Agriculture¶

Ontologies about farming systems, crops, food production, and agricultural vocabularies.

Arts and Humanities¶

Ontologies that describe music, iconography, cultural artifacts, and humanistic content.

Biology and Life Sciences¶

Ontologies about biological entities, systems, organisms, and molecular biology.

Chemistry¶

Ontologies describing chemical entities, reactions, methods, and computational chemistry models.

Ecology and Environment¶

Ontologies about ecological systems, environments, biomes, and sustainability science.

Education¶

Ontologies describing learning content, educational programs, competencies, and teaching resources.

Events¶

Ontologies for representing events, time, schedules, and calendar-based occurrences.

Finance¶

Ontologies describing economic indicators, e-commerce, trade, and financial instruments.

Good Relations Language Reference (GoodRelations)

Food and Beverage¶

Ontologies related to food, beverages, ingredients, and culinary products.

Wine Ontology (Wine)
- Metrics & Statistics
- Usage Example

General Knowledge¶

Broad-scope ontologies and upper vocabularies used across disciplines for general-purpose semantic modeling.

Geography¶

Ontologies for modeling spatial and geopolitical entities, locations, and place names.

Industry¶

Ontologies describing industrial processes, smart buildings, manufacturing systems, and equipment.

Law¶

Ontologies dealing with legal processes, regulations, and rights (e.g., copyright).

Library and Cultural Heritage¶

Ontologies used in cataloging, archiving, and authority control of cultural and scholarly resources. Includes standards for bibliographic metadata, identity disambiguation, and linked data for museums, libraries, and archives.

Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND)
- Metrics & Statistics
- Usage Example

Materials Science and Engineering¶

Ontologies related to materials, their structure, properties, processing, and engineering applications.

Medicine¶

Ontologies covering clinical knowledge, diseases, drugs, treatments, and biomedical data.

News and Media¶

Ontologies that model journalism, broadcasting, creative works, and media metadata.

Scholarly Knowledge¶

Ontologies modeling the structure, process, and administration of scholarly research, publications, and infrastructure.

Units and Measurements¶

Ontologies defining scientific units, quantities, dimensions, and observational models.

Upper Ontologies¶

Foundational ontologies that provide abstract concepts like objects, processes, and relations.

Web and Internet¶

Ontologies that model web semantics, linked data, APIs, and online communication standards.