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==BFO as a Top-Level Ontology for Information Systems Modeling ==
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                         ICBO 2023 Tutorial:
                         BFO as a top-level ontology for information systems modeling
                         Mauricio Barcellos Almeida1 and Jeanne L. Emygdio2

                         1
                             Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
                         2
                             Catholic University of Minas Gerais



                                          Abstract
                                          Abstract text. Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level ontology designed to support
                                          information retrieval, analysis and integration in scientific and other domains. BFO is used by
                                          more than 250 ontology-driven endeavors throughout the world. Indeed, BFO is not only a top-
                                          level ontology, rather a framework of resources that provides means to address corporations,
                                          including healthcare corporations. Such a framework encompasses middle-level ontologies for
                                          several purposes: time and place, information, measures, industry, finance, processes,
                                          properties and physical objects. This tutorial explores the potential of BFO for conceptual
                                          modeling and it is composed of two parts: The first part aims to introduce basic categories of
                                          the world, namely, those adopted within the BFO framework to develop domain ontologies.
                                          We will approach the four classification axes from which the primary categories are derived to
                                          reach this goal. We will finish the part by presenting the levels of the BFO taxonomy and some
                                          theoretical exercises about classification. The second part consists of a hands-on lesson about
                                          Protégé, one of the most essential editors in developing ontologies. After some basic notions
                                          of the Protégé’s UI, we will import BFO and use the editor to classify the entities studied in
                                          the first part of the tutorial. We will finish our tutorial with an additional example of
                                          corporation modeling.

                                          Keywords 1
                                          Basic Formal Ontology, top-level ontology, Protégé.




                         Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies 2023, August 28th-September 1st, 2023, Brasilia, Brazil
                         EMAIL: mba@eci.ufmg.br (A. 1); jeanne.emygdio@gmail.com (A. 2); ORCID: 0000-0002-4711-270X ( A. 1); 0000-0002-7329-4447 (A.
                         2).
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