BFO: Basic Formal Ontology1

Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level ontology consisting of thirty-six classes, designed to support information integration, retrieval, and analysis across all domains scientific investigation, presently employed in over 350 projects around the world. BFO genuine ontology, containing no terms particular material domains, such as physics, medicine, or psychology. In this paper, we demonstrate how series cases illustrating common types change may be represented by universals, defined relations employing framework. We provide discussion these template for other ontologists using BFO, well facilitate comparison with strategies proposed different ontologies.