Ontology List

•  Friendship and relationship       Top

• FOAF: describe the characteristics and relationships amongst friends of friends, and their friends, and the stories they tell.
• RELATIONSHIP: A vocabulary for describing relationships between people
• VOAF: Data sets published in the framework of the Linked Open Data Cloud are relying on a variety of RDFS vocabularies or OWL ontologies. The aim of VOAF is to provide information on such vocabularies, and in particular how they rely on each other.
• Fedora relationship ontology: defines a set of common generic relationships useful in creating digital object networks
• Stock Relationship Ontology
• Personal Information Model (PIMO): used to express Personal Information Models of individuals
• BIO: A vocabulary for biographical information
• XFN: Ontology for social relationships
• RGB Ontologies - Person ontology
• ONTOLOGY FOR THE EHR - Demographic Reference Model
• geoRelations: specifies mereological, topological, distance, and direction relations.
• OBO Relation ontology

•  Thesaurus and Folksonomy       Top

• MeSH: The National Library of Medicine's subject thesaurus
• NASA Thesaurus: aerospace thesaurus
• Roget's Thesaurus: a widely-used English language thesaurus
• Animals ontology
• Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology
• OntoCAPE
• NCI Thesaurus
• EuroVoc: multilingual thesaurus of the EU
• Tagging ontology: models the tagging relationship
• Meaning Of A Tag (MOAT): provides a framework to publish semantically-enriched content from free-tagging content
• ODP: The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web
• Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
• PUBLISHING ONTOLOGY
• Upper Tag Ontology
• GEM Monolingual Thesauri Vocabulary
• IEEE Xplore
• SCOT Ontology

•  Community       Top

• SIOC: express information contained within community sites
• SWRC Ontology: an ontology for modeling entities of research communities such as persons, organisations, publications (bibliographic metadata) and their relationships
• AKT Reference Ontology: developed to represent the knowledge used in the CS AKTive Portal testbed; describes people, projects, publications, geographical data, etc
• VIVO: models network and expertise of scientists
• Semantic Web Portal Ontology
• Ontology For The Intelligence Community
• Customer Complaint Ontology (Ccontology)
• Organizational Ontology: provides terms to support representation of organizational structures, reporting structures, location information and organizational history
• Ontologie Geographique INSEE
• Semantic Web Research Community Ontology
• Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology (AIISO)
• Smiley Ontology: an ontology that aims to enable interchange of emoticons between different systems

•  News, Blogs and Wikis       Top

• WikiTaxonomy: Taxonomy for Wikipedia
• DBpedia Ontology: the structural backbone of DBpedia
• Instituto Kuluwulu
• OWL Based News Ontology
• Revelytix The Mapping Ontology Community
• OpenLink Virtuoso Wiki
• MobileTV Ontology: Ontology describing Mobile Television programming and related content
• SIOC Core Ontology: describes information found on weblogs, wikis, etc
• NewsOwlOntology: represents a small subset of the knowledge contained in news stories
• eBiquity News Ontology
• RGB Ontologies - News ontology
• WikiOnt
• Blogger Code
• Ontos Semantic Technologies

•  Data sharing and integration       Top

• UMBEL Vocabulary and Reference Concept Ontology: designed to help content interoperate on the Web
• VMF matrix: a tool which can be used to automatically compute the "best fit" mappings between terms in controlled vocabularies in different metadata schemes and messages of interest to the educational, bibliographic and content publishing sectors
• Online Presence Ontology
• ESG
• CIDOC CRM Conceptual Reference Model
• OMNIBUS Ontology: an ontology of learning, instruction, and instructional design
• voiD: Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets
• SCOVO: Statistical Core Vocabulary, for representing statistical data
• Online Presence Ontology (OPO): aims to model the dynamic aspects of a user’s presence online and to enable exchange of the Online Presence data
• Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO): provides a conceptual framework and a formal language for semantically describing all relevant aspects of Web services
• flickr wrapper: provides RDF links to photos posted on flickr
• RDA (Element, Element Group 2, Element Group 3)
• SKOS
• Annotea
• Web Services Architecture
• The Agricultural Metadata Element Set
• Oxford Journals
• Bio-IT world
• Description of Data Access (DODA)
• Topic Maps Reference Model: a standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge

•  Bibliographic information       Top

• BIBO: provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references (i.e. quotes, books, articles, etc) on the Semantic Web
• CiTO: an ontology for describing the nature of reference citations in scientific research articles and other scholarly works on the Semantic Web
• Biblographic Knowledge Network
• Citation Oriented Bibliographic Vocabulary
• The Library of Congress
• SWAN Citations Ontology: defines a set of useful entities for referencing scientific publications
• The Bibliographic Reference Ontology (BiRO): an ontology for describing bibliographic records (as subclasses of frbr:Work) and bibliographic references
• FRBR:conceptual entity-relationship model that relates user tasks of retrieval and access in online library catalogues and bibliographic databases from a user’s perspective
• BibTex
• BIBLIOGRAPHIC-DATA
• Copyright Ontology
• Book Vocabulary
• Bibliographic Ontology
• Open Biblio

•  Multimedia information       Top

• The Similarity Ontology (MuSim): describe the associations between musical items
• Core Ontology For Multimedia
• PREMIS
• Multimedia Group
• OntoMedia
• Music Ontology: artists, albums, performances, arrangements
• Symbolic Music Notation Ontology
• LinkedMDB: publishes the first open semantic web database for movies
• Programmes Ontology
• Images Ontology
• Symbolic Music Notation Ontology
• Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction
• Multimedia Web Ontology Language (MOWL)
• Gallery Schema: An ontology to describe photo galleries or albums on the Web.
• Music Vocabulary
• MusicBrainz Metadata Vocabulary: provides terms for describing music, i.e. artists, albums, and tracks.

•  Geology       Top

• Geographic Ontology
• Geopolitical Ontology: The ISO 3166 Code List of countries
• Geographic Feature Names Ontology
• SWEET Earth Realm
• Basic Geo Vocabulary
• Geonames Ontology
• CGMME Ontology
• geoFeatures: specifies some key geographic feature classes as well as classes for describing their spatial characteristics.

•  Biology/Biomedicine       Top

• NIFSTD ontology: ontology for neuroscience resources
• Biological process: Provides structured controlled vocabularies for the annotation of gene products with respect to their biological role
• Cellular component: Provides structured controlled vocabularies for the annotation of gene products with respect to their cellular location
• Chemical entities of biological interest: A structured classification of chemical compounds of biological relevance
• Molecular function: Provides structured controlled vocabularies for the annotation of gene products with respect to their molecular function
• Phenotypic quality: used in conjunction with other ontologies such as GO or anatomical ontologies to refer to phenotypes
• PRotein Ontology (PRO): Describe the relationships of proteins and protein evolutionary classes, to delineate the multiple protein forms of a gene locus
• Xenopus anatomy and development: A structured controlled vocabulary of the anatomy and development of the African clawed frog
• Zebrafish anatomy and development: A structured controlled vocabulary of the anatomy and development of the Zebrafish.
• Gene Ontology: standardizing the representation of gene and gene product attributes across species and databases
• Gandr ontology : Ontology for Gene annotation data
• Loggerhead Nesting: Ontology for Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting behavior
• Habronattus Courtship: Ontology for courtship behavior
• Cell Cycle Ontology (CCO): Ontology for cell division process
• Biomedical Resource Ontology: a controlled terminology to improve the sensitivity and specificity of Biositemaps' web searches.
• eagle-i: Ontology for indexing and querying biomedical research resources
• Ontology for Biomedical Investigations: an integrated ontology for the description of life-science and clinical investigations
• Systems Biology Ontology
• BioPAX Biological Pathway Exchange: a standard language that aims to enable integration, exchange, visualization and analysis of biological pathway data
• Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary (Botany)
• Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary
• BIO: A vocabulary for biographical information
• Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary
• Biomedical Ontology

•  General       Top

• WordNet: a large lexical database of English
• Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO): A formal public ontology
• Dublin Core: specifications in support of resource description
• CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
• Tourism Ontology
• Cyc: a large Foundation Ontology for formal representation of the universe of discourse
• Open Mind Common Sense
• Papyrus: news and history ontology
• GOLD Linguistics Vocabulary: used for describing linguistics data
• Basic Formal Ontology (BFO): a genuine upper ontology which can be used in support of domain ontologies developed for scientific research
• GFO: a top-level ontology for conceptual modeling, which is being constantly further developed by Onto-Med
• GoodRelations
• RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Administrative
• Resume
• Trust Ontology
• Discrete-Event Modeling Ontology (DeMO)

•  Information technology       Top

• ONION: Ontology for the Business of Information Technology
• Service-Oriented Architecture Ontology: It defines the concepts, terminology and semantics of SOA in both business and technical terms. It is designed for use by Business people, to give them a deeper understanding of SOA, and its use in the enterprise; Architects, as metadata for architectural artifacts; and Architecture methodologists, as a component of SOA metamodels.
• DAML-S: Web Service Ontology
• Description of a Project (DOAP): describes software projects, and in particular open source
• The Software Ontology: describes types of software used in Bioinformatics
• Information Service Ontology: main concepts and properties for describing and rating (online/offline) info services

•  Business       Top

• Open Source Business Management Ontology (BMO): brings together business process design, project management, requirements management, and business performance management to form the basis for an integrated, vendor-neutral, Business Management Knowledge Base
• Enterprise Ontology: a collection of terms and definitions relevant to business enterprises
• Process Specification Language Ontology: neutral representation for manufacturing processes
• TOVE Ontologies: modelling of both commercial and public enterprises
• UblOntology: a formal ontology of the UBL Business Information Entities

•  Linguistics       Top

• General Ontology for Linguistic Description: ontology for descriptive linguistics
• DOLCE: Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering
• Generalized Upper Model: a general task and domain independent linguistic ontology, intended for organizing information for expression in natural language

•  Medicine       Top

• OCI: reference ontology for the annotation of the results of clinical trials

•  Scientists and scientific research       Top

• Basic Formal Ontology (BFO): a genuine upper ontology which can be used in support of domain ontologies developed for scientific research
• Information Artifact Ontology (IAO): a new ontology of information entities
• Academic Research Project Funding Ontology (ARPFO): describes the project funding structure of academic research, and also provides classes and properties to encode the relationships between project bids, projects, research groups and the resultant outputs

•  Other       Top

• Event Ontology: It is centered around the notion of event, seen here as the way by which cognitive agents classify arbitrary time/space regions.
• Event Ontology F: provides comprehensive support to represent time and space, objects and persons, as well as mereological, causal, and correlative relationships between events
• SWAN Ontology: create, manage and share SWAN knowledge bases
• Representing vCard Objects in RDF: vCard electronic business card profile
• People Finder Interchange Format (PFIF): for sharing data about people who are missing or displaced by natural or human-made disasters
• An organization ontology: a core ontology for organizational structures
• PROTON ONTOLOGY: used in the scope of the KIM platform for semantic annotation, indexing, and retrieval
• RDF Calendar: It is an effort to apply the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to iCalendar data in order to integrate calendar data with other Semantic Web data such as social networking data, syndicated content, and multimedia meta-data.
• Tickets Ontology: a Web vocabulary for describing tickets for concerts, locations like museums, or any kind of transportation for e-commerce.