The General Formal Ontology is a top-level ontology for conceptual modeling, which is being constantly further developed by Onto-Med. It includes elaborations of categories like objects, processes, time and space, properties, relations, roles, functions, facts, and situations. Moreover, we are working on an integration with the notion of levels of reality in order to more appropriately capture entities in the material, mental, and social areas.

Prefix

gfo

Keywords

biomedical science engineering foundational ontologies life science ontology

Links

Homepage OWL

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

projects_to   Resolve

Example CURIE

gfo:projects_to

Contact

Heinrich Herre

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 4 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier projects_to is used to demonstrate the providers available for General Formal Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.