BFO-Based Data and Information Ontologies

The Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)

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OBO Foundry

Example IAO term: measurement unit label

Werner Ceusters & Barry Smith, "Aboutness: Towards Foundations for the Information Artifact Ontology",

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) (CEUR 1515), 2015

Abstract: The Information Artifact Ontology (IAO) was created to serve as a domain‐neutral resource for the representation of types of information content entities (ICEs) such as documents, data‐bases, and digital im‐ages. We identify a series of problems with the current version of the IAO and suggest solutions designed to advance our understanding of the relations between ICEs and associated cognitive representations in the minds of human subjects. This requires embedding IAO in a larger framework of ontologies, including most importantly the Mental Functioning Ontology (MFO). It also requires a careful treatment of the aboutness relations between ICEs and associated cognitive representations and their targets in reality, which implies in turn a new treatment of the relation of truthmaking.

Barry Smith, Tatiana Malyuta, Ron Rudnicki, William Mandrick, David Salmen, Peter Morosoff, Danielle K. Duff, James Schoening & Kesny Parent, "IAO-Intel: An Ontology of Information Artifacts in the Intelligence Domain", Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS), (CEUR 1097), 2013, 33-40. J Hastings, C Batchelor, F Neuhaus, C Steinbeck, "https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224812500_What's_in_an_is_about'_link_Chemical_diagrams_and_the_InformationArtifact_Ontology What's in an 'is about'link? Chemical diagrams and the Information Artifact Ontology]", arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2012 - arxiv.org

[HTML] The ontology for biomedical investigations A Bandrowski, R Brinkman, M Brochhausen, MH Brush… - PloS one, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

[PDF] Bridging the semantics gap between terminologies, ontologies, and information models. S Schulz, D Schober, C Daniel, MC Jaulent - Medinfo, 2010 - researchgate.net … Represent artifacts that are build to collect or annotate information Can exist independently … here propose alternative representations based on the in- formation artifact ontology, using information … It is also consistent with the Information Artifact Ontol- ogy, which, however, lacks …

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Articles

Mary Bone, Mark Blackburn, Benjamin Kruse, John Dzielski, Thomas Hagedorn and Ian Grosse, "Toward an Interoperability and Integration Framework to Enable Digital Thread", Systems, 2018, 6(4), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems6040046.

Hyunmin Cheong, Adrian Butscher, Physics-based simulation ontology: an ontology to support modelling and reuse of data for physics-based simulation, Journal of Engineering Design, 23 July 2019.

Examples of Ontologies using IAO

Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)

Ceusters W. An information artifact ontology perspective on data collections and associated representational artifacts. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012;180:68–72.

Barton, Adrien et al. “An ontological analysis of medical Bayesian indicators of performance.” Journal of biomedical semantics vol. 8,1 1. 3 Jan. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13326-016-0099-4

Chemical Information Ontology (CHEMINF)

Common Core Cyber Ontology (C3O)

Communication Standards Ontology (CSO)

Comparative Data Analysis Ontology (CDAO)

Conceptual Model Ontology (CMO)

Core Data Integration Model (CDIM)

Decision Ontology

Document Act Ontology (D-Acts)

Email Ontology

Exposé: an ontology for data mining experiments (see also :here)

eXtended Formal Ontology (XFO)

General Information Model (GIM)

Information Security Domain (ISD) ontology

Informed Consent Ontology (ICO)

Knowledge Object Reference Ontology (KORO)

Mental Functioning Ontology (MF)

Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI)

Ontology for Documentation of Variable/Data Source Selection (ODVDS)

Ontology of Data Mining (OntoDM)

Ontology of Datatypes (OntoDT) (see also :here)

Ontology of Experimental Variables and Values (OOEVV) (with hooks to OBI) (see also :here)

Ontology for Information Science (OntoforInforScience)

Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA)

Ontology-Based eXtensible Data Model (OBX)

Ontology-Driven Information System (ODIS) / Ontology-Driven Scenario Generator (ODSG)

Proper Name Ontology (PNO)

Provenir ontology for provenance modeling

Scientific Evidence and Provenance Information Ontology (SEPIO)

Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO)

Sentinel: Platform for Semantic Enrichment of Social Media Streams

Situation Awareness Ontology (SAO)

Sketch Map Ontology

Software Ontology (SWO)

Statistics Ontology (STATO)

Survey Ontology

United Nations System Document Ontology (ONTO-UNDO)

VIVO Ontology