Basic Formal Ontology ( BFO ) is a top-level ontology developed by Barry Smith and his associates for the purposes of promoting interoperability among domain ontologies built in its terms through a process of downward population. A guide to building BFO-conformant domain ontologies was published by MIT Press in 2015.
6-502: BFO is an abbreviation that stands for: Basic Formal Ontology Beat frequency oscillator used to create an audio frequency signal for receiving continuous wave (Morse code) transmissions The Black Forest Observatory in Germany BiFeO 3 (Bismuth ferrite), an inorganic chemical compound Boron monofluoride monoxide Budapest Festival Orchestra Bunker Fuel Oil ,
12-662: A (low-cost) type of fuel oil Federal Consultative Assembly ( Bijeenkomst voor Federaal Overleg ), an organisation of federal states of the United States of Indonesia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title BFO . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BFO&oldid=1004136861 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
18-511: A single framework. BFO has been adopted as a foundational ontology by over 450 ontology projects, principally in the areas of biomedical ontology , security and defense (intelligence) ontology, and industry ontologies. Example applications of BFO can be seen in the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI). In 2021, the standard ISO/IEC 21838-2:2021 Information Technology — Top-level Ontologies (TLO) — Part 2: Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
24-512: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Basic Formal Ontology The ontology arose against the background of research in ontologies in the domain of geospatial information science by David Mark, Pierre Grenon, Achille Varzi and others, with a special role for the study of vagueness and of the ways sharp boundaries in the geospatial and other domains are created by fiat. BFO has passed through four major releases. The current revision
30-787: Was published by the Joint Technical Committee of the International Standards Organization and the International Electrotechnical Commission. ISO/IEC 21838 is a multi-part standard. Part 1 of the standard specifies the requirements that must be met if an ontology is to be classified as a top-level ontology by the standard. In January 2024, BFO and the Common Core Ontologies (CCO), a suite of BFO-extension ontologies, were adopted as
36-600: Was released in 2020, and this forms the basis of the standard ISO/IEC 21838-2, which was released by the Joint Committee of the International Standards Organization and International Electrotechnical Commission in 2021. The structure of BFO is based on a division of entities into two disjoint categories of continuant and occurrent , the former consists of objects and spatial regions, the latter contains processes conceived as extended through (or spanning) time. BFO thereby seeks to consolidate both time and space within
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