oio

is a Ontology.

It is part of the OBO Foundry collection.

The OBO Interoperability Ontology (OIO) was a set of annotation properties and ontology metadata standards developed to promote interoperability between OBO Foundry ontologies. Its terms and properties have been superseded by OMO (Ontology Metadata Ontology) and are now considered deprecated. OIO provided foundational metadata terms that were widely used in early OBO ontologies for describing ontology versioning, imports, and other metadata.

Domains

biological systems, upper

License

CC0 1.0

Homepage

Unknown

Repository

Unknown

Infores ID

infores:oio

FAIRsharing ID

Unknown

Product Summary

Products

From this Resource
ID Name URL Category Format Description
oio.owl OIO OWL OntologyProduct owl OBO Interoperability Ontology in OWL ...
oio.obo OIO OBO OntologyProduct obo OBO Interoperability Ontology in OBO ...
From other Resources
ID Name URL Category Format Description
efo.owl EFO OWL efo.owl (229.5 MB) OntologyProduct owl The latest release of EFO in OWL format
efo.obo EFO OBO efo.obo (61.1 MB) OntologyProduct obo The latest release of EFO in OBO format

Details

OBO Interoperability Ontology

Overview

The OBO Interoperability Ontology (OIO) was a set of annotation properties and ontology metadata standards developed to promote interoperability between OBO Foundry ontologies.

Important: This ontology is now deprecated. Its terms and properties have been superseded by OMO (Ontology Metadata Ontology), which provides a more comprehensive and modern approach to ontology metadata.

Historical Context

OIO provided foundational metadata terms that were widely used in early OBO ontologies for describing:

  • Ontology versioning information
  • Import relationships between ontologies
  • Metadata about terms and properties
  • Cross-references and mappings

These capabilities are now provided by the Ontology Metadata Ontology (OMO), which should be used for new ontology development.

Products

OWL and OBO Formats

The deprecated OIO ontology is still available in OWL and OBO formats for legacy purposes, but users should migrate to OMO for current projects.

Information Resource ID

This resource has the Information Resource identifier: infores:oio

Domains

  • Biological Systems
  • Upper (ontology metadata)

OBO Foundry

This ontology was part of the OBO Foundry collection of interoperable ontologies.

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Created: November 05, 2025 | Last modified: November 05, 2025