An gentle implementation of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO), which is an upper level ontology like BFO that is concerned with e.g. expressing temporal relationships between events.

Prefix

gufo

Keywords

events general & upper ontology upper level

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository RDF Request Discussion

Contact

João Paulo A. Almeida   jpalmeida

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

Person   Resolve

Example CURIE

gufo:Person

Publications

• 2015 Towards ontological foundations for conceptual modeling: The unified foundational ontology (UFO) story
• 2013 Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events
• 2019 Relations in ontology-driven conceptual modeling
• 2018 Endurant Types in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling: Towards OntoUML 2.0

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 1 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.org/nemo/gufo#$1

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier Person is used to demonstrate the providers available for Unified Foundational Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.