{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089606","version":"2021-11-14","description":"The goal of the BCO is to support the interoperability of biodiversity data, including data on museum collections, environmental/metagenomic samples, and ecological surveys. The BCO covers distinctions between individuals, organisms, voucher specimens, lots, samples, the relations between these entities, and the processes governing the creation and use of \"samples\". Also within scope are properties including collector, location, time, storage environment, containers, institution, and collection identifiers., The BCO supports the interoperability of biodiversity and biodiversity related data, and ecological surveys. A key aspect of the BCO is distinguishing among material samples (i.e. specimens), observing processes, and data about either of those entities.","publicationYear":2021,"publisher":"Biodiversity Ontologies","creators":[{"nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Ramona","familyName":"Walls","creatorName":"Ramona Walls","affiliations":[],"nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ORCID","schemeURI":"https://orcid.org/","nameIdentifier":"0000-0001-8815-0078"}]}],"titles":[{"title":"BioCollections Ontology","titleType":""},{"title":"BioCollections Ontology","titleType":"AlternativeTitle"}],"types":{"resourceTypeGeneral":"Dataset"}}