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General Formal Ontology

Abbreviation: GFO

General Information

The General Formal Ontology is a top-level ontology for conceptual modeling, which is being constantly further developed by Onto-Med. It includes elaborations of categories like objects, processes, time and space, properties, relations, roles, functions, facts, and situations. Moreover, we are working on an integration with the notion of levels of reality in order to more appropriately capture entities in the material, mental, and social areas.

Homepage https://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo/

Countries that developed this resource Germany

Created in 2008

Taxonomic range

All

Knowledge Domains

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How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: GFO; General Formal Ontology; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.175hsz; Last edited: June 23, 2021, 1:09 p.m.; Last accessed: Jul 27 2021 4:15 p.m.

Record updated: June 22, 2021, 2:30 p.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.175hsz' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 14:30, 22 Jun 2021 (approved):

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Support

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Mailing List

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Additional Information

Contact

Heinrich Herre

External Links

Bioportal

http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/GFO

Tools

No tools defined

Schemas

No XSD schemas defined

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Data Access

schema file	http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo-basic.owl
gfo basic	http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/checkout/gfo/gfo-basic.owl?ro ...
gfo	http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/checkout/gfo/gfo.owl?root=gfo

Publications

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GFO Ontology Display

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Disclaimer: This widget assumes the availability of the ontology resources in the NCBO BioPortal.

Related Standards

Reporting Guidelines

No guidelines defined

Terminology Artifacts

Models and Formats

Web Ontology Language

Identifier Schemas

No identifier schema standards defined

Metrics

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Related Databases (0)

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Maintains

University of Leipzig, Germany (University)
Onto-Med Research Group, Universitat Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (University)

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