Selected The Biological Collections Ontology Terms — English (BCO)

Selected terminology labels for The Biological Collections Ontology. Original publisher/project: Biological Collections Ontology; credited creators: Barry Smith; Biocode Commons Ontology Hackathon members; John Deck; John Wieczorek; Ramona Walls; Robert Guralnick. Original source: https://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco.owl; actual download: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco/master/bco.owl; official project record: https://obofoundry.org/ontology/bco.html. Retrieved 2026-11-07. Version: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bco/releases/2021-11-14/bco.owl; 2021-11-14. Original artifact SHA-256: ccd231904600b69ca201ca0c49863976c2b44bb18daac3710e9109cf449eb805. Original and public license: CC0-1.0; license evidence is embedded in that exact artifact: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Source IDs and individual source citations are preserved. Languages: English; explicit tags are retained; untagged English labels are inferred from the OLS language index, with this inference retained in private source notes. No nationality, jurisdiction or cross-language equivalence is inferred. Only active own-project owl:Class primary labels and explicit exact synonyms are included. Deprecated classes, general alternative labels, external namespaces, definitions, relationships and imports are excluded. This is a selected subset, not the complete ontology. Semantic review is ongoing; the resource library does not claim project authorization or endorsement.

Curator: Oliver Bennett