2013 BFO Meeting

Venue: Ramada Inn, Amherst, NY 14051

Date: May 13-14, 2013

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

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

Alexander Cox (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI / Geneva)

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.