Foundational ontologies are complex logical representations of the basic concepts of the world of discourse. Grounding domain-specific semantic artefacts in foundational ontologies allows the alignment of various domain specific semantic artefacts around a common hypothesis about the world. These semantic artefacts are built to support the integration and the interoperation of domain specific semantic artefacts acting as a language bridging them. Several foundational ontologies exist such as UFO[37], BFO[38], DOLCE[39], EMMO[40].
This recommendation does not make any claim regarding which foundational ontology to use but emphasizes the necessity to be aligned with one.
@jonquet
Semantic artefacts are encouraged to reuse other open and formal vocabularies as emphasized in I2 and especially foundational ontologies. We personally encourage our users reuse foundational ontologies to enhance more the interoperability of their data with the rest of other data repository.
AgroPortal stores upper-level ontologies like BFO for example using the property omv:hasFormalityLevel. In addition, it specifies alignment relationships that might be used to cover different alignment situations (omv:useImports, door:ontologyRelatedTo, door:isAlignedTo, bpm:viewOf).
To guarantee the coherence of its mapping repository, AgroPortal should implement some automatic techniques to maintain mappings, evaluate the ratio of reused entities/ relations based on the ratio complexity and specificity, and guide users in the reuse of semantic artefacts relations.
Description
Foundational ontologies are complex logical representations of the basic concepts of the world of discourse. Grounding domain-specific semantic artefacts in foundational ontologies allows the alignment of various domain specific semantic artefacts around a common hypothesis about the world. These semantic artefacts are built to support the integration and the interoperation of domain specific semantic artefacts acting as a language bridging them. Several foundational ontologies exist such as UFO[37], BFO[38], DOLCE[39], EMMO[40].
This recommendation does not make any claim regarding which foundational ontology to use but emphasizes the necessity to be aligned with one.
Existing recommendations:
● Industry Ontology Foundry - requirement 8[41]
Stakeholder: Practitioner
@jonquet Semantic artefacts are encouraged to reuse other open and formal vocabularies as emphasized in I2 and especially foundational ontologies. We personally encourage our users reuse foundational ontologies to enhance more the interoperability of their data with the rest of other data repository. AgroPortal stores upper-level ontologies like BFO for example using the property omv:hasFormalityLevel. In addition, it specifies alignment relationships that might be used to cover different alignment situations (omv:useImports, door:ontologyRelatedTo, door:isAlignedTo, bpm:viewOf). To guarantee the coherence of its mapping repository, AgroPortal should implement some automatic techniques to maintain mappings, evaluate the ratio of reused entities/ relations based on the ratio complexity and specificity, and guide users in the reuse of semantic artefacts relations.