BARRY SMITH

Biomedical Ontology Dissemination Events
including video and audio presentations

Training Course: An Introduction to Biomedical Ontology
Streaming Video

Signs, Symptoms and Findings
Towards an Ontology for Clinical Phenotypes
September 4-5, 2009, Milan, Italy
Ontologies for Clinical and Translational Research
Special Issue : Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Deadline: October 31, 2009

Ontology for the Intelligence Community

Conference on Ontology
Raleigh NC, September 25-26, 2009

Department of Philosophy

HL7 Watch

Studying Ontology in Buffalo

Ontology Research Group (ORG)

The Monist

Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS)

Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics (CoE)

Vita: Long / Short / NIH

National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)

University at Buffalo

Publications

 National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)

Contact Details

Varia

Buffalo Ontology Site

FORMAL ONTOLOGY

Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)

Truthmakers

Individuals, Universals and Collections

Granular Partitions

Against Fantology

The Cornucopia of Formal-Ontological Relations

Substances, Qualities, and Universals

Mereotopology

Boundaries: An Essay in Mereotopology

ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Ontology: An Introduction

Ontology Terminology

Beyond Concepts: Ontology as Reality Representation

Referent Tracking

Ontology Versioning

Against Idiosyncrasy in Ontology Development

Quality Control for Terms and Definitions

Ontology (Science)

Description Logics and Biomedical Terminologies

THE OBO FOUNDRY

The OBO Foundry

The OBO Relation Ontology

Coordinated Evolution of Ontologies to Support Biomedical Data Integration

OBO Ontology Download Matrix (OBO in OWL)

Protein Ontology

Relations in Biomedical Ontologies

Infectious Disease Ontology

The Gene Ontology

Environment Ontology

BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGY

Biomedical Ontology Integration

Embryontology

Ontology of Biomedical Reality

Towards Blood Pressure Ontology

Is a and Part of

Anatomical Information Science

Biomedical Informatics and Granularity

Ontology for Colon Carcinoma

Parthood and Location in Biological Ontologies

BIOMEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

Schizophrenia: The IPAP Algorithm

SNOMED / UMLS 

National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIT)

The Ontology-Epistemology Divide

Clinical Phenotypes

ICF: Ontology of Processes and Functions

Electronic Health Records

From Concepts to Clinical Reality:
Benchmarking Biomedical Terminologies

GEOSPATIAL ONTOLOGY

Geographic Categories

Do Mountains Exist?

SNAP and SPAN: Dynamic Spatial Ontology

Layers: Locating Objects in Space

Spatial Objects

Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation

Fiat Objects

Topography

Objects and Their Environments

SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE ONTOLOGY

The Information Artifact Ontology

Document Ontology

Legal Ontology and the Problem of Normativity

A Relational Theory of the Act

Naive Physics

The Cognitive Geometry of War