Food and Agronomy Ontology

FoodOn belongs to the open source OBO Foundry consortium of interoperable life science oriented ontologies and consequently supports FAIR data annotation and sharing objectives across a wide variety of academic research, government and commercial sectors. We work to ensure these ontologies resemble an encyclopedia sharing common relationships and distinctions about material entities, characteristics, processes, and information, rather than as “stand alone” ontologies which are usable in a narrow domain but involve paradigm translation issues when the federation of other ontology enhanced data is attempted. The Agronomy Ontology (AgrO) provides terms from the agronomy domain that are semantically organized and can facilitate the collection, storage and use of agronomic data, enabling easy interpretation and reuse of the data by humans and machines alike.