From BFO to IAO
From Basic Formal Ontology to the Information Artifact Ontology
July 22-23, 2009
Two-day Course organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology.
Ontologies provide controlled structured representations of what is general in any given domain of scientific research. Referent tracking is an approach to the controlled structured representation of the corresponding particular entities, for example to particular patients, or particular disorders, as they change through time.
Day 1:
- introduction to Basic Formal Ontology, the top-level ontology that has been developed to serve integration of domain-level scientific ontologies, particularly within the context of the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry] initiative,
- introduction to Referent Tracking, and its applications to the task of relating ontologies to instance data in ways useful to healthcare and biomedical research
Day 2:
- introduction to the Information Artifact Ontology, a BFO-based ontology representing entities such as documents, measurement results, URIs, IDs, names, serial numbers, datatypes, databases, and ontologies.
Literature and Links
Faculty
Werner Ceusters is Professor in the Psychiatry Department of the University at Buffalo (UB), Director of the Ontology Research Group of the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, and Coordinator of Bioinformatics for the UB Health Science Faculties.
Alan Ruttenberg is a Principal Scientist at Science Commons, a Coordinating Editor of the OBO Foundry, and Co-chair of the W3C OWL Working Group. His project, the Neurocommons, prototypes the use of Semantic Web technology for integrating and querying biomedical knowledge.working on structuring and using biological and clinical knowledge to answer questions and computationally interpret experimental data. He is a Coordinating Editor of the OBO Foundry and a chair of the OWL Working Group.
Barry Smith is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the University at Buffalo (New York, USA). His primary research focus is the application of ontology in biomedicine and other fields. He is one of the principal scientists in the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Gene Ontology Consortium, and a PI of the NIH-funded Protein Ontology and the Infectious Disease Ontology projects.