organismfor
Organismfor is a proposed framework and ontology designed to organize and interlink information about organisms, their traits, and their ecological contexts. It aims to standardize terms and data models used across taxonomic databases, trait repositories, and environmental data collections to enable interoperable queries and analyses.
The term was introduced in scholarly discussions in the late 2010s as a response to fragmentation in
Core components include: persistent organism identifiers; taxonomic alignment with accepted references; trait and phenotype terms; environmental
Applications include cross-database queries, meta-analyses, data integration, and reproducibility.
Current status and challenges: As of 2024, adoption is uneven; governance varies; mapping across vocabularies remains