| Acronym | LHO |
| Visibility | Public |
| Description | The Livestock Health Ontology (LHO) extends the DECIDE ontology specifically designed for salmon usecase. LHO contains information on the health and well-being of livestock animal species such as cattle, pigs, and poultry. Furthermore, it represents the explicit structured and standardized framework for specific domain knowledge and data integration of livestock species. During the development process, knowledge can be retrieved from domain experts, and after the retrieving process, the prototype is designed for reasoning and planning of data related to cattle, pigs, and poultry. Moreover, LHO contains information regarding farms Identifications, their samples, geolocation, breed, diagnostic tests, Pathogen identifications, and Pathogen results for specific bacteria such as Histophilus Somni (HS), Mannheimia Haemolytica (MH), Pasteurella Multocida (PM), Bovine Coronavirus (BCV) bacterial mycoplasma and aerobic culture results for the respiratory diseases in cattle. This information is represented as concepts of classes, subclasses, and their relationship in the form of object and data properties. For pigs, it includes FarmType, age, weight, and pathogens like PRRS, SwineInfluenza, and M_Hyponemoniea. In poultry, LHO incorporates FarmType, with specific pathogen names such as Infectious Bronchitis (IB), providing a concise overview of health aspects across livestock species. ), Salmon case study demonstrates the semantic modeling and integration of aquaculture-specific attributes such as hasMortality, hasActualBiomass, hasWaterType, and hasLocalAuthority. The data supports epidemiological analysis of fish health by mapping samples and measurements to environmental and production factors. |
| Status | Beta |
| Format | OWL |
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| Abstract |
The Livestock Health Ontology (LHO), which extends the DECIDE ontology and was developed under the EU Horizon 2020 DECIDE project, provides a standardized semantic framework for respiratory disease data across cattle, pig, poultry, and salmon. It addresses the challenge of heterogeneous disease surveillance data from multiple European laboratories by defining a common vocabulary for pathogens, breeds, sample types, and diagnostic tests. LHO serves as a single source of truth, enabling data harmonization and interoperability for Federated Learning models that predict BRD prevalence in cattle, PRDC prevalence in pigs, and SeaLice disease in salmon, without requiring raw data sharing between laboratories. Ontology Reuse: LHO extends the DECIDE ontology as its parent framework and reuses terms from AGROVOC (FAO agricultural vocabulary), AHOL (Animal Health Ontology for Livestock), ANDO (Animal Diseases Ontology) for pathogen and disease classification, NCBI Taxonomy for species classification, and NCIT (NCI Thesaurus) for location and country concepts.
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| Alternative name |
Livestock Health Ontology
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LivestockHealthOntology
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LHO
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| Creation date | December 19, 2025
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| Documentation |
https://github.com/decide-project-eu/LivestockHealthOntology/tree/main
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| Homepage |
https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/LHO
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| Keywords |
LiveStockHealthOntology
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Livestock Health Ontology
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LivestockHealthOntology
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Live Stock Health Ontology
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| Modification date | December 19, 2025
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| Natural language |
English
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| Notes |
https://www.purl.org/decide/LiveStockHealthOnto/LHO
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LHO, guided by OBO Foundry principles, integrates domain knowledge and data for livestock health. The ontology covers farms, samples, geolocation, breed, diagnostic tests, and pathogen identification, including bacteria like Histophilus somni, Mannheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, Bovine coronavirus, bacterial mycoplasma, and aerobic culture results in cattle. For pigs, it includes FarmType, age, weight, and pathogens like PRRS, SI and M_Hyponemoniea. In poultry, LHO incorporates FarmType, with specific pathogen names such as Infectious Bronchitis (IB), providing a concise overview of health aspects across livestock species.
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https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/DECIDE
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| Subject |
https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Health
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https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Animal_Development
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https://data.bioontology.org/categories/All_Organisms
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| Submission date | December 19, 2025
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https://github.com/decide-project-eu/LivestockHealthOntology/blob/main/README.md
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V1.4
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