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Shane Babcock

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arXiv2025

The Human Capital Ontology

The Human Capital Ontology (HCO) is an ontology that represents data standards maintained and employed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to represent Human Capital Operations and to classify job positions. The HCO is an extension of the Common Core Ontologies and the upper-level Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). HCO provides representation of OPM Natures of Action (NOA) that are used to identify human resource personnel actions, as well as their corresponding codes. HCO also represents Occupational Groups and Job Families, the Occupational Series into which these subdivide, as well as their corresponding codes, used by OPM to classify and grade both white- and blue-collar jobs in the Federal Government. HCO also encodes crosswalks between OPM Occupational Series and corresponding Standard Occupational Classification Codes maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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arXiv2024

A Fourfold Pathogen Reference Ontology Suite

Infectious diseases remain a critical global health challenge, and the integration of standardized ontologies plays a vital role in managing related data. The Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) and its extensions, such as the Coronavirus Infectious Disease Ontology (CIDO), are essential for organizing and disseminating information related to infectious diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for updating IDO and its virus-specific extensions. There is an additional need to update IDO extensions specific to bacteria, fungus, and parasite infectious diseases. We adopt the "hub and spoke" methodology to generate pathogen-specific extensions of IDO: Virus Infectious Disease Ontology (VIDO), Bacteria Infectious Disease Ontology (BIDO), Mycosis Infectious Disease Ontology (MIDO), and Parasite Infectious Disease Ontology (PIDO). The creation of pathogen-specific reference ontologies advances modularization and reusability of infectious disease data within the IDO ecosystem. Future work will focus on further refining these ontologies, creating new extensions, and developing application ontologies based on them, in line with ongoing efforts to standardize biological and biomedical terminologies for improved data sharing and analysis.

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arXiv2024

Grounding Realizable Entities

Ontological representations of qualities, dispositions, and roles have been refined over the past decade, clarifying subtle distinctions in life science research. After articulating a widely-used characterization of these entities within the context of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), we identify gaps in this treatment and motivate the need for supplementing the BFO characterization. By way of supplement, we propose definitions for grounding relations holding between qualities and dispositions, and dispositions and roles, illustrating our proposal by representing subtle aspects of host-pathogen interactions.

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