Andrea Poltronieri
Jacopo de Berardinis
Nicolas Lazzari
Valentina Carriero
Valentina Presutti
The Core ontology models general-purpose concepts, relationships and ontology design patterns (e.g. place, time, classification, situation), which are orthogonal to the whole Polifonia ontology network. Indeed, it is imported and possibly specialised by the other ontology modules of the network.
Core Ontology
Core ontology (Polifonia ontology network)
A relation between a Concept and an Entity, e.g. the Role 'student' classifies a Person 'John'.
A relation between a Description and a Concept, e.g. a Workflow for a governmental Organization defines the Role 'officer', or 'the Italian Traffic Law defines the role Vehicle'.
defines
The relation between a Description and an Entity : a Description gives a unity to a Collection of parts (the components), or constituents, by assigning a Role to each of them in the context of a whole Object (the system). A same Entity can be given different descriptions, for example, an old cradle can be given a unifying Description based on the original aesthetic design, the functionality it was built for, or a new aesthetic functionality in which it can be used as a flower pot.
describes
The relation between an entity and a task being executed.
executes task
The relation between a physical site and an address.
has address
The relation between an address and an address component.
has address component
The relation between an entity and an agent.
has agent
The relation between an entity and an agent role.
has agent role
The relation between an entity and an alias.
Has alias
The relation between a person and her place of birth.
has birth place
The relation between an address and its city (that is an address component).
has city
contextualises an explanation
has condition
The relation between an address and its country (that is an address component).
has country
The relation between an address and its district (that is an address component).
has district
has end music time index
Relates the explanation to its posterior event
has explanandum
relates an explanation to its antecedent event
has explanans
The relation between an entity and its language.
Has language
The relation between a collection and a member of it.
Has member
The relation between a collection membership and its strenght.
Has membership strength
has music time duration
has music time index
has music time index component
The relation between an entity and its name.
has name
The relation between an entity and its nickname.
has nickname
A transitive relation expressing parthood between any entities, e.g. 'the human body has a brain as part'. When specializing this pattern, take care of restricting the domain and range appropriately, since it could be counterintuitive to use this relation arbitrarily, e.g. between animals and planets. For an intransitive partof pattern, see 'componency'.
has part
The relation between an entity and its place.
has place
The relation between an address and its province (that is an address component).
has province
The relation between an address and its region (that is an address component).
has region
has role
A relation between entities and situations, e.g. 'this morning I've prepared my coffee with a new fantastic Arabica' (i.e.: (an amount of) a new fantastic Arabica hasSetting the preparation of my coffee this morning).
has setting
Has source
has start music time index
The relation between an address and its street (that is an address component).
has street
has time indexed name
The relation between an entity and a time interval.
has time interval
The relation between an entity and its title.
has title
has type
hasValueType
includes name
Involves
Involves agent
Involves collection
Involves role
The relation between an address component and an address it is component of.
is address component of
The relation between an address and a physical site .
is address of
The relation between an agent and an entity.
is agent of
The relation between an agent role and an entity.
is agent role of
The relation between an alias and an entity it is an alias of.
The relation between a name and the name it is an anagram of.
is anagram of
The relation between an entity and another entity the first entity is based on.
is based on
The relation between a place of birth and the person that was born at that place.
is birth place of
A relation between a Concept and an Entity, e.g. 'John is considered a typical rude man'; your last concert constitutes the achievement of a lifetime; '20-year-old means she's mature enough'.
is classified by
A more generic relation holding between a Description and a Concept. In order to be used, a Concept must be previously definedIn another Description
is concept used in
The relation between an explanation and the agent that has conceptualized it.
is conceptualized By
is condition of
is defined by
is defined in
The relation between an entity and another entity it is derived from.
Is derived from
The relation between any Thing and a Description: a Description gives a unity to a Collection of parts (the components), or constituents, by assigning a Role to each of them in the context of a whole Object (the system). A same Thing can be given different descriptions, for example, an old cradle can be given a unifying Description based on the original aesthetic design, the functionality it was built for, or a new aesthetic functionality in which it can be used as a flower pot.
is described by
The relation between a task being executed and an entity.
is executed task of
If there exists a situation in which an explanation is contextualised (according to the object property hasCondition), then both the explanans and the explanan- dum do share this same situation, meaning that they are in the same context.
The relation between an entity and a situation in which such entity is member of a collection.
Is involved in
The relation between a lanuage and an entity it is the language of.
is language of
The relation between an entity and a collection that the entity is member of.
Is member of
The relation between a name and the entity it is a name of.
is name of
The relation between a nickname and the entity it is a nickname of.
is nickname of
A transitive relation expressing parthood between any entities, e.g. 'brain is a part of the human body'. When specializing this pattern, take care of restricting the domain and range appropriately, since it could be counterintuitive to use this relation arbitrarily, e.g. between animals and planets. For an intransitive partof pattern, see 'componency'.
is part of
The relation between a place and the entity it is a place of.
is place of
A relation between an information object and its realization (an information realization).
is realized by
is role of
A relation between a Situation and a Description, e.g. the execution of a Plan satisfies that plan.
is satisfied by
is setting for
is time indexed name of
is time interval of
The relation between a title and the entity it is title of.
is title of
is type of
is valid within
A relation between an information realization and an information object.
realizes
satisfies
A generic relation holding between a Description and a Concept. In order to be used, a Concept must be previously definedIn another Description. This last condition cannot be encoded for object properties in OWL.
activity end date
activity start date
The end time of a time interval.
end time
full address
name
nickname
postcode
zipcode
The start time of a time interval.
start time
street number
text
time
title
value
A situation with at least one agent that is participant in it, and that executes a specific task that may be defined in a plan, workflow, project, etc.
Action
Address
Address component
Any agentive Object, either physical (e.g. a person, a robot), or social (e.g. a corporation, an institution, a community)
Agent
The situation of an agent having a role.
Agent role
Alias
Collection Membership Strength
City
A collection of any entities: e.g. groups, repositories, communities, etc., intended as any container for entities that share one or more common properties.
Collection
The concept that holds together the members of a collection.
Collection Concept
The membership of an individual in a collection, which allows to describe attributes of such membership (e.g. Membership Strength).
Collection Membership
A concept is a Social Object. The classifies relation relates concepts to entities at some time, but time can only be expressed in the alternative pattern: timeindexedclassification.
Concept
Country
A Description represents a conceptualization. It can be thought also as a 'descriptive context' that defines concepts in order to see a 'relational context' out of a set of data or observations. For example, a Plan is a description of some actions to be executed by agents in a certain way, with certain parameters; a Diagnosis is a description that provides an interpretation to a set of observed entities, etc. A Description typically defines at least one Concept, for example the 'preparing a coffee' Description could define concepts such as 'Heater', 'AmountOfWater', 'CoffeeMix', etc. With respect to other patterns, descriptions are 'abstractions' of situations (cf. the 'situation' pattern), and in some complex use cases (e.g. matching executions to plan models), the two patterns can be composed (see the descriptionsituation pattern).
Description
District
Any physical, social, or mental process, event, or state.
Event
Class explanation defined as "when X happens, then, due to a given set of circumstances C, Y will occur because of a given law L". In order to be complete, an explanation needs at least one antecedent event (explanans), a posterior event (a posterior event) and has to happen in a context that relates the two events (the context), governed by a law (theory).
Explanation
Geographical feature
A piece of information, such as a musical composition, a text, a word, a picture, independently from how it is concretely and phisically realized.
Information object
A concrete and physical realization of an information object.
Information realization
Language
Music Dataset
Music Time Duration
Music Time Index
Music Time Index Component
Music Time Interval
Music Time Value Type
Name
An internally structured, conventionally created social agent, needing a specific role and agent that plays it, in order to act.
Organization
Person
This class represents a physical site, that is an area, a structure (e.g. a building) or a group of structures where something was, is or will be located. It is a physical site that situates something.
Physical site
Anything that is intended as a location for something else, e.g. geographical places, spatial objects.
Place
Province
Reference
Region
A concept that classifies an object.
Role
Any entity that typically flows in time, either in the physical or social world Examples include athmospheric phenomena, concerts, travels, institutional processes, etc. It also represents a relational context created by an observer on the basis of a frame.
Situation
Source
Spatial object
Street
A task that classifies an action to be executed.
Task
The theory that has the binding force or effect on some events under analysis. From Dolce: "A theory is a description that represents a set of assumptions for describing something, usually general. Scientific, philosophical, and common-sense theories can be included here"
Theory
The situation of an entity having a name valid during a specific time interval.
Time indexed name
The situation of an entity having a role at a specific time interval.
A situation with a clearly defined time extension.
Time indexed situation
A time interval.
Time interval
The title of an entity.
Title
The concept of a type.
Type