]> gist Lightweight upper ontology Created with e6Tools Graphical OWL Editor To have a comparable numerical value. Each magnitude has a unit. Date a living thing was "born" (or germinated for plants) Reason, law rule, etc. behind an action or decision Subject supercedes the object i.e., is a newer version of it. Subject matter of a document. Peer to peer relationships between subjects and objects. A place that can be found on a map, has geo coordinates, you could live or work there. The general class of places you can send messages including postal addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, email, web site, etc. Subject supercedes the object i.e., is a newer version of it. If there are many terms for a concept or specific instance, this is the one to use. historical Dates Generically when some thing did or should end. A date/time that was at least at some point in time in the future. it may be in the past now, but when we planned it it was in the future. When something did end. dates that were in the future at the time they were made Generically when some did or should start. A date/time that was at least at some point in time in the future. it may be in the past now, but when we planned it it was in the future. When something did start, therefore noting an historical event. A feature is something that an individual has exclusively, and that if the 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. hasFeature is just for the object type features that work like dataType properties. It implies a cascading delete. Distance above sea level 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.) Located at a specific place on the earth. 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). More specific form of incumbent where we are referring to residing at or working at, or doing business at a very specific location. Intellectual Property (computer programs, documents, inventions, etc.) are expressed in either media or a language and usually both. Two different IDs refer to two different things (note: this is not email addresses as it would imply that if I had 2 email addresses I must be two people). This is serial numbers (two different serials numbers refer to two different parts, but many parts have more than one serial number). Note: specific subproperties of this would likely be Functional, but this can't be as if you had two DifferentiatingIDs (say Drivers License and SSN) then this parent would assume you to be two different people. This is like a uri: a thing can have more than one ID, but each of the IDs must refer to a unique thing Use hasDirectPart to associate parts. Allow t's parent (hasPart) to complete the transitivity. This is to relate something ephemeral (a position) with sometihng potentially more real (ie an employee). Containing something that has independent existence. We can say a car hasPart seat or engine, but not hasPart weight. The weight can not exist independent of the car. No cascading delete. High level property meaning to contain or include. At this level it is neither exclusive nor non exclusive. Superior, subordinate relationships between subjects and objects. legally acknowledging the existence of legally acknowledging the existence of obligations have receivers of the obligation Obligations have one party that is giving and one receiving (getting). The people or orgnaizations that are in an agreement Decimal hours ahead of (+) or behind (-) GMT To consume. 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. i.e., Painting useUp Paint. This will also be used for "liqudate" and "partially liquidate" as in an invoice will liquidate a PO, or a payment will liquidate a debt. The subject creates or creates more of the object, i.e., task produce deliverable; template produce program To be the biological parent of. Used instead of parent because parent is highly overloaded term Generally to convert from one form to another, also used here as process which could move an item in one state to another A process or agent that has a specific intention. These are relationships where the domain end has some sort of effect on the range end. Aas 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 departments or organizations. There will likely be many subproperties of this with varying shades of meaning for how flexibly the allocation has been made. a point or region that something went to a point or region that something came from This is the casual definition of name, for some items it may be more appropriate to use a sub typeof hasID For ordering ordered lists. Comment: this is not the inverse of fromAgent. A message can be from someone, if we made it the inverse the person would be "to" the message to received something (a message or a product ) from someone or a program Location where an event occured. 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. Adds to governance legal title. The subject controls or inhibits the object in some way. Ownership is one case, as is jurisdiction, inhibiting, custodianship. This is used for the actual value of a key or ID where you don't want the possibility of having more than one. How far in the "x" dimension this item is from it's local origin How far in the "y" dimension this item is from it's local origin How far in the "z" dimension this item is from it's local origin That which can (at least theoretically) be owned. All current jurisdictions have rules against owning people, but that needs to be expressed in rules rather than definitions. Rules that impede A human language such as English or Spanish A language which could be executed by a computer. Narrative description of the specifics of an offer. This is "term" in the sense of the "terms" of a contract. {Class.Description} There are many different media typing schemes such as MIME {Class.Description} {Class.Description} {Class.Description} 1 1 An amount such as price, that is not a fungible quantity of a substance {Class.Description} 1 A set of guildelines used in making a decision {Class.Description} {Class.Description} {Class.Description} 1 1 Description of a place, physical or abstract, that can be used to position other items relatively. So the origin might be the top left of a screen or form, or it might be the back, lower left corner of a trailer. {Class.Description} 1 An individual instance of doing something (an event). Note this can be historical or planned. Extent to which an obligation be completed and/or extent of remedy Restricts input or result {Class.Description} Law, Policy or computer program {Class.Description} A place (real or virtual) that can be located by some routing algorithm and where messages or things can be sent Instances of this class are used to categorize other instances informally. This could be tags, folksonomies or formal definitions from other systems. Place holder in a collection or an organization for someone or something {Class.Description} A description of things one is permitted to do: could be broad such as free speech, but more often is very specific such as the right of egress through a particular property {Class.Description} {Class.Description} 1 1 1 The entity that can engage in contracts, as joint tenants, tenants in common, etc 2 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. {Class.Description} {Class.Description} {Class.Description} {Class.Description} {Class.Description} {Class.Description} {Class.Description} Goal, desire, aspiration. This is the "telelogic" aspect of the system that indicates things are done with a purpose. {Class.Description} Low level primitive for stored media. A description of the thing being offerred, (its features, etc.). {Class.Description} 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. Any place a message can be send (email, fax, etc.). {Class.Description} 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 address that you can send mail to or that you could find in the physical world. Ordered set of GeoPoints that define a route from starting point to ending point. 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. {Class.Description} 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. 1 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. 1 {Class.Description} A recognized organized set of symbols and grammar {Class.Description} {Class.Description} paper or electronically transferrable monetary asset. Not a price, but an asset A substance in the sense that there is measurably more or less of it, but not necessarily physical (money and content, for instance) An ordinal collection is ordered, but has the additional property that the ordering represents a "greater than" relationship. Amazon uses an ordered collection for rating the quality of used books (Unacceptable, Acceptable, Good, Very Good, Like New, New). If you do a query to get the lowest price for a particular book at the "Good" category, you will get only "Good" ones. If the collection were an ordinal collection, you could get the lowest price on all the items "Good" or greater. location relative to an origin. An ordinal set of possible degrees of commitment. This is an important concept, but it varies by industry. In gistComp we provide one example. {Class.Description} An enclosed area within a building {Class.Description} Rules for including something in an intensional set (could be OWL, but could be SQL or just natural language)