Ontology Alignment

Metadata for alignments between BFO and GFO-Basic

Entity URI Relation Entity URI Mappable Mediation Inconsistency Mediation Date Mediation Method Mediation Tool Creator
1. http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1#Entity Equivalence http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Entity Yes - 2012-11-21 Manual - Zubeida Khan: zkhan@csir.co.za
2. http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#IndependentContinuant Equivalence http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Persistant Yes - 2012-11-21 Manual - Zubeida Khan: zkhan@csir.co.za
3. http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#Object Equivalence http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Material_object Yes - 2012-11-21 Manual - Zubeida Khan: zkhan@csir.co.za
4. http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#ObjectBoundary Equivalence http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Material_boundary Yes - 2012-11-21 Manual - Zubeida Khan: zkhan@csir.co.za
5. http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#Role Equivalence http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Role Yes - 2012-11-21 Manual - Zubeida Khan: zkhan@csir.co.za
6. http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/span#Occurrent Equivalence http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Occurrent Yes - 2012-11-21 Manual - Zubeida Khan: zkhan@csir.co.za
7. http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/span#Process Equivalence http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Process No BFO's Process is a subclass of BFO's Occurrent. BFO's Occurrent is equivalent to GFO's Occurrent. GFO's Occurrent is disjoint to GFO's Process. This inconsistency is a result of the OWL DisjointClasses class axiom. In this equivalence relation; GFO's Process is disjoint to a superclass of BFO's process; hence the two classes cannot be equivalent. 2012-11-21 Manual - Zubeida Khan: zkhan@csir.co.za
8. http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#SpatialRegion Equivalence http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Spatial_region Yes - 2012-11-21 Manual - Zubeida Khan: zkhan@csir.co.za
9. http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/span#TemporalRegion Equivalence http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Temporal_region No BFO's TemporalRegion is a subclass of BFO's Occurrent. BFO's Occurrent is equivalent to GFO's Occurrent. GFO's Occurrent is a subclass of GFO's Concrete. GFO's Space_Time is disjoint with GFO's Concrete. GFO's Temporal_Region is a subclass of GFO's Space_Time. This inconsistency is a result of the OWL DisjointClasses class axiom. In this equivalence relation; both BFO's TemporalRegion and GFO's Temporal_region are subclasses of two classes that are disjoint; hence the two classes cannot be equivalent. 2012-11-21 Manual - Zubeida Khan: zkhan@csir.co.za
10. http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#Quality (subclass) Subsumption http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Property (superclass) Yes - 2012-11-21 Manual - Zubeida Khan: zkhan@csir.co.za