| Acronym | BFO |
| Visibility | Public |
| Description | Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is an ontology that is conformant to the requirements specified for top-level ontologies in ISO/IEC 21838‑1. It supports the interchange of information among heterogeneous information systems. |
| Status | Production |
| Format | OWL |
| Contact | John Beverley, johnbeve@buffalo.edu |
| URI | http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl |
| curated By | Nasreddine Bouchemel |
| curated On | 2024-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 |
| deprecated | false |
| example Identifier | https://w3id.org/digitalconstruction/0.5/Entities#SpatialExtent |
| Creators | Seppo Törmä |
| has Formality Level | http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology |
| has License | ![]() |
| Ontology Syntax | http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/RDF_XML |
| has Part | https://data.industryportal.enit.fr/ontologies/MBSE |
| has Prior Version | http://193.50.189.11:8080/ontologies/BFO/submissions/1 |
| identifier | http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl |
| is Of Type | http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#DomainOntology |
| Metadata vocabulary used | local:local |
| Release date | 2023-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 |
| URI Lookup Endpoint | http://193.50.189.11:8080/search?ontologies=BFO&require_exact_match=true&q= |
| used Ontology Engineering Tool | http://protege.stanford.edu |
| version | 2020 |
| Version IRI | http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2020/bfo-core.owl |
We are still collecting data for BFO
| Classes | 36 |
| Individuals | 0 |
| Properties | 40 |
| Maximum depth | 5 |
| Maximum number of children | 4 |
| Average number of children | 2 |
| Classes with a single child | 6 |
| Classes with more than 25 children | 0 |
| Classes with no definition | 0 |
We are still collecting data for BFO