Since diseases themselves are dispositions, the Ontology for General
Medical Science may be of relevance: (01)
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/ (02)
See also the remarks on dispositions in this paper (which contains the
basic ideas for OGMS): (03)
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf (04)
BS (05)
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Barry Smith <phismith@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Leo
> BFO: Dispositions are central to the Infectious Disease Ontology
>
> http://infectiousdiseaseontology.org/page/Main_Page
>
> and to the various extension ontologies developed on its basis. See also the
> papers
>
> Albert Goldfain, Barry Smith and Lindsay G. Cowell, “Dispositions and the
> Infectious Disease Ontology”, in Antony Galton and Riichiro Mizoguchi
> (eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Sixth
> International Conference (FOIS 2010), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2010, 400-413.
>
> Albert Goldfain, Barry Smith and Lindsay G. Cowell, “Towards an Ontological
> Representation of Resistance: The Case of MRSA”, Journal of Biomedical
> Informatics, 2011 (Feb.), 44:1, 35-41. PMC293020.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Obrst, Leo J. <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks, Chris. I’m trying to find actual ontology-modeled dispositions and
>> manifestations, etc. I understand about capabiities. Indeed, most
>> architectural frameworks have notions of capabilities. Is there a version
>> of MODEM you can share?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Leo
>>
>>
>>
>> From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris
>> Partridge
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 4:16 AM
>> To: '[ontolog-forum] '
>> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Dispositions and powers for applied
>> ontologies?
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Leo,
>>
>>
>>
>> Capabilities (a subtype of dispositions) are key to Enterprise
>> architectures
>> – see e.g. MODAF, MoD Architectural Framework
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODAF).
>>
>> Dispositions and their counterpart manifestations are in MODEM (a recently
>> released ontological foundation for MODAF) and also play a part in DoDAF -
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DODAF (whose first purpose, according to the
>> wiki, is ‘Capabilities Integration and Development (JCIDS)’.
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Obrst, Leo J.
>> Sent: 08 January 2013 01:26
>> To: [ontolog-forum]
>> Subject: [ontolog-forum] Dispositions and powers for applied ontologies?
>>
>>
>>
>> Dispositions and powers (from metaphysics) are sometimes used for
>> scientific
>> theories/ontologies. Does anyone actually use these analyses to develop
>> applied ontologies? I see it used, e.g., in some analyses of quantum
>> theory.
>>
>>
>>
>> The only paper I know of on this topic is:
>>
>>
>>
>> Arp, R. & Smith, B. (2008). Function, role, and disposition in basic
>> formal
>> ontology. In Proceedings of Bio-Ontologies Workshop (ISMB 2008) (pp.
>> 45–48).
>> Available from Nature Precedings at:
>> http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1941.1.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you know of others?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Leo
>>
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