. . . . . . . . . . . . "1061418061"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "6243"^^ . . . "Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level ontology developed by Barry Smith and his associates for the purposes of promoting interoperability among domain ontologies built in its terms through a process of downward population. A guide to building BFO-conformant domain ontologies was published by MIT Press in 2015. The standard, \"ISO/IEC 21838-2\"., is currently under development."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "18025074"^^ . . . . . "Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level ontology developed by Barry Smith and his associates for the purposes of promoting interoperability among domain ontologies built in its terms through a process of downward population. A guide to building BFO-conformant domain ontologies was published by MIT Press in 2015. The standard, \"ISO/IEC 21838-2\"., is currently under development. The structure of BFO is based on a division of entities into two disjoint categories of continuant and occurrent, the former consists of objects and spatial regions, the latter contains processes conceived as extended through (or spanning) time. BFO thereby seeks to consolidate both time and space within a single framework."@en . . "Basic Formal Ontology"@en . . . . . . . . .