Ontology / Vocabulary
65 data model standards at the ontology / vocabulary layer. Every one confirmed against its steward's own site.
| Standard | Steward | Domain | Access | Modernity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASHRAE 223P Semantic Data Model | ASHRAE | Built Environment | spec sold | 41.4 Legacy |
| BFO (Basic Formal Ontology) | BFO community / ISO IEC 21838-2 | Cross Domain | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| BIBFRAME | Library of Congress | Library | open | 65.6 Modernizing |
| BIBO (Bibliographic Ontology) | Bibliographic Ontology community | Scholarly | open | 76.1 Current |
| Bioschemas | Bioschemas community / ELIXIR | Life Sciences | open | 66.7 Modernizing |
| Brick Schema | Brick Consortium | Built Environment | open | — |
| CARO (Common Anatomy Reference Ontology) | OBO Foundry | Biology | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| CIDOC CRM | ICOM / CIDOC | Cultural Heritage | open | 65.3 Modernizing |
| CL (Cell Ontology) | OBO Foundry | Biology | open | 69.9 Modernizing |
| ChEBI | EMBL-EBI | Chemistry | — | 67.5 Modernizing |
| Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL) | Creative Commons / W3C | Cross Domain | open | 65.4 Modernizing |
| Credential Engine CTDL | Credential Engine | HR | open | 85.6 Current |
| Crop Ontology | CGIAR / Crop Ontology Consortium | Agriculture | open | 60.3 Modernizing |
| DOAP (Description of a Project) | DOAP community | Software Development | open | 82.2 Current |
| DOID (Human Disease Ontology) | Disease Ontology project | Healthcare | open | 84.5 Current |
| ECO (Evidence and Conclusion Ontology) | OBO Foundry / ECO project | Life Sciences | open | 73.1 Current |
| EMMO (Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology) | EMMC / EMMO consortium | Materials | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| ENVO (Environment Ontology) | OBO Foundry / EnvO project | Ecology | open | 69.0 Modernizing |
| EU Core Vocabularies (Person, Business, Location, Criterion) | European Commission (SEMIC) | Government | open | 53.5 Modernizing |
| Event Ontology | Centre for Digital Music, QMUL | Cross Domain | open | 66.2 Modernizing |
| FIBO (Financial Industry Business Ontology) | EDM Council / OMG | Finance | — | 76.1 Current |
| FOAF | FOAF project | Cross Domain | open | 67.0 Modernizing |
| FoodOn | FoodOn Consortium / OBO Foundry | Food | open | — |
| Gene Ontology | Gene Ontology Consortium | Biology | open | 69.0 Modernizing |
| GoodRelations | Martin Hepp / merged into schema.org | Commerce | — | 63.1 Modernizing |
| IAO (Information Artifact Ontology) | OBO Foundry | Cross Domain | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| ISO 15926 | ISO TC 184 SC 4 / POSC Caesar | Chemical Engineering | spec sold | — |
| InPhO (Indiana Philosophy Ontology) | Indiana University | Philosophy | licence | — |
| Linked Art | Linked Art community | Cultural Heritage | open | 70.0 Modernizing |
| MONDO Disease Ontology | Monarch Initiative | Healthcare | open | 73.1 Current |
| MovieLabs Ontology for Media Creation (OMC) | MovieLabs | Media | — | — |
| NBO (Neuro Behavior Ontology) | OBO Foundry | Psychology | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| Nomisma.org | Nomisma.org / American Numismatic Society | Cultural Heritage | open | 63.9 Modernizing |
| OBI (Ontology for Biomedical Investigations) | OBO Foundry / OBI Consortium | Life Sciences | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| OBO Foundry ontologies | OBO Foundry | Biology | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| OGC GeoSPARQL | Open Geospatial Consortium / W3C | Geospatial | open | 70.0 Modernizing |
| OWL (Web Ontology Language) | W3C | Cross Domain | open | 62.9 Modernizing |
| OntoLex-Lemon | W3C Ontology-Lexica Community Group | Linguistics | open | 61.4 Modernizing |
| OpenStreetMap tagging schema | OpenStreetMap Foundation / community | Geospatial | open | — |
| OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions | CNCF / OpenTelemetry | Observability | open | — |
| Orphanet Rare Disease Ontology (ORDO) | Orphanet / INSERM | Healthcare | open | 69.0 Modernizing |
| PATO (Phenotype And Trait Ontology) | OBO Foundry | Biology | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| PO (Plant Ontology) | Plant Ontology Consortium | Agriculture | open | — |
| PRO (Protein Ontology) | OBO Foundry / PRO Consortium | Proteomics | open | 69.0 Modernizing |
| PROV-O | W3C | Cross Domain | open | 72.7 Current |
| Project Haystack | Project Haystack | Built Environment | open | 72.7 Current |
| QUDT (Quantities, Units, Dimensions, Types) | QUDT.org | Cross Domain | open | 77.4 Current |
| RDF / RDFS | W3C | Cross Domain | open | 64.3 Modernizing |
| RDF Data Cube vocabulary | W3C | Statistics | open | 69.0 Modernizing |
| RO (Relation Ontology) | OBO Foundry | Cross Domain | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| SAREF (Smart Applications REFerence ontology) | ETSI | Iot | open | 60.3 Modernizing |
| SHACL | W3C | Cross Domain | open | 63.3 Modernizing |
| SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) | SIOC project / W3C member submission | Cross Domain | open | — |
| SKOS | W3C | Cross Domain | open | 63.0 Modernizing |
| SPAR Ontologies (CiTO, FaBiO, FRAPO) | SPAR Ontologies project | Scholarly | open | — |
| SSN / SOSA (Semantic Sensor Network ontology) | W3C / OGC | Iot | open | 63.0 Modernizing |
| STATO (Statistical Methods Ontology) | OBO Foundry / STATO project | Statistics | open | — |
| UO (Units of Measurement Ontology) | OBO Foundry | Cross Domain | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology | OBO Foundry / Uberon project | Biology | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| Universal Dependencies | UD community | Linguistics | open | 65.8 Modernizing |
| Vertebrate Trait Ontology (VT) | OBO Foundry / Rat Genome Database | Animal Science | open | 66.3 Modernizing |
| W3C ORG ontology | W3C | Cross Domain | open | 71.0 Modernizing |
| W3C Time Ontology in OWL | W3C / OGC | Cross Domain | open | 67.1 Modernizing |
| WordNet | Princeton University / Global WordNet Association | Linguistics | open | — |
| schema.org Product / Offer vocabulary | W3C Schema.org Community Group | Cross Domain | open | 67.9 Modernizing |