Geographical Entity Ontology

What it is

The Geographical Entity Ontology is an ontology of geographical entities implemented in OWL 2 and based on Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). Its developers state an aim to adhere to OBO Foundry principles, and the OBO page classifies it in the environment domain.

Key concepts

The ontology uses the geo identifier space and is distributed as geo.owl through an OBO Library PURL. The page links to its homepage, GitHub repository, issue tracker, and several ontology browsers, and lists a CC BY 4.0 license.

How you’d use it

Retrieve geo.owl from http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/geo.owl, inspect it through OntoBee, AberOWL, OLS, or BioPortal, and use the linked repository and tracker for source access or issues.

LLM angle

none stated

Pitfalls & lessons

The fetched page says the developers aim to adhere to OBO Foundry principles; it does not claim or show full conformance. It also provides only a high-level domain description rather than enumerating the ontology’s terms.

Verdict

A clearly packaged OWL 2/BFO geographical-entity ontology with a stable OBO PURL, open license, repository, tracker, and browser links.

Sources consulted

• http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/geo.html