Welcome to the homepage of the Soil Food Web Ontology
Summary
The Soil Food Web Ontology (SFWO) is an OWL ontology that provides a formal representation of the terminology and concepts in the field of soil trophic ecology. The SFWO is a collaborative and ongoing endeavour aimed at establishing consensus and formal definitions for the array of concepts relevant to soil trophic ecology (diets, food resources, trophic processes/interactions/groups). Its primary objective is to enhance the accessibility, interpretation, combination, reuse, and automated processing of trophic data to support soil food-web research.
The core classes and properties of the Soil Food Web Ontology (SFWO).
Who is involved in the development of the SFWO?
Members of the SFWO Working Group meet regularly to vet and approve changes to the ontology. It is currently composed of:
- Mickaël Hedde (Eco&Sols, INRAE)
- Anton M. Potapov (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, iDiv)
- Matty P. Berg (Amsterdam Institute of Life and Environment)
- Maria J.I. Briones (University of Vigo)
- Irene Calderón-Sanou (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, iDiv)
- Florine Degrune (Eco&Sols, CIRAD)
- Karin Hohberg (Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research)
- Nicolas Le Guillarme (Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine, LECA)
- Camille Martinez-Almoyna (INRAE)
- Carlos A. Martínez-Muñoz (Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research)
- Benjamin Pey (Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, LEFE)
- David J. Russell (Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research)
Documentation
The SFWO user manual is designed to explain the core functionality of the SFWO for newcomers, and to serve as a canonical reference for developers. It is under active development.
How to contribute to the Soil Food Web Ontology?
Please use our GitHub issue tracker to request a term or report a problem with the SFWO: https://github.com/soilfoodwebontology/sfwo/issues
Cite the Soil Food Web Ontology
Please cite Le Guillarme, N., Hedde, M., Potapov, A. M., Martínez-Muñoz, C. A., Berg, M. P., Briones, M. J., … & Thuiller, W. (2023). The Soil Food Web Ontology: Aligning trophic groups, processes, resources, and dietary traits to support food-web research. Ecological Informatics, 78, 102360.
They are using the SFWO
- Calderón-Sanou, I., Ohlmann, M., Münkemüller, T., Zinger, L., Hedde, M., Lionnet, C., … & Orchamp Consortium. (2023). Mountain soil multitrophic networks shaped by the interplay between habitat and pedoclimatic conditions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 109282.
- Le Guillarme, N., & Thuiller, W. (2023). A practical approach to constructing a knowledge graph for soil ecological research. European Journal of Soil Biology, 117, 103497.
Contact us
- The SFWO users mailing list : sfwo-users@framagroupes.org
To subscribe to the mailing list, send a message to sympa@framagroupes.org. In the subject line, write: subscribe sfwo-users First name Last name. Leave the body of the message blank.
- Issue tracker : https://github.com/soilfoodwebontology/sfwo/issues