2013 BFO Meeting: Difference between revisions

From NCOR Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
 
(65 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 7: Line 7:
== '''Goal''' ==
== '''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 assess the current state of the BFO 2.0 Specification and to consider proposals regarding BFO 2.0 OWL. As the OWL working group formally decided not to meet at this time, work on BFO 2.0 OWL will contribute to subsequent meetings of this group, but decisions that require vote will not be taken.


== Draft Schedule ==
== Schedule ==


<u>Monday, May 13, 2013</u>
<u>Monday, May 13, 2013</u>


12:00 Lunch   
11:30 Registration and Lunch   


12:30 The BFO 2.0 Specification
[https://ub.webex.com/ub/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=23137982&rKey=31170c5a9077ab9e  Webex recording]


:1. Brief introduction (Barry Smith)
12:30 BFO 2.0 Brief introduction (Smith) [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/BFO-2-Smith.ppt Slides]
:2. Role of BFO 2.0 Specification in relation to BFO 2.0 FOL, CLIF and OWL
:Examples of new ontologies based on BFO
:3. Reports from current users of BFO 2.0  
:[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/ontologies/AIRS_Ontologies.pdf Actionable Intelligence Retrieval System (AIRS)]
:[http://financialreportontology.wikispaces.com/ Financial Report Ontology] (FRO)
:[https://code.google.com/p/mental-functioning-ontology/ Mental Functioning Ontology] (MFO), [http://code.google.com/p/emotion-ontology Emotion Ontology] (MFO-EM)
:[http://wiki.plantontology.org/index.php/The_cROP_(Common_Reference_Ontologies_for_Plants)_Initiative Common Reference Ontologies for Plants] (cROP)
:*BFO under the hood
:*Use case: Tachycardia
 
13:10 [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/ Seppälä Making BFO categories explicit for increased user-friendliness] (Seppälä)
 
13:30 Report on semi-automatic conversion of BFO from v1.1 to v2.0 (Zheng) [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/BFOconverter.pptx Slides]
 
13:50 CHEBI's experience with BFO 2.0 (Hastings) [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/chebi-and-bfo.pptx Slides]
 
14:10 Experiences with BFO 2.0 in developing the [https://code.google.com/p/neurological-disease-ontology/ Neurological Disease Ontology] (Cox, Diehl, Jensen) [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/ ND-and-BFO.pptx]


14:30 Break
14:30 Break


:4. Issues with the Specification, especially as concerns
15:00 Issues  


:*Process profiles  
[https://ub.webex.com/ub/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=23137992&rKey=e113d98e24615a11 Webex recording]
:*BFO and IAO
 
:*Rigid vs. non-rigid types
:Process profiles
:Rigid vs. non-rigid types
:*Can this be applied also to occurrent types?
:Which general terms refer to universals?
:*Use case: heavy smoker from Wisconsin
:[https://code.google.com/p/bfo/issues/detail?id=1 Qualities with values]
:*1 Logical distinction between determinable and determinate quality types
:*2 Representation of qualities with values in OWL.
:Granularity
:*Grains
:*Aggregates
:Object aggregates vs. sets
:Exists-at-t
:*"blood specimen collected at 4:30 pm on May 1st, 2011"
:*need for frames of reference for spatial regions and temporal intervals
:BFO and range of IAO:aboutness
:Using 'Domain' and 'Range' to describe ternary temporal relations is confusing or wrong
 
See also list [http://code.google.com/p/bfo/issues/list here]
 
17:00 Addressing the Ontology Needs of the United States Geological Survey (Dalia Varanka) [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/BFOandUSGS.pptx]


18:00 Dinner
18:00 Dinner
Line 33: Line 66:
<u>Tuesday, May 14, 2013</u>
<u>Tuesday, May 14, 2013</u>


9:00 [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/FOL BFO 2.0 FOL]
9:00 [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/FOL BFO 2.0 FOL] (Dipert) [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/Dipert-FOL.pptx Slides]
 
[https://ub.webex.com/ub/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=23147007&rKey=1fa9337a26ca70b6 Webex recording]


10:30 Break
10:30 Break


11:00 BFO 2.0 OWL
11:00 Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version
*1. Temporalized Relations (Ruttenberg)
 
12:30 Lunch


:Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version
13:00 Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version


:including
[https://ub.webex.com/ub/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=23147017&rKey=9260a30a3fa2a128 Webex recording]


::the treatment of time and relations in BFO 2.0 OWL.  
*2. Temporally qualified continuants (Schulz)
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/Schulz.pptx slides]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/tqc3.owl ontology]


12:30 Lunch
:How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Temporally Qualified Continuants (Neuhaus) [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/Neuhaus.pdf slides]


13:00 Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version (continued)
[[Mungall paper]]


14:30 Break
14:30 Break


15:00 Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version (continued)
15:00 Spatial Relations


:spatial relations, BFO and anatomy
:Space, Time and Spacetime (Bittner) [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/Bittner.pdf slides]
:Relations between site, material entity, and history (Smith) [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/2013/Space-Time-BFO.pptx Slides]
:BFO and anatomy
::location
::location
::fiat boundary
::fiat boundary
::holes
::holes


16:30 Release strategy and plans to create a definitive paper on BFO 2.0
16:30 Plans to create a paper on BFO
 
18:00 Dinner
 
== 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 on relations see: Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, et al., “[http://genomebiology.com/2005/6/5/R46 Relations in Biomedical Ontologies]”, ''Genome Biology'' (2005), 6 (5), R46.
 
For discussion of core BFO issues see: Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “[http://iospress.metapress.com/content/1551884412214u67/fulltext.pdf Ontological Realism as a Methodology for Coordinated Evolution of Scientific Ontologies]”, ''Applied Ontology'', 5 (2010), 139–188.
 
The paper [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Classifying_Processes.pdf here] contains some material pertaining to process profiles: “Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology”, ''Ratio'', in press.
 
And the paper [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Material_Entities.pdf 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.


== Participants  ==
== Participants  ==
Thomas Bittner (Buffalo)


Judith Blake (Jackson Lab)
Judith Blake (Jackson Lab)


Matthias Brochhausen (Arkansas)
Jonathan Bona (Buffalo)
 
Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)


Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)
Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)


Alexander Cox (Buffalo)
Alexander Cox (Buffalo)
Alex Diehl (Buffalo)


Randall Dipert (Buffalo)
Randall Dipert (Buffalo)
Bill Duncan (Buffalo)
Louis Goldberg (Buffalo)


Janna Hastings (EBI / Geneva)
Janna Hastings (EBI / Geneva)
Amanda Hicks (Arkansas)


William Hogan (Arkansas)
William Hogan (Arkansas)
Line 85: Line 157:


Fabian Neuhaus (NIST)
Fabian Neuhaus (NIST)
James Overton (Toronto)
Patrick Ray (Buffalo)
Ron Rudnicki (Buffalo)


Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)
Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)
Line 94: Line 172:
Barry Smith (Buffalo)
Barry Smith (Buffalo)


== Background Reading ==
Dalia Varanka (USGS)
 
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.
Jie Zheng (Penn)
 
For introductory reading on relations see: Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, et al., “[http://genomebiology.com/2005/6/5/R46 Relations in Biomedical Ontologies]”, ''Genome Biology'' (2005), 6 (5), R46.
 
For discussion of core BFO issues see: Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “[http://iospress.metapress.com/content/1551884412214u67/fulltext.pdf Ontological Realism as a Methodology for Coordinated Evolution of Scientific Ontologies]”, ''Applied Ontology'', 5 (2010), 139–188.
 
The paper [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Classifying_Processes.pdf here] contains some material pertaining to process profiles: “Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology”, ''Ratio'', in press.
 
And the paper [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Material_Entities.pdf 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.

Latest revision as of 11:53, 16 May 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 assess the current state of the BFO 2.0 Specification and to consider proposals regarding BFO 2.0 OWL. As the OWL working group formally decided not to meet at this time, work on BFO 2.0 OWL will contribute to subsequent meetings of this group, but decisions that require vote will not be taken.

Schedule

Monday, May 13, 2013

11:30 Registration and Lunch

Webex recording

12:30 BFO 2.0 Brief introduction (Smith) Slides

Examples of new ontologies based on BFO
Actionable Intelligence Retrieval System (AIRS)
Financial Report Ontology (FRO)
Mental Functioning Ontology (MFO), Emotion Ontology (MFO-EM)
Common Reference Ontologies for Plants (cROP)
  • BFO under the hood
  • Use case: Tachycardia

13:10 Seppälä Making BFO categories explicit for increased user-friendliness (Seppälä)

13:30 Report on semi-automatic conversion of BFO from v1.1 to v2.0 (Zheng) Slides

13:50 CHEBI's experience with BFO 2.0 (Hastings) Slides

14:10 Experiences with BFO 2.0 in developing the Neurological Disease Ontology (Cox, Diehl, Jensen) ND-and-BFO.pptx

14:30 Break

15:00 Issues

Webex recording

Process profiles
Rigid vs. non-rigid types
  • Can this be applied also to occurrent types?
Which general terms refer to universals?
  • Use case: heavy smoker from Wisconsin
Qualities with values
  • 1 Logical distinction between determinable and determinate quality types
  • 2 Representation of qualities with values in OWL.
Granularity
  • Grains
  • Aggregates
Object aggregates vs. sets
Exists-at-t
  • "blood specimen collected at 4:30 pm on May 1st, 2011"
  • need for frames of reference for spatial regions and temporal intervals
BFO and range of IAO:aboutness
Using 'Domain' and 'Range' to describe ternary temporal relations is confusing or wrong

See also list here

17:00 Addressing the Ontology Needs of the United States Geological Survey (Dalia Varanka) [1]

18:00 Dinner

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

9:00 BFO 2.0 FOL (Dipert) Slides

Webex recording

10:30 Break

11:00 Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version

  • 1. Temporalized Relations (Ruttenberg)

12:30 Lunch

13:00 Issues with the BFO 2.0 OWL version

Webex recording

  • 2. Temporally qualified continuants (Schulz)
slides
ontology
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Temporally Qualified Continuants (Neuhaus) slides

Mungall paper

14:30 Break

15:00 Spatial Relations

Space, Time and Spacetime (Bittner) slides
Relations between site, material entity, and history (Smith) Slides
BFO and anatomy
location
fiat boundary
holes

16:30 Plans to create a paper on BFO

18:00 Dinner

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.

Participants

Thomas Bittner (Buffalo)

Judith Blake (Jackson Lab)

Jonathan Bona (Buffalo)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Alexander Cox (Buffalo)

Alex Diehl (Buffalo)

Randall Dipert (Buffalo)

Bill Duncan (Buffalo)

Louis Goldberg (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI / Geneva)

Amanda Hicks (Arkansas)

William Hogan (Arkansas)

Leonard Jacuzzo (Buffalo)

Mark Jensen (Buffalo)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Darren Natale (Georgetown)

Fabian Neuhaus (NIST)

James Overton (Toronto)

Patrick Ray (Buffalo)

Ron Rudnicki (Buffalo)

Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)

Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz)

Selja Seppälä (Buffalo)

Barry Smith (Buffalo)

Dalia Varanka (USGS)

Jie Zheng (Penn)

Retrieved from "https://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php?title=2013_BFO_Meeting&oldid=65860"