Semantic Farm

The Semantic Farm is an open source, domain-agnostic, community curated semantic space registry, meta-registry, and compact identifier resolver. Here's what that means:

Registry

A collection of prefixes and metadata for ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and other semantic spaces. Some other well-known registries are Identifiers.org (for the life sciences), and the BARTOC (for the humanities).

Metaregistry

A collection of metadata about registries and mappings between their constituent prefixes. For example, ChEBI appears in all of the example registries from above.

Resolver

A tool for mapping compact URIs (CURIEs) of the form prefix:identifier to HTML and structured content providers. Some other well-known resolvers are Identifiers.org and Name-To-Thing.

Open Source

Anyone can suggest improvements or make pull requests to update the underlying database, which is stored in JSON on GitHub where the community can engage in an open review process.

Domain Agnostic

The concept behind the Semantic Farm was first piloted in the biomedical community with the Bioregistry. Now, the underlying technology is fully generic for all domains including engineering, humanties, and beyond.

Community

Governed by public, well-defined contribution guidelines, code of conduct, and project governance to promote the project's inclusivity and longevity.

Here's how to get started with the Semantic Farm site: