The Academic Event Ontology (AEON) is used to represent information regarding academic events. The ontology supports the identification, development, management, evaluation, and impact assessment of events, components of events and event series, as well as identification and reuse of works presented or developed at events. The ontology is independent of knowledge, creative domain, or topics related to events. AEON is focused on events and assumes the representation of many entities associated with events such as attendees, locations, academic works, datetimes, and processes are defined in compatible ontologies.
Academic Event Ontology
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 doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example Werner Ceusters 'portions of reality' include 4 sorts, entities (as BFO construes them), universals, configurations, and relations. It is an open question as to whether entities as construed in BFO will at some point also include these other portions of reality. See, for example, 'How to track absolutely everything' at http://www.referent-tracking.com/_RTU/papers/CeustersICbookRevised.pdf
An entity is anything that exists or has existed or will exist. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [001-001])
entity
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 doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example, in an expansion involving bringing in some of Ceuster's other portions of reality, questions are raised as to whether universals are continuants
A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [008-002])
continuant
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 doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the sum of a process and the process boundary of another process.
Simons uses different terminology for relations of occurrents to regions: Denote the spatio-temporal location of a given occurrent e by 'spn[e]' and call this region its span. We may say an occurrent is at its span, in any larger region, and covers any smaller region. Now suppose we have fixed a frame of reference so that we can speak not merely of spatio-temporal but also of spatial regions (places) and temporal regions (times). The spread of an occurrent, (relative to a frame of reference) is the space it exactly occupies, and its spell is likewise the time it exactly occupies. We write 'spr[e]' and `spl[e]' respectively for the spread and spell of e, omitting mention of the frame.
An occurrent is an entity that unfolds itself in time or it is the instantaneous boundary of such an entity (for example a beginning or an ending) or it is a temporal or spatiotemporal region which such an entity occupies_temporal_region or occupies_spatiotemporal_region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [077-002])
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])
independent continuant
BFO 2 Reference: Spatial regions do not participate in processes.
Spatial region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the union of a spatial point and a spatial line that doesn't overlap the point, or two spatial lines that intersect at a single point. In both cases the resultant spatial region is neither 0-dimensional, 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, or 3-dimensional.
A spatial region is a continuant entity that is a continuant_part_of spaceR as defined relative to some frame R. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [035-001])
spatial region
Temporal region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of a temporal instant and a temporal interval that doesn't overlap the instant. In this case the resultant temporal region is neither 0-dimensional nor 1-dimensional
A temporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of time as defined relative to some reference frame. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [100-001])
temporal region
the spatiotemporal region occupied by a human life
the spatiotemporal region occupied by a process of cellular meiosis.
the spatiotemporal region occupied by the development of a cancer tumor
A spatiotemporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of spacetime. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [095-001])
spatiotemporal 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.
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.
b is a disposition means: b is a realizable entity & b’s bearer is some material entity & b is such that if it ceases to exist, then its bearer is physically changed, & b’s realization occurs when and because this bearer is in some special physical circumstances, & this realization occurs in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [062-002])
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
To say that b is a realizable entity is to say that b is a specifically dependent continuant that inheres in some independent continuant which is not a spatial region and is of a type instances of which are realized in processes of a correlated type. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [058-002])
realizable entity
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
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 doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. We're not sure what else will develop here, but for example there are questions such as what are promises, obligation, etc.
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
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.
b is a role means: b is a realizable entity & b exists because there is some single bearer that is in some special physical, social, or institutional set of circumstances in which this bearer does not have to be& b is not such that, if it ceases to exist, then the physical make-up of the bearer is thereby changed. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [061-001])
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.
An entity a is an object aggregate if and only if there is a mutually exhaustive and pairwise disjoint partition of a into objects
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).
ISBN:978-3-938793-98-5pp124-158#Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, 'A Theory of Granular Partitions', in K. Munn and B. Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos, 2008, 125-158.
b is an object aggregate means: b is a material entity consisting exactly of a plurality of objects as member_parts at all times at which b exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [025-004])
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)
b is a site means: b is a three-dimensional immaterial entity that is (partially or wholly) bounded by a material entity or it is a three-dimensional immaterial part thereof. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [034-002])
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
b is an object means: b is a material entity which manifests causal unity of one or other of the types CUn listed above & is of a type (a material universal) instances of which are maximal relative to this criterion of causal unity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [024-001])
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.
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.
A function is a disposition that exists in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up and this physical make-up is something the bearer possesses because it came into being, either through evolution (in the case of natural biological entities) or through intentional design (in the case of artifacts), in order to realize processes of a certain sort. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [064-001])
function
the boundary between the 2nd and 3rd year of your life.
p is a process boundary =Def. p is a temporal part of a process & p has no proper temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [084-001])
process boundary
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).
A one-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is extended. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [103-001])
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
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.
A material entity is an independent continuant that has some portion of matter as proper or improper continuant part. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [019-002])
material entity
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 https://code.google.com/p/obo-relations/wiki/ROAndTime
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
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 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
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
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 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.
A zero-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is without extent. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [102-001])
zero-dimensional temporal region
geographic location
[[Category:GAZ]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
example to be eventually removed
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: Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON: Chris Stoeckert
PERSON: Jonathan Rees
data
symbol
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.
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.
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)
PERSON:Bill Bug
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
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
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
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.
has curation status
PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
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 term
An alternative name for a class or property which means the same thing as the preferred name (semantically equivalent)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
person:Alan Ruttenberg
Smith, Ceusters, Ruttenberg, 2000 years of philosophy
is about
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P921", "label": "main_subjectLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Field", "label": "Field"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#topic", "label": "Topic that is related to a corporate body, conference, person, family, subject heading or work."}}
Controlled vocabulary in [[MediaWiki:Smw_allows_list_Subject]] [[Category:IAO]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
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 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
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
placeholder removed
terms merged
An editor note should explain what were the merged terms and the reason for the merge.
term imported
This is to be used when the original term has been replaced by a term imported from an other ontology. An editor note should indicate what is the URI of the new term to use.
term split
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 and indicate the URIs of the new terms created.
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.
inverse of the relation 'denotes'
Person: Jie Zheng, Chris Stoeckert, Mike Conlon
Definiton: Some entity is denoted by an information content entity.
denoted by
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
imported from
For external terms/classes, the ontology from which the term was imported
to be replaced with external ontology term
Terms with this status should eventually replaced with a term from another ontology.
Alan Ruttenberg
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 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.
A symbol that is part of a CRID and that is sufficient to look up a record from the CRID's registry.
PERSON: Bill Hogan
PERSON: Bjoern Peters
Original proposal from Bjoern, discussions at IAO calls
centrally registered identifier symbol
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.
centrally registered identifier
PubMed is a CRID registry. It has a dataset of PubMed identifiers associated with journal articles.
A CRID registry is a dataset of CRID records, each consisting of a CRID symbol and additional information which was recorded in the dataset through a assigning a centrally registered identifier process.
centrally registered identifier registry
elucidation
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
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.
identifier
An identifier is an information content entity that is the outcome of a dubbing process and is used to refer to one instance of entity shared by a group of people to refer to that individual entity.
A personal name is a proper name identifying an individual person.
Personal names "today usually comprises a given name bestowed at birth or at a young age plus a surname. It is nearly universal for a human to have a name; except in rare cases, for example feral children growing up in isolation, or infants orphaned by natural disaster for whom no written record survives.[citation needed] The Convention on the Rights of the Child specifies that a child has the right from birth to a name. Certain isolated tribes, such as the Machiguenga of the Amazon, also lack personal names." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name)
Sep 29, 2016: The comment that including the wikipedia definition of personal name is not to be interpreted in a way that restricts this class to only contain strings of letters. A numerical or alphanumerical identifier that denotes a human is being is a personal name, too. (MB)
personal name
postal codes are assigned by each country
An identifier issued by more than one authority
PERSON: Michael Conlon
distributed identifier
ISNI
An identifier for persons and organizations which may be assigned by matching algorithms based on records provided by publishers
spell out
international standard name identifier
ORCID ID
Open Researcher and Contributor ID is an alphanumeric code (ORCID iD) to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication
open researcher and contributor identifier
ROR ID
An identifier assigned by ROR to research organizations in the world
research organization registry identifier
QID
QID (or Q number) is the unique identifier of a data item on Wikidata, comprising the letter "Q" followed by one or more digits.
wikidata q number
An identifier assigned to an ice by a repository in which it is held
local information content entity identifier
DOI
A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to identify objects uniquely, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
digital object identifier
term replaced by
Use on obsolete terms, relating the term to another term that can be used as a substitute
Add as annotation triples in the granting ontology
An organization that is operated without the principal goal of making a financial profit.
Yongqun He
nonprofit organization
[[Category:ICO]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
An organization which has the principle goal of earning financial profit.
profit organization
[[Category:NCBITaxon]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
planned process
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.
[[Category:OBI]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
organizational term
fungus; plant; virus; animal
10/21/09: This is a placeholder term, that should ideally be imported from the NCBI taxonomy, but the high level hierarchy there does not suit our needs (includes plasmids and 'other organisms')
13-02-2009: OBI doesn't take position as to when an organism starts or ends being an organism - e.g. sperm, foetus. This issue is outside the scope of OBI.
WEB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism
inheres in
this fragility inheres in this vase
this red color inheres in this apple
a relation between a specifically dependent continuant (the dependent) and an independent continuant (the bearer), in which the dependent specifically depends on the bearer for its existence
A dependent inheres in its bearer at all times for which the dependent exists.
inheres_in
bearer of
this apple is bearer of this red color
this vase is bearer of this fragility
a relation between an independent continuant (the bearer) and a specifically dependent continuant (the dependent), in which the dependent specifically depends on the bearer for its existence
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
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
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 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
temporal interpretation
A part of relation that applies only between occurents.
p has output c iff c is a participant in p, c is present at the end of p, and c is not present at the beginning of p.
has output
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
output of
"has ocurrent part" is a relation that holds between a whole occurrent (process) and its part.
There is no RO relation 'has occurent part' which can serve as the inverse of http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002012 (occurent part of). One might use the BFO2020 (BFO_0000132), or more precicesly BFO_0000138 (proper occurent part of). But this will generate problems due to the incompatibility as of now (Feb 2021) between BFO2020 and RO.
'has academic field' is a primitive, instance-level relation obtaining between a planned process and the skos:Concept subclass 'academic field'. To say p has academic field x =def. p is a planned process, there is some x that is an academic field of p.
A SKOS concept can be viewed as an idea or notion; a unit of thought. However, what constitutes a unit of thought is subjective, and this definition is meant to be suggestive, rather than restrictive. The notion of a SKOS concept is useful when describing the conceptual or intellectual structure of a knowledge organization system, and when referring to specific ideas or meanings established within a KOS. Note that, because SKOS is designed to be a vehicle for representing semi-formal KOS, such as thesauri and classification schemes, a certain amount of flexibility has been built in to the formal definition of this class. See the [SKOS-PRIMER] for more examples of identifying and describing SKOS concepts.
[[Category:SKOS]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
The 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2020) is an academic event.
An academic event is an organized gathering for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their work.
TODO: * It needs to be discussed, if we need the "process boundary" class to describe the start and end of an academic event or event series. * It needs to be discussed, if we need the "temporal region" and "spatiotemporal region" classes to describe the duration and manifestation in spacetime of an academic event or event series.
academic event
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1656682", "label": "eventLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Category:Event", "label": "Event"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#ConferenceOrEvent", "label": "Conference or Event"}}
[[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) series
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15900647", "label": "conference_seriesLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Category:Event_series", "label": "Event_series"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#SeriesOfConferenceOrEvent", "label": "Series of conference or event"}}
The alternative term "ConfIDent_ID" is used here, as the ontology is being developed by the ConfIDent project (https://projects.tib.eu/en/confident/) to be used in its service. Thus the internal identifier is called "ConfIDent ID". You will probably want to change that in your implementation.
PERSON: Philip Strömert
ConfIDent ID
internal identifier
An event type is a skos:Concept that is being used to distinguish between the different academic event formats.
As the used definitions of the various academic event types can vary strongly between different communities and societies, we chose to model the type of an event as a SKOS concept instead of adding subclasses to the "academic event" class. The most commonly used event types are provided in AEON as named instances of this class.
event type
The individuals/instances of this class make up the allowed value list in [[MediaWiki:Smw_allows_list_has_event_type]]. [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
The contributor role inheres in a person or organization that participates in a planned process by somehow contributing to it.
contributor role
The organizer role inheres in a person or organization that contributes to a planned process by planning and managing its realization.
organizer role
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Organizer]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
The 'committee member role' inheres in a person who contributes to a planned process by somehow realizing the function of the committe he is a member of.
event committee member role
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Committee]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
The 'committee chair role' inheres in a person who contributes to a planned process by somehow realizing the function of the committee he is a chair of.
event committee chair role
The contact person role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by functioning as the addressee of the planned process who answers general inquiries and redirects more complex inqueries to a more appropriate addressee.
contact person role
The attendee role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by attending it.
attendee role
The moderating role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by facilitating the communication.
moderator role
Evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work, such as manuscripts or grants by others working in the same field.
The reviewer role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by reviewing something of interest in a planned process.
ToDo: use CRO IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CRO_0000101
manuscript review role
reviewer role
The presenter role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by presenting something of interest at a planned process.
invited speaker role
presenter role
The keynote speaker role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by holding a keynote speech at a planned process.
keynote speaker role
The sponsor role inheres in a person or organization that contributes to a planned process by providing the financial or material ressources needed to realize a planned process.
PS 2-9-2020: For me there is still the open question on how to best model the different sponsor types (e.g. gold, silver, bronze...). As the possible sponsor types can have various schemes, it seems best to have named individuals of the aeon:Sponsor class at the moment.
sponsor role
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject External_Process_ID]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Person_ID]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Organization_ID]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Person_ID]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Organization_ID]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Person_ID]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Organization_ID]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/"^^ xsd:anyURI
Wikidata QID
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Process_External_ID]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Person_ID]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Organization_ID]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
city
country
province
state
event venue
maps to
DDC 410 Linguistics, OECD 6.02 Languages and literature
'academic field' is a skos:Concept that describes the research field of an academic event or event series. As opposed to the class 'topic', the instances of this class must be terms from a controlled vocabulary or thesaurus.
academic field
"The future of knowlegde graphs in the humanities" could be a topic of an interdisciplinary oriented computer sciences conference.
Topic is a skos:Concept that describes the central theme of an academic event or event series. In contrast to 'academic field' the instances of the class topic should not be terms of a controlled vocabulary or thesaurus.
topic
virtual location
The financial cost of attendance at a scientific event.
PS: It needs to be discussed, if having fee as ICE is sufficient/correct.
fee
The individuals/instances of this class make up the allowed value list in [[MediaWiki:Smw_allows_list_Has_fee]]. [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Fee]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a skos:Concept that is used to descibe the social format of an 'academic event'.
has event type
{"wikidata": {"uri": null, "label": "event_type"}, "openresearch": {"uri": null, "label": "Type"}}
The allowed value list for this property is defined in [[MediaWiki:Smw_allows_list_has_event_type]]. [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
A relation obtaining between an entity and a distributed identifier that is used to denote the entity.
has distributed identifier
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a skos:Concept that is used to descibe the scientific subject of the planned process according to some controlled vocabulary or thesaurus.
has academic field
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a skos:Concept that is used to descibe the theme of the planned process.
has topic
An academic event committee or commission is a body of one or more persons that is responsible for the realization of a certain task or aspect in an academic event.
event committee
pending
A relation obtaining between a planned process and an 'information content entity' that is about the amount of money one has to pay in order to be an allowed participant of the planned process.
has fee
The allowed value list for this property is defined in [[MediaWiki:Smw_allows_list_Has_fee]]. [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Fee]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
'has contributor' is a relation obtaining between a planned process and a person or organization that holds a contributor role which is being realized by the planned process. A contribution to a planned process takes place when someone works on the planning or realization of a planned process.
A relation obtaining between an entity and its corresponding Wikidata entity identifier.
has contributor
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds an attendee role which is being realized by the planned process.
has attendee
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P710", "label": "participantLabel"}}
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a moderator role which is being realized by the planned process.
has moderator
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person or organization that holds an organizer role which is being realized by the planned process.
has organizer
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P664", "label": "organizerLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Has_organizer", "label": "Has_organizer"},"crossref": {"api_proceedings_endpoint_uri": "https://api.crossref.org/types/proceedings/works?select=event", "json_api_key": {"event": "sponsor"}}}
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a reviewer role which is being realized by the planned process.
has reviewer
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Contributor]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a presenter role which is being realized by the planned process.
has presenter
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P823", "label": "speaker"}}
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person or organization that holds a sponsor role which is being realized by the planned process.
has sponsor
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Sponsor]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a committee member role which is being realized by the planned process.
has committee member
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a contact person role which is being realized by the planned process.
has contact person
A relation between a planned process and a person that holds a keynote speaker role which is being realized by the planned process.
has keynote speaker
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a committee chair role which is being realized by the planned process.
has committee chair
A relation obtaining between a data item and its corresponding digital object identifier.
has DOI
External formatter uri [[External formatter uri::https://doi.org/$1]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
A relation obtaining between an entity and the identifier used by the German national library to denote the entity.
has GND
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P227", "label": "GND_ID"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#gndIdentifier", "label": "GND-Identifier"}}
External formatter uri [[External formatter uri::http://d-nb.info/gnd/$1]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject External_Process_ID]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Person_ID]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Organization_ID]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
A relation obtaining between a person or organization and the 'international standard name identifier' used to denote the entity.
has ISNI
External formatter uri [[External formatter uri::https://isni.org/isni/$1]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Person_ID]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Organization_ID]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
A relation obtaining between a person and the 'open researcher and contributor identifier' used to denote the entity.
has ORCID
External formatter uri [[External formatter uri::https://orcid.org/$1]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Person_ID]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
A relation obtaining between a person and the 'research organization registry identifier' used to denote the entity.
has ROR
External formatter uri [[External formatter uri::https://ror.org/$1]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Organization_ID]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
has Wikidata QID
{"wikidata": {"uri": null, "label": "itemID"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Wikidataid", "label": "Wikidataid"}}
External formatter uri [[External formatter uri::https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/$1]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Process_External_ID]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Person_ID]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Organization_ID]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
A relation obtaining between an academic event series and an academic event. It is used to express that the academic event is part of a specific event series.
has academic event
see inverse property
collocated event of
joint event of
part of series
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P179", "label": "part_of_the_seriesLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Event_in_series", "label": "Event_in_series"}}
umbrella event of
occurs in country
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P17", "label": "countryLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Has_location_country", "label": "Has_location_country"}}
occurs in city
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P276", "label": "locationLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Has_location_city", "label": "Has_location_city"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeOfConferenceOrEvent", "label": "Place of conference or event"}}
occurs in state
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P131", "label": "located_in_the_administrative_territorial_entityLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Has_location_state", "label": "Has_location_state"}}
occurs in venue
occurs in virtual place
Other event type
CORE ranking
The literal value of an identifier.
The literal value of the full URL used by the identifier scheme, based on the concatination of base URL and ID (ID_URL:value = ID_base_URL:value + ID:value).
identifier URI
The literal value of the base URL used by the identifier scheme.
identifier base URI
WikidataLabel is used to map a class or property to a certain label in the Wikidata namespace.
WikidataURI is used to map a class or property to the URI in the Wikidata namespace.
_PIDapalooza
abstract deadline
academicfield of
acceptance rate
accepted papers
accepted short papers
Philip Strömert is an attendee of PIDapalooza 2021.
An attendee is a contributer that holds an attendee role which is being realized in a planned process.
The general assumption is that the attendee role is being realized the moment someone shows up to an event which she is expected to participate in as part of an audience. Someone who plans to attend some academic event but never shows up during this event, would not be considered an attendee of the event. Defining 'attendee' is not trivial, as the expectations of what an attendee must do, can differ from community to community and from event type to event type. For some an attendee must have been accredited by some official organizer and might only get a certificate of attendence at the end of it, when a certain amount of participation (e.g. visited sessions, completed workshops) has been achieved. For others it might suffice to simple be present.
We need this concept of an attendee in order to be able to properly quantify the participation in a planned process. For this we would also need to have an action specification that is the conretizaion of the attendee role.
A person who participates actively or passively in an event.
attendee
see inverse relation
attentds at
camera-ready deadline
A committee chair is a committee member that holds a committee chair role which is being realized in a planned process.
A committee chair is a committe member that is expected to speak on behalf of and to be responsible for the committee.
The person who is in charge of a committee with primary responsibility for carrying out the committee's duties.
event committee chair
committee chair in
A committee member is an organizer that holds a committee member role which is being realized in a planned process.
event committee member
committee member in
contact
contact email
A contact person is an organizer that holds a contact person role which is being realized in a planned process.
A contact peron is defined by its role to be the person who answers general questions about a planned process and who forwards any further inquiries to the appropriate recipiant.
contact person
contact person of
contact phone
contributes to
All organizers and participants of the academic event called PIDapalooza 2020 are contributors of that particular event..
A contributor is a person or organization that holds a contributor role which is being realized in a planned process.
An academic conference is being realized by the contributions of different kinds of people and organizations. The organizers plan the program and manage the needed logistics. The sponsors provide the resources and funds needed for the realization. The speakers contribute by presenting their academic work. The reviewers make sure the submitted work is worth to be presented. The moderators make sure that the mode of communication is caried out as planned by the organizer. The attendees contribute by being there as the audience, providing feedback and by making up the pool of possible future collaborators.
This class and its children should be defined in an ontology that covers the domain of contributorship in the sciences. The contributor ontology (CRO - http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cro.owl) seems to be the best place. However at the moment CRO only covers "the diverse roles performed in the work leading to a published research output in the sciences." An academic event or event series should ot be understood as a published research output, as they are procceses (occurents) and not ICEs.
A person or organization can only be considered a contributor of some planned process, if and only if the act of contributing has been fulfilled. The contributor role is being realized, when the task (objective specification) attached to this role has been achieved somehow. It can thus be possible for a person or organization to hold multiple roles either in the same or in different planned processes.
contributor
TODO: There needs to be an ICE branch in AEON covering the action and objective specifications which the various contributors have to concretize when realizing their roles. The concretization of these specification calsses needs to be axiomized here and in the various contributor roles.
coordinates
deadline
demo deadline
duration
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2047", "label": "duration"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#dateOfConferenceOrEvent", "label": "Date of conference or event"}}
end date
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P582", "label": "end_time"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:End_date", "label": "End_date"},"crossref": {"api_proceedings_endpoint_uri": "https://api.crossref.org/types/proceedings/works?select=event", "json_api_key": {"event": "end"}}}
The event frequency is the literal value of the number of month until the next event in a certain takes place.
event frequency
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2257", "label": "event_interval_inmonths"}}
[[Corresponds to::1 month]] [[Corresponds to::1 months]] [[display units::months]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
The ordinal number of an academic event, if it is a part of an event series.
event number
{"crossref": {"api_proceedings_endpoint_uri": "https://api.crossref.org/types/proceedings/works?select=event", "json_api_key": {"event": "number"}}}
maps_to: DataCite:dateType --- allowed value mapping ConfIDent → DataCite scheduled → valid postponed → updated cancled → withdrawn
event status
event type of
event type other
The year in which an event takes place.
event year
The literal value of the type of fee an aeon:event can have.
There are various type of fees for an event, such as the regular fee, a reduced fee, a member fee and so forth.
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Fee]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
This property should have a value from the controlled list defined by the ISO_4217 standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).
fee currency
Controlled vocabulary in [[MediaWiki:Smw_allows_list_Fee_currency]] [[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Fee]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
fee value
The finance committee has the task of monitoring the budget of an academic event.
event finance committee
The literal value of the first name of a person.
first name
steering committee
The general or steering committee is responsible for the entire conceptual design of an academic event, from decisions on the content focus, budget, size, choice of venue and time, selection of other responsible persons, etc.
general committee
A relation obtaining between an academic event or event series and its corresponding WikiCFP identifier.
has WikiCFP ID
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5127", "label": "WikiCFP_conference_series_ID"}}
A relation obtaining between an academic event and another academic event. A collocated event is an event that takes place at the same location and time as another academic event.
has collocated event
A relation obtaining between an academic event and another academic event. A joint event is an event that shares some of the planning and organizing logistics with another academic event, but is otherwise independent from it.
has joint event
A relation obtaining between an academic event and another academic event or eent series. An umbrelle event is a superordinate event that combines several smaller academic events at the same time To say p 'has umbrella event' d =def. there exists an academic event d that is a superordinate event of p and that there must be other academic events that have the same relation..
has umbrella event
holds keynote speech at
A 'keynote speaker' is a presenter that holds a keynote speaker role which is being realized in a planned process.
An invited person - often a multiplier in his or her (research) field - responsible for delivering a keynote speech.
keynote speaker
The literal value of the landing page (URL) an ID resolves to when following the ID_URL.
identifier landing page
language
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2936", "label": "language_usedLabel"}}
The literal value of the last name, or family name, of a person.
last name
The local committee takes care of planning, organizing and carrying out an academic event on site (venue, registration, supply, accommodations etc.)
local committee
location
logo
meeting URL
metric
[[partOfSubobject::Template:Subobject Metric]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
moderates at
A moderator is a contributer that holds a moderating role which is being realized in a planned process.
A person responsible for facilitating a session at an academic event.
moderator
The literal value of the name of a thing.
name
notification deadline
number of attendess
{"openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Attendees", "label": "Attendees"}}
number of tracks
The literal value of the name to denote an organization.
organizational name
DataCite is an organizer of PIDapalooza 2020.
Organizers of academic events or event series are often organizations that form special taks forces, or event committees, in order to plan and manage all aspects related to the realization of the event or event series.
An organizer is a contributer that holds an organizing role which is being realized in a planned process.
A person or organization that is responsible for the planning and realization of a planned process.
organizes
paper deadline
The literal value of the name to denote a person.
poster deadline
previous end date
previous start date
proceeding cite count
"DILS 2019" is the official acronym of the academic event "13th International Conference on Data Integration in Life Science"
The literal value of the official acronym of an aeon:process, that is either an academic event or event series.
acronym
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1813", "label": "short_nameLabel"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#abbreviatedNameForTheConferenceOrEvent", "label": "Abbreviated name for the conference or event"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Acronym", "label": "Acronym"}, "crossref": {"api_proceedings_endpoint_uri": "https://api.crossref.org/types/proceedings/works?select=event", "json_api_key": {"event": "acronym"}}}
The Literal value of an alternative name of an aeon:process, that is either an academic event or event series.
alternative name
{"gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#variantNameForTheConferenceOrEvent", "label": "Variant name for the conference or event"}, "crossref": {"api_proceedings_endpoint_uri": "https://api.crossref.org/types/proceedings/works?select=title", "json_api_key": "title"}}
The Literal value of the former official name of an aeon:process, that is either an academic event or event series.
former name
The literal value of the translation of the official name (title) of an aeon:process, that is either an academic event or event series.
translated name
process website
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P856", "label": "official_website"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Homepage", "label": "Homepage"}}
The programme committee is responsible for the selection of submissions (peer review process) and content of an academic event.
program committee
The publication committee deals with the publication of the proceedings of an academic event(editorial and peer review process).
publication committee
The publicity committee is responsible for the external communication of an academic event: promotion, (social) media relations, web presence, further releases, etc.
publicity committee
The reviewer of a conference who reviews the submitted papers.
A reviewer is a contributer that holds a reviewer role which is being realized in a planned process.
reviewer
reviews at
series cite count
A presenter is a person who's role it is to present some body of work to an audience.
Philip Strömert is a presenter at PIDapalooza 2021.
A presenter is a contributer that holds a presenter role which is being realized in a planned process.
speaker
presenter
presents at
An organization or person that promises to fund an academic event is a sponsor of that event the moment the promised funds have been recieved by the organizers of the event.
A sponsor is a contributer that holds a sponsor role which is being realized in a planned process.
Philip Strömert 2-9-2020: For me there is still the open question on how to best model the different sponsor types (e.g. gold, silver, bronze...), as there are various schemes. At the moment any sponsor type other than gold, silver or bronze can be further specified by using the data property "sponsor_type". We could also reuse the "event type a SKOS:concept" pattern here. But it seems best to have a clear definition of each sponsor type, in order to be able to subclass them here and add the corresponding roles and properties.
sponsor type
Controlled vocabulary in [[MediaWiki:Smw _allows_list_Sponsor_type]] [[Category:AEON]] [[Category:Imported vocabulary]]
sponsorship committee
start date
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P580", "label": "start_time"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Start_date", "label": "Start_date"},"crossref": {"api_proceedings_endpoint_uri": "https://api.crossref.org/types/proceedings/works?select=event", "json_api_key": {"event": "start"}}}
submission deadline
submitted papers
summary
summary licence
technical committee
topic of
tutorial deadline
venue
venue website
workshop deadline