The Common Core Ontologies
This work is incremental, as it improves documentation for an existing ontology suite used by a broad group of users and applications in fields like data integration and knowledge representation.
The paper addresses the lack of comprehensive documentation for the Common Core Ontologies (CCO), a mid-level ontology suite, by providing an enhanced discussion of the contents and design patterns of its eleven constituent ontologies.
The Common Core Ontologies (CCO) are designed as a mid-level ontology suite that extends the Basic Formal Ontology. CCO has since been increasingly adopted by a broad group of users and applications and is proposed as the first standard mid-level ontology. Despite these successes, documentation of the contents and design patterns of the CCO has been comparatively minimal. This paper is a step toward providing enhanced documentation for the mid-level ontology suite through a discussion of the contents of the eleven ontologies that collectively comprise the Common Core Ontology suite.