IPBES Ontology

Prepared by Maral Dadvar and Aidin Niamir

Contributors: Dave Thau, Benedict Omare and Renske Gudde

For any inquires please contact aidin.niamir@senckenberg.de

Version: 04 Last Updated: September 23rd, 2024

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10404413

Abstract

The ontology developed for representing intergovernmental reports and the broad topics and information that they cover.

Table of content

1. Introduction

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is the intergovernmental body which assesses the state of biodiversity and of the ecosystem services it provides to society, in response to requests from decision makers. To this end, it produces regular regional, national and global assessment reports in collaborations with many experts, scientists and politicians from a wide range of expertise, nationalities and backgrounds. To our knowledge, there is no existing ontology for representation of intergovernmental reports and the broad topics and information that they cover. To this end, we have created the IPBES ontology as the stepping stone for representing these types of data as LOD and make them accessible for further exploration.

2. Namespace Declarations

This is the list of the namesspaces used in this ontology.

3. The IPBES Ontology Description

The classes and properties used in IPBES ontology are created on the fly based on the information that we encounter and the concepts that we aimed to represent. However, the usage of the properties is consistent and the coined URI’s are stable and unique. Currently our ontology consists of 6 classes, each representing a specific part of the data along with their corresponding attributes.

4. Classes and Attributes

Report

Chapter

Sub-chapter

Key message

Background message

Sub-message

Illustration

Reference

Knowledge gap

Person

5. References

https://www.w3.org/2009/08/skos-reference/skos.html

http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/

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