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Ontology workshop. This past week I had the distinct pleasure to participate in a three day workshop on ontologies for the representation of social entities in biomedicine. Sponsored by the Clinical and Translation Science Ontology Group (CTSOG), and chaired by Barry Smith of the University of Buffalo, and Bill Hogan of the University of Florida, the workshop considered the representation of social entities and documents using the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and the Information Artifact Ontology (IAO), both of which are used extensively in VIVO. I presented on the use of ontologies in VIVO. You can find my presentation on Figshare here. You can find my notes on the workshop here. VIVO is a prominent example of the use of these ontologies. As VIVO progresses, we expect to see more alignment of VIVO representations with these standards. You can learn more about the Basic Formal Ontology
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