The Common Core Ontologies (CCO) comprise twelve ontologies that are designed to represent and integrate taxonomies of generic classes and relations across all domains of interest.
CCO is a mid-level extension of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), an upper-level ontology framework widely used to structure and integrate ontologies in the biomedical domain (Arp, et al., 2015). BFO aims to represent the most generic categories of entity and the most generic types of relations that hold between them, by defining a small number of classes and relations. CCO then extends from BFO in the sense that every class in CCO is asserted to be a subclass of some class in BFO, and that CCO adopts the generic relations defined in BFO (e.g., has_part) (Smith and Grenon, 2004). Accordingly, CCO classes and relations are heavily constrained by the BFO framework, from which it inherits much of its basic semantic relationships.
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Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE
commoncoreontology:DirectiveInformationContentEntity
is used to demonstrate the provides available for
commoncoreontology. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic
logic beyond string formatting.
| Name | Metaprefix | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Common Core Ontologies | commoncoreontology |
http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/DirectiveInformationContentEntity |
| Bioregistry | bioregistry |
https://bioregistry.io/commoncoreontology:DirectiveInformationContentEntity |