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PROPOSED Principle #21 "BFO class conformity" #961

Open nataled opened 5 years ago

nataled commented 5 years ago

Initial thoughts/text:

Name: BFO class conformity

Summary: The Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) provides a framework to enable consistent representation of knowledge classes as either continuant (entities) or occurrent (processes). Classifying classes within each OBO Foundry ontology according to BFO classes will provide a domain-neutral framework for ontology development.

Purpose: The benefits of class conformity are: (1) to ensure that ontology content is consistently represented in their continuant and occurrent subclasses; and (2) to provide rigor on the underlying categorical structure and organization of the ontology.

ongoing discussion points: benefit to the community -- interoperability, orthogonality, delineated content, guidance as to how to organize an ontology -- should an ontology contain more than one type of BFO class ? (sometimes it is necessary -- -- enforces reality based view so that all OBO Foundry ontologies are addressing terms in the same way.

Definitions: Note difference between Use vs Conform to BFO (“use” = import/show directly) continuent: A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity [Ontobee]

occurrent: An occurrent is an entity that unfolds itself in time or it is the instantaneous boundary of such an entity (for example a beginning or an ending) or it is a temporal or spatiotemporal region which such an entity occupies_temporal_region or occupies_spatiotemporal_region. [Ontobee]

Implementation: Recommendation: It is expected that OBO Foundry ontology developers will identify their pertinent BFO classes.

Examples: Criteria for Review: -- Provide an explanation of data types within the ontology and how they align to BFO classes FMA: example

History: Papers implementing BFO: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4068904/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25433798 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26140188

nlharris commented 3 years ago

is this principle still being considered?

nataled commented 3 years ago

Yes. Put on back burner only because--as a brand new principle--this is a lower priority than getting already-accepted principles in line.