Basic Formal Ontology 2.0: Tutorial at ICBO/FOIS
Venue: Medical University of Graz, Austria
Date: July 25, 2012, 13:00 to 18.20
Abstract
Basic Formal Ontology 2.0 will be released in draft form for public comment in advance of the tutorial. Given the large number of users of the existing BFO 1.1, and given the substantial interest in this new release, there is a need for an event at which the release can be described in its definitive form by means of a tutorial, which will consist of the following parts:
Schedule
- 13:30 Basic Formal Ontology: The basic ideas
- Instances and universals
- Dependent entities and independent entities
- Continuants and occurrents
- 14:15 New features of BFO 2.0
- Treatment of Relations
- Generically and specifically dependent continuants, concretizations, and relations of dependence
- Representation of boundaries
- Three subtypes of material entity: objects, object aggregates, and fiat object parts
- Object aggregates and the member_of relation, with an application to groups and organizations
- Quality instances and how quality instances change over time
- Lives and other histories
- Process profiles, rates, and process measurement data
- 16:00 Break
- 16:30 Formalization of BFO 2.0
- Relations between the BFO specification, BFO FOL and BFO OWL
- How to migrate from BFO 1.0 to BFO 2.0
- The BFO 2.0 OWL temporalization strategy
- 17:45 Discussion session
- 18:20 Close
Rationale
BFO is currently being used by over 100 ontology-based research projects in biomedical informatics and increasingly in other fields. The new version fills a number of critical gaps in BFO 1.0 and provides enhanced support for logical reasoning. The tutorial will serve both to introduce new users to BFO and also to inform existing users of the changes made in version 2.0.
Audience and format
The tutorial will be targeted to a general audience; it will serve to introduce BFO to new users, but also provide technical details of the current version of BFO that will be presented in a form that will be of interest to advanced users. Attendees will acquire basic knowledge of BFO and of its use as top-level ontology in multiple ontology development projects in a variety of fields. They will learn about the most recent developments in the ontology and acquire basic knowledge of the new formalizations of BFO in first-order logic and in OWL.
Faculty
Barry Smith, National Center for Ontological Research, University at Buffalo, 126 Park Hall, Buffalo, NY, USA
Alan Ruttenberg, Clinical and Translational Data Exchange, University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Further information
See ICBO/FOIS website, where registration details will be provided.
