ontologies Community of Practice presents the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. Given that most Indigenous ...
Webinar - Cocoa Ontology: A collaborative pathway for FAIR data

Webinar – Cocoa Ontology: A collaborative pathway for FAIR data

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This webinar by the Ontologies Community of Practice presents the integrated data collection workflow that has been developed to make ...
Webinar - Labelled property graphs, Web Ontology Language, and WebProtégé

Webinar – Labelled property graphs, Web Ontology Language, and WebProtégé

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This webinar by the Ontologies Community of Practice presents work on making WebProtégé compatible with a labelled property graph representation ...
Webinar - Governance operational model for ontologies (GOMO)

Webinar – Governance operational model for ontologies (GOMO)

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This webinar by the Ontologies Community of Practice presents the governance operational model for ontologies (GOMO) which establishes an agile ...
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Resources

Tools & Publications

Ontology registries

Ontologies developed/curated by the CoP

  • Agronomy Ontology provides standardized terms to describe agronomic practices, techniques, and variables used in agronomic experiments.
  • Crop Ontology Curation Tool enables you to browse the Crop Ontology, search for specific terms and access the definition, as well as additional information.
  • Planteome provides a suite of reference and species-specific ontologies for plants and annotations to genes and phenotypes.

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  • Fairsharing is a curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies.
  • Obo-Foundry has the objective to develop a family of interoperable ontologies that are both logically well-formed and scientifically accurate.
  • Wheat Data Interoperability Guidelines provides a common framework for describing, representing, linking and publishing wheat data with respect to open standards.

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