IPBES Ontology

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.

生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台（Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services，IPBES）是响应决策者诉求，评估生物多样性现状及其为社会提供的生态系统服务的政府间机构。为此，该平台联合涵盖不同学科专长、国籍与背景的专家、科研人员与政界人士，定期编制区域、国家及全球层级的评估报告。据我们所知，目前尚无用于表征政府间报告及其涵盖的广泛主题与信息的本体（ontology）。基于此，我们构建了IPBES本体，作为将此类数据以关联开放数据（Linked Open Data，LOD）形式进行表征并实现其可访问性以支持后续探索的起步基础。