Operations Committee

• Mission Statement
• Membership
• Meetings
• Policy Decisions
• Mailing Lists
• OBO Calendar

Editorial Working Group

• Review Process
• Review Criteria

Technical Working Group

• PURL Requests
• OBO PURL Configuration
• Ontology tools and resources

Outreach Working Group

Ontology Tools and Resources

Ontology Browsers

• OBO Foundry
• BioPortal
• Ontology Lookup Service
• Ontobee
• QuickGO
• AmiGO
• Linked Open Vocabularies

Tutorials

• OBO Semantic Engineering Training
• Introduction to Ontologies: slides from Cold Spring Harbor workshop, October 2018, by Nicole Vasilevsky.
• Ontology 101 Tutorial: from International Conference on Biological Ontology (ICBO) 2018
• Ontology 101 Open Educational Resource: Funded by NIH BD2K Initiative.
• Cell Ontology Tutorial: Led by David Osumi-Sutherland, Alex Diehl, Nico Matentzoglu and Nicole Vasilevsky
• ROBOT tutorial by James Overton
• OBO Academy - A YouTube channel containing presentations and tutorials relevant to the OBO Foundry
• Pizza Tutorial for Protégé 5 by Michael DeBellis. More info..
• Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies: A training course in eight lectures by Barry Smith
• Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology: By Robert Arp, Barry Smith, and Andrew Spear

Ontology Tools

• Protege: An ontology development software application
• Ontology Development Kit: A toolkit to initialize an OBO library repository and associated files.
• ROBOT: ROBOT is a tool for working with Open Biomedical Ontologies.
• VOCOL: An Integrated Environment for Collaborative Vocabulary Development.
• Karma Data Integration: A data integration tool.
• Ontofox: An ontology term and relation extraction and reuse tool.
• Ubergraph: A sparql endpoint with many OBO ontologies loaded and pre-reasoned with simple triples materialized

Relevant Publications/blogs

• The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration (Smith et al., 2007). Nat Biotechnol 2007 Nov;25(11):1251–1255. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt1346
• MIRO: guidelines for minimum information for the reporting of an ontology (2018). Nicolas Matentzoglu, James Malone, Chris Mungall and Robert Stevens, Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2018 9:6, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-017-0172-7
• Monkeying around with OWL: a technical blog on ontologies and ontology engineering by Chris Mungall.
• Feed your head: a technical blog on ontologies and ontology engineering by Robert Stevens.
• Biomedical ontologies, data integration and annotation, British sense of humour: a technical blog on ontologies and ontology engineering by James Malone.
• What are Ontologies?
• Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, Second Edition by Dean Allemang and James Hendler
• Linked Data Patterns: A pattern catalogue for modelling, publishing, and consuming Linked Data by Leigh Dodds and Ian Davis
• Learning SPARQL by Bob DuCharme
• Guidelines for writing definitions in ontologies by Selja Seppälä, Alan Ruttenberg and Barry Smith