Basic Formal Ontology
Abbreviation: BFO
Scope: Upper level ontology
Topic: Ontology
Standard body: Other
Description:
Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is the third module of the WonderWeb Ontology Library. BFO is a highest-common-denominator upper ontology designed to support interoperability between 5 domain ontologies supporting shared use of scientific research data across disciplinary boundaries. Basic Formal Ontology consists in a series of sub-ontologies (most properly conceived as a series of perspectives on reality).
Other standards in the same topic(s):
- DARPA Agent Markup Language + Ontology Integration Language
- Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering
- Distributed Ontology Language
- Flora-2
- General Ontology for Linguistic Description
- Ontologies of Linguistic Annotation
- Ontology Integration and Interoperability
- OpenCyc
- SIMPLE Core Ontology
- Semantic Web Rule Language Combining OWL and RuleML
- Suggested Upper Merged Ontology
- Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer
- Web Ontology Language
Abbreviation: BFO 2.0
Version Number: 2.0
Release Date:
2015
- Barry Smith
- Pierre Grenon