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A curated list of various BFO and BFO-related resources.

Awesome Basic Formal Ontology

A curated list of various BFO and BFO-related resources.

The creation of Barry Smith, BFO is described as growing out of a philosophical orientation which overlaps with that of DOLCE and SUMO. Unlike these, however, it is narrowly focused on the task of providing a genuine upper ontology which can be used in support of domain ontologies developed for scientific research, as for example in biomedicine within the framework of the OBO Foundry. Thus BFO does not contain physical, chemical, biological or other terms which would properly fall within the special sciences domains. BFO is the upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.

Contents

• Related Lists
• BFO
• BFO Learning Videos
• Barry Smith
• BFO-Derived Ontologies
• Barry Smith Relevant Reading
• Relevant Topics

Related Lists

• Awesome Semantic Web - Related awesome list with general Semantic Web resources.
• Awesome Philosophy - Names of useful philosophy books separated by topic.
• Awesome Philosophy in Computer Science - A list of resources that cross the disciplines of computer science and philosophy.

BFO

• BFO's PURL (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl)
• BFO Book - Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology. Essentially an in-depth tutorial of BFO's philosophical grounding and real examples of how to use it. MUST READ for a full understanding.
• BFO at OBOFoundry
• BFO at Ontobee
• BFO at AberOWL
• BFO at OLS
• BFO at BioPortal
• BFO at OntoHub
• BFO at Github
• BFO's actual homepage - Older webpage, has a lot of authors and contact information.
• BFO's Google Discussion Page
• BFO's ISO/IEC 21838 Top-Level Ontlogies Standard Page

BFO Learning Videos

All of Barry Smith's most relevant playlists.

• BFO for Military Ontologies
• BFO Tutorial 2019
• BFO for Engineers
• BFO for Systems Engineering
• IAO
• All BFO-related videos

Barry Smith

Very active on all platforms referred to as of mid-July 2022.

• University email: [email protected]
• Company email: [email protected]
• Homepage
• YouTube - Includes in-depth tutorials for BFO/IAO, in addition to all of his lectures on philosophical ontology and military ontology.
• Links to his papers, ontologies, associations, contacts and projects
• National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)
  • NCOR Wiki
  • NCOR Wiki All Pages Indexed
• Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF)

BFO-Derived Ontologies

• Open Biomedical Ontologies
• Common Core Ontologies (CCO)
  • CCO Extended for Data Integration by CUBRC
• Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)
  • IAO-Based Information ontologies
• BFO-Based Engineering Ontologies
• Ontology for Data Mining (OntoDM)

Barry Smith Relevant Reading

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• Ontology for the Intelligence Analyst
• Joint Doctrine Ontology and Military Information Systems Interoperability
• Horizontal Integration of Intelligence Data
• IAO for the Intelligence Community
• Ontological Support for Living Plan Specification, Execution and Evaluation

Relevant Topics

• Joint Doctrine Ontology (JDO)
• Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security (STIDS) 2010-2016 Conferences Proceedings - Click on the agenda link and view the presentations there.
• BFO and military ontologies - The YouTube channel of Lieutenant Colonel Bill Mandrick, who has posted some useful videos on military ontology development.
• militaryontology.org - The website of LTC Bill Mandrick, who worked with BFO and Barry Smith to put out a lot of information regarding military ontology development.