DFO Salmon Ontology

Last uploaded: March 30, 2026

Details

Acronym	GCDFO
Visibility	Public
Description	OWL + SKOS ontology for DFO salmon data: stocks/CUs/MUs, survey events, escapement measurements, and GSI constructs; aligns to DwC via rdfs:subClassOf; hybrid approach with SKOS for methods and OWL for events.
Status	Beta
Format	OWL
Categories	Other Biological Process Fish Anatomy Vocabularies
Groups	Biodiversity Information Standards

Contact	Tom Bird ([email protected]) Brett Johnson ([email protected]) Melissa Morrison ([email protected])
Creation date	September 6, 2025
Deprecated	false See more...
Documentation	https://github.com/dfo-pacific-science/dfo-salmon-ontology See more...
Formality level	http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology
Generic type	http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#ApplicationOntology http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#ApplicationOntology
Imports	https://w3id.org/smn https://w3id.org/smn https://w3id.org/smn/modules/01-entity-systematics https://w3id.org/smn/modules/01-entity-systematics
License
Modification date	March 29, 2026
Notes	Migration note (2026-03-15): overlapping shared terms now use `smn:` IRIs directly in this ontology; DFO-specific semantics remain only where no shared replacement exists. See more...
Object creation date property	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
Object modification date property	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
Preferred namespace URI	https://w3id.org/gcdfo/salmon# https://w3id.org/gcdfo/salmon#
Preferred namespace prefix	gcdfo See more...
Prior version	https://w3id.org/gcdfo/salmon/0.0.7 https://w3id.org/gcdfo/salmon/0.0.7
Subject	https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Other See more... https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Biological_Process See more... https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Fish_Anatomy See more... https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Vocabularies See more...
Submission date	March 30, 2026
Version IRI	https://w3id.org/gcdfo/salmon/0.0.8 https://w3id.org/gcdfo/salmon/0.0.8
Version information	0.0.8 See more...
uri	https://w3id.org/gcdfo/salmon https://w3id.org/gcdfo/salmon

Version	Released	Uploaded	Downloads
0.0.8 (Parsed, Indexed, Metrics, Annotator)	09/06/2025	03/30/2026	OWL \| CSV \| RDF/XML \| Diff
0.0.7 (Archived)	09/06/2025	03/27/2026	OWL \| Diff
0.0.6-alpha (integrated pre-release review branch) (Archived)	09/06/2025	03/27/2026	OWL

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Classes	151
Individuals	174
Properties	42
Maximum depth	6
Maximum number of children	23
Average number of children	2
Classes with a single child	29
Classes with more than 25 children	0
Classes with no definition	57

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