The Sustainability Core Ontology (SCO) is a middle-level ontology, covering the terminology related to the three major theoretical challenges of sustainability:

• The polysemy of the term sustainability.
• The relationship between sustainability and sustainable development. -The complexity underlying sustainability.

Prefix

sco

Keywords

ontology

Version

2023-05-25

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Publications

2026 Ontologies for Sustainability: Theoretical Challenges

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in Sustainability Core Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000010   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Sustainability Core Ontology should match this regular expression:
^sco:\d+$

Example CURIE

sco:0000010

Format String for RDF URIs

https://www.w3id.org/sco#SCO_$1

Example RDF URI

https://www.w3id.org/sco#SCO_0000010

Contact

Giorgio Ubbiali   0000-0001-7872-1770   gioUbbiali

Contributor

creator Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 1 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 0000010 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Sustainability Core Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.