Authors:
Joel Cummings
and
Deborah Stacey
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Canada
Keyword(s):
Mid Level Ontology, Data Collection Ontology (DCO), BFO, Data Collection, OBO Foundry, Foundational Ontology, Upper Level Ontology, Domain Ontology.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Acquisition
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Ontology Sharing and Reuse
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Capturing data through an ontology is a common goal where instances exist as datums mapping to universal terms defined in an ontology. Currently these ontologies lack a shared conceptualization for data collection terms. We propose a mid level Data Collection Ontology (DCO) that defines data collection terms in a domain agnostic way enabling extension for domain ontologies to build off of. Such an ontology should provide reasoning support and enable automated error detection required by all data collection ontologies. By using the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as its base it enables existing OBO foundry ontologies to extend the proposed ontology in their design allowing existing domain level ontologies an entry point.