OBOE can characterize the context of an observation (e.g., space and time), as well as dependencies such as nested experimental observations. It includes an extensive set of unit definitions (e.g., grams of carbon per liter of seawater), and can facilitate automatic unit conversions (e.g., pounds to kilograms). OBOE can be easily extended to create Entities and Characteristics for specific research domains, making it both broadly applicable and highly customizable.
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Description
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.
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Initial created on
May 30, 2007.
For additional information, contact
Joshua Madin (joshua.madin@mq.edu.au) and Bryce Mecum (mecum@nceas.ucsb.edu).
This ontology contains general terms that are common across OBOE extensions. It extends the OBOE Core model by importing ontologies specific to measurement characteristics, measurement standards, spatial entities, temporal entities, biological taxa, and anatomical entities., This ontology contains general terms for (physical) characteristics that are measured either quantitatively or qualitatively., Copyright (c) 2006-2016 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA., This ontology provides the core OBOE modeling constructs., This ontology contains general terms that are common across OBOE extensions. It extends the OBOE Core model by importing ontologies specific to measurement characteristics, measurement standards, spatial entities, temporal entities, biological taxa, and anatomical entities., Copyright (c) 2006-2019 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA., This ontology contains terms for measurement standards that are common across OBOE extensions including units of measure and indices. The unit descriptions (comments) were adapted from various sources, including NIST.
