BARRY SMITH

NEW BOOKS
Applied Ontology: An Introduction (also as e-book)
Biomedizinische Ontologie
The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality

Biomedical Ontology Dissemination Events
including video and audio presentations

Training Course: An Introduction to Biomedical Ontology
Streaming Video

Formal Ontologies in Information Systems
Conference, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 31-November 3, 2008

Ontology for the Intelligence Community
George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia Campus, 3-4 December 2008

 

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 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

Wüsteria

National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIT)

The Ontology-Epistemology Divide:

A Case Study in Medical Terminology

 ISO / HL7 RIM 

ICF: The Ontology of Processes and Functions

Ontology-Based Integration of Medical Coding Systems and Electronic Patient Records

SNOMED / UMLS

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

Lectures on Social Ontology

Searle / Social Objects

The Cognitive Geometry of War

An Essay on Material Necessity

Document Ontology

Legal Ontology and the Problem of Normativity

On the Metaphysics of Economics

Cognition of States of Affairs

History of Speech Act Theory

A Relational Theory of the Act

Naive Physics

Truth and the Visual Field