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Overview

General Formal Ontology (GFO)

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15 Applications of GFO

We will now show a few exemplary applications of GFO, from specific analyses to more general considerations.

• 15.1 Examples
  • 15.1.1 Example for Comparison: The Statue
    • 15.1.1.1 Source Material
    • 15.1.1.2 Ontological Analysis
    • 15.1.1.3 Comparison with the DOLCE Formalization
  • 15.1.2 Race Example
    • 15.1.2.1 Source Material
    • 15.1.2.2 Ontological Analysis
      • 15.1.2.2.1 Situoids:
      • 15.1.2.2.2 Chronoids and Time Boundaries:
      • 15.1.2.2.3 Persistants:
      • 15.1.2.2.4 Space Regions and Topoids:
      • 15.1.2.2.5 Situations:
      • 15.1.2.2.6 Constituents / Material Structures:
      • 15.1.2.2.7 Properties:
      • 15.1.2.2.8 Processes:
      • 15.1.2.2.9 Changes:
      • 15.1.2.2.10 Levels:
  • 15.1.3 Staging Example
    • 15.1.3.1 Source Material
      • 15.1.3.1.1 Definition:
      • 15.1.3.1.2 Background knowledge:
      • 15.1.3.1.3 General background knowledge:
    • 15.1.3.2 Ontological Embedding into GFO
      • 15.1.3.2.1 Processes:
      • 15.1.3.2.2 Topoids:
      • 15.1.3.2.3 Configurations:
      • 15.1.3.2.4 Properties:
      • 15.1.3.2.5 Material structures:
      • 15.1.3.2.6 Symbolic structures:
    • 15.1.3.3 Domain-specific Extension
  
  
• 15.2 Application of GFO to Biomedical Ontologies