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### Spotlight on well-established OBO ontologies

In this issue, we continue our ontology spotlight series, highlighting two other ontologies from the OBO Foundry family. [Occupation Ontology (OccO)](https://obofoundry.org/ontology/occo.html) and Food [Ontology (FoodOn)](https://obofoundry.org/ontology/foodon.html)
In this issue, we continue our ontology spotlight series, highlighting two other ontologies from the OBO Foundry family. [Occupation Ontology (OccO)](https://obofoundry.org/ontology/occo.html) and [Food Ontology (FoodOn)](https://obofoundry.org/ontology/foodon.html)

* [Occupation Ontology (OccO)](https://obofoundry.org/ontology/occo.html) is a reference ontology in the domain of human occupations. It is designed to ontologize and harmonize the occupation classification from many existing occupation standards, including the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Standard Occupational Classification (US SOC), the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO), the UK National Statistics Standard Occupational Classification (UK SOC), and the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications, and Occupations (ESCO) of the European Union. Currently, the ontology contains over 1,600 occupations, encompassing all US SOC occupations. In addition to occupations, the ontology also defines skills, abilities, and credentials highly related to the occupations. One ongoing OccO use case study aims to facilitate the Alabama government’s Talent Triad initiative, which connects individuals, employers, and credential providers using a common skills-based occupation framework. OccO was initiated by Sam Smith and Oliver He at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2018, and since then has involved more ontology developers and domain experts from the University at Buffalo, Simon Fraser University, and the US Alabama Commission on Higher Education, among others. OccO has been presented at many meetings, including OSS2022, ICBO2022, and OSS2023. The ontology was accepted as a member of the OBO Foundry library ontologies in 2023. OccO is actively developing with weekly development calls and continuously seeks collaborators to contribute to the ontology.
* [Food Ontology (FoodOn)](https://obofoundry.org/ontology/foodon.html) is an ontology of over 35,000 classes focused primarily on naming kinds of food material for human and domesticated animal consumption. This includes both plant, animal and fungal material as well as inorganic chemicals. Terms for many foundational “single organism” food materials include details of taxonomic category, anatomical part, and even life cycle. As well, thousands of common (non-brand name) multi-component food products are included. Vocabulary to describe food characteristics and processing steps, as well as other contextual facets to describe packaging, dietary pattern, nutritional term hierarchy, and agricultural source are provided. To maximize FAIR data interoperability, FoodOn imports from UBERON, the Plant Ontology, ENVO, ChEBI, the Ontology for Nutritional Studies, and the OBO Relations ontology, among others. In addition to using FoodOn to describe food composition of meals in a “bag-of-terms'' way (FoodOn was derived from [LanguaL](https://www.langual.org), a longstanding food composition database thesaurus), the ontology can be used like a grammar to construct graph knowledge base statements about food which can be queried or reasoned with. For global resource integration, mapping to USDA nutrition [databases](https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/) such as Foundation Foods and SR Legacy is underway, as well as the European EFSA FoodEx2 vocabulary. For more information and opportunity to participate, see ongoing development and ontology design information at [www.foodon.org](https://www.foodon.org) and the [GitHub](https://github.com/FoodOntology/foodon/) repository.
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