Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology

Barry Smith

doi:10.1002/9781118627747.ch6

Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology

Barry Smith

Philosophy

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Abstract

We begin by describing recent developments in the burgeoning discipline of applied ontology, focusing especially on the ways ontologies are providing a means for the consistent representation of scientific data. We then introduce Basic Formal Ontology(BFO), a top-level ontology that is serving as domain-neutral framework for the development of lower level ontologies in many specialist disciplines, above all in biology and medicine. BFO is a bicategorial ontology, embracing both three-dimensionalist (continuant)and four-dimensionalist (occurrent) perspectives within a single framework. We examine how BFO-conformant domainontologies can deal with the consistent representation of scientific data deriving from the measurement of processes of different types, and we outline on this basis the first steps of an approach to the classification of such processes within the BFO framework.1

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Classifying Reality
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons
Pages	101-126
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Print)	9781118508350
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118627747.ch6
State	Published - Mar 14 2013

Keywords

Applied ontology, BFO, bicategorial
CLIF and Common Logic/OWL
Gene Ontology and OBI/Unification
Gene Ontology, fragments
OWL-DL, and Description Logics
Process profiles, and planned
Rate process, and cyclical
Time series ontology, semantics
Zemach's 'Four Ontologies'
Zemach's 'things'/'events'

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