CIF Ontology

This repository provides an ontologisation of the CIF Dictionary Definition Language (DDLm) and the CIF core dictionary by IUCr. The development version of these dictionaries can be found in the COMCIFS/cif_core GitHub repository.

The CIF Ontology has no dependencies to any upper ontology. But the EMMC crystallography task group is providing an EMMO-based Crystallography Domain Ontology, which is based on both the CIF Ontology and EMMO.

Obtaining CIF-ontology

A table with available releases can be found in the documentation.

Manually generating the cif core ontology

It is also possible to clone this repository and generate the CIF ontology.

First clone this repository with

git clone https://github.com/emmo-repo/CIF-ontology.git

and then run the dic2owl tool following the instructions in the dic2owl/README.md file.

Attributions and credits

Contributors

• Jesper Friis, SINTEF
• James Hester
• Casper Welzel Andersen, EPFL
• Saulius Grazulis
• Rickard Armiento
• Emanuele Ghedini
• Francesca Lønstad Bleken, SINTEF
• Joana Morgado, Fraunhofer IWM
• Stuart Chalk

Contributing projects

• Demystify ontologies - Internal project at SINTEF
• MarketPlace; Grant Agreement No: 760173
• OntoTrans; Grant Agreement No: 862136
• BIG-MAP; Grant Agreement No: 957189

License

The CIF ontology is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). See also the LICENSE file.