| Acronym | BFO |
| Visibility | Public |
| Description | BFO grows out of a philosophical orientation which overlaps with that of DOLCE and SUMO. Unlike these, however, it is narrowly focused on the task of providing a genuine upper ontology which can be used in support of domain ontologies developed for scientific research, as for example in biomedicine within the framework of the OBO Foundry. Thus BFO does not contain physical, chemical, biological or other terms which would properly fall within the special sciences domains.
BFO（基本形式化本体）源于与SUMO（推荐上层合并本体）、DOLCE（语言学和认知工程的描述本体）重叠的哲学定位。 然而与它们不同的是，BFO狭隘地专注于提供一个真正的上层本体的任务，其可用于支持科学研究领域的领域本体开发， 例如在OBO Foundry框架内的生物医学本体。因此，BFO不包括物理、化学、生物或其他适当属于特殊科学领域的术语。 |
| Status | Production |
| Format | OWL |
| Contact | Barry Smith, phismith@buffalo.edu |
| Categories | English |
No views of BFO available
| Classes | 35 |
| Individuals | 0 |
| Properties | 0 |
| Maximum depth | 5 |
| Maximum number of children | 4 |
| Average number of children | 2 |
| Classes with a single child | 3 |
| Classes with more than 25 children | 0 |
| Classes with no definition | 27 |
We are still collecting data for this ontology.
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