Barry Smith
Chris Stoeckert
Daniel Welch
Jie Zheng
John W. Judkins
Matthew Diller
S. Clint Dowland
Sam Smith
Sarah Bost
Selja Seppälä
William D. Duncan
Yongqun He
Amanda Hicks
Mathias Brochhausen
Shariq Tariq
Swetha Garimalla
William Hogan
The Ontology for Modeling and Representation of Social Entities (OMRSE) is an OBO Foundry ontology that represents the various entities that arise from human social interactions, such as social acts, social roles, social groups, and organizations.
Ontology for Modeling and Representation of Social Entities
This ontology grew out of efforts to represent the reality underlying the demographic information required by the US federal government's "meaningful use" criteria for electronic medical records and a presentation by Dr. William Hogan at the Electronic Health Record of the Future conference in Buffalo, NY http://ontology.buffalo.edu/EHR/Demographics_Hogan_Buffalo_2010_09_22.ppt
editor preferred term
The concise, meaningful, and human-friendly name for a class or property preferred by the ontology developers. (US-English)
PERSON:Daniel Schober
editor preferred label
example of usage
A phrase describing how a term should be used and/or a citation to a work which uses it. May also include other kinds of examples that facilitate immediate understanding, such as widely know prototypes or instances of a class, or cases where a relation is said to hold.
in branch
An annotation property indicating which module the terms belong to. This is currently experimental and not implemented yet.
has curation status
PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON:Bill Bug
PERSON:Melanie Courtot
definition
The official definition, explaining the meaning of a class or property. Shall be Aristotelian, formalized and normalized. Can be augmented with colloquial definitions.
2012-04-05: Barry Smith The official OBI definition, explaining the meaning of a class or property: 'Shall be Aristotelian, formalized and normalized. Can be augmented with colloquial definitions' is terrible. Can you fix to something like: A statement of necessary and sufficient conditions explaining the meaning of an expression referring to a class or property. Alan Ruttenberg Your proposed definition is a reasonable candidate, except that it is very common that necessary and sufficient conditions are not given. Mostly they are necessary, occasionally they are necessary and sufficient or just sufficient. Often they use terms that are not themselves defined and so they effectively can't be evaluated by those criteria. On the specifics of the proposed definition: We don't have definitions of 'meaning' or 'expression' or 'property'. For 'reference' in the intended sense I think we use the term 'denotation'. For 'expression', I think we you mean symbol, or identifier. For 'meaning' it differs for class and property. For class we want documentation that let's the intended reader determine whether an entity is instance of the class, or not. For property we want documentation that let's the intended reader determine, given a pair of potential relata, whether the assertion that the relation holds is true. The 'intended reader' part suggests that we also specify who, we expect, would be able to understand the definition, and also generalizes over human and computer reader to include textual and logical definition. Personally, I am more comfortable weakening definition to documentation, with instructions as to what is desirable. We also have the outstanding issue of how to aim different definitions to different audiences. A clinical audience reading chebi wants a different sort of definition documentation/definition from a chemistry trained audience, and similarly there is a need for a definition that is adequate for an ontologist to work with.
editor note
An administrative note intended for its editor. It may not be included in the publication version of the ontology, so it should contain nothing necessary for end users to understand the ontology.
term editor
Name of editor entering the term in the file. The term editor is a point of contact for information regarding the term. The term editor may be, but is not always, the author of the definition, which may have been worked upon by several people
20110707, MC: label update to term editor and definition modified accordingly. See https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/115.
definition editor
alternative label
A label for a class or property that can be used to refer to the class or property instead of the preferred rdfs:label. Alternative labels should be used to indicate community- or context-specific labels, abbreviations, shorthand forms and the like.
Consider re-defing to: An alternative name for a class or property which can mean the same thing as the preferred name (semantically equivalent, narrow, broad or related).
alternative term
definition source
Formal citation, e.g. identifier in external database to indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. Free text indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. EXAMPLE: Author Name, URI, MeSH Term C04, PUBMED ID, Wiki uri on 31.01.2007
Discussion on obo-discuss mailing-list, see http://bit.ly/hgm99w
has obsolescence reason
Relates an annotation property to an obsolescence reason. The values of obsolescence reasons come from a list of predefined terms, instances of the class obsolescence reason specification.
curator note
An administrative note of use for a curator but of no use for a user
term tracker item
the URI for an OBI Terms ticket at sourceforge, such as https://sourceforge.net/p/obi/obi-terms/772/
An IRI or similar locator for a request or discussion of an ontology term.
Person: Jie Zheng, Chris Stoeckert, Alan Ruttenberg
The 'tracker item' can associate a tracker with a specific ontology term.
ontology term requester
The name of the person, project, or organization that motivated inclusion of an ontology term by requesting its addition.
The 'term requester' can credit the person, organization or project who request the ontology term.
is denotator type
Relates an class defined in an ontology, to the type of it's denotator
In OWL 2 add AnnotationPropertyRange('is denotator type' 'denotator type')
Alan Ruttenberg
imported from
For external terms/classes, the ontology from which the term was imported
expand expression to
ObjectProperty: RO_0002104 Label: has plasma membrane part Annotations: IAO_0000424 "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000051 some (http://purl.org/obo/owl/GO#GO_0005886 and http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000051 some ?Y)"
A macro expansion tag applied to an object property (or possibly a data property) which can be used by a macro-expansion engine to generate more complex expressions from simpler ones
Chris Mungall
expand assertion to
ObjectProperty: RO??? Label: spatially disjoint from Annotations: expand_assertion_to "DisjointClasses: (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000051 some ?X) (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000051 some ?Y)"
A macro expansion tag applied to an annotation property which can be expanded into a more detailed axiom.
first order logic expression
antisymmetric property
part_of antisymmetric property xsd:true
Use boolean value xsd:true to indicate that the property is an antisymmetric property
OBO foundry unique label
An alternative name for a class or property which is unique across the OBO Foundry.
The intended usage of that property is as follow: OBO foundry unique labels are automatically generated based on regular expressions provided by each ontology, so that SO could specify unique label = 'sequence ' + [label], etc. , MA could specify 'mouse + [label]' etc. Upon importing terms, ontology developers can choose to use the 'OBO foundry unique label' for an imported term or not. The same applies to tools .
PERSON:Bjoern Peters
PERSON:Chris Mungall
GROUP:OBO Foundry <http://obofoundry.org/>
has ID digit count
Ontology: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro/idrange/> Annotations: 'has ID prefix': "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_" 'has ID digit count' : 7, rdfs:label "RO id policy" 'has ID policy for': "RO"
Relates an ontology used to record id policy to the number of digits in the URI. The URI is: the 'has ID prefix" annotation property value concatenated with an integer in the id range (left padded with "0"s to make this many digits)
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
has ID range allocated
Datatype: idrange:1 Annotations: 'has ID range allocated to': "Chris Mungall" EquivalentTo: xsd:integer[> 2151 , <= 2300]
Relates a datatype that encodes a range of integers to the name of the person or organization who can use those ids constructed in that range to define new terms
has ID range allocated to
has ID policy for
Relating an ontology used to record id policy to the ontology namespace whose policy it manages
has ID prefix
Relates an ontology used to record id policy to a prefix concatenated with an integer in the id range (left padded with "0"s to make this many digits) to construct an ID for a term being created.
elucidation
person:Alan Ruttenberg
Person:Barry Smith
Primitive terms in a highest-level ontology such as BFO are terms which are so basic to our understanding of reality that there is no way of defining them in a non-circular fashion. For these, therefore, we can provide only elucidations, supplemented by examples and by axioms
has associated axiom(nl)
An axiom associated with a term expressed using natural language
has associated axiom(fol)
An axiom expressed in first order logic using CLIF syntax
is allocated id range
Relates an ontology IRI to an (inclusive) range of IRIs in an OBO name space. The range is give as, e.g. "IAO_0020000-IAO_0020999"
Add as annotation triples in the granting ontology
has ontology root term
Ontology annotation property. Relates an ontology to a term that is a designated root term of the ontology. Display tools like OLS can use terms annotated with this property as the starting point for rendering the ontology class hierarchy. There can be more than one root.
Nicolas Matentzoglu
may be identical to
A annotation relationship between two terms in an ontology that may refer to the same (natural) type but where more evidence is required before terms are merged.
David Osumi-Sutherland
VFB
Edges asserting this should be annotated with to record evidence supporting the assertion and its provenance.
scheduled for obsoletion on or after
Used when the class or object is scheduled for obsoletion/deprecation on or after a particular date.
Chris Mungall, Jie Zheng
GO ontology
has axiom id
A URI that is intended to be unique label for an axiom used for tracking change to the ontology. For an axiom expressed in different languages, each expression is given the same URI
has axiom label
term replaced by
Use on obsolete terms, relating the term to another term that can be used as a substitute
has_MedDRA_id
This is an annotation used on an object property to indicate a logical characterstic beyond what is possible in OWL.
logical characteristic of object property
'part disjoint with' 'defined by construct' """ PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> PREFIX : <http://example.org/ CONSTRUCT { [ a owl:Restriction ; owl:onProperty :part_of ; owl:someValuesFrom ?a ; owl:disjointWith [ a owl:Restriction ; owl:onProperty :part_of ; owl:someValuesFrom ?b ] ] } WHERE { ?a :part_disjoint_with ?b . }
Links an annotation property to a SPARQL CONSTRUCT query which is meant to provide semantics for a shortcut relation.
The property is intended to be used exclusively on synonym assertions, to express that the synonym in question is the preference of a specific community. For example, one community may prefer to say call a disease "A" and another one "B" (but they are the same thing).
A provenance property that denotes a synonym to be the preferred one for a specific community.
CHEBI:26523 (reactive oxygen species) has an exact synonym (ROS), which is of type OMO:0003000 (abbreviation)
A synonym type for describing abbreviations or initalisms
A synonym type for describing ambiguous synonyms
A synonym type for describing dubious synonyms
EFO:0006346 (severe cutaneous adverse reaction) has an exact synonym (scar), which is of the type OMO:0003003 (layperson synonym)
A synonym type for describing layperson or colloquial synonyms
CHEBI:23367 (molecular entity) has an exact synonym (molecular entities), which is of the type OMO:0003004 (plural form)
A synonym type for describing pluralization synonyms
CHEBI:16189 (sulfate) has an exact synonym (sulphate), which is of the type OMO:0003005 (UK spelling synonym)
A synonym type for describing UK spelling variants
A synonym type for misnomers, i.e., a synonym that is not technically correct but is commonly used anyway
MAPT, the gene that encodes the Tau protein, has a previous name DDPAC. Note: in this case, the name type is more specifically the gene symbol.
A synonym type for names that have been used as primary labels in the past.
The legal name for Harvard University (https://ror.org/03vek6s52) is President and Fellows of Harvard College
A synonym type for the legal entity name
CHEBI:46195 has been assigned the english International Nonproproprietary Name (INN) "paracetamol". In some cases such as this one, the INN might be the same as the ontology's primary label
The International Nonproprietary Name (INN) is a standardize name for a pharmaceutical drug or active ingredient issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) meant to address the issues with country- or language-specific brand names. These are issued in several languages, including English, Latin, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese.
nasopharynx (UBERON:0001728) has the latin name "pars nasalis pharyngis
A synonym type for describing Latin term synonyms.
NASA is an word acronym for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration because the acronym is pronounced. FBI is an initialism (also known as alphabetism) for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation since the letters are pronounced one at a time. JPEG is an acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group but does not count as a word acronym nor an initialism since it is mixed how it is pronounced.
A synonym type for describing abbreviations that are a part of the full name's words, such as initialisms or alphabetisms.
A serial number such as "12324X"; a stop sign; a written proper name such as "OBI
An information content entity that is a mark(s) or character(s) used as a conventional representation of another entity.
The PUMS serial number assigned to a housing unit, which is only unique within each state, and which explicitly links the housing unit record with person records in PUMS data.
U.S. Census PUMS serial number
William R. Hogan
ISO 639-1 assigns two-character identifiers to individual human languages. This annotation property is for use in annotating OWL2 individuals in OMRSE that represent languages with their appropriate ISO 639-1 code that designates them in that standard system.
ISO 639-1 code
ISO 639-2/B code
ISO 639-2/B assigns three-character identifiers to individual human languages. This annotation property is for use in annotating OWL2 individuals in OMRSE that represent languages with their appropriate ISO 639-2/B ('B' is for "bibliographic applications") code that designates them in that standard system.
ISO 639-2/T code
ISO 639-2/T assigns three-character identifiers to individual human languages. This annotation property is for use in annotating OWL2 individuals in OMRSE that represent languages with their appropriate ISO 639-2/T ('T' is for "terminology applications") code that designates them in that standard system.
ISO 639-3 code
ISO 639-3 assigns three-character identifiers to individual human languages. This annotation property is for use in annotating OWL2 individuals in OMRSE that represent languages with their appropriate ISO 639-3 code that designates them in that standard system.
A description of an OOSTT class that is aimed at the OOSTT user community and not meant to be definition for use in ontology development, curation or maintenance.
OOSTT user-centered description
An alternative label for a class or property which has a more general meaning than the preferred name/primary label.
has broad synonym
disease characteristic (MONDO:0021125) has cross-reference (http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#hasDbXref) "NCIT:C41009"^^xsd:string
An annotation property that links an ontology entity or a statement to a prefixed identifier or URI.
An alternative label for a class or property which has the exact same meaning than the preferred name/primary label.
has exact synonym
An alternative label for a class or property which has a more specific meaning than the preferred name/primary label.
has narrow synonym
An alternative label for a class or property that has been used synonymously with the primary term name, but the usage is not strictly correct.
has related synonym
is part of
my brain is part of my body (continuant parthood, two material entities)
my stomach cavity is part of my stomach (continuant parthood, immaterial entity is part of material entity)
this day is part of this year (occurrent parthood)
a core relation that holds between a part and its whole
Everything is part of itself. Any part of any part of a thing is itself part of that thing. Two distinct things cannot be part of each other.
Occurrents are not subject to change and so parthood between occurrents holds for all the times that the part exists. Many continuants are subject to change, so parthood between continuants will only hold at certain times, but this is difficult to specify in OWL. See http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro/docs/temporal-semantics/
Parthood requires the part and the whole to have compatible classes: only an occurrent can be part of an occurrent; only a process can be part of a process; only a continuant can be part of a continuant; only an independent continuant can be part of an independent continuant; only an immaterial entity can be part of an immaterial entity; only a specifically dependent continuant can be part of a specifically dependent continuant; only a generically dependent continuant can be part of a generically dependent continuant. (This list is not exhaustive.) A continuant cannot be part of an occurrent: use 'participates in'. An occurrent cannot be part of a continuant: use 'has participant'. A material entity cannot be part of an immaterial entity: use 'has location'. A specifically dependent continuant cannot be part of an independent continuant: use 'inheres in'. An independent continuant cannot be part of a specifically dependent continuant: use 'bearer of'.
part_of
part of
has part
my body has part my brain (continuant parthood, two material entities)
my stomach has part my stomach cavity (continuant parthood, material entity has part immaterial entity)
this year has part this day (occurrent parthood)
a core relation that holds between a whole and its part
Everything has itself as a part. Any part of any part of a thing is itself part of that thing. Two distinct things cannot have each other as a part.
Parthood requires the part and the whole to have compatible classes: only an occurrent have an occurrent as part; only a process can have a process as part; only a continuant can have a continuant as part; only an independent continuant can have an independent continuant as part; only a specifically dependent continuant can have a specifically dependent continuant as part; only a generically dependent continuant can have a generically dependent continuant as part. (This list is not exhaustive.) A continuant cannot have an occurrent as part: use 'participates in'. An occurrent cannot have a continuant as part: use 'has participant'. An immaterial entity cannot have a material entity as part: use 'location of'. An independent continuant cannot have a specifically dependent continuant as part: use 'bearer of'. A specifically dependent continuant cannot have an independent continuant as part: use 'inheres in'.
has_part
realized in
this disease is realized in this disease course
this fragility is realized in this shattering
this investigator role is realized in this investigation
is realized by
realized_in
[copied from inverse property 'realizes'] to say that b realizes c at t is to assert that there is some material entity d & b is a process which has participant d at t & c is a disposition or role of which d is bearer_of at t& the type instantiated by b is correlated with the type instantiated by c. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [059-003])
Paraphrase of elucidation: a relation between a realizable entity and a process, where there is some material entity that is bearer of the realizable entity and participates in the process, and the realizable entity comes to be realized in the course of the process
realizes
this disease course realizes this disease
this investigation realizes this investigator role
this shattering realizes this fragility
Paraphrase of elucidation: a relation between a process and a realizable entity, where there is some material entity that is bearer of the realizable entity and participates in the process, and the realizable entity comes to be realized in the course of the process
to say that b realizes c at t is to assert that there is some material entity d & b is a process which has participant d at t & c is a disposition or role of which d is bearer_of at t& the type instantiated by b is correlated with the type instantiated by c. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [059-003])
preceded by
x is preceded by y if and only if the time point at which y ends is before or equivalent to the time point at which x starts. Formally: x preceded by y iff ω(y) <= α(x), where α is a function that maps a process to a start point, and ω is a function that maps a process to an end point.
An example is: translation preceded_by transcription; aging preceded_by development (not however death preceded_by aging). Where derives_from links classes of continuants, preceded_by links classes of processes. Clearly, however, these two relations are not independent of each other. Thus if cells of type C1 derive_from cells of type C, then any cell division involving an instance of C1 in a given lineage is preceded_by cellular processes involving an instance of C. The assertion P preceded_by P1 tells us something about Ps in general: that is, it tells us something about what happened earlier, given what we know about what happened later. Thus it does not provide information pointing in the opposite direction, concerning instances of P1 in general; that is, that each is such as to be succeeded by some instance of P. Note that an assertion to the effect that P preceded_by P1 is rather weak; it tells us little about the relations between the underlying instances in virtue of which the preceded_by relation obtains. Typically we will be interested in stronger relations, for example in the relation immediately_preceded_by, or in relations which combine preceded_by with a condition to the effect that the corresponding instances of P and P1 share participants, or that their participants are connected by relations of derivation, or (as a first step along the road to a treatment of causality) that the one process in some way affects (for example, initiates or regulates) the other.
is preceded by
preceded_by
precedes
x precedes y if and only if the time point at which x ends is before or equivalent to the time point at which y starts. Formally: x precedes y iff ω(x) <= α(y), where α is a function that maps a process to a start point, and ω is a function that maps a process to an end point.
occurs in
b occurs_in c =def b is a process and c is a material entity or immaterial entity& there exists a spatiotemporal region r and b occupies_spatiotemporal_region r.& forall(t) if b exists_at t then c exists_at t & there exist spatial regions s and s’ where & b spatially_projects_onto s at t& c is occupies_spatial_region s’ at t& s is a proper_continuant_part_of s’ at t
occurs_in
unfolds in
unfolds_in
Paraphrase of definition: a relation between a process and an independent continuant, in which the process takes place entirely within the independent continuant
site of
[copied from inverse property 'occurs in'] b occurs_in c =def b is a process and c is a material entity or immaterial entity& there exists a spatiotemporal region r and b occupies_spatiotemporal_region r.& forall(t) if b exists_at t then c exists_at t & there exist spatial regions s and s’ where & b spatially_projects_onto s at t& c is occupies_spatial_region s’ at t& s is a proper_continuant_part_of s’ at t
Paraphrase of definition: a relation between an independent continuant and a process, in which the process takes place entirely within the independent continuant
contains process
This document is about information artifacts and their representations
A (currently) primitive relation that relates an information artifact to an entity.
7/6/2009 Alan Ruttenberg. Following discussion with Jonathan Rees, and introduction of "mentions" relation. Weaken the is_about relationship to be primitive. We will try to build it back up by elaborating the various subproperties that are more precisely defined. Some currently missing phenomena that should be considered "about" are predications - "The only person who knows the answer is sitting beside me" , Allegory, Satire, and other literary forms that can be topical without explicitly mentioning the topic.
Smith, Ceusters, Ruttenberg, 2000 years of philosophy
is about
A person's name denotes the person. A variable name in a computer program denotes some piece of memory. Lexically equivalent strings can denote different things, for instance "Alan" can denote different people. In each case of use, there is a case of the denotation relation obtaining, between "Alan" and the person that is being named.
A primitive, instance-level, relation obtaining between an information content entity and some portion of reality. Denotation is what happens when someone creates an information content entity E in order to specifically refer to something. The only relation between E and the thing is that E can be used to 'pick out' the thing. This relation connects those two together. Freedictionary.com sense 3: To signify directly; refer to specifically
2009-11-10 Alan Ruttenberg. Old definition said the following to emphasize the generic nature of this relation. We no longer have 'specifically denotes', which would have been primitive, so make this relation primitive. g denotes r =def r is a portion of reality there is some c that is a concretization of g every c that is a concretization of g specifically denotes r
Conversations with Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, Bjoern Peters, Michel Dumontier, Melanie Courtot, James Malone, Bill Hogan
denotes
This is a primitive relation. This relation is the foundation to the owners right to have the owned entity at his/her full disposal.
Reinach, A. Sämtliche Werke. Texkritische Ausgabe, München: Philosophia Verlag, 1989, p.189-204.
owns
a is owned by b if b has complete power over a. All rights and obligations of ownership are grounded in this (primitive) relation. The claims and obligations of ownership can be partially transferred to a third party by the owner, b.
is owned by
The inverse property of is specified output of
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
has specified output
A relation between a completely executed planned process and a continuant participating in that process. The presence of the continuant at the end of the process is explicitly specified in the objective specification which the process realizes the concretization of.
is specified output of
Relating a legal person or organization to an organization in the case where the legal person or organization has a role as member of the organization.
2009/10/01 Alan Ruttenberg. Barry prefers generic is-member-of. Question of what the range should be. For now organization. Is organization a population? Would the same relation be used to record members of a population
JZ: Discussed on May 7, 2012 OBI dev call. Bjoern points out that we need to allow for organizations to be members of organizations. And agreed by the other OBI developers. So, human and organization were specified in 'Domains'. The textual definition was updated based on it.
2009/09/28 Alan Ruttenberg. Fucoidan-use-case
has organization member
Relating an organization to a legal person or organization.
See tracker: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3512902&group_id=177891&atid=886178
Reinach, A. S�mtliche Werke. Texkritische Ausgabe, M�nchen: Philosophia Verlag, 1989, p.189-204.
BFO relation takes precedence.
We anticipate BFO 2.0 including and defining this relation. When it does, we will obsolete this property and declare it equivalent to the BFO 2.0 relation.
At the instance level, this relation is the named inverse of is-aggregate-of. At the type level, however, not so. We expect BFO 2.0 to have this relation as well, and we will obsolete this property and declare it equivalent to BFO's version when BFO 2.0 comes out.
is administered by
is enrolled in school
is admitted to hospital
provides service
Relation between an abusive behavior and one upon whom it is inflicted.
is abuse of
Relation between an abusive behavior and one who inflicts it upon someone or something else.
has aggressor
A relation between a household and a material entity that the household stores their possessions in and sleeps in habitually.
lives in
Relation in which a categorization scheme stands to each category into which it partitions things.
demarcates
Relation in which a category stands to the categorization scheme that demarcates it as a category.
demarcated by
Relation in which a data item stands to the person it is both about and primarily associated with.
has primary data subject
The inverse of has primary data subject.
primary data subject of
Relation in which a personal data disclosure stands to the person who performs it by disclosing data items about someone.
has reporter
The inverse of has reporter.
reporter of
inheres in
this fragility is a characteristic of this vase
this red color is a characteristic of this apple
a relation between a specifically dependent continuant (the characteristic) and any other entity (the bearer), in which the characteristic depends on the bearer for its existence.
inheres_in
Note that this relation was previously called "inheres in", but was changed to be called "characteristic of" because BFO2 uses "inheres in" in a more restricted fashion. This relation differs from BFO2:inheres_in in two respects: (1) it does not impose a range constraint, and thus it allows qualities of processes, as well as of information entities, whereas BFO2 restricts inheres_in to only apply to independent continuants (2) it is declared functional, i.e. something can only be a characteristic of one thing.
characteristic of
bearer of
this apple is bearer of this red color
this vase is bearer of this fragility
Inverse of characteristic_of
A bearer can have many dependents, and its dependents can exist for different periods of time, but none of its dependents can exist when the bearer does not exist.
bearer_of
is bearer of
has characteristic
participates in
this blood clot participates in this blood coagulation
this input material (or this output material) participates in this process
this investigator participates in this investigation
a relation between a continuant and a process, in which the continuant is somehow involved in the process
participates_in
has participant
this blood coagulation has participant this blood clot
this investigation has participant this investigator
this process has participant this input material (or this output material)
a relation between a process and a continuant, in which the continuant is somehow involved in the process
Has_participant is a primitive instance-level relation between a process, a continuant, and a time at which the continuant participates in some way in the process. The relation obtains, for example, when this particular process of oxygen exchange across this particular alveolar membrane has_participant this particular sample of hemoglobin at this particular time.
has_participant
A journal article is an information artifact that inheres in some number of printed journals. For each copy of the printed journal there is some quality that carries the journal article, such as a pattern of ink. The journal article (a generically dependent continuant) is concretized as the quality (a specifically dependent continuant), and both depend on that copy of the printed journal (an independent continuant).
An investigator reads a protocol and forms a plan to carry out an assay. The plan is a realizable entity (a specifically dependent continuant) that concretizes the protocol (a generically dependent continuant), and both depend on the investigator (an independent continuant). The plan is then realized by the assay (a process).
A relationship between a generically dependent continuant and a specifically dependent continuant or process, in which the generically dependent continuant depends on some independent continuant or process in virtue of the fact that the specifically dependent continuant or process also depends on that same independent continuant. A generically dependent continuant may be concretized as multiple specifically dependent continuants or processes.
is concretized as
A journal article is an information artifact that inheres in some number of printed journals. For each copy of the printed journal there is some quality that carries the journal article, such as a pattern of ink. The quality (a specifically dependent continuant) concretizes the journal article (a generically dependent continuant), and both depend on that copy of the printed journal (an independent continuant).
A relationship between a specifically dependent continuant or process and a generically dependent continuant, in which the generically dependent continuant depends on some independent continuant in virtue of the fact that the specifically dependent continuant or process also depends on that same independent continuant. Multiple specifically dependent continuants or processes can concretize the same generically dependent continuant.
concretizes
this catalysis function is a function of this enzyme
a relation between a function and an independent continuant (the bearer), in which the function specifically depends on the bearer for its existence
A function inheres in its bearer at all times for which the function exists, however the function need not be realized at all the times that the function exists.
function_of
is function of
This relation is modeled after the BFO relation of the same name which was in BFO2, but is used in a more restricted sense - specifically, we model this relation as functional (inherited from characteristic-of). Note that this relation is now removed from BFO2020.
function of
this red color is a quality of this apple
a relation between a quality and an independent continuant (the bearer), in which the quality specifically depends on the bearer for its existence
A quality inheres in its bearer at all times for which the quality exists.
is quality of
quality_of
quality of
this investigator role is a role of this person
a relation between a role and an independent continuant (the bearer), in which the role specifically depends on the bearer for its existence
A role inheres in its bearer at all times for which the role exists, however the role need not be realized at all the times that the role exists.
is role of
role_of
role of
this enzyme has function this catalysis function (more colloquially: this enzyme has this catalysis function)
a relation between an independent continuant (the bearer) and a function, in which the function specifically depends on the bearer for its existence
A bearer can have many functions, and its functions can exist for different periods of time, but none of its functions can exist when the bearer does not exist. A function need not be realized at all the times that the function exists.
has_function
has function
this apple has quality this red color
a relation between an independent continuant (the bearer) and a quality, in which the quality specifically depends on the bearer for its existence
A bearer can have many qualities, and its qualities can exist for different periods of time, but none of its qualities can exist when the bearer does not exist.
has_quality
has quality
this person has role this investigator role (more colloquially: this person has this role of investigator)
a relation between an independent continuant (the bearer) and a role, in which the role specifically depends on the bearer for its existence
A bearer can have many roles, and its roles can exist for different periods of time, but none of its roles can exist when the bearer does not exist. A role need not be realized at all the times that the role exists.
has_role
has role
a relation between an independent continuant (the bearer) and a disposition, in which the disposition specifically depends on the bearer for its existence
has disposition
disposition of
A part of relation that applies only between occurrents.
A 'has regulatory component activity' B if A and B are GO molecular functions (GO_0003674), A has_component B and A is regulated by B.
A relationship that holds between a GO molecular function and a component of that molecular function that negatively regulates the activity of the whole. More formally, A 'has regulatory component activity' B iff :A and B are GO molecular functions (GO_0003674), A has_component B and A is negatively regulated by B.
By convention GO molecular functions are classified by their effector function. Internal regulatory functions are treated as components. For example, NMDA glutmate receptor activity is a cation channel activity with positive regulatory component 'glutamate binding' and negative regulatory components including 'zinc binding' and 'magnesium binding'.
has negative regulatory component activity
A relationship that holds between a GO molecular function and a component of that molecular function that positively regulates the activity of the whole. More formally, A 'has regulatory component activity' B iff :A and B are GO molecular functions (GO_0003674), A has_component B and A is positively regulated by B.
By convention GO molecular functions are classified by their effector function and internal regulatory functions are treated as components. So, for example calmodulin has a protein binding activity that has positive regulatory component activity calcium binding activity. Receptor tyrosine kinase activity is a tyrosine kinase activity that has positive regulatory component 'ligand binding'.
has positive regulatory component activity
A 'has component activity' B if A is A and B are molecular functions (GO_0003674) and A has_component B.
w 'has process component' p if p and w are processes, w 'has part' p and w is such that it can be directly disassembled into into n parts p, p2, p3, ..., pn, where these parts are of similar type.
Process(P2) is directly regulated by process(P1) iff: P1 regulates P2 via direct physical interaction between an agent executing P1 (or some part of P1) and an agent executing P2 (or some part of P2). For example, if protein A has protein binding activity(P1) that targets protein B and this binding regulates the kinase activity (P2) of protein B then P1 directly regulates P2.
Process(P2) is directly negatively regulated by process(P1) iff: P1 negatively regulates P2 via direct physical interaction between an agent executing P1 (or some part of P1) and an agent executing P2 (or some part of P2). For example, if protein A has protein binding activity(P1) that targets protein B and this binding negatively regulates the kinase activity (P2) of protein B then P2 directly negatively regulated by P1.
Process(P2) is directly postively regulated by process(P1) iff: P1 positively regulates P2 via direct physical interaction between an agent executing P1 (or some part of P1) and an agent executing P2 (or some part of P2). For example, if protein A has protein binding activity(P1) that targets protein B and this binding positively regulates the kinase activity (P2) of protein B then P2 is directly postively regulated by P1.
A 'has effector activity' B if A and B are GO molecular functions (GO_0003674), A 'has component activity' B and B is the effector (output function) of B. Each compound function has only one effector activity.
This relation is designed for constructing compound molecular functions, typically in combination with one or more regulatory component activity relations.
Primitive instance level timing relation between events
before or simultaneous with
t1 before t2 iff:= t1 before_or_simulataneous_with t2 and not (t1 simultaeous_with t2)
before
X ends_after Y iff: end(Y) before_or_simultaneous_with end(X)
ends after
X immediately_preceded_by Y iff: end(X) simultaneous_with start(Y)
immediately preceded by
X immediately_precedes_Y iff: end(X) simultaneous_with start(Y)
immediately precedes
x overlaps y if and only if there exists some z such that x has part z and z part of y
overlaps
w 'has component' p if w 'has part' p and w is such that it can be directly disassembled into into n parts p, p2, p3, ..., pn, where these parts are of similar type.
The definition of 'has component' is still under discussion. The challenge is in providing a definition that does not imply transitivity.
For use in recording has_part with a cardinality constraint, because OWL does not permit cardinality constraints to be used in combination with transitive object properties. In situations where you would want to say something like 'has part exactly 5 digit, you would instead use has_component exactly 5 digit.
has component
p regulates q iff p is causally upstream of q, the execution of p is not constant and varies according to specific conditions, and p influences the rate or magnitude of execution of q due to an effect either on some enabler of q or some enabler of a part of q.
Regulation precludes parthood; the regulatory process may not be within the regulated process.
regulates
p negatively regulates q iff p regulates q, and p decreases the rate or magnitude of execution of q.
negatively regulates
p positively regulates q iff p regulates q, and p increases the rate or magnitude of execution of q.
positively regulates
mechanosensory neuron capable of detection of mechanical stimulus involved in sensory perception (GO:0050974)
osteoclast SubClassOf 'capable of' some 'bone resorption'
A relation between a material entity (such as a cell) and a process, in which the material entity has the ability to carry out the process.
For compatibility with BFO, this relation has a shortcut definition in which the expression "capable of some P" expands to "bearer_of (some realized_by only P)".
capable of
c stands in this relationship to p if and only if there exists some p' such that c is capable_of p', and p' is part_of p.
capable of part of
OBSOLETE x actively participates in y if and only if x participates in y and x realizes some active role
Obsoleted as the inverse property was obsoleted.
OBSOLETE x has participant y if and only if x realizes some active role that inheres in y
Do not use this relation directly. It is ended as a grouping for relations between occurrents involving the relative timing of their starts and ends.
A relation that holds between two occurrents. This is a grouping relation that collects together all the Allen relations.
temporally related to
starts
Every insulin receptor signaling pathway starts with the binding of a ligand to the insulin receptor
x starts with y if and only if x has part y and the time point at which x starts is equivalent to the time point at which y starts. Formally: α(y) = α(x) ∧ ω(y) < ω(x), where α is a function that maps a process to a start point, and ω is a function that maps a process to an end point.
starts with
ends
x ends with y if and only if x has part y and the time point at which x ends is equivalent to the time point at which y ends. Formally: α(y) > α(x) ∧ ω(y) = ω(x), where α is a function that maps a process to a start point, and ω is a function that maps a process to an end point.
ends with
x 'has starts location' y if and only if there exists some process z such that x 'starts with' z and z 'occurs in' y
has start location
x 'has end location' y if and only if there exists some process z such that x 'ends with' z and z 'occurs in' y
has end location
p has input c iff: p is a process, c is a material entity, c is a participant in p, c is present at the start of p, and the state of c is modified during p.
has input
p has output c iff c is a participant in p, c is present at the end of p, and c is not present in the same state at the beginning of p.
has output
A faulty traffic light (material entity) whose malfunctioning (a process) is causally upstream of a traffic collision (a process): the traffic light acts upstream of the collision.
c acts upstream of p if and only if c enables some f that is involved in p' and p' occurs chronologically before p, is not part of p, and affects the execution of p. c is a material entity and f, p, p' are processes.
A gene product that has some activity, where that activity may be a part of a pathway or upstream of the pathway.
c acts upstream of or within p if c is enables f, and f is causally upstream of or within p. c is a material entity and p is an process.
p is causally upstream of, positive effect q iff p is casually upstream of q, and the execution of p is required for the execution of q.
holds between x and y if and only if x is causally upstream of y and the progression of x increases the frequency, rate or extent of y
p is causally upstream of, negative effect q iff p is casually upstream of q, and the execution of p decreases the execution of q.
q characteristic of part of w if and only if there exists some p such that q inheres in p and p part of w.
Because part_of is transitive, inheres in is a sub-relation of characteristic of part of
characteristic of part of
A mereological relationship or a topological relationship
Do not use this relation directly. It is ended as a grouping for a diverse set of relations, all involving parthood or connectivity relationships
mereotopologically related to
a particular instances of akt-2 enables some instance of protein kinase activity
c enables p iff c is capable of p and c acts to execute p.
This relation differs from the parent relation 'capable of' in that the parent is weaker and only expresses a capability that may not be actually realized, whereas this relation is always realized.
enables
A grouping relationship for any relationship directly involving a function, or that holds because of a function of one of the related entities.
This is a grouping relation that collects relations used for the purpose of connecting structure and function
functionally related to
this relation holds between c and p when c is part of some c', and c' is capable of p.
part of structure that is capable of
c involved_in p if and only if c enables some process p', and p' is part of p
involved in
enabled by
regulated by
negatively regulated by
positively regulated by
An organism that is a member of a population of organisms
is member of is a mereological relation between a item and a collection.
member of
has member is a mereological relation between a collection and an item.
has member
input of
output of
causally downstream of
immediately causally downstream of
p indirectly positively regulates q iff p is indirectly causally upstream of q and p positively regulates q.
indirectly positively regulates
p indirectly negatively regulates q iff p is indirectly causally upstream of q and p negatively regulates q.
indirectly negatively regulates
relation that links two events, processes, states, or objects such that one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is partly or wholly responsible for the effect, and the effect is partly or wholly dependent on the cause.
This branch of the ontology deals with causal relations between entities. It is divided into two branches: causal relations between occurrents/processes, and causal relations between material entities. We take an 'activity flow-centric approach', with the former as primary, and define causal relations between material entities in terms of causal relations between occurrents. To define causal relations in an activity-flow type network, we make use of 3 primitives: * Temporal: how do the intervals of the two occurrents relate? * Is the causal relation regulatory? * Is the influence positive or negative? The first of these can be formalized in terms of the Allen Interval Algebra. Informally, the 3 bins we care about are 'direct', 'indirect' or overlapping. Note that all causal relations should be classified under a RO temporal relation (see the branch under 'temporally related to'). Note that all causal relations are temporal, but not all temporal relations are causal. Two occurrents can be related in time without being causally connected. We take causal influence to be primitive, elucidated as being such that has the upstream changed, some qualities of the donwstream would necessarily be modified. For the second, we consider a relationship to be regulatory if the system in which the activities occur is capable of altering the relationship to achieve some objective. This could include changing the rate of production of a molecule. For the third, we consider the effect of the upstream process on the output(s) of the downstream process. If the level of output is increased, or the rate of production of the output is increased, then the direction is increased. Direction can be positive, negative or neutral or capable of either direction. Two positives in succession yield a positive, two negatives in succession yield a positive, otherwise the default assumption is that the net effect is canceled and the influence is neutral. Each of these 3 primitives can be composed to yield a cross-product of different relation types.
Do not use this relation directly. It is intended as a grouping for a diverse set of relations, all involving cause and effect.
causally related to
p is causally upstream of q iff p is causally related to q, the end of p precedes the end of q, and p is not an occurrent part of q.
causally upstream of
p is immediately causally upstream of q iff p is causally upstream of q, and the end of p is coincident with the beginning of q.
immediately causally upstream of
p provides input for q iff p is immediately causally upstream of q, and there exists some c such that p has_output c and q has_input c.
provides input for
transitive form of directly_provides_input_for
This is a grouping relation that should probably not be used in annotation. Consider instead the child relation 'provides input for'.
transitively provides input for
p is 'causally upstream or within' q iff p is causally related to q, and the end of p precedes, or is coincident with, the end of q.
We would like to make this disjoint with 'preceded by', but this is prohibited in OWL2
inverse of causally upstream of or within
c involved in regulation of p if c is involved in some p' and p' regulates some p
c involved in regulation of p if c is involved in some p' and p' positively regulates some p
c involved in regulation of p if c is involved in some p' and p' negatively regulates some p
c involved in or regulates p if and only if either (i) c is involved in p or (ii) c is involved in regulation of p
OWL does not allow defining object properties via a Union
involved in or involved in regulation of
A protein that enables activity in a cytosol.
c executes activity in d if and only if c enables p and p occurs_in d. Assuming no action at a distance by gene products, if a gene product enables (is capable of) a process that occurs in some structure, it must have at least some part in that structure.
A relationship that holds between two entities in which the processes executed by the two entities are causally connected.
This relation and all sub-relations can be applied to either (1) pairs of entities that are interacting at any moment of time (2) populations or species of entity whose members have the disposition to interact (3) classes whose members have the disposition to interact.
Note that this relationship type, and sub-relationship types may be redundant with process terms from other ontologies. For example, the symbiotic relationship hierarchy parallels GO. The relations are provided as a convenient shortcut. Consider using the more expressive processual form to capture your data. In the future, these relations will be linked to their cognate processes through rules.
An interaction relationship in which the two partners are molecular entities that directly physically interact with each other for example via a stable binding interaction or a brief interaction during which one modifies the other.
An interaction relation between x and y in which x catalyzes a reaction in which a phosphate group is added to y.
The entity A, immediately upstream of the entity B, has an activity that regulates an activity performed by B. For example, A and B may be gene products and binding of B by A regulates the kinase activity of B. A and B can be physically interacting but not necessarily. Immediately upstream means there are no intermediate entity between A and B.
The entity A, immediately upstream of the entity B, has an activity that negatively regulates an activity performed by B. For example, A and B may be gene products and binding of B by A negatively regulates the kinase activity of B.
directly negatively regulates activity of
The entity A, immediately upstream of the entity B, has an activity that positively regulates an activity performed by B. For example, A and B may be gene products and binding of B by A positively regulates the kinase activity of B.
directly positively regulates activity of
This property or its subproperties is not to be used directly. These properties exist as helper properties that are used to support OWL reasoning.
helper property (not for use in curation)
p has part that occurs in c if and only if there exists some p1, such that p has_part p1, and p1 occurs in c.
A relationship between a material entity and a process where the material entity has some causal role that influences the process
p is causally related to q if and only if p or any part of p and q or any part of q are linked by a chain of events where each event pair is one where the execution of p influences the execution of q. p may be upstream, downstream, part of, or a container of q.
The intent is that the process branch of the causal property hierarchy is primary (causal relations hold between occurrents/processes), and that the material branch is defined in terms of the process branch
molecular interaction relation helper property
The entity or characteristic A is causally upstream of the entity or characteristic B, A having an effect on B. An entity corresponds to any biological type of entity as long as a mass is measurable. A characteristic corresponds to a particular specificity of an entity (e.g., phenotype, shape, size).
p directly regulates q iff p is immediately causally upstream of q and p regulates q.
gland SubClassOf 'has part structure that is capable of' some 'secretion by cell'
s 'has part structure that is capable of' p if and only if there exists some part x such that s 'has part' x and x 'capable of' p
A relationship that holds between a material entity and a process in which causality is involved, with either the material entity or some part of the material entity exerting some influence over the process, or the process influencing some aspect of the material entity.
causal relation between material entity and a process
Holds between c and p if and only if c is capable of some activity a, and a regulates p.
Holds between c and p if and only if c is capable of some activity a, and a negatively regulates p.
renin -> arteriolar smooth muscle contraction
Holds between c and p if and only if c is capable of some activity a, and a positively regulates p.
p directly positively regulates q iff p is immediately causally upstream of q, and p positively regulates q.
p directly negatively regulates q iff p is immediately causally upstream of q, and p negatively regulates q.
a produces b if some process that occurs_in a has_output b, where a and b are material entities. Examples: hybridoma cell line produces monoclonal antibody reagent; chondroblast produces avascular GAG-rich matrix.
Note that this definition doesn't quite distinguish the output of a transformation process from a production process, which is related to the identity/granularity issue.
produces
a produced_by b iff some process that occurs_in b has_output a.
produced by
A relationship between a realizable entity R (e.g. function or disposition) and a material entity M where R is realized in response to a process that has an input stimulus of M.
Holds between an entity and an process P where the entity enables some larger compound process, and that larger process has-part P.
acts upstream of or within, positive effect
acts upstream of or within, negative effect
c 'acts upstream of, positive effect' p if c is enables f, and f is causally upstream of p, and the direction of f is positive
c 'acts upstream of, negative effect' p if c is enables f, and f is causally upstream of p, and the direction of f is negative
causally upstream of or within, negative effect
causally upstream of or within, positive effect
A drought sensitivity trait that inheres in a whole plant is realized in a systemic response process in response to exposure to drought conditions.
An inflammatory disease that is realized in response to an inflammatory process occurring in the gut (which is itself the realization of a process realized in response to harmful stimuli in the mucosal lining of th gut)
Environmental polymorphism in butterflies: These butterflies have a 'responsivity to day length trait' that is realized in response to the duration of the day, and is realized in developmental processes that lead to increased or decreased pigmentation in the adult morph.
r 'realized in response to' s iff, r is a realizable (e.g. a plant trait such as responsivity to drought), s is an environmental stimulus (a process), and s directly causes the realization of r.
realized in response to
Genetic information generically depend on molecules of DNA.
The novel *War and Peace* generically depends on this copy of the novel.
The pattern shared by chess boards generically depends on any chess board.
The score of a symphony g-depends on a copy of the score.
This pdf file generically depends on this server.
A generically dependent continuant *b* generically depends on an independent continuant *c* at time *t* means: there inheres in *c* a specifically deendent continuant which concretizes *b* at *t*.
Molecules of DNA are carriers of genetic information.
This copy of *War and Peace* is carrier of the novel written by Tolstoy.
This hard drive is carrier of these data items.
*b* is carrier of *c* at time *t* if and only if *c* *g-depends on* *b* at *t*
is carrier of
The entity A has an activity that regulates an activity of the entity B. For example, A and B are gene products where the catalytic activity of A regulates the kinase activity of B.
p is indirectly causally upstream of q iff p is causally upstream of q and there exists some process r such that p is causally upstream of r and r is causally upstream of q.
indirectly causally upstream of
p indirectly regulates q iff p is indirectly causally upstream of q and p regulates q.
indirectly regulates
A diagnostic testing device utilizes a specimen.
X device utilizes material Y means X and Y are material entities, and X is capable of some process P that has input Y.
A diagnostic testing device utilizes a specimen means that the diagnostic testing device is capable of an assay, and this assay a specimen as its input.
See github ticket https://github.com/oborel/obo-relations/issues/497
device utilizes material
A relationship that holds between a process and a characteristic in which process (P) regulates characteristic (C) iff: P results in the existence of C OR affects the intensity or magnitude of C.
A relationship that holds between a process and a characteristic in which process (P) positively regulates characteristic (C) iff: P results in an increase in the intensity or magnitude of C.
A relationship that holds between a process and a characteristic in which process (P) negatively regulates characteristic (C) iff: P results in a decrease in the intensity or magnitude of C.
This property only applies to anatomical entities.
The only valid string values for this property are ISO 8601 formatted date strings in extended form. It is allowable specify only the year, e.g. '2016' but only when the 1D temporal region references the entire year. Ditto for month, e.g. 2016-04 is acceptable but only if it references the entire interval of that month.
date
time
time of day
A measurement datum that is the output of counting.
count
A behavior of one or more organisms that is characterized by the displacement from one geographic region to some target geographic region, and is the realization of either a biological function or (a concretization of) an objective specification.
geographical movement of organism
A geographical migration of an organism belonging to the species Homo sapiens.
human travel
Julius Caesar
Verdi’s Requiem
the Second World War
your body mass index
BFO 2 Reference: In all areas of empirical inquiry we encounter general terms of two sorts. First are general terms which refer to universals or types:animaltuberculosissurgical procedurediseaseSecond, are general terms used to refer to groups of entities which instantiate a given universal but do not correspond to the extension of any subuniversal of that universal because there is nothing intrinsic to the entities in question by virtue of which they – and only they – are counted as belonging to the given group. Examples are: animal purchased by the Emperortuberculosis diagnosed on a Wednesdaysurgical procedure performed on a patient from Stockholmperson identified as candidate for clinical trial #2056-555person who is signatory of Form 656-PPVpainting by Leonardo da VinciSuch terms, which represent what are called ‘specializations’ in [81
entity
An entity that exists in full at any time in which it exists at all, persists through time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts.
BFO 2 Reference: Continuant entities are entities which can be sliced to yield parts only along the spatial dimension, yielding for example the parts of your table which we call its legs, its top, its nails. ‘My desk stretches from the window to the door. It has spatial parts, and can be sliced (in space) in two. With respect to time, however, a thing is a continuant.’ [60, p. 240
continuant
An entity that has temporal parts and that happens, unfolds or develops through time.
BFO 2 Reference: every occurrent that is not a temporal or spatiotemporal region is s-dependent on some independent continuant that is not a spatial region
BFO 2 Reference: s-dependence obtains between every process and its participants in the sense that, as a matter of necessity, this process could not have existed unless these or those participants existed also. A process may have a succession of participants at different phases of its unfolding. Thus there may be different players on the field at different times during the course of a football game; but the process which is the entire game s-depends_on all of these players nonetheless. Some temporal parts of this process will s-depend_on on only some of the players.
occurrent
a chair
a heart
a leg
a molecule
a spatial region
an atom
an orchestra.
an organism
the bottom right portion of a human torso
the interior of your mouth
b is an independent continuant = Def. b is a continuant which is such that there is no c and no t such that b s-depends_on c at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [017-002])
A continuant that is a bearer of quality and realizable entity entities, in which other entities inhere and which itself cannot inhere in anything.
independent continuant
temporal region
a process of cell-division, \ a beating of the heart
a process of meiosis
a process of sleeping
the course of a disease
the flight of a bird
the life of an organism
your process of aging.
An occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t.
p is a process = Def. p is an occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [083-003])
BFO 2 Reference: The realm of occurrents is less pervasively marked by the presence of natural units than is the case in the realm of independent continuants. Thus there is here no counterpart of ‘object’. In BFO 1.0 ‘process’ served as such a counterpart. In BFO 2.0 ‘process’ is, rather, the occurrent counterpart of ‘material entity’. Those natural – as contrasted with engineered, which here means: deliberately executed – units which do exist in the realm of occurrents are typically either parasitic on the existence of natural units on the continuant side, or they are fiat in nature. Thus we can count lives; we can count football games; we can count chemical reactions performed in experiments or in chemical manufacturing. We cannot count the processes taking place, for instance, in an episode of insect mating behavior.Even where natural units are identifiable, for example cycles in a cyclical process such as the beating of a heart or an organism’s sleep/wake cycle, the processes in question form a sequence with no discontinuities (temporal gaps) of the sort that we find for instance where billiard balls or zebrafish or planets are separated by clear spatial gaps. Lives of organisms are process units, but they too unfold in a continuous series from other, prior processes such as fertilization, and they unfold in turn in continuous series of post-life processes such as post-mortem decay. Clear examples of boundaries of processes are almost always of the fiat sort (midnight, a time of death as declared in an operating theater or on a death certificate, the initiation of a state of war)
process
an atom of element X has the disposition to decay to an atom of element Y
certain people have a predisposition to colon cancer
children are innately disposed to categorize objects in certain ways.
the cell wall is disposed to filter chemicals in endocytosis and exocytosis
BFO 2 Reference: Dispositions exist along a strength continuum. Weaker forms of disposition are realized in only a fraction of triggering cases. These forms occur in a significant number of cases of a similar type.
disposition
the disposition of this piece of metal to conduct electricity.
the disposition of your blood to coagulate
the function of your reproductive organs
the role of being a doctor
the role of this boundary to delineate where Utah and Colorado meet
A specifically dependent continuant that inheres in continuant entities and are not exhibited in full at every time in which it inheres in an entity or group of entities. The exhibition or actualization of a realizable entity is a particular manifestation, functioning or process that occurs under certain circumstances.
realizable entity
the ambient temperature of this portion of air
the color of a tomato
the length of the circumference of your waist
the mass of this piece of gold.
the shape of your nose
the shape of your nostril
quality
Reciprocal specifically dependent continuants: the function of this key to open this lock and the mutually dependent disposition of this lock: to be opened by this key
of one-sided specifically dependent continuants: the mass of this tomato
of relational dependent continuants (multiple bearers): John’s love for Mary, the ownership relation between John and this statue, the relation of authority between John and his subordinates.
the disposition of this fish to decay
the function of this heart: to pump blood
the mutual dependence of proton donors and acceptors in chemical reactions [79
the mutual dependence of the role predator and the role prey as played by two organisms in a given interaction
the pink color of a medium rare piece of grilled filet mignon at its center
the shape of this hole.
the smell of this portion of mozzarella
A continuant that inheres in or is borne by other entities. Every instance of A requires some specific instance of B which must always be the same.
b is a specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant & there is some independent continuant c which is not a spatial region and which is such that b s-depends_on c at every time t during the course of b’s existence. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [050-003])
specifically dependent continuant
John’s role of husband to Mary is dependent on Mary’s role of wife to John, and both are dependent on the object aggregate comprising John and Mary as member parts joined together through the relational quality of being married.
the priest role
the role of a boundary to demarcate two neighboring administrative territories
the role of a building in serving as a military target
the role of a stone in marking a property boundary
the role of subject in a clinical trial
the student role
A realizable entity the manifestation of which brings about some result or end that is not essential to a continuant in virtue of the kind of thing that it is but that can be served or participated in by that kind of continuant in some kinds of natural, social or institutional contexts.
BFO 2 Reference: One major family of examples of non-rigid universals involves roles, and ontologies developed for corresponding administrative purposes may consist entirely of representatives of entities of this sort. Thus ‘professor’, defined as follows,b instance_of professor at t =Def. there is some c, c instance_of professor role & c inheres_in b at t.denotes a non-rigid universal and so also do ‘nurse’, ‘student’, ‘colonel’, ‘taxpayer’, and so forth. (These terms are all, in the jargon of philosophy, phase sortals.) By using role terms in definitions, we can create a BFO conformant treatment of such entities drawing on the fact that, while an instance of professor may be simultaneously an instance of trade union member, no instance of the type professor role is also (at any time) an instance of the type trade union member role (any more than any instance of the type color is at any time an instance of the type length).If an ontology of employment positions should be defined in terms of roles following the above pattern, this enables the ontology to do justice to the fact that individuals instantiate the corresponding universals – professor, sergeant, nurse – only during certain phases in their lives.
role
a collection of cells in a blood biobank.
a swarm of bees is an aggregate of members who are linked together through natural bonds
a symphony orchestra
an organization is an aggregate whose member parts have roles of specific types (for example in a jazz band, a chess club, a football team)
defined by fiat: the aggregate of members of an organization
defined through physical attachment: the aggregate of atoms in a lump of granite
defined through physical containment: the aggregate of molecules of carbon dioxide in a sealed container
defined via attributive delimitations such as: the patients in this hospital
the aggregate of bearings in a constant velocity axle joint
the aggregate of blood cells in your body
the nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere
the restaurants in Palo Alto
your collection of Meissen ceramic plates.
BFO 2 Reference: object aggregates may gain and lose parts while remaining numerically identical (one and the same individual) over time. This holds both for aggregates whose membership is determined naturally (the aggregate of cells in your body) and aggregates determined by fiat (a baseball team, a congressional committee).
object aggregate
Manhattan Canyon)
a hole in the interior of a portion of cheese
a rabbit hole
an air traffic control region defined in the airspace above an airport
the Grand Canyon
the Piazza San Marco
the cockpit of an aircraft
the hold of a ship
the interior of a kangaroo pouch
the interior of the trunk of your car
the interior of your bedroom
the interior of your office
the interior of your refrigerator
the lumen of your gut
your left nostril (a fiat part – the opening – of your left nasal cavity)
site
atom
cell
cells and organisms
engineered artifacts
grain of sand
molecule
organelle
organism
planet
solid portions of matter
star
BFO 2 Reference: BFO rests on the presupposition that at multiple micro-, meso- and macroscopic scales reality exhibits certain stable, spatially separated or separable material units, combined or combinable into aggregates of various sorts (for example organisms into what are called ‘populations’). Such units play a central role in almost all domains of natural science from particle physics to cosmology. Many scientific laws govern the units in question, employing general terms (such as ‘molecule’ or ‘planet’) referring to the types and subtypes of units, and also to the types and subtypes of the processes through which such units develop and interact. The division of reality into such natural units is at the heart of biological science, as also is the fact that these units may form higher-level units (as cells form multicellular organisms) and that they may also form aggregates of units, for example as cells form portions of tissue and organs form families, herds, breeds, species, and so on. At the same time, the division of certain portions of reality into engineered units (manufactured artifacts) is the basis of modern industrial technology, which rests on the distributed mass production of engineered parts through division of labor and on their assembly into larger, compound units such as cars and laptops. The division of portions of reality into units is one starting point for the phenomenon of counting.
BFO 2 Reference: Each object is such that there are entities of which we can assert unproblematically that they lie in its interior, and other entities of which we can assert unproblematically that they lie in its exterior. This may not be so for entities lying at or near the boundary between the interior and exterior. This means that two objects – for example the two cells depicted in Figure 3 – may be such that there are material entities crossing their boundaries which belong determinately to neither cell. Something similar obtains in certain cases of conjoined twins (see below).
BFO 2 Reference: To say that b is causally unified means: b is a material entity which is such that its material parts are tied together in such a way that, in environments typical for entities of the type in question,if c, a continuant part of b that is in the interior of b at t, is larger than a certain threshold size (which will be determined differently from case to case, depending on factors such as porosity of external cover) and is moved in space to be at t at a location on the exterior of the spatial region that had been occupied by b at t, then either b’s other parts will be moved in coordinated fashion or b will be damaged (be affected, for example, by breakage or tearing) in the interval between t and t.causal changes in one part of b can have consequences for other parts of b without the mediation of any entity that lies on the exterior of b. Material entities with no proper material parts would satisfy these conditions trivially. Candidate examples of types of causal unity for material entities of more complex sorts are as follows (this is not intended to be an exhaustive list):CU1: Causal unity via physical coveringHere the parts in the interior of the unified entity are combined together causally through a common membrane or other physical covering\. The latter points outwards toward and may serve a protective function in relation to what lies on the exterior of the entity [13, 47
BFO 2 Reference: an object is a maximal causally unified material entity
BFO 2 Reference: ‘objects’ are sometimes referred to as ‘grains’ [74
object
The entries in your database are patterns instantiated as quality instances in your hard drive. The database itself is an aggregate of such patterns. When you create the database you create a particular instance of the generically dependent continuant type database. Each entry in the database is an instance of the generically dependent continuant type IAO: information content entity.
the pdf file on your laptop, the pdf file that is a copy thereof on my laptop
the sequence of this protein molecule; the sequence that is a copy thereof in that protein molecule.
A continuant that is dependent on one or other independent continuant bearers. For every instance of A requires some instance of (an independent continuant type) B but which instance of B serves can change from time to time.
b is a generically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant that g-depends_on one or more other entities. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [074-001])
generically dependent continuant
the function of a hammer to drive in nails
the function of a heart pacemaker to regulate the beating of a heart through electricity
the function of amylase in saliva to break down starch into sugar
BFO 2 Reference: In the past, we have distinguished two varieties of function, artifactual function and biological function. These are not asserted subtypes of BFO:function however, since the same function – for example: to pump, to transport – can exist both in artifacts and in biological entities. The asserted subtypes of function that would be needed in order to yield a separate monoheirarchy are not artifactual function, biological function, etc., but rather transporting function, pumping function, etc.
function
the temporal region during which a process occurs.
BFO 2 Reference: A temporal interval is a special kind of one-dimensional temporal region, namely one that is self-connected (is without gaps or breaks).
one-dimensional temporal region
a flame
a forest fire
a human being
a hurricane
a photon
a puff of smoke
a sea wave
a tornado
an aggregate of human beings.
an energy wave
an epidemic
the undetached arm of a human being
An independent continuant that is spatially extended whose identity is independent of that of other entities and can be maintained through time.
BFO 2 Reference: Material entities (continuants) can preserve their identity even while gaining and losing material parts. Continuants are contrasted with occurrents, which unfold themselves in successive temporal parts or phases [60
BFO 2 Reference: Object, Fiat Object Part and Object Aggregate are not intended to be exhaustive of Material Entity. Users are invited to propose new subcategories of Material Entity.
BFO 2 Reference: ‘Matter’ is intended to encompass both mass and energy (we will address the ontological treatment of portions of energy in a later version of BFO). A portion of matter is anything that includes elementary particles among its proper or improper parts: quarks and leptons, including electrons, as the smallest particles thus far discovered; baryons (including protons and neutrons) at a higher level of granularity; atoms and molecules at still higher levels, forming the cells, organs, organisms and other material entities studied by biologists, the portions of rock studied by geologists, the fossils studied by paleontologists, and so on.Material entities are three-dimensional entities (entities extended in three spatial dimensions), as contrasted with the processes in which they participate, which are four-dimensional entities (entities extended also along the dimension of time).According to the FMA, material entities may have immaterial entities as parts – including the entities identified below as sites; for example the interior (or ‘lumen’) of your small intestine is a part of your body. BFO 2.0 embodies a decision to follow the FMA here.
Elucidation: An independent continuant that is spatially extended whose identity is independent of that of other entities and can be maintained through time.
material entity
BFO 2 Reference: Immaterial entities are divided into two subgroups:boundaries and sites, which bound, or are demarcated in relation, to material entities, and which can thus change location, shape and size and as their material hosts move or change shape or size (for example: your nasal passage; the hold of a ship; the boundary of Wales (which moves with the rotation of the Earth) [38, 7, 10
immaterial entity
a marriage bond, an instance of requited love, an obligation between one person and another.
relational quality
a temporal region that is occupied by a process boundary
right now
the moment at which a child is born
the moment at which a finger is detached in an industrial accident
the moment of death.
temporal instant.
zero-dimensional temporal region
history
A material entity that is a maximal functionally integrated unit that develops from a program encoded in a genome
'Maximal functionally integrated unit' is intended to express unity, which Barry considers synonymous with BFO 'object'.
Includes virus - we will later have a class for cellular organisms.
completely executed planned process
An organization that governs the people living in a particular geographical region or aggregate of geographical regions. The geographical region it governs can change over time (such as the westward expansion of the United States and the addition of Hawaii). Note: this definition was taken over from "geopolitical organization".
IMPORTANT: The label "geopolitical organization" was previously used for OMRSE_00000044 (governmental organization). "geopoli organization" is a label for a new and different class.
governmental organization
A molecular process that can be carried out by the action of a single macromolecular machine, usually via direct physical interactions with other molecular entities. Function in this sense denotes an action, or activity, that a gene product (or a complex) performs.
This is the same as GO molecular function
Note that, in addition to forming the root of the molecular function ontology, this term is recommended for the annotation of gene products whose molecular function is unknown. When this term is used for annotation, it indicates that no information was available about the molecular function of the gene product annotated as of the date the annotation was made; the evidence code 'no data' (ND), is used to indicate this. Despite its name, this is not a type of 'function' in the sense typically defined by upper ontologies such as Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). It is instead a BFO:process carried out by a single gene product or complex.
gene product or complex activity
The internally coordinated responses (actions or inactions) of animals (individuals or groups) to internal or external stimuli, via a mechanism that involves nervous system activity.
1. Note that this term is in the subset of terms that should not be used for direct gene product annotation. Instead, select a child term or, if no appropriate child term exists, please request a new term. Direct annotations to this term may be amended during annotation reviews. 2. While a broader definition of behavior encompassing plants and single cell organisms would be justified on the basis of some usage (see PMID:20160973 for discussion), GO uses a tight definition that limits behavior to animals and to responses involving the nervous system, excluding plant responses that GO classifies under development, and responses of unicellular organisms that has general classifications for covering the responses of cells in multicellular organisms (e.g. cell chemotaxis).
A biological process is the execution of a genetically-encoded biological module or program. It consists of all the steps required to achieve the specific biological objective of the module. A biological process is accomplished by a particular set of molecular functions carried out by specific gene products (or macromolecular complexes), often in a highly regulated manner and in a particular temporal sequence.
Note that, in addition to forming the root of the biological process ontology, this term is recommended for the annotation of gene products whose biological process is unknown. When this term is used for annotation, it indicates that no information was available about the biological process of the gene product annotated as of the date the annotation was made; the evidence code 'no data' (ND), is used to indicate this.
biological process
Catalysis of the transfer of a phosphate group, usually from ATP, to a substrate molecule.
Note that this term encompasses all activities that transfer a single phosphate group; although ATP is by far the most common phosphate donor, reactions using other phosphate donors are included in this term.
conditional specification
A directive information entity that specifies what should happen if the trigger condition is fulfilled.
PlanAndPlannedProcess Branch
OBI branch derived
objective specification
In the protocol of a ChIP assay the objective specification says to identify protein and DNA interaction.
A directive information entity that describes an intended process endpoint. When part of a plan specification the concretization is realized in a planned process in which the bearer tries to effect the world so that the process endpoint is achieved.
2009-03-16: original definition when imported from OBI read: "objective is an non realizable information entity which can serve as that proper part of a plan towards which the realization of the plan is directed."
2014-03-31: In the example of usage ("In the protocol of a ChIP assay the objective specification says to identify protein and DNA interaction") there is a protocol which is the ChIP assay protocol. In addition to being concretized on paper, the protocol can be concretized as a realizable entity, such as a plan that inheres in a person. The objective specification is the part that says that some protein and DNA interactions are identified. This is a specification of a process endpoint: the boundary in the process before which they are not identified and after which they are. During the realization of the plan, the goal is to get to the point of having the interactions, and participants in the realization of the plan try to do that.
Answers the question, why did you do this experiment?
PERSON: Barry Smith
PERSON: Bjoern Peters
PERSON: Jennifer Fostel
goal specification
OBI Plan and Planned Process/Roles Branch
Pour the contents of flask 1 into flask 2
A directive information entity that describes an action the bearer will take.
OBI Plan and Planned Process branch
action specification
data item
Data items include counts of things, analyte concentrations, and statistical summaries.
An information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements.
2/2/2009 Alan and Bjoern discussing FACS run output data. This is a data item because it is about the cell population. Each element records an event and is typically further composed a set of measurment data items that record the fluorescent intensity stimulated by one of the lasers.
2009-03-16: data item deliberatly ambiguous: we merged data set and datum to be one entity, not knowing how to define singular versus plural. So data item is more general than datum.
2009-03-16: removed datum as alternative term as datum specifically refers to singular form, and is thus not an exact synonym.
2014-03-31: See discussion at http://odontomachus.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/aboutness-objects-propositions/
JAR: datum -- well, this will be very tricky to define, but maybe some information-like stuff that might be put into a computer and that is meant, by someone, to denote and/or to be interpreted by some process... I would include lists, tables, sentences... I think I might defer to Barry, or to Brian Cantwell Smith JAR: A data item is an approximately justified approximately true approximate belief
PERSON: Chris Stoeckert
PERSON: Jonathan Rees
data
symbol
a serial number such as "12324X"
a stop sign
a written proper name such as "OBI"
20091104, MC: this needs work and will most probably change
2014-03-31: We would like to have a deeper analysis of 'mark' and 'sign' in the future (see https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/154).
PERSON: James A. Overton
based on Oxford English Dictionary
information content entity
Examples of information content entites include journal articles, data, graphical layouts, and graphs.
A generically dependent continuant that is about some thing.
2014-03-10: The use of "thing" is intended to be general enough to include universals and configurations (see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/information-ontology/GBxvYZCk1oc/-L6B5fSBBTQJ).
information_content_entity 'is_encoded_in' some digital_entity in obi before split (040907). information_content_entity 'is_encoded_in' some physical_document in obi before split (040907). Previous. An information content entity is a non-realizable information entity that 'is encoded in' some digital or physical entity.
An information content entity whose concretizations indicate to their bearer how to realize them in a process.
2009-03-16: provenance: a term realizable information entity was proposed for OBI (OBI_0000337) , edited by the PlanAndPlannedProcess branch. Original definition was "is the specification of a process that can be concretized and realized by an actor" with alternative term "instruction".It has been subsequently moved to IAO where the objective for which the original term was defined was satisfied with the definitionof this, different, term.
2013-05-30 Alan Ruttenberg: What differentiates a directive information entity from an information concretization is that it can have concretizations that are either qualities or realizable entities. The concretizations that are realizable entities are created when an individual chooses to take up the direction, i.e. has the intention to (try to) realize it.
8/6/2009 Alan Ruttenberg: Changed label from "information entity about a realizable" after discussions at ICBO
Werner pushed back on calling it realizable information entity as it isn't realizable. However this name isn't right either. An example would be a recipe. The realizable entity would be a plan, but the information entity isn't about the plan, it, once concretized, *is* the plan. -Alan
directive information entity
curation status specification
The curation status of the term. The allowed values come from an enumerated list of predefined terms. See the specification of these instances for more detailed definitions of each enumerated value.
Better to represent curation as a process with parts and then relate labels to that process (in IAO meeting)
data set
Intensity values in a CEL file or from multiple CEL files comprise a data set (as opposed to the CEL files themselves).
A data item that is an aggregate of other data items of the same type that have something in common. Averages and distributions can be determined for data sets.
2009/10/23 Alan Ruttenberg. The intention is that this term represent collections of like data. So this isn't for, e.g. the whole contents of a cel file, which includes parameters, metadata etc. This is more like java arrays of a certain rather specific type
2014-05-05: Data sets are aggregates and thus must include two or more data items. We have chosen not to add logical axioms to make this restriction.
person:Allyson Lister
person:Chris Stoeckert
data about an ontology part
Data about an ontology part is a data item about a part of an ontology, for example a term
plan specification
PMID: 18323827.Nat Med. 2008 Mar;14(3):226.New plan proposed to help resolve conflicting medical advice.
A directive information entity with action specifications and objective specifications as parts, and that may be concretized as a realizable entity that, if realized, is realized in a process in which the bearer tries to achieve the objectives by taking the actions specified.
2009-03-16: provenance: a term a plan was proposed for OBI (OBI_0000344) , edited by the PlanAndPlannedProcess branch. Original definition was " a plan is a specification of a process that is realized by an actor to achieve the objective specified as part of the plan". It has been subsequently moved to IAO where the objective for which the original term was defined was satisfied with the definitionof this, different, term.
2014-03-31: A plan specification can have other parts, such as conditional specifications.
2022-01-16 Updated definition to that proposed by Clint Dowloand, IAO Issue 231.
Alternative previous definition: a plan is a set of instructions that specify how an objective should be achieved
Clint Dowland
2/3/2009 Comment from OBI review. Action specification not well enough specified. Conditional specification not well enough specified. Question whether all plan specifications have objective specifications. Request that IAO either clarify these or change definitions not to use them
obsolescence reason specification
The reason for which a term has been deprecated. The allowed values come from an enumerated list of predefined terms. See the specification of these instances for more detailed definitions of each enumerated value.
The creation of this class has been inspired in part by Werner Ceusters' paper, Applying evolutionary terminology auditing to the Gene Ontology.
PERSON: Melanie Courtot
document
A journal article, patent application, laboratory notebook, or a book
A collection of information content entities intended to be understood together as a whole
PERSON: Lawrence Hunter
denotator type
The Basic Formal Ontology ontology makes a distinction between Universals and defined classes, where the formal are "natural kinds" and the latter arbitrary collections of entities.
A denotator type indicates how a term should be interpreted from an ontological perspective.
Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters
A scalar measurement datum that is the result of measuring a temporal interval
time measurement datum
Recording the current temperature in a laboratory notebook. Writing a journal article. Updating a patient record in a database.
A planned process in which a document is created or added to by including the specified input in it.
6/11/9: Edited at OBI workshop. We need to be able identify a child form of information artifact which corresponds to something enduring (not brain like). This used to be restricted to physical document or digital entity as the output, but that excludes e.g. an audio cassette tape
Bjoern Peters
wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documenting
documenting
The sentence "The article has Pubmed ID 12345." contains a CRID that has two parts: one part is the CRID symbol, which is '12345'; the other part denotes the CRID registry, which is Pubmed.
An information content entity that consists of a CRID symbol and additional information about the CRID registry to which it belongs.
2014-05-05: In defining this term we take no position on what the CRID denotes. In particular do not assume it denotes a *record* in the CRID registry (since the registry might not have 'records').
Alan, IAO call 20101124: potentially the CRID denotes the instance it was associated with during creation.
Note, IAO call 20101124: URIs are not always CRID, as not centrally registered. We acknowledge that CRID is a subset of a larger identifier class, but this subset fulfills our current needs. OBI PURLs are CRID as they are registered with OCLC. UPCs (Universal Product Codes from AC Nielsen)are not CRID as they are not centrally registered.
PERSON: Bill Hogan
Original proposal from Bjoern, discussions at IAO calls
centrally registered identifier
A document that denotes some identity and is concretized by the bearer of some credential role.
identity document
A documented identity is the aggregate of all data items about an entity. Notice that a documented identity is not itself a document since a document is intended to be understood as a whole and data items about an individual are usually scattered across different documents.
is an aggregate of ICEs also an ICE? yes Is part_of the appropriate relation to use for data items and documented identities?
documented identity
I order a beer and the bartender authenticates my age by looking at my DOB on my driver's license. I sign into my email account, and the system authenticates my permission to read the email by checking the password I enter against my password listed in the database.
Authentication is the act of checking or verifying an identity claim (that is either tacit or explicit).
authentication
A role that inheres in a concretization of an identity document and is realized by an authentication process.
credential role
my filling in an immigration form, a judge's signing and stamping a court order
A deontic declaration creating or revoking a deontic role by lawfully manipulating (signing, stamping, publishing) a document.
deontic document act
Colonel Klink giving Sergeant Schultz an order, Jake promising Jill to take her to the junior prom
A planned process that is carried out by a conscious being or an organization, and is self-generated, directed towards another conscious being or an aggregate of conscious beings, an organization or an aggregate of organizations, and that is in need of being perceived.
The phrase "in need of being perceived" does not imply that only planned processes that are in fact perceived can be social acts. Reinach clarifies that by exemplifying these matters for commands: "The command is according to its essence in need of being heard (vernehmungsbedürtig". It can of course happen that commands are given without being heard. Then they fail to fulfil their purpose. They are like thrown spears which fall to the ground without hitting their target." (A. Reinach: The Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law." Edited by J. Crosby, Heusenstamm: ontos Verlag, 2012). Reinach clearly does not imply that a command that does not fulfill its prupose would not be a command. Thanks to W.R. Hogan for finding the Reinach quote.
social act
A social act that creates or revokes a deontic role.
deontic declaration
a judge's role of signing a court order
A role inhering in a human being or an organization or an aggregate of any of the aforementioned that is realized by the bearer being the agent in a document act.
document act performer role
ontology module
I have placed this under 'data about an ontology part', but this can be discussed. I think this is OK if 'part' is interpreted reflexively, as an ontology module is the whole ontology rather than part of it.
ontology file
This class and it's subclasses are applied to OWL ontologies. Using an rdf:type triple will result in problems with OWL-DL. I propose that dcterms:type is instead used to connect an ontology URI with a class from this hierarchy. The class hierarchy is not disjoint, so multiple assertions can be made about a single ontology.
base ontology module
An ontology module that comprises only of asserted axioms local to the ontology, excludes import directives, and excludes axioms or declarations from external ontologies.
editors ontology module
An ontology module that is intended to be directly edited, typically managed in source control, and typically not intended for direct consumption by end-users.
source ontology module
main release ontology module
An ontology module that is intended to be the primary release product and the one consumed by the majority of tools.
TODO: Add logical axioms that state that a main release ontology module is derived from (directly or indirectly) an editors module
bridge ontology module
An ontology module that consists entirely of axioms that connect or bridge two distinct ontology modules. For example, the Uberon-to-ZFA bridge module.
import ontology module
A subset ontology module that is intended to be imported from another ontology.
TODO: add axioms that indicate this is the output of a module extraction process.
import file
subset ontology module
An ontology module that is extracted from a main ontology module and includes only a subset of entities or axioms.
ontology slim
subset ontology
curation subset ontology module
A subset ontology that is intended as a whitelist for curators using the ontology. Such a subset will exclude classes that curators should not use for curation.
analysis ontology module
An ontology module that is intended for usage in analysis or discovery applications.
analysis subset ontology module
single layer ontology module
A subset ontology that is largely comprised of a single layer or strata in an ontology class hierarchy. The purpose is typically for rolling up for visualization. The classes in the layer need not be disjoint.
ribbon subset
single layer subset ontology module
exclusion subset ontology module
A subset of an ontology that is intended to be excluded for some purpose. For example, a blacklist of classes.
antislim
external import ontology module
An imported ontology module that is derived from an external ontology. Derivation methods include the OWLAPI SLME approach.
external import
species subset ontology module
A subset ontology that is crafted to either include or exclude a taxonomic grouping of species.
taxon subset
reasoned ontology module
An ontology module that contains axioms generated by a reasoner. The generated axioms are typically direct SubClassOf axioms, but other possibilities are available.
generated ontology module
An ontology module that is automatically generated, for example via a SPARQL query or via template and a CSV.
TODO: Add axioms (using PROV-O?) that indicate this is the output-of some reasoning process
template generated ontology module
An ontology module that is automatically generated from a template specification and fillers for slots in that template.
taxonomic bridge ontology module
ontology module subsetted by expressivity
obo basic subset ontology module
A subset ontology that is designed for basic applications to continue to make certain simplifying assumptions; many of these simplifying assumptions were based on the initial version of the Gene Ontology, and have become enshrined in many popular and useful tools such as term enrichment tools. Examples of such assumptions include: traversing the ontology graph ignoring relationship types using a naive algorithm will not lead to cycles (i.e. the ontology is a DAG); every referenced term is declared in the ontology (i.e. there are no dangling clauses). An ontology is OBO Basic if and only if it has the following characteristics: DAG Unidirectional No Dangling Clauses Fully Asserted Fully Labeled No equivalence axioms Singly labeled edges No qualifier lists No disjointness axioms No owl-axioms header No imports
ontology module subsetted by OWL profile
EL++ ontology module
A dependent continuant which is about a portion of reality.
A representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organism.
medical intervention is a planned process that has the goal of diagnosing, preventing or relieving illness or injury.
The act of intervening, interfering or interceding with the intent of modifying the outcome. In medicine, an intervention is usually undertaken to help treat or cure a condition. For example, "Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States," Reference: http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=34214 . Some interventions can be used for diagnosis.
WEB: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_medical_intervention
Surgery is a medical procedure that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance. The key difference between a surgery and a general procedure is the need for an incision. Making an incision, or cutting into the skin to gain access to the body’s deeper tissues or organs, is a defining characteristic of surgery.
WEB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery
WEB: http://www.wisegeekhealth.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-surgery-and-a-procedure.htm
a medical intervention that refers to any series of pre-defined steps that should be followed to achieve a desired result.
medical procedure
A data item that contains the outcome of a survey.
Alice Nzinga
survey data
A plan specification that is realized by process of gathering information (e.g. by asking questions).
survey plan specification
A planned process that realizes the concretization of a survey to generate an output(survey data.)
survey execution
organization
PMID: 16353909.AAPS J. 2005 Sep 22;7(2):E274-80. Review. The joint food and agriculture organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives and its role in the evaluation of the safety of veterinary drug residues in foods.
An entity that can bear roles, has members, and has a set of organization rules. Members of organizations are either organizations themselves or individual people. Members can bear specific organization member roles that are determined in the organization rules. The organization rules also determine how decisions are made on behalf of the organization by the organization members.
BP: The definition summarizes long email discussions on the OBI developer, roles, biomaterial and denrie branches. It leaves open if an organization is a material entity or a dependent continuant, as no consensus was reached on that. The current placement as material is therefore temporary, in order to move forward with development. Here is the entire email summary, on which the definition is based: 1) there are organization_member_roles (president, treasurer, branch editor), with individual persons as bearers 2) there are organization_roles (employer, owner, vendor, patent holder) 3) an organization has a charter / rules / bylaws, which specify what roles there are, how they should be realized, and how to modify the charter/rules/bylaws themselves. It is debatable what the organization itself is (some kind of dependent continuant or an aggregate of people). This also determines who/what the bearer of organization_roles' are. My personal favorite is still to define organization as a kind of 'legal entity', but thinking it through leads to all kinds of questions that are clearly outside the scope of OBI. Interestingly enough, it does not seem to matter much where we place organization itself, as long as we can subclass it (University, Corporation, Government Agency, Hospital), instantiate it (Affymetrix, NCBI, NIH, ISO, W3C, University of Oklahoma), and have it play roles. This leads to my proposal: We define organization through the statements 1 - 3 above, but without an 'is a' statement for now. We can leave it in its current place in the is_a hierarchy (material entity) or move it up to 'continuant'. We leave further clarifications to BFO, and close this issue for now.
data transformation
The application of a clustering protocol to microarray data or the application of a statistical testing method on a primary data set to determine a p-value.
A completely executed planned process that produces output data from input data.
Elisabetta Manduchi
Helen Parkinson
James Malone
Melanie Courtot
Richard Scheuermann
Ryan Brinkman
Tina Hernandez-Boussard
data analysis
data processing
Branch editors
dialysis
the use of a dialysis bag of select pore size to remove salt from collagen isolated from mouse cartilage
a protocol application that uses diffusion through a semi-permeable membrane to separate an input material into two fractions of different composition
PERSON:Kevin Clancy
A document issued by a third party recognized as bearing the relevant authority to do so, that is designed to be about an entity's competence, qualifications, or authority.
A credential that is designed to be about an organism's competence or qualifications with respect to an occupation.
An organization that bears a credential grantor role.
An organism that an occupation credential is about.
A credential awarded by a credential granting agency designed to signify participation in or completion of a training program requiring the demonstration of some specified knowledge or skill.
A credential awarded by a professional organization designed to signify the holder's competence as measured against a specified professional benchmark.
A credential awarded by a government or government-authorized agency designed to signify legal authority to engage in specified actions without being liable to sanctions or penalties that would otherwise be associated with those actions.
A role borne by an organization that has been accredited by a quality assurance group through a deontic declaration having action regulation output, which authorizes the organization to bestow credentials according to quality control standards established or enforced by the accrediting group.
A social act in which a credential granting agency asserts that an organism has satisfied the requirements for being awarded a credential, having as output a credential about the organism.
A material entity which is clinically abnormal and part of an extended organism. Disorders are the physical basis of disease.
A planned process with the objective to improve the health status of a patient that directly involves the treatment, diagnosis, or prevention of disease or injury of a patient
A temporally-connected health care process that has as participants an organization or person realizing the health care provider role and a person realizing the patient role. The health care provider role and patient are realized during the health care encounter
healthcare encounter
A health care encounter involving a patient who has been admitted to a health care facility and remains in a hospital facility for at least one night.
A disorder that involves some structural damage that is immediately caused by a catastrophic external force.
At the scale of organism (as opposed to the cellular scale or the population scale), an injury is typically the result of a catastrophic event. Consider the implications of making 'injury' a subtype of 'disorder'. Note: Adopted subtype of disorder, and injury can occur at the scale of organism down to cellular level.
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/ca0ad373f27774c5 OGMS call adoption- 16 SEPT 2015 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iiV1-fTS7BUUSzDw3N_Afx42698YWf54-FOTY2NkAxo/edit
creation date: 2011-09-20T09:57:44Z edited date: 30 SEPT 2015
Social Security Number(SSN) is a Centrally Registered IDentifier that is a nine-digit number issued to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and temporary (working) residents under section 205(c) of the Social Security Act, codified as 42 U.S.C. § 405(c). The number is issued to an individual by the Social Security Administration, an independent agency of the United States government. Its primary purpose is to track individuals for Social Security purposes.
social security number
A social role inhering in a human being.
human social role
party to a legal entity
party to a legal proceeding
party to a legal agreement
party to a marriage contract
party to a power of attorney
A human social role borne by a human being being realized in behaviour which is considered socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex in the context of a specific culture.
gender role
A gender role borne by a human being that is realized in behaviour which is considered socially appropriate for individuals of the male sex in the context of the culture in question.
male gender
male gender role
A gender role borne by a human being that is realized in behaviour which is considered socially appropriate for individuals of the female sex in the context of the culture in question.
female gender
female gender role
A role in human social processes that is realized by health care processes such as seeking or providing treatment for disease and injury, diagnosing disease and injury, or undergoing diagnosis.
healthcare role
health care role
A health care role borne by an organism and that is realized by presenting to a health care provider in a clinical encounter.
patient
CAFE domain expert working group.
In order to avoid the presumption of the formal structures and institutions of Western civilization, bearing a patient role does not entail that the organism presents at an official place of business, with an organization formally and legally registered with various gov't entities, with a person endowed by the gov't with certain certifications.
patient role
A health care role inhering in an organization or human being that is realized by a process of providing health care services to an organism.
healthcare provider role
health care provider role
A health care role borne by a human being and realized by promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments.
physician
physician role
A health care role borne by a human being and realized by the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life.
nurse
based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing
nurse role
A role that inheres in an organization and that is realized by the providing of services in a health care encounter.
healthcare provider organization role
health care provider organization role
obsolete person health care provider role
A health care provider organization role that inheres in an organization consisting of two or more physicians.
physician practice
A role borne by an organization and realized by providing healthcare services by healthcare professionals of multiple different disciplines of medicine and enabling stationary treatment.
hospital
obsolete_hospital role
A health care provider organization role that inheres in an organization that is comprised of other organizations.
integrated delivery network
An object aggregate of objectual organisms.
Any arbitrary collection of organisms. They need not be of the same taxonomic class.
aggregate of objectual organisms
An object aggregate all of whose components are human beings.
collection of humans
A role inhering in an entity realized by social interactions in human society.
Previous definition: A role played by an entity in human social processes.
obsolete role in human social processes
A role in human social processes that inheres in an organization.
Defined class that we will ultimately move to an application ontology. We are leaving here for now until we determine which application ontology: it is likely going to be an ontology that does not currently (2012-06-05) exist. Ditto for its current descendants.
organization social role
A role in human social processes that inheres in an organism.
William R. Hogan Mathias Brochhausen
Includes animals as well as humans. For example, pet, assistance animal, animal grown for food, work animal, domesticated animal, K-9, etc. Human roles include gender role, party to legal entities, health care provider roles like doctor, nurse, etc.
Previous definition: A role in human social processes played by an organism.
organism social role
An organization social role that, if realized, is realized by either a health care process or an ancillary health care process
organization healthcare role
Previous definition: An organization social role played by an organization in health care processes.
organization health care role
An organization that governs the people living in a particular geographical region or aggregate of geographical regions. The geographical region it governs can change over time (such as the westward expansion of the United States and the addition of Hawaii).
geopolitical organization
geopoli organization
A patient role that inheres in a human being.
human patient role
A subnational entity that is the primary organizational member of a nation, is subject to the full set of laws of the nation, enjoys all the privileges established under the laws of the nation, is not a member of any other geopolitical entity, and itself governs a part of the geographical region governed by the nation.
major administrative subdivision
obsolete major administrative subdivision
A subnational entity that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state, but remains politically outside of the controlling state and controls a geographical region that is outside the controlling state's integral region.
geopolitical dependency
Typically, the common feature is that the dependency does not conduct foreign affairs, and relegates this authority to the sovereign state. BUt otherwise, it is largely or completely autonomous relative to the administrative subdivisions. Examples include Puerto Rico (U.S.), Guam (U.S.), Greenland (Denmark), French Polynesia (France), and Falkland Islands (United Kingdom).
An object aggregate that is not itself an organization and whose members are only organizations that have some feature in common
William R. Hogan Amanda Hicks
It is often convenient to group organizations together that otherwise might not even interact with one another.
aggregate of organizations
An aggregate of sovereign states that share some feature in common, but is not an organization nor necessarily the outcome of some treaty among them.
An aggregate of geopoli organizations that is not itself a sovereign state and whose members are only sovereign states that have some feature in common
aggregate of sovereign states
An object aggregate that is not itself a geopolitical organization and whose members are only geopolitical organizations that have some feature in common
aggregate of geopoli organizations
obsolete aggregate of geopoli organizations
An aggregate of geopoli organizations that is not itself a geopolitical dependency and whose members are only geopolitical dependencies that have some feature in common.
aggregate of dependencies
An aggregate of geopoli organizations that is not itself a major administrative subdivision and whose members are only major administrative subdivisions that have some feature in common
aggregate of major administrative subdivisions
obsolete aggregate of major administrative subdivisions
A role borne by a human individual or by a collection of humans regarded as possessing rights and duties enforeable at law.
Malcolm N. Shaw: International Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
We are aware of the fact that Wikipedia's definition differs from ours by saying that "Legal personality (...) is the characteristic of a non-living entity regarded by law to have the status of personhood" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality) However, Shaw explicates: "In any legal system, certain entities, whether they be individuals or companies, will be regarded as possessing rights and duties enforceable at law. Thus an individual may prosecute or be prosecuted for assault and a company can sue for breach of contract. They are able to do this because the law recognises them as 'legal persons' possessing the capacity to have and to maintain certain rights, and being subject to perform specific duties. (...) In municipal law individuals, limited companies and public corporations are recognized as each possessing a distinct legal personality, the terms of which are circumscribed by the relevant legislation" (Shaw MN: International Law. Sixth Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008). We hold that Shaw's position is ontological more prolific since it not only allows to explain how groups of individuals become recognized as unities at law, but also how different individuals can hold different legal personality roles (always against the context of one legal system). The latter will proof useful when dealing with the representing comatous patients or minorsat law in ontologies.
legal person role
A role that inheres in an organism and is realized by habitually smoking tobacco products.
smoker role
intravenous drug user
an intergovernmental organization that has at least three member states, that has activies in at least three states, and that is unified by some formal intergovernmental agreement
intergovernmental organization
"IGOs are organizations whose memebers include at lesat three states, that have activities in several states, and whose members are held together by a formal intergovernmental agreement ... These organizations range in size from three members (North American Free Trade Argreement [NAFTA]) to more than 190 memembers (Universal Postal Union (UPU)]. Memebers may come from primarily one georgraphic regioni (Oragnaization of American States [OAS]) or from all geographic regions (World Bank). although soem IGOs are designed to achieve a single purpose (Organization of Petroleum exporting countries [OPEC]), others have been developed for multiple tasks (United Nations [UN}). ... IGOs are recognized subjects of international law with separate standing fromt heir member states." Karns and Mingst I(2004) p. 7
Katrina Donovan
examples: North American Free Trade Argreement [NAFTA] , Universal Postal Union [UPU], Oragnaization of American States [OAS], World Bank), Organization of Petroleum exporting countries [OPEC] United Nations [UN[, The World Trade Organization [WTO], The World Health Organization [WHO], UNICEF
a geopolitical organization that is voluntary and private, whose members are individual persons or organizations that come together to acheive a common purpose.
nongovernmental organizations
NGOs are private voluntary organizations whose members are individuals or associations that come together to acheive a common purpose. Some organizations are formed to advocate a particular cause such as human rights, peace, or envirnomental projetion. Others are established to provide services such as disaster relief, humantarian aid in war-torn socieities, or development assistance. ... National level groups are often called interest or pressure groups, and many of them are now linked to counterpart groups in other countries through transnational networks or federations. International NGOs, like IGOs, may draw their members from one region or several regions, and they may have very specific functions or be multi-functional. Karns and Mingst (2004) p. 10f.
Examples: Internaltion Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Oxfam, CARE, Doctors Without Borders, World Wildlife Fund, Transparency International, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Save the Children.
private governance organizations
"Although the very meaning of the term is controversial, it involves authoritative decsionmaking in areas that once were part of national legal frameworks, the government, the sovereign state, or the public sector." Karns and Mingst (2004) p. 14.
Examples: private bond-rating agencies such as Moody's Investors Service, International Chamber of Commerce, Worldwide Responsible Apparel Manufacturing Principles, Forest Stewardship
obsolete private governance organizations
A governmental organization with a defined territory on which it exercises internal and external sovereignty, a permanent population, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states.
nation
nation state
sovereign state
Per Wikipedia, the word 'nation' does not always refer to soverign states. For example, the "nation of Islam".
a governmental organization that has a local, regional, or territorial government that recognizes a sovereign state as its higher political authority
subnational entity
supranational entity
obsolete material entity role
obsolete organism role
obsolete Homo sapiens role
organization role
A function inhering in a material entity that, if realized, is realized by the material entity being the site at which inpatient and outpatient healthcare is provided to a patient population.
hospital function
A function inhering in a material entity that, if realized, is realized by that material entity being the site at which formal education is provided to a student population.
school function
A healthcare provider role that inheres in an organization and is realized by providing inpatient care.
hospital role
An organization social role that inheres in an organization and is realized by providing formal education to students.
school role
An organization that is the bearer of a hospital role.
hospital organization
An organization that is the bearer of a school role.
school organization
A human social role that, if realized, is realized by the process of formal education that the bearer undergoes.
student role
nursery school role
primary school role
A material entity that is a human made strcuture with firm connection between its foundation and the ground.
"Building" is a subclass of this.
This type of entity is referred to as "Bauwerk" or "Bauliche Anlage".
architectural structure
An architectural structure that bears some function.
facility
A health care facility that bears the function to provide acute and intensive healthcare services and that is run by a hospital organization and is the bearer of a hospital function.
hospital facility
A facility that is run by a school organization and is the bearer of a school function.
school facility
secondary school role
A trauma patient role that inheres in a homo sapiens who is under the age of 15 years.
pediatric trauma patient
The following definition for 'pediatric trauma patient' was approved by the CAFE team of domain experts (experts in trauma care) May 29, 2015. "A trauma patient who is under the age of 15 years."
pediatric trauma patient role
A patient role that inheres an organism suffering one or more injuries.
injured patient
The following definition for 'injured patient' was approved by the CAFE team of domain experts (experts in trauma care) May 29, 2015. A patient suffering one or more injuries.
injured patient role
A patient role that inheres in an organism suffering a thermal, electrical, chemical or radiation burn.
The following definition for 'burn patient' was approved by the CAFE team of domain experts (experts in trauma care) May 29, 2015. A patient suffering a thermal, electrical, chemical or radiation burn.
burn patient
burn patient role
A physician role that is created by training and certification in rehabilitation/physical medicine and that is realized by the provision of or supervising of the provision of rehabilitation or physical therapy to a patient.
physiatrist
The following definition for 'physiatrist' was approved by the CAFE team of domain experts (experts in trauma care) May 29, 2015. A physician with training and certification in rehabilitation/physical medicine.
Definition updated May 5, 2016. Original definitions was, a health care role borne by a human being and realized by training and certification in rehabilitation medicine.
physiatrist role
A patient role that inheres in an organism with some non-superficial traumatic injury. The role is realized by admision to a hospital, transfer from one hospital to another for the purpose of trauma care, or has death as a result of the traumatic injury.
trauma patient
The following definition for 'trauma patient' was approved by the CAFE team of domain experts (experts in trauma care) May 29, 2015. A patient sustaining an injury who has been admitted to the hospital, transferred from one hospital to another for the purpose of trauma care, or has died as a result of the traumatic injury.
trauma patient role
A material entity that has as parts one or more sites large enough to contain humans, has as part one or more material entities that separates it from other sites, and bears a residence function.
Housing units are individuated by their residence functions.
housing unit
A function that inheres in a material entity and, if realized, is realized by protecting persons and their possessions from weather and by some person or group of persons habitually sleeping in at least one site that is contained by that material entity.
residence function
A human or collection of humans that occupies a housing unit by storing their possessions there and habitually sleeping there thereby participating in the realization of that housing unit's residence function.
Note in OMRSE it is the housing unit, not the people living there, that are the bearers of a "residence function". Note the distinction between being a residence and a resident.
Note that it is not possible in OWL 2, at least that we have yet found, to say that the housing unit in which the process occurs is the same one that is the bearer of the residence function (that the process realizes).
household
A role in human social processes that, if realized, is realized when the bearer provides labor or services in exchange for a wage or salary as specified by some deontic declaration.
job role
workplace facility
A function inhering in a material entity that, if realized, is realized by that material entity being the site where the work of some organization is carried out
workplace function
A US Census householder role is a human social role that, if realized, is realized by that person being a member of a household and either owning or renting the housing unit in which that household resides and being designated as the householder. If there is only one member of the household who owns or rents the housing unit, that person is designated the householder by default.
http://www.census.gov/cps/about/cpsdef.html last accessed on June 30, 2015
US census householder role
A US cenus reference person role is a human social role that inheres in a Homo sapiens who is a member of a household and is realized by other persons in the household being recorded in the US census in relation to that person.
http://www.census.gov/cps/about/cpsdef.html last accessed June 30, 2015
US Census reference person role
An ethnic identity datum that is the output of an ethnic identification process that uses OMB terminology for ethnicity or terminology that is mapped the OMB ethnicity terms.
OMB ethnic identity information content entity
obsolete OMB ethnic identity datum
enrollment end date
A role that concretizes a socio-lega generically dependent continuant
obsolete socio-legal human social role
A human social role that is created by a deontic declaration performed by an organization.
human organizational role
human role within an organization
A role in human social processes that is realized when the bearer provides a wage or salary in exchange for some labour or services as specified by some declaration
employer role
age measurement datum
A document that records a legally binding agreement between two or more parties.
A contract is a document that is the specified output of a legally binding document act and records a legally binding agreement between two or more parties.
contract
A contract by which one party secures the other against pecuniary loss by payment of a sum of money if a specified event occurs.
indemnity contract
An indemnity contract that distributes risk among a group of people
insurance policy
A role that inheres in an organism that is able to receive benefits from an insurance policy. The role, if realized, is realized by receiving benefits that are covered by the insurance policy.
insured party role
An organization that secures a group of people against pecuniary loss by payment of a sum of money if a a specified event occurs.
insurance organization
An insured party role that inheres in a person who participates in the creation of the insurance contract and is eligible to receive benefits as specified by the insurance contract.
policy holder role
payer role
party to an insurance policy
enrollment start date
A racial identity is an information content entity that is the output of some racial identitification process and is intended to be a truthful statement about the genetic or cultural race of a person. Unlike data items they are not necessilary contributed or acquired by a reliable method.
racial identity information content entity
obsolete racial identity datum
obsolete racial identification process
An ethnic identity datum is an information content entity that is the output of some ethnic identitification process and is intended to be a truthful statement about the cultural or national heritage of a person. Unlike data items they are not necessilary contributed or acquired by a reliable method.
ethnic identity information content entity
obsolete ethnic identity datum
obsolete ethnic identification process
A facility bearing the function to provide healthcare and that is administered by a health care organization for the purpose of providing health care to a patient or patient population.
healthcare facility
health care facility
A human social role that inheres in a human who is legally eligible to work, is conferred by the U.S. Census Bureau, and is realized by the bearer not working and either making active efforts to find employment in the four weeks prior to the reference week or waiting to be recalled from temporary layoff.
US Census unemployed role
A health care facility that bears a function to provide healthcare to the sick or terminally ill
Emma Norris
Human Behaviour Change Project
hospice facility
A community living health care facility in which patients receive health care by licensed nurses.
skilled nursing facility
A facility to assist in physical or addiction recovery
rehabilitation facility
A facility that is run by a nursing home organization and is the bearer of a nursing home function.
nursing home facility
A community living health care facility that provides health care services in a home-like setting
residential healthcare facility
residential health care facility
overnight dialysis facility
A health care facility that bears a function to provide low intensity healthcare services to patients on a short-term basis, with patients leaving on the same date as arriving (i.e., without them staying overnight)
Broadened from treatment to healthcare services generally. "Low intensity" is not defined at the moment, but is needed to differentiate from same-day surgery centers or observation stays in hospitals that last <24 hours. The idea is that few invasive procedures are performed, and the ones that are invasive are not typically much worse than a blood draw. Maybe bone marrow biopsy is as aggressive as it gets. I wonder if hematologists do that on an outpatient basis.
outpatient clinic facility
physician office facility
ambulatory surgery facility
urgent care facility
A health care facility that bears a function to provide emergency healthcare services and the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment, having arrived either by their own means or by ambulance
Adapted from Human Behaviour Change Project
emergency department facility
urgent care function
ambulatory surgery function
hospice function
emergency department function
physician office function
outpatient clinic function
overnight dialysis function
rehabilitation function
skilled nursing function
residence function (OMRSE:00000075)
obsolete residential function
nursing home function
A deontic document act that concludes an inpatient encounter.
discharge process
patient discharge
An OMB ethnic identity datum that indicates the person identified is of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.
OMB Hispanic or Latino identity information content entity
obsolete hispanic or latino identity datum
An OMB ethnic identity datum that indicates the person identified is not of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.
OMB not Hispanic or Latino identity information content entity
obsolete not hispanic or latino identity datum
A human health care provider role that inheres in a human being that is created by state licensing and that is realized by taking patient histories, performing physical exams, diagnosing illnesses, developing treatment plans, ordering lab tests, prescribing medications, counselling and educating patients, suturing wounds, and assisting in surgery under the supervision of a physician or a surgeon.
US physician assistant role
A physician role that inheres a human being and, if it is realized, is realized either by administering medication for the temporary general or local suppression of sensory or motor nerve function during some health care encounter or by making decisions independently of a supervising physician regarding the adminstration of such medication.
anesthesiologist role
obsolete OMB racial identification process
An identity datum is an information content entity that is the output of some identitification process and is intended to be a truthful statement about a person's social identity. Unlike data items they are not necessilary contributed or acquired by a reliable method.
social identity information content entity
obsolete identity datum
A gender identity is an information content entity that is the output of some gender identitification process and is intended to be a truthful statement about a person's subjective sense of their gender. Unlike data items they are not necessilary contributed or acquired by a reliable method.
gender identity information content entity
obsolete gender identity datum
obsolete identification process
obsolete gender identification process
a gender identity datum resulting from a gender identification process in which ‘female’ is selected based on the participant's subjective sense of gender
female gender identity information content entity
obsolete female gender identity datum
A physician role that, if realized, is realized by its bearer using operative manual and instrumental techniques to investigate, treat, or modify a patient's anatomical or physiological state for health, functional, or aesthetic purposes.
surgeon role
A surgeon role realized by its bearer using performing neurosurgery.
neurosurgeon role
a gender identity datum resulting from a gender identification process in which ‘male’ is selected based on the participant's subjective sense of gender
male gender identity information content entity
obsolete male gender identity datum
An information content entity that is about human travel.
human traveling information
A symbol that denotes a specific household
household identifier
family identifier
an identity datum that has been asserted by the person whom it is about
obsolete self-identity data item
A planned process in which the bearer of an employer role provides wages or salary to the bearer of an employee roll in fullfillment of the arrangements specified in some declaration
employment process
A surgeon role that, if realized, is realized by its bearer by performing procedures on a child.
pediatric surgeon role
A facility that is run by an adult foster home organization and is the bearer of an adult foster home organization
adult foster home facility
adult foster home function
A health care facility that also bears a residence function and thus is one in which the patients are also residents of the facility.
long-term health care facility
long-term healthcare facility
community living healthcare facility
community living health care facility
A nurse role that requires successful completion of some nursing education program and some nursing license examination.
This class is intended to apply to registered nurse positions broadly, including those outside the US.
registered nurse role
A heatlh care encounter that occurs in a skilled nursing facility.
skilled nursing encounter
They include assistance with activities of daily living, assistance with instrumental activities of daily living, medication assistance, and health support http://ahca.myflorida.com/Medicaid/acs/index.shtml
assistive care encounter
assistance with activities of daily living care encounter
assistance with instrumental activities of daily living encounter
medication assistance care encounter
A facility that is run by an assisted living facility organization and is the bearer of an assisted living facility function.
assisted living facility
assisted living function
A health care encounter that provide medical and supportive services after a patient leaves an acute care setting. The aim of the post-acute health care encounter it to help the patient recover or regain independence.
post-acute healthcare encounter
post-acute health care encounter
acute care encounter
A process (1) where the active participant, who at the beginning of the process is located in a healthcare facility, exits the facility and no longer stands in a "located in" relationship to the facility and (2) is immediately preceded by a healthcare encounter in which the active participant also participated.
leaving a healthcare facility after receiving care
leaving a health care facility after receiving care
obsolete medical advice
Note that not all responses to a question asking process are answers. For example, a refusal to answer is not an answer. A refusal to answer is also not a specified output of the question asking process since it does not acheive the objective of asking the question, which is to get an answer.
response to a question asking process
home healthcare organization
home health care organization
home healthcare function
home health care function
A health care encounter that occurs in the housing unit where the patient resides.
home healthcare encounter
home health care encounter
obsolete questions asking process
palliative function
palliative care encounter
hospice organization
healthcare function
health care function
obsolete material information bearer of question text plus answer set
refusal to answer datum
response to an identity question asking process
obsolete identity question asking process
obsolete ethnic identity question asking process
obsolete race identity question asking process
answer to identity question
A racial identity that is the output of a racial identification process that uses OMB terminology for race or terminology that is mapped the OMB race terms and that indicates that the subject of the identity has origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.
OMB American Indian or Alaska Native identity information content entity
obsolete American Indian or Alaska Native identity datum
A racial identity that is the output of a racial identification process that uses OMB terminology for race or terminology that is mapped the OMB race terms and that indicates that the subject of the identity has origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent.
OMB Asian identity information content entity
obsolete Asian identity datum
A racial identity that is the output of a racial identification process that uses OMB terminology for race or terminology that is mapped the OMB race terms and that indicates that the subject of the identity has origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
OMB black or African American identity information content entity
obsolete black or African American identity datum
A racial identity that is the output of a racial identification process that uses OMB terminology for race or terminology that is mapped the OMB race terms and that indicates that the subject of the identity has origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
OMB Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander identity information content entity
obsolete Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander identity datum
A racial identity that is the output of a racial identification process that uses OMB terminology for race or terminology that is mapped the OMB race terms and that indicates that the subject of the identity has origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
OMB white identity information content entity
obsolete white identity datum
A racial identity that is the output of a racial identification process that uses OMB terminology for race or terminology that is mapped the OMB race terms.
OMB racial identity information content entity
obsolete OMB racial identity datum
A role that inheres in an organism and is realized by habitually smoking 10 or more tobacco cigerettes a day or the equivalent in other tobacco products.
heavy smoker role
A role that inheres in an organism and is realized by habitually smoking 1>10 tobacco cigerettes a day or the equivalent in other tobacco products.
light smoker role
answer set
question text
option as member of some answer set
residential facility
A facility that has at least one housing unit as part in which a person or persons live
Modified version of definition provided by Human Behaviour Change Project
A process in which some participant shares some information content entity about some state of that participant with some other participant.
The term 'participant' in the definition need not refer to a human agent.
obsolete communication
A disposition inhering in a material entity that, if realized, is realized by that material entity’s communicating via some linguistic concretization.
obsolete linguistic competence
A disposition inhering in a linguistic community that (i) is a maximal aggregate of communicatively compatible linguistic competences, and (ii) if realized, is realized by any and all realizations of those linguistic competences.
obsolete language
A maximal aggregate of material entities such that each member bears a linguistic competence for the same language.
linguistic community
A communication in which some participant states a preference for some communicative process to be in a certain language, and that has a concretization of a preferred language information content entity as its specified output.
obsolete expression of preferred language
An information content entity that (i) is about some person, some language, and some linguistic competence; and (ii) conveys the language with which that person prefers to communicate within some given context.
obsolete preferred language information content entity
A communication in which some participant requests of some other participant an information content entity about some portion of reality
As with the parent class, 'participant' in the definition need not refer to a human agent.
The medium and grammatical form are irrelevant. For example, the request may be written or spoken, and while it may be in the form of a question, it need not be.
information content entity-request process
An information content entity-request process in which some participant requests of some other participant an information content entity that indicates the ethnic identity of that other participant
information content entity request about ethnic identity
An information content entity-request process in which some participant requests of some other participant an information content entity that indicates the racial identity of that other participant
information content entity request about racial identity
A deontic document act in which a patient is registered with a health care provider for the purpose of receiving care in an inpatient encounter.
admission process
cancer summary staging
The cancer summary staging performed on patient John Doe's clinical picture.
A planned process of determining the extent to which a cancer disease has developed by growing and spreading throughout an organism.
tumor summary staging
cancer summary staging code
The cancer summary staging code that is the outcome of the cancer summary staging performed on patient John Doe's clinical picture.
An information content entity that is the specified output of cancer summary staging.
tumor summary staging code
An information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about some person and whether that person identifies as some particular aspect of social identity—such as a gender, an ethnicity, a race, or a sexual orientation—where the sense of identifying may correspond to either (i) an aspect of one’s cognitive representation of oneself, (ii) how one prefers to be regarded by others within some social context, or (iii) how one chooses to present oneself to others within some social context.
We include (i)-(iii) to acknowledge that there are different senses of "identify" that are relevant here, and that we may not always be sure which sense the person concretizing the social identity information content entity intended. While (i) concerns how one thinks of oneself, (ii) and (iii) are more focused on one's interactions with others. Importantly, some choose not to share with others how they identify in the sense of (i). For example, one can consider oneself to be some certain gender without either wanting others to know or choosing to present oneself in a corresponding way. We distinguish (ii) and (iii) because one can prefer to be regarded some certain way without attempting to present oneself in any corresponding way.
A social identity information content entity that is about whether some person identifies as some ethnicity.
Ethnicity is separate from but related to racial identity. It refers more to identifying with a particular culture than with individuals similar in physical appearance. It includes things like Hispanic ethnicity (which spans many nations) and national cultural identities like Irish and ethnic groups within nations such as Catalan and Armenian.
An ethnic identity information content entity that uses OMB terminology for ethnicity or terminology that is strictly mapped onto the OMB ethnicity terms.
OMB dichotomizes ethnicity into Hispanic or Latino and Not Hispanic or Latino, and ignores all other forms of ethnicity.
obsolete OMB ethnic identity information content entity
An OMB ethnic identity information content entity that is about some person's identifying as Hispanic or Latino, which are intended to mean being of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
It comprehends people of Portuguese culture or origin in Brazil.
obsolete OMB Hispanic or Latino identity information content entity
An OMB ethnic identity information content entity that is about some person's identifying as neither Hispanic nor Latino, which are intended to mean being of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
obsolete OMB not Hispanic or Latino identity information content entity
A social identity information content entity that is about whether some person identifies as some gender.
A gender identity information content entity that is about some person's identifying as female in gender.
A gender identity information content entity that is about some person's identifying as male in gender.
A gender identity information content entity that is about some person's identifying as non-binary in gender.
non-binary identity information content entity
A social identity information content entity that is about whether some person identifies as some race.
A racial identity information content entity that uses OMB terminology and definitions for race or terminology that is strictly mapped onto the OMB race terms.
obsolete OMB racial identity information content entity
An OMB racial identity information content entity that is about some person's identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native, which is intended to mean having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.
This definition corresponds to that used by OMB. It is worth noting that the OMB definition from which this one is derived is problematic, in that it implies that one's race cannot be Native American or Alaskan Native unless one maintains tribal affiliations or community attachment.
obsolete OMB American Indian or Alaska Native identity information content entity
An OMB racial identity information content entity that is about some person's identifying as Asian, which is intended to mean having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent.
obsolete OMB Asian identity information content entity
An OMB racial identity information content entity that is about some person's identifying as black or African American which is intended to mean having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
obsolete OMB black or African American identity information content entity
An OMB racial identity information content entity that is about some person's identifying as Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, which is intended to mean having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
obsolete OMB Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander identity information content entity
An OMB racial identity information content entity that is about some person's identifying as white which is intended to mean having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
obsolete OMB white identity information content entity
A social identity information content entity that is about whether some person identifies as having some sexual orientation.
sexual orientation identity information content entity
An information content entity that is about some geographical region, in which a postal delivery route denoted by a particular ZIP code is realized, and that is the specified output of a disclosure of residence.
Hansi Zhang
residence ZIP code information content entity
debt obligation
Three Arrows Capital declared bankruptcy on July 1, 2022 after defaulting on a $665 million debt obligation owed to Voyager Digital.
A directive information entity that prescribes that something will be transferred from some human or organization that is the bearer of a duty holder role to another human or organization that is the bearer of a claimant role.
A social act that creates an information content entity that is about some geographical region in which a human being dwells.
disclosure of residence
A data set whose members are obtained from one or more electronic health records.
EHR data set
Mathias Brocchausen
electronic health record data set
A data set whose members are the specified output of some process of adjudicating health care insurance claims (and whose inputs are at least partly some members of a health care billing data set).
healthcare claim data set
It covers prescription claims because pharmacies bill insurance companies for patients’ prescriptions via submitting insurance claims.
The insurance claim is submitted to the insurance company by either the patient or the provider. It is not necessarily always the provider, although in the United States, it typically is.
The outcome of the adjudication of a claim in the claims dataset could be favorable or unfavorable for the healthcare provider, the patient, or both. The idea is just that they’ve been adjudicated, one way or the other (or anything in between if that’s a possibility).
The reason we say billing data are only part of the input is because we are not conflating the insurance claim with the bill. It is our understanding that the provider’s bill of services is either part of the claim or “attached” to it in some manner, but doesn’t constitute the entire claim itself.
The sources of these data are held by insurers or other health plan providers.
health care claim data set
A data set whose members are obtained from billing-related data sources that (i) are generated by a health care organization as a result of internal administrative processes, and (ii) are about services rendered or materials used during some health care encounter.
healthcare billing data set
health care billing data set
Recording data in an EHR. Financial tasks for a healthcare organization. Scheduling shifts for health care workers.
A planned process (i) that is neither a health care process nor an ancillary health care process, and (ii) in which some employee of a health care organization manages, or helps to manage, the performance of tasks that realize the functions of that organization.
healthcare administrative process
health care administrative process
A health care administrative process that has as input a diagnosis, and has as output a value indicating that diagnosis is about the condition that prompts the admission process that starts the encounter during which the diagnostic process that outputs that diagnosis begins.
principal diagnosis-assignment process
A health care administrative process that has as input a diagnosis, and has as output a value indicating that diagnosis is about an underlying condition that is distinct from the condition that prompts the admission process that starts the encounter during which the diagnostic process that outputs that diagnosis begins.
secondary diagnosis-assignment process
The Alachua county smoking survey plan specification.
A survey plan specification that aims to collect information about the smoking behavior or lack thereof of a population on a county level. Concretization of a smoking survey plan that is stratified by county.
Jiang Bian
county smoking survey plan specification
The Alachua county smoking survey execution.
A survey execution that realizes the concretization of a smoking survey plan specification that is stratified by county.
county smoking survey execution
The Alachua county smoking survey data.
Survey data that is the specified output of a county smoking survey execution.
county smoking survey data
Calculating the Alachua County smoking rate from Alachua County smoking data.
A data transformation that has data about the smoking status of a population as its specified input and a percentage or ratio of smokers in that population as a specified output.
smoking rate calculation
The Alachua County smoking rate.
A data item that is the specified output of a smoking rate calculation that has data about smoking behavior or lack there of on a county level.
county smoking rate data
money
Todd does not have enough money to buy more plants at the horticultural club's poinsettia sale.
A debt obligation between two parties that has part a scalar value specification and whose concretizations indicate that their bearers can be used in a financial transaction or payment of debt, or as a measure of the value of some entity in a financial valuation process or prospective financial valuation process.
currency
US currency is an accepted form of legal tender, not just in the United States, but in many countries around the world, such as El Salvador.
A material entity that is the bearer of a concretization of money and is created by some governmental organization or on behalf of some governmental organization that has authorized its creation.
exchange of ownership
Tom exchanged ownership of his computer for Tina's scooter.
A planned process whereby one agent (or active participant) or a group of agents transfer ownership of some property to another agent (or active participant) or group of agents in the process, who in return transfer ownership of some their property to the first agent (or active participant).
barter
financial transaction
Apple acquired semiconductors from Samsung in a financial transaction yesterday.
A planned process whereby one participant partly or completely fulfills an obligation to another participant by transferring ownership of some other debt obligation, which is typically money.
monetary transaction
payment of debt
I made a debt payment with my credit card company yesterday and no longer owe them money.
A planned process whereby ownership of some entity of value is transferred by one participant to another to fulfill some obligation, on their behalf, after some service is performed or the ownership of some entity is exchanged.
financial valuation process
The financial valuation of Ravi's car today determined that the car is worth $2000.
A planned process that has as specified output some scalar measurement datum that is about an entity—such as a material good or a service—and is measured in terms of the quantity of some other material entity.
prospective financial valuation process
The prospective valuation of my company's stock indicates strong optimism for our financial growth over the next few years.
A planned process that has as specified output some predicted value that is about an entity—such as a material good or a service—and is measured in terms of the quantity of some material entity at some point in the future.
Relational quality inhering in persons by virtue of being each other’s spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, dating partner, or ongoing sexual partner.
intimate partnership
Behavior that is cruel, violent, demeaning, or invasive.
abusive behavior
Abusive behavior in which the aggressor does or attempts to do the following: mentally or emotionally harm or exert control over another.
psychologically abusive behavior
Abusive behavior in which the aggressor does or attempts to do the following: harm, restrain, or coerce another through physical force.
physically abusive behavior
Abusive behavior in which the aggressor does or attempts to do the following: force or coerce another to participate in a sexual act to which the latter has not freely given consent.
sexually abusive behavior
A health care provider role that is realized in maintaining the health of a human being during their pregnancy and both them and the neonate during labor, delivery, and postpartum.
skilled birth attendant role
birth attendant role
An information content entity that conveys that a particular person has a linguistic competence for a particular language
Jobst Landgrebe
linguistic competence information content entity
A linguistic competence information content entity that conveys the language is the one for which the person has their most proficient linguistic competence.
primary language information content entity
A linguistic competence information content entity that conveys the person uses the language at home.
language-at-home information content entity
A social act or aggregate of social acts that include some worship, prayer, or proselytizing.
religious gathering
A count of the number of patients that some hospital facility has the capacity for.
hospital bed capacity data item
A data item that is the output of some data transformation that takes as input the number of individuals in a population who are occupation holders and has as output the proportion of those individuals who are classified by the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations as door-to-door sales worker, news or street vendors; building cleaning workers; pressers, textile, garment, or related materials; septic tank servicers or sewer pipe cleaners; farmworkers or laborers, crop, nursery, or greenhouse; farmworkers, farm, ranch, or aquacultural animal; agricultural workers, all other; landscaping or groundskeeping workers; grounds maintenance workers, all other; forest or conservation workers; logging workers, all other; fishing or hunting workers; helpers--extraction workers; extraction workers, all other; helpers, construction trades; rail-track laying or maintenance equipment operators; construction laborers; helpers--production workers; production workers, all other; laborers or material movers; refuse or recyclable material collectors; couriers or messengers; material moving workers, all other; aircraft cargo handling supervisors; first-line supervisors of helpers, laborer, or material mover, hand; first-line supervisors of transportation worker, all other; tank car, truck, or ship loaders; cooks, fast food; cooks, short order; food preparation workers; dining room or cafeteria attendants or bartender helpers; dishwashers; food preparation or serving related workers, all other; personal care or service workers, all other; baggage porters or bellhops; maintenance or repair workers, general; installation, maintenance, or repair workers, all other; meter readers, utilities; coin, vending, or amusement machine servicers or repairers; motion picture projectionists; ushers, lobby attendants, or ticket takers; amusement or recreation attendants; locker room, coatroom, or dressing room attendants; and parking attendants.
Currently, the Occupation Ontology (OccO ) only represents occupations as they are defined by O*NET. We define this class extentionally according to the O*NET-defined occupations that map to occupations in ESCO that are classified as elementary occupations.
proportion of population in an elementary occupation
A policy holder role that inheres in a person who participates in the creation of an insurance policy with a US state Medicaid agency.
Medicaid policy holder role
An insurance organization that is privately owned and that participates in the creation of insurance policies in return for some money from the policy holder.
insurance company
A policy holder role that inheres in a person who participates in the creation of an insurance policy with an insurance company.
private insurance policy holder role
A government organization that administers a given US state's Medicaid program by participating in the creation of insurance policies with eligible people and by participating in some payment of debt for a specified aggregate of health care encounters, specified processes (e.g, treatments, diagnostic tests) that are part of those encounters, and material entities used or prescribed during the encounters (e.g., medicine, prosthetics, glasses).
US state Medicaid agency
A highest level of education data item that represents the fact that an individual in the United States is has not achieved a level of education that is equivalent to or higher than a complete high school education.
highest level of education is below high school completion or equivalent data item
An information content entity that characterizes some aggregate of entities as partitioned into distinct subgroups, thereby demarcating them as categories.
categorization scheme
A categorization scheme that divides humans into groups considered by themselves or others as distinct on the basis of assumed common characteristics.
social categorization scheme
A highest level of education data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is completion of some undergraduate coursework, but without attaining an undergraduate degree.
highest level of education is some college data item
A collection of humans demarcated by some social categorization scheme.
social category
A social categorization scheme based on characteristics assumed to be biologically hereditary and to result in part from common locality of ancestors.
racial categorization scheme
A social category demarcated by some racial categorization scheme.
racial group
racial category
A social categorization scheme based on characteristics that are primarily cultural—such as ancestry, history, national or tribal background, cultural attachments or traditions, past linguistic heritage, religious affiliations, caste, or claimed kinship.
ethnic categorization scheme
A social category demarcated by some ethnic categorization scheme.
ethnic group
ethnic category
Communication in which a person reports some data items about either that person or another person.
personal data disclosure
A cognitive representation in which the representation’s bearer is represented as being its bearer.
subjective representation
A subjective representation of themselves by a person or group.
identity
Definition updated to AddictO defintion.
social identity
A social identity for which the category is a racial category.
racial identity
A highest level of education data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is completion of some high school coursework, but without attaining a diploma or equivalent.
highest level of education is some but not all high school data item
A social identity for which the category is an ethnic category.
ethnic identity
A social identity for which the category is also a behaviorally distinct group defined by its members degree of participation in some type of behavior.
behavioral identity
A highest level of education data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is completion of high school or equivalent.
highest level of education is completion of high school or equivalent data item
A disposition that, if realized, is realized when the bearer intends to, and does, exercise abilities and skills in pursuit of obtaining or maintaining an job role.
Damion Dooley
John Beverley
occupation disposition
A process in which an occupation holder participates that realizes either an occupation disposition or job role.
occupation process
Eric Merrell
occupation activity
A human role within an organization that inheres in a person who has served in a branch of the U.S. military, is not currently serving in the U.S. military, and the person's service ended in accordance to conditions defined by the U.S. government.
38 U.S.C. §101(2), as well as “Determining Veteran Status” by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU): https://www.va.gov/OSDBU/docs/Determining-Veteran-Status.pdf.
U.S. veteran role
A residence function that is realized only in processes in which eligible and approved residents participate, and that is a characteristic of a housing unit that is owned by a government and intended for use by seniors, people with disabilities, or those with low incomes.
public housing function
A role that inheres in a person who qualifies for public housing according to the criteria set forth by the relevant governmental entity and that is realized in processes that both have the person as a participant and realize the public housing function of some housing unit.
public housing eligibility role
A role that if realized, is realized by the bearer participating in human travel.
human traveller role
Matt Diller
See discussion at: https://github.com/mcwdsi/OMRSE/issues/191
human traveler role
A social categorization scheme based on the social identities assumed to be coincident of certain biological traits linked to reproduction and/or reproductive behavior.
gender categorization scheme
A social category demarcated by some gender categorization scheme.
gender group
gender category
A data item according to which a given person is a member of a given social category.
social category data item
A social category data item for which the social category is an ethnic category.
ethnic category data item
A social category data item for which the social category is a gender category.
gender category data item
A social category data item for which the social category is a racial category.
racial category data item
A social identity for which the category is a gender category.
gender identity
A social categorization scheme based on the social identities assumed as a result of a person's citizenship of a country.
A person may be a citizen of multiple countries at once, and a person's citizenship may change over time.
nationality categorization scheme
A social category data item for which the social category is a nationality category.
nationality category data item
A social category demarcated by some nationality categorization scheme.
nationality group
nationality category
A human role within an organization that itself bears a healthcare provider organization role.
human role within a health care organization
human role within a healthcare organization
Colbie Reed
institutional healthcare provider role
institutional health care provider role
A healthcare provider organization role that is realized by employing licensed nurses to deliver health care and assist with activities of daily living to patients in a skilled nursing facility.
skilled nursing role
An organization that is the bearer of a skilled nursing role.
skilled nursing organization
A time measurement data item that is measured in hours and is about the sum of the duration(s) of process(es) that realize a bearer's job role in a day.
number of hours per day of employment data item
An information content entity that is about whether someone is party to a marriage contract.
marital status
A marital status that is about a person who is party to a marriage contract.
married
Can be about any aspect of employment, such as salary, work location, or employer.
A data item that is about a person's job role and/or its realization.
employment data item
S. Clint. Dowland
job role data item
obsolete income data item
government assistance healthcare plan data item
government assistance health care plan data item
healthcare plan data item
health care plan data item
government assistance income data item
WIC data item
A data item about a person or population of people that indicates their access to material or social goods.
socio-economic data item
An identity that a person has about themselves.
The term 'self' sounds tautologous but is required to reflect the fact that this is not identity in terms of who you are but how you represent yourself to yourself.
Adopted from AddictO
The cognitive representation includes multiple aspects and some of these are social. For example, group memberships, cultural norms. Collective identity as a shared attribute of group is related to this but is separate.
self-identity
An identity that a group holds about itself.
can a socially shared representtaion be said to be purely cognitive? I.e query parent entity?
group identity
A linguistic concretization utilization process where the GDC includes words or expressions of a language and is concretized as sound waves in the air which are generated by the participant.
vocalization
vocalizing
It must include words or expressions specific to a particular language. This avoids clapping or other non-voice sounds falling under the definition.
Speaking and singing are both encompassed and should be subclasses if & when needed.
The sound wave is a quality of the air, a pattern of rarefactions and compressions, sequentially over time.
We don’t say ‘vocal cords’ because we want to include computer-generated voice via speakers, ear buds, headphones, etc, etc. We could have a child class specific to use of organisms' vocal cords eventually if & when needed.
vocal linguistic concretization utilization process
A communication where one or more linguistic concretization utilization parts are vocal linguistic concretization utilization processes.
verbal communication
A monetary personal income data item that is about a household.
household income
A household income that pertains to members of a household related by birth, marriage, or adoption.
family income
A data item of income level that is calculated based on what level of income is minimally adequate to afford basic necessities, such as housing or food.
Federal poverty levels are used to determine your eligibility for certain programs and benefits, and are often calculated annually.
poverty line
educating
A planned process with an active participant who acquires mental representations of information content entities (ICEs), which had no previous mental representation in the cognitive system, and through repeated use or application of these ICEs either (1) becomes the bearer of a new instance of some type of capability, and the participant was not previously the bearer of that instance of that type of capability, (2) "improves" an existing capability as demonstrated through realization(s) of that capability, and/or (3) loses a capability whose realization is considered negative.
learning process
An act of acquiring new information and repeatedly applying that information to develop a new skill, improve an existing skill, and/or losing a skill at doing something "bad".
An interesting question is whether there must be another participant who is the "educator". Some might object that many people are "self taught". A real case of being self taught is the first person who learned to play a stringed instrument, or to spin a ball on the tip of a finger. There was no previous information about that type of skill. The ICEs acquired are via one's sensory systems (vision, proprioception, auditory, etc.). On the other hand, in the case of those who are self-taught by reading books or watching videos, or acquiring some other form of ICEs concretized outside their brain, one argument might be that the author of those ICEs somehow "plays a role" in the education, although they cannot participate in the education process itself (If I read Aristotle, and through repeated application of the information I acquire through doing so, develop the ability to write better ontology definitions, surely Aristotle did not actively participate in my particular education process, although he did influence it in a very real way).
The loss of a "bad" capability is something like losing a bad golf swing and replacing it with a good one. Also a capability to disrupt the classroom might be something an educating process diminishes possibly to the point of "removal" in a student. This addition to the definition notwithstanding, we do not intend to incorporate the receipt of punishment into the definition of educating.
education process
educational objective specification
An objective specification that describes the type of capability or capabilities to be imparted or improved by its realization, which is an educating (education process).
An objective specification that describes the new knowledge & skill(s) to be obtained via an education process.
educational objective
educational plan specification
A plan specification with an educational objective specification as part.
A plan specification with one or more educational objectives.
Very broad. Covers everything from grade school to high school to college to graduate education, a MOOC, an individual course, a tutorial at a conference, a continuing education course or program, an informed consent video, etc, etc.
educational program
completing a program of education
An educating that realizes a concretization of some program of education.
Note that parent class 'educating' and referenced class 'program of education' are defined elsewhere in this education module of OMRSE.
This class refers extremely broadly to the successful realization of any program of education: a single course, first grade, MD, PhD, high school, the ninth grade, getting a black belt in karate, getting a master mechanic certification, a bachelor's degree, a masters degree, a graduate certificate, early childhood education program, and even getting a certificate at the end of some week-long workshop, summer camp, a certifcate from a cooking class, an actuarial certification.
early childhood education program
An educational program whose intended active participant, when a concretization of it is realized, is a human child of age birth to 8 years or a human fetus prior to birth.
pre-K education program
prekindergarten education program
preschool education program
early childhood education plan specification
primary education plan specification
An education plan specification with one or more primary education objective specifications as parts, and these are the only objective specifications it has as parts.
elementary education
In the united states, also called "elementary education"
It can still have action specifications as parts, and possibly other ICEs as parts. That's why we cannot say it has only primary education objectives as parts, and we have to introduce the double negative in the class axiom.
Primary education provides learning and educational activities typically designed to provide students with fundamental skills in reading, writing and mathematics (i.e. literacy and numeracy), and to establish a sound foundation for learning and solid understanding of core areas of knowledge and personal development, preparing for lower secondary education. It aims at learning at a basic level of complexity with little if any specialisation.
primary education program
primary education objective specification
An education objective specification that has a concretization that, when realized, results in the active participant's acquisition and development of fundamental skills in reading, writing and mathematics (i.e. literacy and numeracy).
By the end of primary education, the student has established a sound foundation for learning and solid understanding of core areas of knowledge and personal development, preparing for lower secondary education. It aims at learning at a basic level of complexity with little if any specialisation.
primary education objective
lower secondary education objective specification
An education objective specification that has a concretization that, when realized, confers to the active participant skills and knowledge in subject areas more specialized than basic reading, writing, and mathematics, with the overall goal of laying the foundation for lifelong learning and human development on which education systems may systematically expand further educational opportunities.
Examples of specific subjects could--but are not necessarily required to--include biology, history, science, literature, music, art. Programs at this level are usually organized around a more subject-oriented curriculum, introducing theoretical concepts across a broad range of subjects.
Programmes at ISCED level 2, or ‘lower secondary’ education, are typically designed to build upon the fundamental teaching and learning processes which begin at ISCED level 1. Usually, the educational aim is to lay the foundation for lifelong learning and human development on which education systems may systematically expand further educational opportunities. Programmes at this level are usually organized around a more subject-oriented curriculum, introducing theoretical concepts across a broad range of subjects.
lower secondary education objective
awarding of an academic degree
A deontic document act that has as specified output an academic degree and that confers on recipient of the academic degree the recognition and the claims and obligations that accompany the degree.
Different degrees have different claims and obligations associated with them. For example, having a medical degree (either M.D. or D.O.) entitles a person to sit for stage 3 of the US Medical Licensing Exam (otherwise one may not take the exam).
awarding an academic degree
basic education plan specification
An education plan specification that has as part both a primary educational objective specification and a lower secondary educational objective specification.
Most nations in the world mandate that children complete at least a basic education program. Some nations go further and include upper secondary education after basic education.
Whole range of educational activities, taking place in various settings, that aim to meet basic learning needs as defined in the World Declaration on Education for All (Jomtien, Thailand, 1990). According to ISCED standard, basic education comprises primary education (first stage of basic education) and lower secondary education (second stage). It also covers a wide variety of non-formal and informal public and private activities intended to meet the basic learning needs of people of all ages.
basic education program
lower secondary education plan specification
An education plan specification with one or more lower secondary education objective specifications as parts, and these are the only objective specifications it has as parts.
It can still have action specifications as parts, and possibly other ICEs as parts. That's why we cannot say it has only lower secondary education objectives as parts, and we have to introduce the double negative in the class axiom.
Requires successful completion of a primary education program as a pre-requisite.
lower secondary education program
upper secondary education objective specification
An educational objective specification that has a concretization that, when realized, confers on the active participant skills and knowledge that prepare them for tertiary education, or employment, or both.
Programmes at ISCED level 3, or ‘upper secondary’ education, are typically designed to complete secondary education in preparation for tertiary education, or to provide skills relevant to employment, or both. Programmes at this level offer students more varied, specialised and in-depth instruction than programmes at lower secondary education (ISCED level 2). They are more differentiated, with an increased range of options and streams available.
upper secondary education objective
upper secondary education plan specification
An education plan specification with one or more upper secondary education objective specifications as parts, and these are the only objective specifications it has as parts.
Requires successful completion of a lower secondary education program as a pre-requisite.
upper secondary education program
higher education plan specification
post-secondary education plan specification
post-secondary education program
Includes college, university, community college, professional schools (MD, RN, PharmD, PT, OT, DDS, dental hygienist, etc.), and so on.
Refers to all higher education beyond secondary education, and thus encompasses ISCED levels 5 and above, which will eventually be subclasses of this one.
Requires successful completion of a secondary education program as a pre-requisite.
higher education program
higher education objective specification
An educational objective specification that has a concretization that, when realized, confers on the active participant skills and knowledge in a specialized discipline, and culminates in the awarding of an academic degree.
post-secondary education objective
Refers to all education beyond secondary education that leads to the awarding of an academic degree.
higher education objective
vocational education objective specification
An educational objective specification that has a concretization that, when realized, is realized by a process that confers on the active participant knowledge and skills required to realize a particular type of employee role for a given occupation or trade.
Usually the skills are a major focus moreso than in other types of education. For example, auto mechanics, plumbers, and electricians.
vocational education objective
highest level of education socio-economic data item
A socio-economic data item that is about a person and their completion of at least some of the required courses of an education program, where the set of planned competencies to be acquired by completing that program, as a whole, are of a more advanced nature than the set of competencies acquired through any other educational program completed by the person.
Note that by 'more advanced nature' of the competencies, we do not mean merely having more knowledge, but rather a set of competencies / capabilities that enable the person to do things of a fundamentally different nature than before. This distinction is exemplified by the difference between a Masters and a PhD degree. The PhD has a key objective of enabling the person to function as an investigator in the domain, whereas a Masters does not.
This data item in a typical attribute-value system such as table, XML, JSON takes values like "secondary education", "Associate Degree", "Bachelor Degree", "High School", and so on. Also, note that we revised the definition in collaboration with our APRICOT project colleagues who noted that the individual need not have completed one of the education programs in a sequence, instead demonstrating competencies for admission to the highest level of eductation in some alternative way. For example, the highest level of education might be baccalaureate degree, but the individual did not graduate a secondary education program but instead got a General Educational Development (GED) certification / degree.
vocational education plan specification
An educational plan specification that has a vocational objective specification as part.
Vocational education programs are designed for learners to acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies specific to a particular occupation, trade, or class of occupations or trades. Such programs may have work-based components (e.g. apprenticeships, dual-system education programmes). Successful completion of such programs leads to labor market-relevant, vocational qualifications acknowledged as occupationally-oriented by the relevant national authorities and/or the labor market.
vocational education program
kindergarten education plan specification
A primary education plan specification that specifies the competencies and information content entities that should be acquired by students in the first year of primary education in the United States.
kindergarten education program
undergraduate higher education plan specification
A higher education plan specification that specifies the awarding of an associates or bachelors degree in the United States or equivalent degrees in other nations, and specifies as a pre-requisite the completion of some secondary education program.
undergraduate education program
undergraduate higher education program
graduate higher education plan specification
A higher education plan specification that specifies the awarding of a graduate certificate or degree, and specifies as a pre-requisite the awarding of an undergraduate degree.
graduate education program
Graduate degrees include masters, PhD, MD, PharmD, and other post-graduate professional degrees. To distinguish MS/PhD from the professional ones, subclass this class.
The prerequisite degree is at the bachelors level or equivalent. An associates degree is almost never sufficient for entry into graduate education programs.
graduate higher education program
highest level of education is completion of grades one through six socio-economic data item
A highest level of education socio-economic data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is in the range of first through sixth grade.
Note: this broad, very loose level of grouping emerged as an early requirement from the SODA project, funded by a PCORI Methods Grant, at the University of Florida with Dr. Yonghui Wu as PI. It indicates completion of some to all of primary education in the United States.
highest level of education is grades 1 through 6 data item
highest level of education is completion of grades seven through nine socio-economic data item
A highest level of education socio-economic data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is in the range of seventh (7th) through ninth (9th) grade.
Note: this broad, very loose level of grouping emerged as an early requirement from the SODA project, funded by a PCORI Methods Grant, at the University of Florida with Dr. Yonghui Wu as PI. It indicates completion of some to all of lower secondary education in the United States.
highest level of education is grades 7 through 9 data item
highest level of education is completion of grades ten through twelve socio-economic data item
A highest level of education socio-economic data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is in the range of tenth (10th) through twelfth (12th) grade.
Note: this broad, very loose level of grouping emerged as an early requirement from the SODA project, funded by a PCORI Methods Grant, at the University of Florida with Dr. Yonghui Wu as PI. It indicates completion of some to all of upper secondary education in the United States.
highest level of education is grades 10 through 12 data item
highest level of education is completion of some undergraduate degree socio-economic data item
A highest level of education socio-economic data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is completion of some undergraduate degree.
Note: The requirement for this class emerged as an early requirement from the SODA project, funded by a PCORI Methods Grant, at the University of Florida with Dr. Yonghui Wu as PI.
highest level of education is completion of undergraduate degree data item
highest level of education is completion of some graduate degree socio-economic data item
A highest level of education socio-economic data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is completion of some graduate certificate or degree.
highest level of education is completion of graduate certificate or degree data item
highest level of education is completion of some vocational education program socio-economic data item
A highest level of education socio-economic data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is completion of some vocational education program.
highest level of education is completion of vocaational education program data item
highest level of education is completion of kindergarten socio-economic data item
A highest level of education socio-economic data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is pre-kindergarten.
Note: The requirement for this class emerged as an early requirement from the SODA project, funded by a PCORI Methods Grant, at the University of Florida with Dr. Yonghui Wu as PI. It indicates that a person has completed only early childhood education and nothing more.
highest level of education is completion of kindergarten data item
highest level of education is completion of pre-kindergarten socio-economic data item
A highest level of education socio-economic data item that represents the fact that the highest level of education achieved by an individual in the United States is kindergarten.
highest level of education is completion of pre-kindergarten data item
language literacy competence
A disposition borne by a human being that (1) has a linguistic competence as a dispositional part and (2) if realized, is realized by the bearer's achievement of some personal goal.
human literacy
linguistic literacy
Xi Yang
Yonghui Wu
Other dispositions that it can and likely does have as dispositional parts include cultural competencies, interpersonal competencies, competencies for navigating a society's systems of laws, claims, obligations, deontic declarations, and norms of financial and other economic exchange.
The realization of this disposition by definition realizes the bearer's linguistic competence that is a dispositional part of this disposition. The realization of the linguistic competence would be an occurrent part of the realization of this disposition (and not a temporal part).
Whereas linguistic competence may be afforded to non-human agents, literacy is nearly always considered in the context of human beings.
linguistic literacy competence
A human social role that, if realized, is realized in providing assistance in the activities of daily living of another human being who possesses reduced capability to complete some of these activities alone.
John Judkins
caregiver role
A relational quality that inheres within two or more persons related as members of a domestic group, or a number of domestic groups linked through descent from a common ancestor, marriage, or adoption.
We are also intending on including other family arrangements. This is something we are working on.
family relationship
Examples of monetary forms of payment include: wages, salary, or tips; interest generated by capital; dividends earned; lottery, game, or contest monetary winnings; alimony; royalties; trusts; pensions; receipt of rental payments; unemployment payments; social security payments; worker's compensation; social security payments; or profit from entrepreneurial activities.
A data item that is about the sum of earnings for some person(s) from various forms of payment or profits.
We use the phrase ‘some person’ in the definition because this class can be about an individual's or a household's earnings. Similarly, we use 'personal income' in the label because the term is typically restricted to individuals and households. This class is also restricted to being about monetary forms of income.
monetary personal income data item
Taking notes on a meeting is an example in which the concretization relation is newly established, since the SDCs that concretize the GDCs come into existence as the notes are written. In contrast, using slides prepared by someone else in order to convey information during a presentation is a case of using a concretization in which the performer neither brings the concretizing SDCs into existence nor is responsible for their standing in the concretization relation to the relevant GDCs. A nonlinguistic example is drawing the logo of one’s favorite brand, in which one creates a pattern that concretizes a GDC that is also concretized by patterns on products of the brand.
Process in which some participant utilizes some specifically dependent continuant as a concretization of some generically dependent continuant.
Instances include any process that brings it about that some specifically dependent continuant begins to stand in a concretization relation to some generically dependent continuant, as well as any process in which someone makes use of a pre-established concretization relation. To be clear, instances do not include using concretizations of words or letters for purposes that do not make use of the concretization relations in which they stand (for example, hanging up a sign in a foreign language as a decoration because one likes the colors, despite having no idea what the sign says).
Instances include, but are not limited to, processes that bring about cognitive concretizations.
concretization-utilization process
A concretization-utilization process in which the utilized specifically dependent continuant concretizes the generically dependent through use of some language.
linguistic concretization-utilization process
For example, reading a text message that says, “It is raining outside,” and inferring that the words on the screen are meant to convey information about the weather. The pattern on the screen that corresponds to the words is the SDC, and the ICE about the rain is the GDC. Or, hearing your spouse say, “Can you come to the kitchen?” and then knowing that your spouse wants you to come to the kitchen. You have interpreted the patterns of the sound as concretizing a GDC about what your spouse wants. Or, seeing a drawing of a basketball player and inferring—perhaps incorrectly—that it is of Michael Jordan.
Process in which some participant infers that some particular specifically dependent continuant stands in the concretization relation to some particular generically dependent continuant.
The interpretation need not be accurate. It may even be the case that the specifically dependent continuant has not previously concretized anything.
concretization-interpretation process
A concretization-interpretation process in which the specifically dependent continuant is inferred to concretize the generically dependent continuant in a way that makes use of some language.
linguistic concretization-interpretation process
A disposition that inheres in some material entity and is such that that, if realized, it is realized by either some linguistic concretization-utilization process or some linguistic concretization-interpretation process.
When realized in a concretization-utilization process, the only relevant concretization may in some cases be a cognitive one, but that suffices to realize a linguistic competence. For example, suppose one begins to write a letter, planning out the words ahead of time, but is interrupted before beginning to write and never resumes. During the process of planning out the words and what one intends to communicate, one is already concretizing words cognitively, as well as considering which combinations of words one can use to concretize additional generically dependent continuants. In doing so, one performs processes that realize one's linguistic competence, without producing any concretizations other than those cognitive ones.
linguistic competence
A process in which some participant shares some generically dependent continuant with some other participant. The former utilizes some specifically dependent continuant that concretizes the generically dependent continuant intended to be shared, while the latter interprets that specifically dependent continuant to concretize some particular generically dependent continuant, aiming to accurately infer the other participant’s intent.
For example, if you tell someone, “It is raining,” you produce sounds that have patterns that concretize information about the weather. Your utilization of that concretization is part of the communication. When the other person hears you, they interpret those patterns to concretize something, which may or may not be the same as what you intended to convey. In other words, they interpret the sounds you produce to have meanings associated with them, and that interpretation process is another part of the communication. If a process does not have a part of each type, it is not a communication.
The interpretation need not correspond exactly to what was intended by the other participant.
communication
A disposition that (i) is an aggregate of linguistic competences, considered as forming a distinct group on the basis of perceived common characteristics, such as mutual intelligibility among their bearers, in addition to historical or cultural factors; (ii) if realized, is realized in any and all realizations of those linguistic competences; and (iii) inheres in a linguistic community.
language
A communication in which some participant states a preference for some communicative process to be in a certain language, via some concretization of some preferred language information content entity.
disclosure of preferred language
An information content entity that is about some person and some language, and that conveys the language with which that person prefers to communicate within some given context.
preferred language information content entity
A role that inheres in some entity that is realized in a social act.
role in human social processes
An information content entity that is the specified outcome of and documents the sucessful completion of a tertiary education program.
Recognized degree awarded after successful completion of a college or post-graduate porgram.
academic degree
An academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a program of study lasting two years.
Recognition awarded after completion of a specific curriculum from an accredited tertiary education provider that falls between high school and bachelor's degree program.
associate degree
An academic degree awarded by universities upon completion of a course of study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.[1] Within the area studied, graduates are posited to possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theoretical and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, critical evaluation, or professional application; and the ability to solve complex problems and think rigorously and independently.
master's degree
An academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years.
bachelor's degree
An academic degree in the science and principles of nursing, granted by an accredited tertiary education provider after the successful completion of a bachelor's of nursing program.
bachelor's of nursing degree
An academic degree in the science and principles of nursing, granted by an accredited tertiary education provider after the successful completion of a master's of nursing program.
An advanced academic degree in the principles and practices of nursing, with a focus on administration, education, or advanced nursing practice, granted by an accredited college or university after the successful completion of a master's of nursing program.
master's in the science of nursing degree
A dependent entity that inheres in a bearer by virtue of how the bearer is related to other entities
A domestic group, or a number of domestic groups linked through descent (demonstrated or stipulated) from a common ancestor, marriage, or adoption.
Needs axioms for family relationships.
Family membership through marriage or adoption apply primarily to human families. In most species, family membership is defined by common anscestry.
family
A material entity consisting of multiple components that are causally integrated.
May be replaced by a BFO class, as discussed in http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/4/1/43
Biological entity that is either an individual member of a biological species or constitutes the structural organization of an individual member of a biological species.
Western Australian Mulga Shrublands Ecoregion
Australasia Ecoregion
Southern central Australia Ecoregion
Simpson Desert Region
Pilbara Shrublands Ecoregion
Carnarvon Xeric Shrublands Ecoregion
Central Ranges Xeric Shrub Ecoregion
Gibson Desert Ecoregion
The Great Sandy-Tanami Desert Ecoregion
Great Victoria Desert Ecoregion
Nullarbor Plains Xeric Shrubland Ecoregion
Afrotropical Ecoregion
Southern Africa: Southern Namibia into South Africa
Succulent Karoo Ecoregion
Arabian Peninsula: Yemen and Saudi Arabia
Yemen and Saudi Arabia Ecoregion
Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Oman
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Oman Ecoregion
Somali montane xeric woodlands ecoregion
Somali Montane Xeric Woodland Ecoregion
Islands east of the Horn of Africa and south of Yemen Ecoregion
Socotran Archipelago Ecoregion
Red Sea Coastal Desert Ecoregion
Namibian Savanna Woodland Ecoregion
Namib Desert Ecoregion
Nama Karoo Ecoregion
Masai Xeric Grasslands and Shrublands Ecoregion
Madagascar Succulent Woodlands Ecoregion
Madagascar Spiny Thickets Ecoregion
Africa: Coastal Namibia and Angola Ecoregion
Kaokoveld Desert Ecoregion
Kalahari Xeric Savanna Ecoregion
Southern Africa: Islands about half-way between southern Madagascar and southern Mozambique Ecoregion
Ile Europa and Bassas da India Ecoregion
Hobyo Grassland and Shrubland Ecoregion
Arabian Peninsula: Oman and United Arab Emirates Ecoregion
Oman and United Arab Emirates Ecoregion
Ethiopian Xeric Grasslands and Shrublands Ecoregion
Eritrean Coastal Desert Ecoregion
North central Africa: Eastern Chad and small area of western Sudan
East Saharan Montane Xeric Woodland Ecoregion
Western Asia: Oman, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia Ecoregion
Oman, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia Ecoregion
Aldabra Island Xeric Scrub Ecoregion
Indo-Malay Ecoregion
Southern Asia: Western India into Pakistan
Thar Desert
Southern Asia: Eastern India and western Pakistan
Northwestern Thorn Scrub Forests
Solar radiation
example to be eventually removed
failed exploratory term
The term was initially used in an attempt to structure part of the ontology, but in retrospect failed to do a good job.
Terms created as placeholders with the expectation of being permanent should instead be deprecated using the "placeholder removed" (obo:IAO_0000226) justification.
metadata complete
Class has all its metadata, but is either not guaranteed to be in its final location in the asserted IS_A hierarchy or refers to another class that is not complete.
organizational term
The term was created to ease viewing/sorting terms for development purposes, but will not be included in a release.
ready for release
Class has undergone final review, is ready for use, and will be included in the next release. Any class lacking "ready_for_release" should be considered likely to change place in hierarchy, have its definition refined, or be obsoleted in the next release. Those classes deemed "ready_for_release" will also derived from a chain of ancestor classes that are also "ready_for_release."
metadata incomplete
Class is being worked on; however, the metadata (including definition) are not complete or sufficiently clear to the branch editors.
uncurated
Nothing done yet beyond assigning a unique class ID and proposing a preferred term.
pending final vetting
All definitions, placement in the asserted IS_A hierarchy and required minimal metadata are complete. The class is awaiting a final review by someone other than the term editor.
Core is an instance of a grouping of terms from an ontology or ontologies. It is used by the ontology to identify main classes.
obsolete_core
placeholder removed
The term was created to temporarily stand in for a semantic purpose, but is no longer needed, typically due to another permanent term being defined.
This reason is appropriate for a temporary term even if no permanent term is defined; for example if the need for the term no longer exists. If a permanent (replacement) term is defined, the deprecated term should reference the replacement with IAO:0100001. If no replacement is defined, it may be appropriate to reference alternative terms with oboInOwl:consider.
terms merged
The term has been combined with one or more other terms to create a more encompassing (merged) term.
The deprecated term should reference the merged term with obo:IAO_0100001. The replacement term should reference the original terms as sources using obo:RO_0001000 (derives_from). An editor note should explain what were the merged terms and the reason for the merge.
term imported
The term has been replaced by a term imported from another ontology.
This is to be used when the original term has been replaced by a term imported from an other ontology. The deprecated term should reference the imported term with obo:IAO_0100001.
term split
The term has been split into two or more new terms.
This is to be used when a term has been split in two or more new terms. An editor note should indicate the reason for the split. The deprecated term should reference the replacement terms with obo:IAO_0100001.
universal
Hard to give a definition for. Intuitively a "natural kind" rather than a collection of any old things, which a class is able to be, formally. At the meta level, universals are defined as positives, are disjoint with their siblings, have single asserted parents.
A Formal Theory of Substances, Qualities, and Universals, http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/SQU.pdf
defined class
A defined class is a class that is defined by a set of logically necessary and sufficient conditions but is not a universal
"definitions", in some readings, always are given by necessary and sufficient conditions. So one must be careful (and this is difficult sometimes) to distinguish between defined classes and universal.
named class expression
A named class expression is a logical expression that is given a name. The name can be used in place of the expression.
named class expressions are used in order to have more concise logical definition but their extensions may not be interesting classes on their own. In languages such as OWL, with no provisions for macros, these show up as actuall classes. Tools may with to not show them as such, and to replace uses of the macros with their expansions
to be replaced with external ontology term
Terms with this status should eventually replaced with a term from another ontology.
requires discussion
A term that is metadata complete, has been reviewed, and problems have been identified that require discussion before release. Such a term requires editor note(s) to identify the outstanding issues.
The term was added to the ontology on the assumption it was in scope, but it turned out later that it was not.
This obsolesence reason should be used conservatively. Typical valid examples in disease ontologies are: unnecessary class grouping; mistaked creation of a disease associated to a phenotype.
The term was added to the ontology on the assumption it was a valid domain entity, but it turns out the entity does not exist in reality.
This obsolesence reason should be used conservatively. For example: Obsoleting class that describes a breed of cow based on a record in an existing database, that was later retracted as faulty (breed does not exist). Do not use this term to obsolete a historic concept (that was once valid, but not anymore).
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Albanian
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العَرَبِيَّة
Arabic
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aragonés
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Հայերեն
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Armenian
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অসমীয়া
Assamese
Asturleonese
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Avaric
Avestan
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Aymara
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آذربایجان دیلی
Azerbaijani
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ߓߊߡߊߣߊߣߞߊߣ
Bambara
Balinese
euskara
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ދިވެހިބަސް
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Lower Sorbian
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Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050–1350)
Flemish
Nederlands
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Dutch
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རྫོང་ཁ་
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English
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føroyskt
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French
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Irish
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Galician
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Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Avañe'ẽ
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ગુજરાતી
Gujarati
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kreyòl ayisyen
Haitian
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هَرْشَن
Hausa
Hawaiian
עברית
Hebrew
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हिन्दी
Hindi
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hrvatski
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magyar nyelv
Hungarian
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Igbo
íslenska
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Afar
non-binary gender identity datum
A gender identity datum resulting from a gender identification process in which ‘non binary’ is selected based on the participant's subjective sense of gender.
Paul Fabry
non-binary gender identity information content entity
Alternatively: A gender identity datum stating that a person's subjective sense of gender is non-binary.) Examples of usage: ‘Non-binary’, ‘Trigender’, ‘Agender’, ‘Genderfluid’, ‘2’ (intended to refer to a non-binary gender role)
obsolete Afar
obsolete non-binary gender identity datum
If a molecular function (X) has a regulatory subfunction, then any gene product which is an input to that subfunction has an activity that directly_regulates X. Note: this is intended for cases where the regaultory subfunction is protein binding, so it could be tightened with an additional clause to specify this.
inferring direct reg edge from input to regulatory subfunction
inferring direct neg reg edge from input to regulatory subfunction
inferring direct positive reg edge from input to regulatory subfunction
effector input is compound function input
Input of effector is input of its parent MF
if effector directly regulates X, its parent MF directly regulates X
if effector directly positively regulates X, its parent MF directly positively regulates X
if effector directly negatively regulates X, its parent MF directly negatively regulates X
'causally downstream of' and 'overlaps' should be disjoint properties (a SWRL rule is required because these are non-simple properties).
'causally upstream of' and 'overlaps' should be disjoint properties (a SWRL rule is required because these are non-simple properties).
GP(X)-enables->MF(Y)-has_part->MF(Z) => GP(X) enables MF(Z), e.g. if GP X enables ATPase coupled transporter activity' and 'ATPase coupled transporter activity' has_part 'ATPase activity' then GP(X) enables 'ATPase activity'