]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. The collection of organized conceptual structures in which types of things form a generalization hierarchy and in which properties are defined to hold between instances of the types of things. An example is the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAZZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Cyc</a> ontology. ontology Ontology ontologies OWLOntology OWL ontology The collection of all ontologies represented in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r1cSkZhRsQdiElMDPRDyNxw" class="cyc_term">OWL_WebOntologyLanguage</a>. SyracuseOntology the Syracuse Ontology SENSUS-Information1997 SENSUS is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjSEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">KnowledgeBase</a>, created by the Information Sciences Institute at USC. An earlier version of it was known as Pangloss, and it was developed primarily in order to support machine translation.--OKeefe, Oct 15, 1997 SENSUS-Information1997 PLANET Indexed Information Source PLANET-IndexedInformationSource OpenGISSimpleFeaturesSpecificationForSQL The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rN1IekteGEdmAAAAH6Q2cKw" class="cyc_term">OpenGISSimpleFeaturesSpecificationForSQL</a> is a standard adopted by the OpenGIS Consortium which defines a common SQL schema that supports storage, retrieval, query, and update of simple geospatial features. the Open GIS Simple Features Specification for SQL KANI The language designed for the KANI System by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. KANILanguage-PacificNorthwestNationalLaboratory Version 2.0 of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r6EYSRO0rQdiJ-vnWuNpK3A" class="cyc_term">ConceptNetKnowledgeBase</a>. ConceptNet-Version2-0 ConceptNet 2.0 MilitaryStandard-2408 Military Standard 2408 An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv7D_EBSHQdiLMuoH7dC2KQ" class="cyc_term">Ontology</a>. The LSCOM object and situation ontology is, at its most general level, an ontology of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rtM0npht0QdiUF94Dipp7Pg" class="cyc_term">TemporallyExistingThing</a>, with each concept in the ontology serving as the basis of the LSCOM Visual IBT ontology (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rJJmmvCPVEdqAAAACs71DGQ" class="cyc_term">LSCOMVisualIBTOntology</a>), an ontology of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjPtpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VisualInformationBearingThing</a>, nodes in which are defined in terms of various relations to nodes in this ontology. LSCOMObjectAndSituationOntology the LSCOM object and situation ontology The Unicode international standard for representing characters with binary codes. It covers the alphabets of the world's major languages, Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and various symbols and control codes. The standard encoding is two bytes per character. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPts15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ASCII</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPts15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ASCII</a> is a subset of Unicode, consisting of Unicode C0 Controls and Basic Latin. Characters have exactly the same hexidecimal code in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPts15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ASCII</a> as they do in Unicode except the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPts15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ASCII</a> hex code is two digits and Unicode is four. (The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPts15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ASCII</a> hex code of the character 'A' is 41 and the Unicode hex code is 0041.) The Unicode Consortium works in conjunction with the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9rksZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InternationalOrganizationForStandardization</a> (ISO/IEC/JTC1) and Unicode is compatible with the International Standard 10646. UnicodeStandard Unicode System SRATemplateExtractionOntology the SRA Template Extraction Ontology CNLP Ontology An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv7D_EBSHQdiLMuoH7dC2KQ" class="cyc_term">Ontology</a>, authored by CNLP (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rT3hrShAWQdiW04srL7X-mQ" class="cyc_term">CNLP</a>) for information retrieval purposes. CNLPOntology An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv7D_EBSHQdiLMuoH7dC2KQ" class="cyc_term">Ontology</a> of classes and binary relations used by its developers for semantic web annotation. A description of the FOAF vocabulary can be found at <a href= "http://www.xmlns.com/foaf/spec">http://www.xmlns.com/foaf/spec</a>. FOAFOntology FOAF Encyclopedia Britannica Online The information in the online version of Encyclopedia Britannica which can be found at http://search.eb.com/ EBOnline WordNet-Version2_0 WordNet 2.0 An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv7D_EBSHQdiLMuoH7dC2KQ" class="cyc_term">Ontology</a>. The LSCOM visual IBT ontology is, at its most general level, an ontology of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjPtpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VisualInformationBearingThing</a>, used for video and image classification and retrieval. Many concepts in this ontology are defined in terms of their relaionships to concepts in the LSCOM objects and situations ontology (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rbGk9ACPUEdqAAAACs71DGQ" class="cyc_term">LSCOMObjectAndSituationOntology</a>), an ontology of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rtM0npht0QdiUF94Dipp7Pg" class="cyc_term">TemporallyExistingThing</a>. LSCOMVisualIBTOntology the LSCOM ontology of visual IBTs CC2 Ontology Notes CC2OntologyNotes the Veridian Ontology VeridianOntology the Inxight Thing Finder classification category database The database of categories used by the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rSd0LYF8MQdeKFsDq3jPtuA" class="cyc_term">InxightThingFinder</a> software to classify entities that are extracted from unstructured texts. Such categories include 'name', 'person', and 'place'. The set of categories may be extended by developers using Thing Finder for particular applications. InxightThingFinderCategoryDatabase UnifiedSoilClassificationSystem Unified Soil Classification System The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwKphPpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnifiedSoilClassificationSystem</a> is a standard developed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to identify and classify mineral and organic soils according to their textural and plasticity qualities and on their grouping with respect to behavior. The various groupings of this classification have been devised to correlate in a general way with the engineering behavior of soils. This correlation provides a useful first step in any field or laboratory investigation for engineering purposes. It can serve to make some general interpretations relating to probable performance of the soil for engineering uses. A detailed key to this classification system can be found at <a href= "http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/5-472/appb.htm">http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/5-472/appb.htm</a>. the Cyc ontology The Cyc ontology. TheCycOntology The information in the expanded 1997 version of the National Library of Medicine (NLM)'s thesaurus of Medical Subject Headings. MeSH 1997 MeSH-Information1997 vegetation map code USArmyFieldManual5-33VegetationMapCode NASIS NationalSoilInformationSystem The focus of the National Cooperative Soil Survey is shifting from producing static printed soil survey reports to providing a dynamic resource of soils information for a wide range of needs. The National Soil Information System (NASIS) is the core component of this vision and is designed to manage and maintain soil data from collection to dissemination. SNOMED 3.0 SNOMED-Information1993 The information in SNOMED International, Version 3.0, the third edition of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine. The information in SNOMED International, Version 3.3, the third edition of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine. SNOMED-Information1996 SNOMED 3.3 Federal information Processing Standard Federal Information Processing Standard codes are called FIPS codes. Geographical codes include FIPS4 and FIPS 10, which expanded on FIPS 6. FIPS10-4Information1995 The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWQvpJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WorldWideWeb_DynamicIndexedInfoSource</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwBcktpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DynamicIndexedInfoSource</a>. It is all of the information content of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvit1rpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WorldWideWeb_Concrete</a>. WorldWideWeb-DynamicIndexedInfoSource the World Wide Web The information in the WordNet thesaurus program. WordNet 1.6 carries the following copyright information: <p/> 'WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. <p/> THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT- ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS.' <p/> For more information or to download a copy of WordNet, go to http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/. WordNet-1997Version WordNet 1.6 Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvf9sZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AspatialInformationStore</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNgIyZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ClassificationSystem</a> is an agreed-upon or conventional classification system consisting of several <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvubaMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ConventionalClassificationType</a>s (q.v.). In such a system, a change or reclassification is possible by a decision of an authority, or by a changed social agreement, without changing the intrinsic natures of the actual objects in the classificatory categories. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNgIyZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ClassificationSystem</a>s include biological taxonomies, standard classifications, data dictionaries, thesauri, cultural taboo systems, military doctrinal systems, and calendar systems. ClassificationSystem conventional classification system StructuredInformationSource A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvu__KJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationStore</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwBObNJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyIntangibleIndividual</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StructuredInformationSource</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvu__KJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationStore</a> in which bits of information are represented as related in a systematic way that is easily characterized by some type of formal structure, including spatial or architectural terms (used metaphorically). Examples include: a database organized in fields and values; a spreadsheet organized in rows and columns with entries; an organizational tree diagram with nodes and branches; a topographical map; a document written in HTML (hyper-text markup language). Negative examples include computer programs, poems, and novels. structured information source The collection of organized conceptual structures in which types of things form a generalization hierarchy and in which properties are defined to hold between instances of the types of things. An example is the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAZZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Cyc</a> ontology. ontology Ontology The collection of organized conceptual structures in which types of things form a generalization hierarchy and in which properties are defined to hold between instances of the types of things. An example is the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAZZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Cyc</a> ontology. ontology Ontology The collection of organized conceptual structures in which types of things form a generalization hierarchy and in which properties are defined to hold between instances of the types of things. An example is the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAZZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Cyc</a> ontology. ontology Ontology first-order collection An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvtppU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a>, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rNooX_CChEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FixedOrderCollection</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> is the collection of all specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> (q.v.) Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. FirstOrderCollection