2013 BFO Meeting

Venue: Ramada Inn, Amherst, NY 14051

Date: May 13-14, 2013. The meeting will start with lunch at noon on May 13, and conclude with dinner on May 14.

This meeting is co-located with the PRO-PO-GO meeting, to be held on May 15-16, 2013.

Goals

The goal of the meeting is to finalize the BFO 2.0 specification and resolve issues with BFO 2.0 OWL.

Topics to be covered will include:

1. Survey of current developments regarding migration to BFO 2.0

2. Process profiles

3. Release strategy

4. BFO 2.0 OWL

5. Plans to create a definitive paper on BFO 2.0

The current draft version of the BFO 2.0 Specification is available here.

For further information please write to Barry Smith or see here.

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Participants will include

Matthias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Alexander Cox (Buffalo)

Randall Dipert (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI / Geneva)

William Hogan (Arkansas)

Leonard Jacuzzo (Buffalo)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Darren Natale (Georgetown)

Fabian Neuhaus (NIST)

Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)

Barry Smith (Buffalo)

Background Reading

For introductory reading see: Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith: "SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology", Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4 (2004), 69-103.

For introductory reading on relations see: Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, et al., “Relations in Biomedical Ontologies”, Genome Biology (2005), 6 (5), R46.

For discussion of core BFO issues see: Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “Ontological Realism as a Methodology for Coordinated Evolution of Scientific Ontologies”, Applied Ontology, 5 (2010), 139–188.

The paper here contains some material pertaining to process profiles: “Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology”, Ratio, in press.

And the paper here contains material on the proposed BFO 2.0 classification of objects: “On Classifying Material Entities in Basic Formal Ontology”, in Interdisciplinary Ontology. Proceedings of the Third Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting, Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2012, 1-13.