
Ontologies
Community of PracticeWelcome!

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).
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Ontology registries
- Agroportal offers a reference ontology repository for agronomy.
- Ontobee is aimed to facilitate ontology data sharing, visualization, query, integration, and analysis.
- Ontology Look up Service of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI-EMBL)
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.
Documents
- 2017 Work Plan – Detailed description of expected outcomes and deliverables for 2017
- 2018 Work Plan – Detailed description of expected outcomes and deliverables for 2018
- 2019 Work Plan – Detailed description of expected outcomes and deliverables for 2019
- 2020 Work Plan – Detailed description of expected outcomes and deliverables for 2020
- 2021 Work Plan – Detailed description of expected outcomes and deliverables for 2021
- Crop Ontology leaflet
- Dimensions to consider when identifying an ontology for data
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