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 |
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 |
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