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'''Date''': May 13-14, 2013. | '''Date''': May 13-14, 2013. | ||
This meeting is co-located with the [http://wiki.plantontology.org/index.php/PRO-PO-GO_Meeting PRO-PO-GO] meeting, to be held on May 15-16, 2013. | This meeting is co-located with the [http://wiki.plantontology.org/index.php/PRO-PO-GO_Meeting PRO-PO-GO] meeting, to be held on May 15-16, 2013. | ||
''' | == '''Goal''' == | ||
The goal of the meeting is to finalize the BFO 2.0 specification and to address issues with BFO 2.0 OWL. | The goal of the meeting is to finalize the BFO 2.0 specification and to address issues with BFO 2.0 OWL. | ||
== Draft Schedule == | |||
<u>Monday, May 13, 2013</u> | <u>Monday, May 13, 2013</u> | ||
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:Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version | :Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version | ||
:including | |||
::the treatment of time and relations in BFO 2.0 OWL. | |||
12:30 Lunch | 12:30 Lunch | ||
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15:00 Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version (continued) | 15:00 Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version (continued) | ||
:spatial relations, BFO and anatomy | |||
::location | |||
::fiat boundary | |||
::holes | |||
16:30 Release strategy and plans to create a definitive paper on BFO 2.0 | 16:30 Release strategy and plans to create a definitive paper on BFO 2.0 | ||
== Participants == | |||
Judith Blake (Jackson Lab) | |||
Matthias Brochhausen (Arkansas) | Matthias Brochhausen (Arkansas) | ||
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Barry Smith (Buffalo) | Barry Smith (Buffalo) | ||
==Background Reading== | == Background Reading == | ||
The current draft version of the BFO 2.0 Specification is available [http://bfo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/bfo2-reference/BFO2-Reference.docx here]. | |||
For further information please write to [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu Barry Smith] or see [http://www.ifomis.uni-saarland.de/bfo/ here]. | |||
For introductory reading see: Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith: "[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/SNAP_SPAN.pdf SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology]", ''Spatial Cognition and Computation'', 4 (2004), 69-103. | For introductory reading see: Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith: "[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/SNAP_SPAN.pdf SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology]", ''Spatial Cognition and Computation'', 4 (2004), 69-103. | ||
Revision as of 16:36, 14 April 2013
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.
Goal
The goal of the meeting is to finalize the BFO 2.0 specification and to address issues with BFO 2.0 OWL.
Draft Schedule
Monday, May 13, 2013
12:00 Lunch
12:30 The BFO 2.0 Specification
- 1. Brief introduction (Barry Smith)
- 2. Relation to BFO 2.0 Specification to BFO 2.0 FOL, CLIF and OWL
- 3. Survey of current users of BFO 2.0
14:30 Break
- 4. Issues with the Specification, especially as concerns
- Process profiles
- BFO and IAO
- Rigid vs. non-rigid types
18:00 Dinner
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
9:00 BFO 2.0 FOL
10:30 Break
11:00 BFO 2.0 OWL
- Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version
- including
- the treatment of time and relations in BFO 2.0 OWL.
12:30 Lunch
13:00 Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version (continued)
14:30 Break
15:00 Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version (continued)
- spatial relations, BFO and anatomy
- location
- fiat boundary
- holes
16:30 Release strategy and plans to create a definitive paper on BFO 2.0
Participants
Judith Blake (Jackson Lab)
Matthias Brochhausen (Arkansas)
Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)
Alexander Cox (Buffalo)
Randall Dipert (Buffalo)
Janna Hastings (EBI / Geneva)
William Hogan (Arkansas)
Leonard Jacuzzo (Buffalo)
Mark Jensen (Buffalo)
Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)
Darren Natale (Georgetown)
Fabian Neuhaus (NIST)
Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)
Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz)
Selja Seppälä (Buffalo)
Barry Smith (Buffalo)
Background Reading
The current draft version of the BFO 2.0 Specification is available here.
For further information please write to Barry Smith or see here.
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.
