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. 2022 Mar 17;8(1):2–13. doi: 10.1089/aivt.2021.0010

Table 1.

Ontologies and Vocabularies Used in the Resource Description Framework

Ontology name Prefix in RDF Base IRI
Dublin Core24 dc http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
DCMI Metadata Terms25 dcterms http://purl.org/dc/terms/
RDF Schema26 rdfs www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
Friend Of A Friend27 foaf http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
Adverse Outcome Pathway Ontology28 aopo http://aopkb.org/aop_ontology#
Phenotypic Quality Ontology29 pato http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_
Chemical Information Ontology30 cheminf http://semanticscience.org/resource/CHEMINF_
NCI Thesaurus31 nci http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#
Measurement Method Ontology32 mmo http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MMO_
Simple Knowledge Organization System33 skos www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#
National Center for Biotechnology Information Organismal Classification10 ncbitaxon http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/NCBITAXON/
Gene Ontology34 go http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_
EDAM bioinformatics operations, types of data, data formats, identifiers, and topics35 edam http://edamontology.org/
Provenance, Authoring, and Versioning36 pav http://purl.org/pav/
Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets37 void http://rdfs.org/ns/void#
Data Catalog Vocabulary38 dcat http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#

IRIs, Internationalized Resource Identifiers.