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SoftWare Ontology

Abbreviation: SWO

General Information

The Software Ontology (SWO) is a resource for describing software tools, their types, tasks, versions, provenance and associated data. SWO also covers software manufacturer, input and output data types and the uses (i.e. objectives) to which the software can be put.

Homepage https://github.com/allysonlister/swo

Countries that developed this resource United Kingdom

Created in 2011

Taxonomic range

Not applicable

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Subjects

User-defined Tags

General purpose

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: SWO; SoftWare Ontology; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.sp3szt; Last edited: Feb. 11, 2020, 1:47 p.m.; Last accessed: Jul 27 2021 4:28 a.m.

Publication for citation The Software Ontology (SWO): a resource for reproducibility in biomedical data analysis, curation and digital preservation. Malone J,Brown A,Lister AL,Ison J,Hull D,Parkinson H,Stevens R; J Biomed Semantics ; 2014; 10.1186/2041-1480-5-25;

This record is maintained by allysonlister ORCID

Record updated: Feb. 11, 2020, 1:46 p.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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In Collections

FAIRDOM Community Standards

Support

General

blog	SWO Blog
forum	GitHub Issue Tracker

Additional Information

Contact

Allyson Lister ORCID

External Links

Bioportal	http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/SWO
OBO	http://obofoundry.org/ontology/swo.html

Tools

Access via OLS (EBI)

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/swo

Schemas

No XSD schemas defined

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Data Release

Download (OWL)

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/swo.owl

Data Access

Browse (OLS)

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/swo

Publications

The Software Ontology (SWO): a resource for reproducibility in biomedical data analysis, curation and digital preservation.

Malone J,Brown A,Lister AL,Ison J,Hull D,Parkinson H,Stevens R
J Biomed Semantics 2014

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SWO Ontology Display

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Related Standards

Reporting Guidelines

No guidelines defined

Terminology Artifacts

Models and Formats

No syntax standards defined

Identifier Schemas

No identifier schema standards defined

Metrics

No metrics standards defined

Related Databases (1)

OBO Foundry
The Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry is a collective of ontology developers that are committed to collaboration and adherence to shared principles. The mission of the OBO Foundry is to develop a family of interoperable ontologies that are both logically well-formed and scientifically accurate. To achieve this, OBO Foundry participants voluntarily adhere to and contribute to the development of an evolving set of principles including open use, collaborative development, non-overlapping and strictly-scoped content, and common syntax and relations, based on ontology models that work well, such as the Gene Ontology (GO). The OBO Foundry is overseen by an Operations Committee with Editorial, Technical and Outreach working groups.

Implementing Policies

This record is not implemented by any policy.

Credit

Record Maintainer

This record is maintained by allysonlister ORCID

Funds

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK (Government body)
Jisc, Bristol, UK (Company)

Maintains

SWO administrators (Consortium) Lead
School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK (University)
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK (Research institute)
Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (Research institute)

Grant Number(s)

EP/C536444/1 (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK)
EP/G026238/1 (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK)

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