Repository: IES Top Ontology (ies-top)
Description: A top level ontology grounded in Extensional Four-Dimensionalism
Repository Status: In development
IES-Top is an RDF top-level ontology which is based on the BORO™ Foundational Ontology [1] and grounded in Extensional 4-Dimensionalism. It is also grounded in Pluralities [2], the Pluriverse and Constructionalism [3] (see the Core Constructional Ontology [4]).
Important artefacts include:
- Briefing pack (start here)
- RDF serialisation of the ontology
- Accompanying documentation
- A document detailing the conceptual foundations of ies-top
[1] de Cesare, S., & Partridge, C. (2016). BORO as a Foundation to Enterprise Ontology. Journal of Information Systems, 30(2), 83–112.
[2] Florio, S., & Linnebo, Ø. (2021). The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study of Plural Logic. Oxford University Press.
[3] Partridge, C., de Cesare, S., Mitchell, A., Gailly, F., & Khan, M. (2017). Developing an Ontological Sandbox: Investigating Multi-Level Modelling’s Possible Metaphysical Structures. MODELS 2017, 2019, 226–234.
[4] Florio, S., & Linnebo, Ø. (2022). Core Constructional Ontology: The Foundation for the Top-Level Ontology of the Information Management Framework.
See CHANGELOG for a list of changes in each release.
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- Code – Licensed under the MIT License
- Documentation – Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL-UK-3.0)
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