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Standards

Institutions

• TDWG: Biodiversity Information Standards Group (formerly Taxonomic Databases Working Group)
• HCLSIG: W3C Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
• BGCI: Botanic Gardens Conservation International
• NCEI: National Center for Environmental Information
• ISB: International Society for Biocuration
• Species 2000
• BioSharing

Ontologies (see the OBO Foundry: Open Biomedical Ontology Foundry)

People (W3C vocabularies for describing people)

• FOAF: Friend Of A Friend
• SIOC: Semantically Interlinked Online Community
• ORG: Organization
• VCARD: VCard

Taxon

• DwC: Darwin Core
• DwC-A: Darwin Core Archive
• TCS: Taxonomic Concept (Transfer) Schema
  • TaxonConcept
  • TaxonName
• LinkedISA: Investigation, Study and Assay framework
• Audubon: Biodiversity related media
• VoID: The Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets

Gene

• OBI: Ontology for Biomedical Investigations
• GO: Gene Ontology
• SO: Sequence Ontology
• GONG: Gene Ontology Next Generation
• MGED: Micro Array Gene Expression Data

Phenotypic traits

• PO: Plant Ontology
• PATO: Phenotypic qualities

Frameworks

• GUID LSID: Global Unique Identifier Life Science ID
• ABCD: Access to Biological Collections Data schema
• SDD: Structure of Descriptive Data
• ISA: Investigation, Study and Assay framework
• SPICE: Species 2000 Interoperability Co-ordination Environment
• BioDBcore: generic description of the core attributes of biological databases

Markup languages

• MAGE-ML: MicroArray Gene Expression Markup Language
• KGML: KEGG Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes Markup Language
• EML: Ecological Markup Language

Tools

• Bio2RDF: Life Science Linked Data
• BioCatalogue: The Life Science Web Services Registry
• BioCASE: Biological Collection Access SErvice
• iPhylo: Taxonomic id reconciliation with Google Refine
• MNHN TaxRef Match: Taxonomic id reconciliation (work in progress)