AgrO

AgrO, the Agronomy Ontology, describes agronomic practices, techniques, and variables used in agronomic experiments. AgrO is being built using traits identified by agronomists, the ICASA variables, and other existing ontologies such as ENVO, UO, PATO, IAO, and CHEBI. Further, AgrO powers AgroFIMS, the Agronomy Fieldbook and Information Management System modeled on a CGIAR Breeding Management System to capture agronomic data.

Requesting a new term or suggesting an edit of existing terms

We welcome your contribution to the ontology. If you notice a term is missing or would like to suggest any update (definition, name, synonym, position) of an existing term, please open a new issue following the steps below to submit your request.

1. Go to the Issues tab
2. Open a New issue
3. Fill the issue with the following information:

	Mandatory information	Optional information
Requesting a new term	Title: Start by NTR followed by your term (i.e. NTR:Tillage) Definition of the new term Link to the definition source	Position of the term in the ontology Link to other terms Possible synonyms for the new term Your ORCID, so we can cite you as the creator of the term
Updating the definition of an existing term	Title: Start by Edit def followed by the term to edit (i.e. Edit def:Irrigation) URI of the existing term New definition Link to the new definition source	Your ORCID, so we can cite you as contributor to the term
Adding a synonym	Title: Start by Synonym followed by the existing term to add the synonym to (i.e. Synonym:Baler) URI of the existing term Synonym to add	Link to sources supporting your edit Your ORCID, so we can cite you as contributor to the term
Other edits of an existing term	Title: Start by Edit followed by the term to edit (i.e. Edit:Irrigation) URI of the existing term Precise the edit you would like to make	Link to sources supporting your edit Your ORCID, so we can cite you as the creator of the term

5. Click on Submit new issue to validate your entry. We will get back to you soon!

Contact

In general, posts to our GitHub issue tracker are recommended, however, if needed, you can contact the ontology curator by sending an e-mail here.

License

Agronomy Ontology by https://github.com/AgriculturalSemantics/agro is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Cite as

Aubert C., Buttigieg P.L., Laporte M.A., Devare M., Arnaud E., (2017) CGIAR Agronomy Ontology, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/agro.owl, licensed under CC BY 4.0