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Consider adopting OBOE onotology and terminology #95

Closed dfalster closed 6 years ago

dfalster commented 6 years ago

The Extensible Observation Ontology (OBOE) is a formal ontology for capturing the semantics of scientific observation and measurement. The ontology supports researchers to add detailed semantic annotations to scientific data, thereby clarifying the inherent meaning of scientific observations.

Mark Schildhauer, Matthew B. Jones, Shawn Bowers, Joshua Madin, Sergeui Krivov, Deana Pennington, Ferdinando Villa, Benjamin Leinfelder, Christopher Jones, and Margaret O'Brien. 2016. OBOE: the Extensible Observation Ontology, version 1.1. KNB Data Repository. doi:10.5063/F11C1TTM

The original publication describing the OBOE concept is:

Madin, J., S. Bowers, M. Schildhauer, S. Krivov, D. Pennington, and F. Villa. 2007. An ontology for describing and synthesizing ecological observation data. Ecological Informatics 2:279–296. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.05.004

Source code on Github: NCEAS/oboe

dfalster commented 6 years ago

We already do this. Describe in documentation.