The document discusses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and how it relates to the Mental Functioning Ontology (MFO). It shows how BFO distinguishes between continuants and occurrents, and how MFO classifies different types of mental processes, cognitive representations, and mental functions. The document then provides more details on the Linguistic Functioning Ontology, describing the competencies, behaviors, and processes involved in speech, hearing, reading, and writing.
Le nuove adozioni dei libri di testo e l'accessibilità dimenticataMaria Grazia Fiore
Evoluzione normativa in materia di libri di testo digitali, alla luce dell'art.11 del decreto-legge "Ulteriori misure urgenti per la crescita del Paese". Intervento di M. G. Fiore all'eBookFest di San Remo 2012.
Il nuovo codice degli appalti e delle concessioni tra criticità e potenzialitàIFEL Fondazione ANCI
Slide relative al webinar del 22 marzo 2016 - Il nuovo codice degli appalti e delle concessioni tra criticità e potenzialità - Relatore: Antonella Fabiano
L’ICF è una Classificazione che permette di descrivere le esperienze negative (disabilità) o positive (funzionamento), legate alla presenza di barriere o facilitatori, di una persona con una condizione di salute nel suo contesto di vita.
E' necessario apprendere le strategie per codificare e decodificare
Matematica: FORME DI INDECISIONE DI FUNZIONI TRASCENDENTI classe quinta Conco...ITIS Jannuzzi
Matematica: FORME DI INDECISIONE DI FUNZIONI TRASCENDENTI classe quinta Alunni 18, 2 con BES media della classe 8. Concorso docenti - A026 Besa Nuhi, A-026.
Las limitaciones a las facultades del representante legal de una sociedad anónima deben estar establecidas en los estatutos y ser inscritas en el registro mercantil para ser oponibles a terceros. Aunque los estatutos pueden delegar a la junta directiva la facultad de establecer limitaciones, cualquier modificación requiere reformar los estatutos y ser inscrita para garantizar publicidad y certeza a los terceros.
Orientarsi tra le modifiche del DLgs 66/2017. Dirigente Scolastico Monica Cicalini e Iasmina Santini. Conferenza regionale sull'inclusione. Firenze, auditorium Rogers di Scandicci, 4/11/2019
Le nuove adozioni dei libri di testo e l'accessibilità dimenticataMaria Grazia Fiore
Evoluzione normativa in materia di libri di testo digitali, alla luce dell'art.11 del decreto-legge "Ulteriori misure urgenti per la crescita del Paese". Intervento di M. G. Fiore all'eBookFest di San Remo 2012.
Il nuovo codice degli appalti e delle concessioni tra criticità e potenzialitàIFEL Fondazione ANCI
Slide relative al webinar del 22 marzo 2016 - Il nuovo codice degli appalti e delle concessioni tra criticità e potenzialità - Relatore: Antonella Fabiano
L’ICF è una Classificazione che permette di descrivere le esperienze negative (disabilità) o positive (funzionamento), legate alla presenza di barriere o facilitatori, di una persona con una condizione di salute nel suo contesto di vita.
E' necessario apprendere le strategie per codificare e decodificare
Matematica: FORME DI INDECISIONE DI FUNZIONI TRASCENDENTI classe quinta Conco...ITIS Jannuzzi
Matematica: FORME DI INDECISIONE DI FUNZIONI TRASCENDENTI classe quinta Alunni 18, 2 con BES media della classe 8. Concorso docenti - A026 Besa Nuhi, A-026.
Las limitaciones a las facultades del representante legal de una sociedad anónima deben estar establecidas en los estatutos y ser inscritas en el registro mercantil para ser oponibles a terceros. Aunque los estatutos pueden delegar a la junta directiva la facultad de establecer limitaciones, cualquier modificación requiere reformar los estatutos y ser inscrita para garantizar publicidad y certeza a los terceros.
Orientarsi tra le modifiche del DLgs 66/2017. Dirigente Scolastico Monica Cicalini e Iasmina Santini. Conferenza regionale sull'inclusione. Firenze, auditorium Rogers di Scandicci, 4/11/2019
We can distinguish two families of approaches to the building of ontologies -- corresponding roughly to the contrast between 'neats' and 'scruffies' in artificial intelligence research. We describe the implications of each approach for the building of an ontology of philosophy, focusing especially on the Indiana Philosophy Ontology (InPhO) project led by Colin Allen.
A video presentation based on these slides is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HV3M0NvyPM
An application of Basic Formal Ontology to the Ontology of Services and Commo...Barry Smith
Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is an upper level ontology widely used in biomedical informatics and other domains to support information integration across disciplines, We here apply BFO to the development of a coherent ontological treatment of the distinction between commodities and services.
We can distinguish two families of approaches to the building of ontologies -- corresponding roughly to the contrast between 'neats' and 'scruffies' in artificial intelligence research. We describe the implications of each approach for the building of an ontology of philosophy, focusing especially on the Indiana Philosophy Ontology (InPhO) project led by Colin Allen.
A video presentation based on these slides is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HV3M0NvyPM
An application of Basic Formal Ontology to the Ontology of Services and Commo...Barry Smith
Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is an upper level ontology widely used in biomedical informatics and other domains to support information integration across disciplines, We here apply BFO to the development of a coherent ontological treatment of the distinction between commodities and services.
Ways of Worldmarking: The Ontology of the EruvBarry Smith
‘Eruv’ is a Hebrew word meaning literally ‘mixture’ or ‘mingling’. An eruv is an urban region demarcated within a larger urban region by means of a boundary made up of telephone wires or similar markers. Through the creation of the eruv, the smaller region is turned symbolically (halachically = according to Jewish law) into a private domain. So long as they remain within the boundaries of the eruv, Orthodox Jews may engage in activities that would otherwise be prohibited on the Sabbath, such as pushing prams or wheelchairs, or carrying walking sticks. There are eruvim in many towns and university campuses throughout the world. There are five eruvim in Chicago, five in Brooklyn, twenty three in Queens and Long Island, and at least three in Manhattan. The US Supreme Court is (like most other major US Federal Government buildings) located within the eruv of Washington DC. In many cases, not all of those living within or near the area of an actual or proposed eruv will themselves be Orthodox Jews, and this has sometimes led to protests against eruv creation. For further details see http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/eruv.pdf
Contemporary philosophy of collective agency, as illustrated by the work of Searle, Bratman, Gilbert, Pettit and others, focuses predominantly on small groups of agents sharing common goals. In his groundbreaking paper “Massively Shared Agency” of 2014, Scott Shapiro shows the limits of this approach when dealing with the large groups of agents that form industrial corporations, armies, or systems of law enforcement. Such groups will involve alienated or uncommitted participants pursuing motives of their own. And as Shapiro shows, they can manifest shared agency only when the actions of all participants are coordinated through authority structures organized hierarchically. Here I wish to focus on that dimension of massively shared agency that has to do with the transmission of authority. I will show that while such transmission almost always involves communication through speech (or through the digital counterparts of speech), transmission of this sort is too transient,
and falls short of creating the type of enduring intermeshing of plans and intentions that is required for the imposition of hierarchical authority structures across large organizations. To create and maintain the needed hierarchical authority structures what is required are complexes of intermeshed documents. Such documents provide for what we can think of as a division of deontic labor, allowing plans, orders, and obligations to be meshed together over time.
Presented at the conference on Truth, Image and Normativity, Cagliari, Sardinia, October 23, 2014
Increasingly, biological and clinical scientists are using ontologies to serve integration and coordination of research across diverse organisms and scientific fields. Ontologies, in this context, are logically organized collections of terms defined in such a way that they can be used consistently across multiple disciplines to describe clinical and experimental data. Ontologies are used in aging research to unify experimental results from a broad range of fields including genetics, proteomics, (stem) cell biology, oncology, model organism biology, psychogerontology, and many more. We will explore against this background questions such as the following: What is aging? What is premature aging? And more specifically: Is aging a disease?
The document summarizes regulations and guidance around meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) in the US. It outlines the stages of meaningful use, including capturing health information electronically, using it to track conditions, and communicating information for care coordination. It also discusses some challenges and risks, such as EHRs decreasing doctor efficiency and increasing wait times, as well as costs to implement privacy and security requirements. An expert warns that pressure on hospitals to receive payments may cost lives if doctors are forced to use EHRs that disrupt their work. The IOM recommends coordinating efforts to identify patient safety risks from health IT.
In a lecture, delivered in Vienna in 1894 and dedicated "to the academic youth of Austria-Hungary", Franz Brentano outlined four phases of advance and decline which he saw as providing the key to the understanding of the history of Western philosophy. In the first cycle, in antiquity, the initial advancing phase culminated in the work of Aristotle, and was followed by three phases of decline, terminating in the irrational mysticism of the Neo-Pythagoreans. These four phases then repeated themselves: in the Middle Ages, beginning with Aquinas and ending with the "learned ignorance" of Nicholas of Cusa; and then in the modern period, beginning with Bacon and reaching its low point in the work of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. In the contemporary era we are currently witnessing the end of the fourth cycle in the work of (for example) Derrida, Rorty; but also the beginnings of a new, fifth cycle, which is described in the talk. (Presented at the conference Consequences of Realism, Rome, May 4-6, 2014.)
There is blind chess but there is no blind poker. This is because to play poker essentially involves the use of cards and chips (or representations of or proxies for cards and chips). A game of chess, in contrast, may involve only the exchange of speech acts. We draw initial conclusions for the ontology of poker from this distinction.
Talk presented on March 14, 2014
For video presentation see http://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=PgwpR9NPKzw
Clinical trial data wants to be free: Lessons from the ImmPort Immunology Dat...Barry Smith
Presentation to the Clinical and Research Ethics Seminar, Clinical and Translational Science Center, Buffalo, January 21, 2014
https://immport.niaid.nih.gov/
http://youtu.be/booqxkpvJMg
Presentation to ImmPort Science Meeting, February 27, 2014 on the proper treatment of value sets in the Immport Immunology Database and Analysis Portal
The Philosophome: An Exercise in the Ontology of the HumanitiesBarry Smith
Presentation at the opening of the Humanomics Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, 7 February 2014
For background links see: http://philosophome.org/
We describe the methodology of omics disciplines in biology, and consider how analogous methods might be applied in humanities disciplines, focusing specifically on philosophy. We conclude by outlining a possible strategy for a research center in humanomics, identifying possible sources of data in the philosophical domain.
IAO-Intel: An Ontology of Information Artifacts in the Intelligence DomainBarry Smith
We describe on-going work on IAO-Intel, an information artifact ontology developed as part of a suite of ontologies designed to support the needs of intelligence community. IAO-Intel provides a controlled, structured vocabulary for the consistent formulation of metadata about documents, images, emails and other carriers of information. It will provide a resource for uniform explication of the terms used in multiple existing military dictionaries, thesauri and metadata registries, thereby enhancing the degree to
which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning.
Presented at the 2013 STIDS (Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security) conference: http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu/
Talk presented at the conference on the Philosophy of Emerging Media, Boston University, October 26-27, 2013
If you try to find information about a gene or a molecule or a restaurant or a sports team or a politician on the web, it’s likely that some ontology will be involved in your search. An ontology is (briefly put) a semantically organized consensus representation of the types of entities in a given domain and of the relations between these entities – it is something like a large graph of the way some part of the world is structured. So important have ontologies become to organizations such as the BBC or the New York Times, that there is a running joke in the Semantic Web community to the effect that the Columbia School of Journalism is about to be renamed the Columbia School of Journalism and Ontology. I will attempt to draw conclusions from these phenomena concerning the ways in which social interactions are being influenced, and to some degree also transformed, by digital media.
Surveys a series of ethical, economic, clinical and also safety issues relating to the application of informatics to healthcare, focusing especially on the role of informatics in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Talk presented in the University at Buffalo Clinical/Research Ethics Seminar - Ethics, Informatics and Obamacare, November 20, 2012. Slides are available here: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/13/ethics-informatics-obamacare.pptx
e‐Human Beings: The contribution of internet ranking systems to the developme...Barry Smith
This document discusses how online rating systems can contribute to human capital development and personal identity. Simple rating apps like Uber allow both customers and drivers to rate each other, shaping reputations and future interactions. Academics are increasingly defined by their online rankings on sites like Google Scholar. Mass collaboration through virtual choirs and military operations demonstrates how digital interconnection can enable new forms of coordinated action. The author proposes that personal identity is now composed of both biological and digital aspects, with an individual's plans, skills and reputation intermeshed with others online.
The idea underlying biomedical ontology is that, if common terms are used to annotate or tag heterogeneous data collected by scientists working in different disciplines, then these data will be more easily reused for integration and
analysis. To this end, the terms in ontologies need to be carefully defined. Smith examines definitions
of terms central to ageing research in this light, focusing on the Gene Ontology (GO), the Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology (FMA) and the Plant Ontology (PO).
This document discusses biomedical ontology work being done at the University at Buffalo. It describes three US partner institutions collaborating on biomedical ontologies and lists several biomedical ontologies co-developed at UB, including the Basic Formal Ontology and Foundational Model of Anatomy. It outlines a strategy using these ontologies to provide consistent representation of knowledge in an ontology repository at the Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
ImmPort strategies to enhance discoverability of clinical trial dataBarry Smith
Describes strategies for submission of clinical trial data to the NIAID Immunology Database and Analysis Portal in order to advance discoverability, comparability and analysis
Introduces the idea of a theory of document acts, analogous to the theory of social acts advocated in 1913 by Adolf Reinach, and to the theory of speech acts advanced by Austin and Searle.
Ontology and the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (2005)Barry Smith
The National Cancer Institute Thesaurus is described by its authors as "a biomedical vocabulary that provides consistent, unambiguous codes and definitions for concepts used in cancer research" and which "exhibits ontology-like properties in its construction and use". We performed a qualitative analysis of the Thesaurus in order to assess its conformity with principles of good practice in terminology and ontology design.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
We used both the on-line browsable version of the Thesaurus and its OWL-representation (version 04.08b, released on August 2, 2004), measuring each in light of the requirements put forward in relevant ISO terminology standards and in light of ontological principles advanced in the recent literature.
RESULTS:
We found many mistakes and inconsistencies with respect to the term-formation principles used, the underlying knowledge representation system, and missing or inappropriately assigned verbal and formal definitions.
CONCLUSION:
Version 04.08b of the NCI Thesaurus suffers from the same broad range of problems that have been observed in other biomedical terminologies. For its further development, we recommend the use of a more principled approach that allows the Thesaurus to be tested not just for internal consistency but also for its degree of correspondence to that part of reality which it is designed to represent.
8. Linguistic Functioning Ontology
(1. Speech and hearing)
BFO:Entity
BFO
BFO:Continuant BFO:Occurrent MFO
BFO:Independent BFO:Dependent BFO:Process
Continuant Continuant
Bodily Process
BFO:Disposition
Cognitive
Representation
BFO:Quality
Linguistic
competence Speech
Behaviour
inducing state
process
Speech competence of a
Speech- Hearing
population
mediated (registering)
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= a [spoken] language
cognitive process
Speech competence of
an individual representation
8
9. Linguistic Functioning Ontology
(2. Reading and writing)
BFO:Entity
BFO
BFO:Continuant BFO:Occurrent MFO
BFO:Independent BFO:Dependent BFO:Process
Continuant Continuant
Bodily Process
BFO:Disposition
Cognitive
Representation
BFO:Quality
Linguistic
competence Writing
Behaviour
inducing state
process
Written linguistic Written- Reading
competence of a language- (registering)
9
population Written linguistic mediated process
= a [written] language competence of an cognitive
individual representation 9
10. Linguistic Functioning Ontology
(the whole thing)
BFO:Entity
BFO
BFO:Continuant BFO:Occurrent MFO
BFO:Independent BFO:Dependent BFO:Process
Continuant Continuant
Bodily Process
BFO:Disposition
Cognitive
Representation
BFO:Quality
Linguistic
competence Speaking
Behaviour Writing
inducing state
Linguistic competence Language- Reading
of a population mediated 10
= a language Linguistic competence cognitive
of an individual representation 10
11. How to build MF±Language
First idea:
Along what dimensions human beings
can depart from normal (‘canonical’)
mental and linguistic functioning?
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13. For ICD mental function is a subtype of
body function
ICD definition of ‘Body functions’:
Body functions are the physiological
functions of body systems (including
psychological functions).
Impairments are problems in body
function or structure as a significant
deviation or loss.
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16. Definition of ‘Mental Functions’
Definitions: 'This chapter is about the
functions of the brain: both global
mental functions, such as
consciousness, energy and drive, and
specific mental functions, such as
memory, language and calculation
mental functions.'
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42. Integrative language functions
Definitions: 'Mental functions that organize semantic
and symbolic meaning, grammatical structure and
ideas for the production of messages in spoken,
written or other forms of language.'
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43. WHO ICF Pro
Performs an amazingly difficult task of unifying
public data across the planet (Versions in 5
different languages, plus Youth Version)
Serves billing task in US
http://apps.who.int/classifications/icfbrowser/ 43
45. WHO ICF Con
Use of ‘other’ and other features make it is not
future proof (will not evolve gracefully with
advances in neuroscience
Poor or absent definitions will mean
inconsistent annotation of data
Lack of logical definitions would mean poor
support for computational reasoning with data
that is annotated
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46. Strategy for MF Ontology
• Ensure that the ontology is developed in
conformity with basic biology ontologies such
as the Gene Ontology
• Provide human-readable definitions for each
term to ensure consistent annotation
• Provide logical definitions to support
reasoning with data
46
47. Examples from
MF-Emotion Ontology
http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/49078/
47
Mental functioning related anatomical structure: an anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental processBehaviour inducing state: a bodily quality inhering in a mental functioning related anatomical structure which leads to behaviour of some sortAffective representation: a cognitive representation sustained by an organism about its own emotionsCognitive representation: a representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organismMental process: a bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behaviour inducing state
Mental functioning related anatomical structure: an anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental processBehaviour inducing state: a bodily quality inhering in a mental functioning related anatomical structure which leads to behaviour of some sortAffective representation: a cognitive representation sustained by an organism about its own emotionsCognitive representation: a representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organismMental process: a bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behaviour inducing state
Mental functioning related anatomical structure: an anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental processBehaviour inducing state: a bodily quality inhering in a mental functioning related anatomical structure which leads to behaviour of some sortAffective representation: a cognitive representation sustained by an organism about its own emotionsCognitive representation: a representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organismMental process: a bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behaviour inducing state
Mental functioning related anatomical structure: an anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental processBehaviour inducing state: a bodily quality inhering in a mental functioning related anatomical structure which leads to behaviour of some sortAffective representation: a cognitive representation sustained by an organism about its own emotionsCognitive representation: a representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organismMental process: a bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behaviour inducing state
Mental functioning related anatomical structure: an anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental processBehaviour inducing state: a bodily quality inhering in a mental functioning related anatomical structure which leads to behaviour of some sortAffective representation: a cognitive representation sustained by an organism about its own emotionsCognitive representation: a representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organismMental process: a bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behaviour inducing state
Mental functioning related anatomical structure: an anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental processBehaviour inducing state: a bodily quality inhering in a mental functioning related anatomical structure which leads to behaviour of some sortAffective representation: a cognitive representation sustained by an organism about its own emotionsCognitive representation: a representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organismMental process: a bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behaviour inducing state
Mental functioning related anatomical structure: an anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental processBehaviour inducing state: a bodily quality inhering in a mental functioning related anatomical structure which leads to behaviour of some sortAffective representation: a cognitive representation sustained by an organism about its own emotionsCognitive representation: a representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organismMental process: a bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behaviour inducing state
Mental functioning related anatomical structure: an anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental processBehaviour inducing state: a bodily quality inhering in a mental functioning related anatomical structure which leads to behaviour of some sortAffective representation: a cognitive representation sustained by an organism about its own emotionsCognitive representation: a representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organismMental process: a bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behaviour inducing state
Mental functioning related anatomical structure: an anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental processBehaviour inducing state: a bodily quality inhering in a mental functioning related anatomical structure which leads to behaviour of some sortAffective representation: a cognitive representation sustained by an organism about its own emotionsCognitive representation: a representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organismMental process: a bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behaviour inducing state
Mental functioning related anatomical structure: an anatomical structure in which there inheres the disposition to be the agent of a mental processBehaviour inducing state: a bodily quality inhering in a mental functioning related anatomical structure which leads to behaviour of some sortAffective representation: a cognitive representation sustained by an organism about its own emotionsCognitive representation: a representation which specifically depends on an anatomical structure in the cognitive system of an organismMental process: a bodily process which brings into being, sustains or modifies a cognitive representation or a behaviour inducing state