appears_in: []
contact:
  email: jpalmeida@ieee.org
  github: jpalmeida
  name: João Paulo A. Almeida
  orcid: 0000-0002-9819-3781
contributor:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: An _gentle_ implementation of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO),
  which is an upper level ontology like BFO that is concerned with e.g. expressing
  temporal relationships between events.
download_owl: https://github.com/nemo-ufes/gufo/raw/refs/heads/master/gufo.ttl
example: Person
example_extras: []
github_request_issue: 1704
homepage: https://nemo-ufes.github.io/gufo
keywords:
- events
- general & upper
- nfdixcs
- ontology
- upper level
license: CC-BY-4.0
mappings:
  bartoc: '19064'
  lov: gufo
  tib: gufo
name: Unified Foundational Ontology
namespace_in_lui: false
preferred_prefix: gufo
prefix: gufo
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.3233/ao-150157
  title: 'Towards ontological foundations for conceptual modeling: The unified foundational
    ontology (UFO) story'
  year: 2015
- doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_27
  title: Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events
  year: 2013
- doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-33223-5_4
  title: Relations in ontology-driven conceptual modeling
  year: 2019
- doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-00847-5_12
  title: 'Endurant Types in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling: Towards OntoUML 2.0'
  year: 2018
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.org/nemo/gufo#$1
repository: https://github.com/nemo-ufes/gufo
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.org/nemo/gufo#$1
