BFO vs IDEAS/DoDAF

[michael tiger]

Recently I've been exploring better ways to integrate data from multiple sources to address data quality as well as cost issues in company. I discovered Boro Solution and read the works of Chris Partridge, Matthew West. The 4-D ontology gave me a new perspective on the world and inspired me a lot. Further, I learned about IDEAS, DoDFA, IES4, etc.

When I wanted to model data based on 4-dimensional ontology and construct a toolchain, I discovered BFO, a top-level ontology that has gained widespread use in the biomedical community. I have not yet delved into BFO, but it seems to be very different from Boro's 4-dimensional ontology. Recently I found a news about "January 2024 BFO and CCO have been adopted as baseline standards for all formal ontology development in the DOD and Intelligence Community".

My question is, does BFO&CCO replace IDEAS&DoDAF as a new standard in DoD? Or is BFO compatible with IDEAS? Or maybe I misunderstood actually they are used in different areas?

Regards,
Michael

[Burkett, William [USA]]

Michael –

 

I can’t speak to the relationship of BFO, IDEAS, and CCO, but DODAF is a different beast entirely and I don’t see any of the ontology work replacing that.  The ontology work would “plug into” DoDAF as a (kind of) DIV-1 model/view.

 

Bill

 

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[Chris Partridge]

Hi Michael,

It is good to hear you are discovering BORO Solutions.

I'm sure Barry will answer your exact question (I'll just say that I'm not planning to move towards BFO just yet :) )

WRT: I've been exploring better ways to integrate data from multiple sources to address data quality as well as cost issues in company. 

Let me include a quote from a paper ...

"BORO includes a foundational (or upper) ontology and a closely intertwined methodology for information systems (IS) re-engineering (Partridge, 1996), hence the term BORO refers to both the ontology and the methodology."
de Cesare, S. and Partridge, C. 2016. BORO as a Foundation to Enterprise Ontology. Journal of Information Systems. 30 (2), pp. 83-112. https://doi.org/10.2308/isys-51428

The "closely intertwined methodology for information systems (IS) re-engineering", called BCLEARer, is, I would claim, a "better way[s] to integrate data from multiple sources to address data quality as well as cost issues in company". That is exactly what it was originally designed to do - and has been doing since.

So, it seems to me you are not comparing like with like.

Best

Chris

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