bco.md

layout	ontology_detail
id	bco
in_foundry	false
contact	email label github rlwalls2008@gmail.com Ramona Walls ramonawalls
license	url label https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC-0
description	An ontology to support the interoperability of biodiversity data, including data on museum collections, environmental/metagenomic samples, and ecological surveys.
domain	biodiversity collections
homepage	https://github.com/tucotuco/bco
products	id bco.owl
title	Biological Collections Ontology
tracker	https://github.com/tucotuco/bco/issues
activity_status	active

The Biological Collections Ontology (BCO) is a being developed as an application ontology as part of the Biocode Commons project, within the OBO Foundry framework. The goal of the BCO is to support the interoperability of biodiversity data, including data on museum collections, environmental/metagenomic samples, and ecological surveys.