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'''Text:''' Robert Arp, Barry Smith and Andrew Spear, [https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/building-ontologies-basic-formal-ontology Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology], Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, August 2015, xxiv + 220pp. Freely available to UB persons under MIT Press Scholarship Online.
'''Text:''' Robert Arp, Barry Smith and Andrew Spear, [https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/building-ontologies-basic-formal-ontology Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology], Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, August 2015, xxiv + 220pp. Freely available to UB persons under MIT Press Scholarship Online.
Background reading on the roots of ontology in
*artificial intelligence ([https://www.academia.edu/722721/The_second_naive_physics_manifesto Second Naive Physics Manifesto])
*Human Genome Project ()
*library science ([https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/subhierarchy.html MeSH])
*Semantic Web ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language OWL])


Further readings are provided here: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/
Further readings are provided here: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/
Example videos are provided here: https://www.youtube.com/user/hxo3nql/playlists
Example videos are provided here: https://www.youtube.com/user/hxo3nql/playlists


'''Grading''': Students will be graded on the basis of their contributions to the on-line class discussion forum and by a 20 minute youtube video (with accompanying essay and powerpoint slide deck) on some topic in the field of formal ontology. These videos will be assembled for presentation at the end of the semester. Grading will be based on:


'''Grading''': Students will be graded on the basis of their contributions to the on-line class discussion forum and by 20 minute youtube videos created by class participants which will be assembled for presentation at the end of the semester. Grading will be based on:
:1. forum participation (25%)
 
:2. 20 minute youtube video (25%)
1. forum participation (25%)
:3. associated powerpoint slides (25%)
2. 20 minute youtube video (25%)
:4. associated essay (25%)
3. associated powerpoint slides (25%)
4. associated essay (25%)


*Information Artifact Ontology]
*Information Artifact Ontology]
*[http://www.referent-tracking.com/RTU/?page=index Referent Tracking]
*[http://www.referent-tracking.com/RTU/?page=index Referent Tracking]
*The methodology of ontological realism
*The methodology of ontological realism
For policy regarding incompletes see [http://grad.buffalo.edu/Academics/Policies-Procedures/Grading-Procedures.html here]
For policy regarding incompletes see [http://grad.buffalo.edu/Academics/Policies-Procedures/Grading-Procedures.html here]


Revision as of 16:42, 21 July 2016

Preliminary details

Course Title: PHI 547 Formal Ontology Faculty: Barry Smith Date and Time: This course is an on-line course to be taught on Mondays from January 30 to May 8, 2017. Registered students will be assumed to have watched the course videos the URLs for which will be provided in advance of each week's class (which will be assumed to take place in the interval from 4 to 6pm). The final session or sessions (depending on the number of class participants) will consist in youtube videos (ca 20 minutes in length) created by the students in the class.

Course Description: The course will provide an introduction to formal ontology from both a philosophical and an application oriented point of view. Ontologies to be considered will include:

Basic Formal Ontology
Information Artifact Ontology
Gene Ontology
OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies) Foundry
The Environment Ontology

We will also consider formal languages used in ontology, with special focus on

OWL (Web Ontology Language) CLIF (Common Logic Interchange Format; a version of First Order Logic)

Text: Robert Arp, Barry Smith and Andrew Spear, Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, August 2015, xxiv + 220pp. Freely available to UB persons under MIT Press Scholarship Online.

Further readings are provided here: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ Example videos are provided here: https://www.youtube.com/user/hxo3nql/playlists

Grading: Students will be graded on the basis of their contributions to the on-line class discussion forum and by a 20 minute youtube video (with accompanying essay and powerpoint slide deck) on some topic in the field of formal ontology. These videos will be assembled for presentation at the end of the semester. Grading will be based on:

1. forum participation (25%)
2. 20 minute youtube video (25%)
3. associated powerpoint slides (25%)
4. associated essay (25%)
  • Information Artifact Ontology]
  • Referent Tracking
  • The methodology of ontological realism

For policy regarding incompletes see here

For academic integrity policy see here

For accessibility services see here

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