Fri, 23 Feb 2007
Foundational Ontology
Prompted by Matt Pocock, I've just had a look at the basic
foundational ontology. I have to admit to have been left feeling very
confused. SpatialRegion
have to be either a Zero
, One
, Two
or
ThreeDimensionalRegion
which seems to preclude other dimensions. They
are suggested to be immobile, but I can't see that this has any
meaning. Also, SpatiotemporalRegion
is a sibling of TemporalRegion
,
but not SpatialRegion
(they share a common grandparent) and all three
are disjoint from each other.
More reading is required, I guess. Unforunately, the documentation seems a bit long. The BFO in a nutshell document is 37 pages in total.