==1: Overview== :[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2017/BFO-Part1.mp4 Video] :[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2012/BFO_Tutorial_2012.pptx Slides] ::What BFO is used for :::BFO is an upper-level ontology :::Ontological realism: an evidence-based strategy for ontology development :::Starting point for downward population :::Annotation of scientific and administrative data :::Part storehouse of lessons learned, part QWERTY keyboard :::Basis for common training :::Works best under the hood ::Brief history of BFO :::Pre-History ::::Aristotle's Ontological Square :::Edmund Husserl :::Truthmakers :::The Naive Physics Manifesto :::Mereotopology :::The Gene Ontology and the Foundational Model of Anatomy ::BFO's competitors :::DOLCE :::SUMO :::CYC :::What BFO, DOLCE, SUMO, CYC have in common :::Arguments in favor of using BFO ::Important users of BFO :::OBO Foundry :::NIF Standard :::OBI :::IDO Consortium :::Plant Ontology :::Universal Core Semantic Layer ::How BFO is constructed and maintained :::Conservative evolution :::Simplicity (two levels; no qualities of qualities) :::Strict formality (no overlap with domain ontologies) :::Asserted monohierarchy and inferred polyhierarchy :::Truthmaker :::Non-multiplicative (the statue is the portion of clay during the time when the latter has a certain role) :::Perspectivalism :::No reductionism, no phenomenalism :::No 'context' :::No meanings, fictions, non-existents ::::The Semiotic Triangle :::No 'possible worlds' :::No abstracta :::How to deal with thoughts, beliefs, information artifacts ::Overview of BFO 1.0 :::Instances and universals :::Continuants and occurrents :::Dependent entities and independent entities ::::PATO qualities :::Different kinds of relations ::::Symmetry, asymmetry and inverses ::::The all-some rule ::::What to do with probabilistic and other some-some relations? :::Realizables ::::Roles ::::Dispositions and the treatment of modality ::::Functions ::Added in BFO 1.1 :::Generically and specifically dependent continuants, concretizations, and relations of dependence :::Information entities ==2: Continuant Entities== :[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2017/BFO-Part2.mp4 Video] :[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2012/BFO_Tutorial_2012.pptx Slides] ::Boundaries, sites and spatial regions :::Material entities occupy spatial regions :::Temporal instants and temporal intervals :::Spatial boundaries and spatial volumes ::Time, space and coordinate frames ::Material and immaterial entities ::Objects, fiat object parts and object aggregates :::Three kinds of objects ::::Organisms ::::Solid portions of matter ::::Engineered artifacts :::A problem case: Cell adhesion ::Fiat objects reflect granular partitions ::Object aggregates reflect granular partitions :::Organisms and molecules ::Object aggregates can change their members over time ::Rigid and non-rigid universals :::Determinates and determinables :::Role universals are rigid universals ==3. Process Profiles== :[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2017/BFO-Part3.mp4 Video] :[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2012/BFO_Tutorial_2012.pptx Slides] ::Process profiles as targets of process measurements :::Temperature charts :::Cognitive selection :::The Wiggers diagram :::Quality process profiles ::::Color ::::Hue, saturation and brightness :::Polyphonic music :::Determinables and determinates :::Rate process profiles ::::Heart rate ::::Speed :::Relative Process profiles ::Process profiles and time-series graphs :::Truthmakers for graphs ==4. Granular Partitions== :[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2017/BFO-Part4.mp4 Video] :[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2012/BFO_Tutorial_2012.pptx Slides] ::Manipulating partitions ::Object partitions ::Quality partitions :::Color ::Map layers ::Process partitions :::Map-based partitions of occurrent reality and the fiat entities they create ::::Weather ::::Napoleon's march to Moscow ::From photography to film ::Persistence in time :::Partition sequences ::::Tossing a coin ::::Chess ::::Flying from Vienna to New York ::::Molecular pathways ::Defining 'process profile' :::Focusing on the cello part when you listen to a string quartet ::Granular partitions and the Davidsonian theory of events ==Important links== :[http://ifomis.uni-saarland.de/bfo/ Principal BFO website] :[http://ifomis.uni-saarland.de/bfo/users BFO users] :[https://github.com/bfo-ontology/BFO/wiki BFO on github] :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/BOBFO/ BFO book] A shorter summary of the above material is presented here: :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTNQYyh88-Y BFO 2.0 Shorter Version Part One] :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCBON2me3Y BFO 2.0 Shorter Version Part Two]