Aboutness: Towards foundations for the information artifact ontology

Barry Smith; Werner Ceusters

Aboutness: Towards foundations for the information artifact ontology

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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 images. 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.

Original language	English
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	1515
State	Published - 2015
Event	International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, ICBO 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: Jul 27 2015 → Jul 30 2015

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