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Obtain the ontology file and understand its provenance.
Current release
- Version
- v0.2-final · draft
- Date
- 2026-09
- Format
- Turtle / OWL 2
- SHA-256
- 242a8aedc00d980ff422fd28caf16b08ff7133e08388b95cf316f5b2152608b9
License
CC BY 4.0 — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
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Provenance
- BFO 2020 (ISO 21838-2) — basic-formal-ontology.org
- OGMS (Ontology for General Medical Science) — OLS4 / OGMS
Version history
| Version | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2 | 2026-09 | Complete relational layer; all classes connected; transversal annotation properties; temporal dimension formalised. |
| 0.1 | 2026-09 | Initial public draft: four architectural levels (A–D), BFO 2020 / OGMS anchors, object properties for core relations. |
How to load
Protégé
File → Open → select WHIO_v0_2.ttl
(or Open from URL using the ontology IRI)Apache Jena (Java)
Model model = ModelFactory.createDefaultModel();
model.read("WHIO_v0_2.ttl", "TTL");rdflib (Python)
from rdflib import Graph
g = Graph()
g.parse("WHIO_v0_2.ttl", format="turtle")n3.js (JavaScript / Node)
import { Parser, Store } from 'n3';
import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
const store = new Store();
const parser = new Parser();
store.addQuads(parser.parse(readFileSync('WHIO_v0_2.ttl', 'utf8')));