FAIRsharing record for: Observatories of Seas Ontology

This FAIRsharing record describes: OSO (Observatories of Seas Ontology) is a lightweight and multilingual ontology developed to describe and interlink marine observing systems, including their infrastructures, platforms, sites, equipment, and responsible organisations.
It is maintained by Ifremer and designed to support metadata harmonisation across European marine research infrastructures such as EMSO ERIC. The ontology uses standard vocabularies (OWL, DCAT, Dublin Core, FOAF, SKOS, etc.) and aligns with external identifiers (ROR, EDMO, DOI). OSO aims to improve semantic interoperability, enable FAIR metadata publication, and support long-term data stewardship in the marine domain.