]> Created with TopBraid Composer Changed domain to DomainId Added Domain as an Agent added clarifying commens in hasFeature, hasPart and contains Chaged Offering to Offer Added offering, service offering and product offering Made Term a ServiceOfering Moved of, idOf, partyTo and governedBy to gisti (inverses) changed from and to to fromPoint, toPoint, fromAgent, toAgent Added allocatedTo/allocatedFrom Changed Context to a property (inContextOf) added qualified cardinality to Agreement (min 2 parties) Defined id as being allocatedFrom Domain Domain hasid DomainId Category allocatedFrom Domain 20090129 Version Not backward compatible Edited with Protege 4 contains OWL2 constructs subject matter of a document when something did end, therefore noting an historical event These are relationships where the domain end has some sort of affect on the range end (as much as possible these will be verb tense independent, so we won't have use, uses, used, but just use) Meaning that the subject has been assigned or reserved or set aside to the object. Funds can be allocated to projects, people (really their time) can be allocated to tasks, or departmetns or organizations. There will likely be many subproperties of this with varying shades of meaning for how flexibly has the allocation been made. To be the biological parent of, used instead of parent because parent is highly overloaded term Contains is the inbetween land for "has." hasPart refers to when the part has it's own potentially separate existance, and there is no cascading delete. . hasFeature is when the sub thing doesn't have an independent existance. contains has the case where there is a separate thing but not obviously separable (mbte contains ethanol) and also cases where a region contains bounding points (they don't go away, nor are they really independent in existance). There will be a cascading delete (if you delete something that contains something else the second thing will get deleted). this is the essential agentive relationship. If I've been delegated the right to enter into a contract on someone's behalf I'm their agent in that context, but we'll say they control the the ability to enter into a contract. second unit in the ratio unit of measure (Duration (time) in "speed") generically when some did or should end A key that is both unique and exclusive. For the situation where an item can have only one key and no individuals can share a key (this is how SSN is supposed to work) Intellectual Propoerty (computer programs, documents, inventions etc) are expressed in either media or a language and usually both. to received something (a message or a product ) from someone or a program a poitn or regiion that something came from Located at a specific place on the earth the subject controls or inhibits the object in some way. Ownership is one case, as is jurisditionc, inhibiting, custodianship Note: changed this from has to hasA because in TopBraid has is a key word high level property meaning to contain or include. At this level it is neither exclusive nor non exclusive Distance above sea level The general class of places you can send messages including postal addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, email, web site etc. used ot convert from on unit of measure to another if they both have the same zero used for tempreature conversion because Celicus and Fehrenheit have non zero zeros use has Direct part to associate parts, and allow it's parent (hasPart) to complete the transitivity to have a conversion or other numerical factor A feature is something that an individual has exclusively, and that if there individual were to go away so would the feature.All datatype properties are features, but in owl it wouldn't work to have a datatype property be a subtype of an obejct property. So hasFeature is just for the object type features that work like dataType properties. It implies a cascading delete. a process or agent that has a specific intention This is to relate something ephemeral (a position) with sometihng potentiall more real (ie an employee) Describes the area oer which a governmental agency has purview To have a comparable numerical value. Each magnitude has a unit of measure and can therefore be compared with others of the same dimension (ie distance or time) and can be combined in ratios (ie distance/time) Content is made up of specific media more specific form of incumbant where we are referring to residing at or working at, of doing business at a very specific location containing something that has independent existance. So we can say a car hasPart seat or engine, but not hasPart weight. The weight can not exist independant of the car. No cascading delete. If there are many terms for a concept or specific instance this is the one to use. aplace that can be found on a map, has geo coordinates, you could live or work their which unit of measure are you using all measures are in some uom, even if we don't know what it is initially the context sets up the scope or domain or rules for the subject. So an event might be recorded in the context of an Agreement, or a contract might be in the context of a jurisdiction. Note we have a property that expresses the relationship between a govenrment organization and a region, this is between the contracts and events and the entity. first term in a ratio unit of measure. (Distance in the ratio unit "speed") location where an event occured Adds to governance legal title the peopl or orgnaizations that are in a legal agreement This is for things attached to the earth. Permanent is a relative term, but it is more than saying a car is in a particular city, it's more that a building or tree, or lake is (they don't move very often) A date/time that was at least at some poitn in time in the future. it may be in the past now, but when we planned it it was in the future Date time that was at some point in the future. Noboby really plans the past. the subject creates or creates more of the object. ie task produce deliverable; template produce program Data that something was posted, not necessarily the date it occured. Must be after the occurred date, but could be before or after the planned date. (Unusual, but I could record today that I expected to be paid last week) subject supercedes the object ie s is a newer version of it this is not the inverse of to. a message can be from someone, if we made it the inverse the person would be "to" the message a point or regiion that something went to Generally to convert from one form to another, also used here as process which could move an intem in one state to another to consume. So the subject uses the object. Using it up (consuming it) is a subtype of using, but the object may not be used up but just necessary. The subject consumes or consumed the object, either wholly or partially. ie Painting useUp Paint. This will also be used for "liqudate" and "paritally liquidate" as in an invoice will liquidate a PO, or a payment will liquidate a debt. Currencies are rounded to specified precision This is the casual definition of name, for some items it may be more apropriate to use a sub typeof hasID for ordering orderd lists The is a broad way to categorize events that have happend or could happen and range from general (skipping v. walking) to very specific (bead welding). It wil be used to categorize real world and appliication world behavior (such as categorizing web service behavior) A pointer to a place either physical or electronic, where information or physical goods could be sent An agennt is something that can act on someone's behalf. It can be a computer program or another person or organization. I've allowed the possibility of agents spawning other agents. 2 A binding commitment between two or more parties that obligate each of them for some future action or restraint. should have a cardinality constraint for obligations, but waiting for 1.1 Two dimensional area Units of two dimensional area such as square inches and hectacres Applications, executable code, but also miscellaneous non PCDATA One type of landmark made by people or organizations. Not all man made artifacts are buildings (roads, dams etc) A string of characters which can be used to locate a building on the earth. Typically a non PO postal address, a Plat/Lot or Lat./Long Instances of this class are used to categorize other instances informally. This could be tags, folksonomies or formal definitions from other systems. Any collection of any types of parts can be considered a collection. An assembly is a speciall type of collection of parts that are physically attached. But an organization can be a collection of people of departmetns. A language which could be executed by a computer. I couldn't find a definative list, but www.acronyms.ch seems to be a reasonable place Content which is executable, that is which can create new content. A template or a computer program. 0 Documetns, programs and the like. Categories are not content until they are written down Context is admittedly a general term. How it is used here is it may set up the scope for something else such as a role or an agreement. As such it could be any of the listed high level concepts The set of "ownable" organizations, that is corporations and partnerships, recognized by a state. Measures that involve countable amounts (eaches as well as cases, and the like) can be decimal Note: we did not make count disjoint will all the other magnitudes as there are some magnitudes that could conceivably be counted (say distance in rods, it's a bit of a stretch admittedly but shouldn't harm anything) Units of counting, especially "each" but also units such as dozens Units of money. Note this is the only unit whose conversion factors include time (ie the conversion rates change on a daily basis) Units to measure linear distance such as feet and kilometers The id of an agent or an artifact that sets up the context within which ids are meant to uniquely refer to one item. For instance the US Social Security Administration is a domain which is supposed to assure that a given Social Security Number refers to a single person. Could also be a form that assures that labels are unique on the form. Time, but not on time line. For instance one week, or seven days but not Jan 1, 2008 to Jan 7, 2008 (which is an interval). Intervals have durations but aren't durations Units to measure passage of time, hours, days years Voltage Units of electrical power (volt). Note that wattage, current and kilowatt hours are composed unts Any place a message can be send (email, fax etc) A magnitude which has been estimated rather than measured Occurred or will occur in time A collection of things where the set is explicit. The set of employees of an organization is an extensional set A measure of distance which can either be distances over the earth, but could also be height, width, length, depth, girth etc An internal transaction that assigns a cost to alternate categories. An individual allocation need not balance, a transaction does. The recognition of financial obligation. Includes all intercompany finanical transactions other than transfers. Depending on the industry and company the degree of obligation (purchase order, versus bill for instance) will dictate how and when the obligation is posted to the companies books. A collection of transfers, obligations and/or allocations that are to be processed as one unit, and should balance The actual movement of funds, assets or liabilities from one party to another. this is the set of programs, rules and the like that can execute and create more content Individual point on Earth's surface, including latitude and longitude and altitude. If altitude missing assumed to be at the earths surface, however altitude is measured from sea level Bounded region(s) on surface of the earth. At this level a geoRegion could be non contiguous. (the USA is the contiguous plus Alaska and Hawaii). Child classes in lower ontologies can make this distinction. Ordered set of GeoPoints that define a route from starting point to ending point. Single segment. I'd like to have max points 2, but until 1.1 with qualified cardinality no go Established either by fiat (as a conquering army overtakes a land and declares a government) or by delegation from a fiat government, such as a state or local government or a specific agency. Differ from corporations in that they cannot be owned The "footprint" of something that happened in the past. This is what's left and recorded in our computer systems A stinrg of characters that refer to a referent in the real world (person, place, organzation, vehicle etc) a concept or an event. Intended to be unique within a domain (but generally no guarentee of this) Pictures or images This is the generic class of ways to define or evaluate membership in a set of collection. This could include human readable inclusion critera (such as the IRS's definition of what constitutes a tax protected transaction or the TSAs definition of what you can take in your carry on luggage) but it may also include executable content such as a SQL statement. A group that can be recognized and can in some cases contract, but is not recognized by the state and can not be owned. Seems like they should have a unique ID, but I don't know that they need to Non real property (docuemtns, inventions rights and the like) A collection with a rule for membership Goal, desire, aspiration A recognized organized set of symbols and grammer Something that is or at some point was alive and growing. local time is in a timezone and has an offset to Universal time. We may not know the universal time, but we know the instant necessarily has a universal time. Can be found in the real world, includes counties as well as cars Measure of brightness (candles ) Measure of light A scalar value which is either measured, estimated or set as a refernece value. Magnitudes of the same dimenstional type ( ie duration or electriccurrent) can be compared with a > or < operator, but can still have difference in their relationToTheWorld type (ie you can compare actuals to estimates or references as long as the dimension is the same). This is the entity that can engage in commerce as one, ie the "couple," "tenants in common" in real estate law. I'm not going anywhere near the current debate on who can or can't be partners other than to say they must both be humans. (call me a speciest if you must). Sub ontollogies can limit the number of people that constitute a MarriedCouple, but in the general case it requires at least 2. Seems like they should have a unique ID, but is it just their two individual IDs? Also would like some cardinality constraints, but need to wait on 1.1 Units of weight, pounds, kilos etc Phycial item or substance. Persists over time, has mass and takes up space. Class to be instantiated by an importing ontology at point of use. This will be the logged in user The result of a replicatable process that established the magnitude of an item or event. Note the measure (this cllass) is distinct from the measurement (an event that produced the measure) The types of measurements there can be (measured estimated etc Low level primitive for stored media. Current debate: should this include MIME type? Typing system of media such as MIME This is an actual sent message, not a message template. It can be a voice mail message, a letter, an email or a Web Message Amount of a substance as counted molecules. It's here for completeness, if we bridge to an SI unit conversion ontology. It is unlikely a commercial system, with the possible exception of some involved in chemical research would use this. Note I left the disjointness with Count, Weight and Volume out as there is some ambiguity, at least in my mind as to whether they are mutually exclusive. A magnitude of value expressed in a currency One of the recognized human languages. Strong recommendation to use ISO 639-1 A future commitment from one social being to another. Contracts are sets of oblgations to do or forebear, or indeminfy or warrant Something which could be offered commercially, includes products, services, guarentees, warrantees, encumbrances etc Non humans that are recognized as entities that can participate in contracts. Note that married couples are non humans. The "couple" is an abstract concept different from teh two people This is a ratio class where the numerator and denominator are of the same unit of measure. This would have to be enforced as a SWRL rule. Note there are two conventions multiple by 100 or not (ie 50/100 could be .5 or 50) we are going with the .5 convention, despite the name, as it involves less additional conversion in its use. This is a member of homo sapiens, who has lived at some point, and may or may not be dead. With open world you never know if someone has died on you. Fictitious people are not persons. man made Something that was intended to happen in the future. Note it may now be in the past but at the time it was planne it was in the future This is a very general notion of a position, which may refer to a position in an organization but may also refer to a position in an ordered list. Positions can only exist in the context of something (a collection) a set of codes the postal authorities can use to deliver mail. Could be a street address, could be a postal address, could be the route codes An estimate about an event or a thing which has yet occured. a description of a product that can be offered for sale. Not a specific serialzed part, but any of a set of potentially existing or soon to be existing products. aka Catalog This is the substance of an offere or obligation, not the act of promising it. The act is the obligation. The thing is possible a future service or a future transfer of goods or rights. For instance one term on a loan offer might be the interest rate, another term might be the duration. Still another might be the way interested is calcualted. This is property in the "property rights" sense, that is, things which can be owned, and not property in the OWL sense of a relationship A position in a collection where the position is ordered. It is the responsibility of the collection to maintain the ordering, bu tthe position has an order feature. (hasID that is comparable (that is, is a magnitude) Ratio Units are composed of two units, a numerator and denominator (for instance miles/ hour) Conversion factor will not be on the ratios, but will be on the numerator and denominator (so there won't be a conversion factor from miles/hour to kilometers/sec, but there will be one to convert the miles to kilometers and the hours to second) A measure that was neither measured nor estimated but set by fiat. For instance a goal. Conveyable interest in land, physical good, intellectual property, even certain classes of action (free speech) This is the reification of a relationship. For instance, we can infer that a organization is a customer, perhaps from the fact that they have bought something from us. But if we wish to keep information about the relationship (frequent flyer information for instance) then we need a role. Note: in many cases a role comes into existance from an agreement, and it's a very grey area whether the role is the agreement or something different from the agrement. For instance when you are employed you have an employment agreement. Your salary etc can be (probably should be) attached to your employment agreement. This is the Cyc term, if we can, I'd like to think of something better. Until then this is just the union of people and organizations. it is a superset of objects that can enter into contracts. We're not calling it a party as that is the relationship to the contract more than the entity that might be able to enter into one as the term is use din a State machine. (not a province in the US) Non corporeal material. That is, "stuff" which can be divided in half and stil retain its essence (ie water, pennicillian and even h. pilori bacteria except for those very rare cases where someone is studying an individual bacterium) any text or graphic that could be used to refer to a concept or an individual. Includes names and ids, they may or may not be in a character set some phone numbers accept faxes, some allow internet access etc. Base of temperature is in Kelvin per SI to allow for all units to be expressed relative to a real (in this case absolute) zero Unlike other units of measure, temperatures have a different zero value and therefore need an offset for coversion (process is use the offset to get to Kelvin, convert to the degrees in new unit, then apply the new unit offset. It's a bit complex, but it is generalized this way and easier to add new units) Term as in "Terms and Conditions". The "term" in an offer of contract is a specific part of the agreement. It is not just the time frame, for instance the interest rate on a loan is a term, as a warranty agreement. This is the building block to be used for all descriptions, comments reasons and the like. It has text and a language. We did not make it disjoint with Units of measure, language or symbols to allow for the possibility of their being described as a corpus of text. A point on a time line. Could be a literal instant (as in 12:01.0001 January 1, 2008) or an broader, but still single point in time (January 1, 2008). Time and dates are in xsd: DateTime format in Universal Time. A specific interval on a time line. So this is January 1, 2008 to January 8, 2008, which has a duration , but isn't a duration. Note has two instants. The endDate is assumed to be greater than the start, but this is not enforced I haven't found a definative source for time zone names or their geoboundaries. I'll suggest the tz database for now Units of measure from SI. Each unit has a base unit and a conversion factor to the base. This class is meant to be instantiated with an enum in a sub ontology by whoever is using the ontology so they can tell which obligations they are the obligor and which the obligee for instance. motion picture Three dimensional space or equivalent fluid measurement Units of three dimensional volume (cubic inch) as well as fluid volume (ounces) Magnitude of mass. Assumes near the earth's surface, so weight and mass are equivalent for our purposes en english The standard amount of a substance. The amount (6.023 x 10 ^ 23 ) is the number of atoms in 12 grams of Carbon 12