@inproceedings{c87239827f5d4e71bba89b9b021faea4,
title = "How granularity issues concern biomedical ontology integration",
abstract = "The application of upper ontologies has been repeatedly advocated for supporting interoperability between domain ontologies in order to facilitate shared data use both within and across disciplines. We have developed BioTop as a top-domain ontology to integrate more specialized ontologies in the biomolecular and biomedical domain. In this paper, we report on concrete integration problems of this ontology with the domain-independent Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) concerning the issue of fiat and aggregated objects in the context of different granularity levels. We conclude that the third BFO level must be ignored in order not to obviate cross-granularity integration.",
keywords = "Domain ontology, Formal ontology",
author = "Stefan Schulz and Martin Boeker and Holger Stenzhorn",
note = "Funding Information: We thank all participants of the BFO Discussion Group for the lively exchange of ideas related to the discussed topics. Our work has been supported by the European Commission project BOOTStrep6 (FP6 - 028099).",
year = "2008",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781586038649",
series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
publisher = "IOS Press",
pages = "863--868",
booktitle = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
}