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.

Prefix
gufo
Keywords
events general & upper ontology upper level
License
CC-BY-4.0
Links
Homepage Repository RDF Request Discussion
Publications
2015 Towards ontological foundations for conceptual modeling: The unified foundational ontology (UFO) story
2013 Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events
2019 Relations in ontology-driven conceptual modeling
2018 Endurant Types in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling: Towards OntoUML 2.0
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier
Person   Resolve
Example CURIE
gufo:Person
Pattern for RDF URIs
http://purl.org/nemo/gufo#$1
Example RDF URI
http://purl.org/nemo/gufo#Person
Contacts
Contact
João Paulo A. Almeida   jpalmeida
Contributors
submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt
Metaregistry Unified Foundational Ontology

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 1 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
LOV Linked Open Vocabularies logo lov gufo
Providers

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 Person is used to demonstrate the providers available for Unified Foundational 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.

Name Metaprefix URI
Unified Foundational Ontology gufo http://purl.org/nemo/gufo#Person
Unified Foundational Ontology (RDF) rdf http://purl.org/nemo/gufo#Person
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/gufo:Person