OBI seems to be an important topic in the discussion of the ontology, keywords, and lexicons that are being proposed for NITRC, NCBC, BIRN, etc.

Bill Bug pointed us to the following OBI content:

Here's the OBI Wiki Branch development page:
https://wiki.cbil.upenn.edu/obiwiki/inde...

The wiki is for those developers contributing directly to the ontology. It used to be open to the public, but I'm not certain it still is based on some recent changes. Here's the public OBI site:
http://obi.sourceforge.net/

OBI's large scope has led to it breaking into branches - one of which focusses on digital artifacts - Digitial Entity and Non-realizable Information Entity

The current state of this branch in OBI may be quite nascent.

I'd recommend contacting the branch editor - Jennifer Fostel - directly.

I can do that if you like, as I interact with here on the development of several of the OBI branches.

Cheers,
Bill

It was also noted that the 'data transformation branch' seems interesting as well.

We should understand these developments, and how they relate to us, further.