gist Lightweight upper ontology Created with e6Tools Graphical OWL Editor The subject controls or inhibits the object in some way. Ownership is one case, as is jurisditionc, inhibiting, custodianship. Adds to governance legal title. 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. Location where an event occured. to received something (a message or a product ) from someone or a program comment "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" For ordering orderd lists. This is the casual definition of name, for some items it may be more apropriate to use a sub typeof hasID a point or regiion that something came from a point or regiion that something went to 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. 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) A process or agent that has a specific intention. Generally to convert from one form to another, also used here as process which could move an intem in one state to another To be the biological parent of, used instead of parent because parent is highly overloaded term The subject creates or creates more of the object. ie. task produce deliverable; template produce program 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. 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. Decimal hours ahead (+) or behind (-) GMT The people or orgnaizations that are in an agreement Obligations have a party that is giving and one receiving (getting) obligations have receivers of the obligation legally acknowledging the existance of legally acknowledging the existance of 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. 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. This is to relate something ephemeral (a position) with sometihng potentiall more real (ie an employee).. Use has Direct part to associate parts, and allow it's parent (hasPart) to complete the transitivity. Each id only refers to one thing, but the thing can have more than one (email address, phone number, name etc) Intellectual Property (computer programs, documents, inventions etc) are expressed in either media or a language and usually both. More specific form of incumbent where we are referring to residing at or working at, of doing business at a very specific location. 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). Located at a specific place on the earth. 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). Distance above sea level comment "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. " When something did start, therefore noting an historical event. 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. Generically when some did or should start. dates that were in the future at the time they were made When something did 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. Generically when some did or should end. historical Dates If there are many terms for a concept or specific instance this is the one to use. Subject supercedes the object ie. is a newer version of it. The general class of places you can send messages including postal addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, email, web site etc. A place that can be found on a map, has geo coordinates, you could live or work their. Peer to peer relationships between subjects and objects. Subject matter of a document. Subject supercedes the object ie. is a newer version of it. Reason, law rule etc behind and action or decision Date a living thing was "born" (or germinated for plants) To have a comparable numerical value. Each magnitude has a unit. 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 A recognized organized set of symbols and grammer Can be found in the real world, includes counties as well as cars 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. 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. 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. A pointer to a place either physical or electronic, where information or physical goods could be sent. 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 Some phone numbers accept faxes, some allow internet access etc. Any place a message can be send (email, fax etc). 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). 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. A description of the thing being offerred. it's features, etc A binding commitment between two or more parties that obligate each of them for some future action or restraint. 2 2 2 Low level primitive for stored media. content in words Goal, desire, aspiration 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). This is an individually identifiable item (not a substance, type or category) Generally a corporeal item or a document. Something that is or at some point was alive and growing. 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. This is a legally recognized organiation who can enter into contracts and have them enforced 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 set of "ownable" organizations, that is corporations and partnerships, recognized by a state. 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 The entity that can engage in contracts, as joint tenants, tenants in common etc 2 1 1 1 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 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 A description of things one is permitted to do, and could be broad such as free speech, but more often is very specific such as the right of egress through a particular property A position in a collection where the position is ordered. It is the responsibility of the collection to maintain the ordering, bu the position has an order feature. (hasID that is comparable, that is, is a magnitude). Place holder in a collection or an organization for someone or something Instances of this class are used to categorize other instances informally. This could be tags, folksonomies or formal definitions from other systems. A place (real or virtual) that can be located by some routing algorithm and where messages or things can be sent Content (code) that converts inputs into outputs Law, Policy or computer program A template is some form of content that cant necessarily execute on its own, but could be exectuted by a program and uses some form of rules to produce additional output. Restricts input or result Extent to which an obligation be completed and/or extent of remedy An individual instance of doing something (an event) has an agent and an object 1 Abstraction notion of place, need not be physical, so could refer to widget location on screen, or gene location on chromosome includes all conversions such as calculations etc 1 1 All manufacturing operations such as milling, drilling, bending, welding etc an individual decision A set of guildelines used in making a decision Documetns, programs, images and the like. Categories are not content until they are written down. 1 This is a quantity of money (not the price or value of something) so it is a reource and a substance An amount such as price, that is not a fungible quantity of a substance Single segment. I'd like to have max points 2, but until 1.1 with qualified cardinality no go. I haven't found a definative source for time zone names or their geoboundaries. I'll suggest the tz database for now. 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. You could at lead in principle put a RFID tag on members of this class There are many different media typing schemes such as MIME A description of something that can be done for a person or organization (which produces some form of an "act") Narrative description of the specifics of an offer A language which could be executed by a computer. A human language such as English or Spanish Rules that impede