Workshop on BFO and the Ontology of Social Entities 2016
Venue: Hilton University of Florida Conference Center, 1714 SW 34th Street, Gainesville, Florida, 32607, USA. A block of rooms will be available at a discounted rate.
Dates: February 17-19, 2016
Organizers: Barry Smith and William Hogan
Background
The goal of the workshop is to develop the account of social entities in Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) to the point where BFO users have adequate guidance to develop and apply in software applications the ontology of organizations, document acts, roles, claims, obligations, consent and other social entities, in a reliable and consistent manner that enables semantic interoperability.
Several BFO-based ontologies have emerged that are grappling with such social entities in various ways, often taking different approaches. Examples include the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI), the Ontology of Medically-relevant Social Entities (OMRSE), the document acts (d-acts) ontology, and the Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS). Work has also been done on ontological representations of informed consent. The process of creating BFO, however, in order to make progress on capturing key entities studied by more basic sciences, has not yet developed fully an account of social entities beyond information content entities. The purpose of this workshop is to make substantial progress in developing such an account.
Lodging
Rooms are being held at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center Gainesville for participants at the rate of $149/night for reservation through January 19th.
Please visit this link and use the code "CTS216" for the discounted room rate.
Schedule
Wednesday February 17
1p-4p Tentative: Developing a framework of ontologies for social entities
Draft Proposal:
Starting out from physical behavior of humans and other animals we will build a series of ontologies relating to the sorts of entities which arise when humans act intentionally (act as cognitive agents). We can distinguish the following four Levels in this series, as follows:
Act Ontology (Level 1) Social Act Ontology (2) Speech Act Ontology (3) Document Act Ontology (4)
Walking, foraging, sitting ... would arise at level 1
Punishment, violence, leadership ... would arise at level 2
Obligations, responsibilities, permissions, rights, consents, commands, legal authority ... would arise at level 3
Transferrable obligations, debts, titles, copyrights, patents, contracts, protocols, diplomas ... would arise at level 4 (the level where generically dependent continuants first come into play)
Topics to be dealt with include: access, treatment, employment (if we have time also: law, science, politics, ...)
Thursday February 18
8a-12p Under development
8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast 8:30 - 9:00 Mathias Brochhausen - Legal entities and document acts – Opportunities and Challenges 9:00 - 9:30 Amanda Hicks - TBD 9:30- 10:00 Selja Seppala - TBD
12p-1p Lunch
1p-4p Under development
Friday February 19
8a-12:30p
- VIVO and social ontology according to BFO
- Action items and next steps
- Lunch
Sponsors
- National Center for Ontological Research
- Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Group
- The University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Participants
- Maurizio Almeida (Minas Geras)
- Chris Barnes
- Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)
- Michael Conlon (Gainesville)
- William Hogan (Gainesville)
- Ludger Jansen (Rostock)
- Peter Koch (Buffalo)
- Amanda Hicks (Gainesville)
- Selja Seppälä (Buffalo)
- Barry Smith (Buffalo)