This version of UCore is adopted from the DoD/Energy/Justice/Homeland Security information sharing initiative, UCore,to create a small common core of terms for National Information Exchange Model [NIEM] messaging within and across multiple agencies(http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/pages/3953/pdf). For the purpose of the F6 DARPA program, we have merged useful classes from UCore-SL and UCore 2.0.
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Definition: An Event that is performed by some Agent.
Comment: Here, and in other relevant cases (especially involving participation in Events) 'is' includes 'was' or (where plans, etc., are involved) 'will be'.
Comment: The originating or receiving Agent may be a Group
Definition: An Act which has as its Objective the transfer of some InformationContentEntity from some Agent to one or more other Agents via some InformationBearingEntity and in which this Objective is realized.
Definition: An Act which is the allotment and transfer of material goods, services, or monetary aid to some Person, GroupOfPersons, or Organization in need, with the Objective of saving lives or alleviating suffering.
Comment: The observation may be accomplished using an instrument.
Definition: An Act which has the Objective of obtaining information about some thing by observation (in contrast to hearsay or indirect report), and in which this Objective is achieved.
Definition: A GeospatialBoundary of an AdministrativeDivision.
Definition: A GeospatialRegion that is a part of a GeopoliticalEntity and is administratively controlled by a Government that is subordinate to the Government of that GeopoliticalEntity.
Comment: Examples of AffiliationRoles include being an employee, being a member of an organization, and being a corporate officer.
Definition: A Role in which an agent has a relationship to another agent, such that (formal or informal) specifications of support, loyalty, or affection apply to their relationship.
Definition: A PhysicalEntity that is capable of being an agent_in some Act.
Definition: The Role that a PhysicalEntity has in virtue of being an agent_in some Act or pre-defined series of Acts.
Definition: A Vehicle that has the intended use of airborne transportation of Physical Objects within the earth's atmosphere.
Definition: An ActOfCommunication with the Objective of averting imminent harm.
Definition: An InformationContentEntity that consists of statements that realize the Objective of providing the results of an examination of some Entity or Event.
Definition: A LivingThing that has sense organs, a nervous system, feeds on organic matter, is capable of autonomous movement, and is capable of responding to stimuli.
Definition: An Agent that is an Artifact
Definition: An Environment that is located in the Earth's atmosphere.
Definition: A NaturalEvent that occurs in some AtmosphericEnvironment and affects some AtmosphericEnvironment.
Definition: A PhysicalProperty that inheres in some AtmosphericEnvironment or a part of some AtmosphericEnvironment.
Definition: A GeographicEvent in which some mass of snow or ice falls down a mountainside.
Definition: An Incident in which some quantity of non-human biological entities participates and which causes Danger.
Definition: A Website consisting of entries ordered sequentially by their date of contribution.
Definition: a Document that consists of pages that carry information recorded in language or graphics and that are physically joined.
Definition: A Property (of type bfo:RealizableEntity) that enables the Entity in which it inheres to participate in Events of a certain kind.
Comment: Events here include intentionally doing nothing (capability of avoiding action)
Definition: The Role a PhysicalEntity has in virtue of its participation in a TransportationEvent.
Definition: An Incident that some chemical entity participates_in.
Definition: A PhysicalEntity that is created or packaged to be used up during some Event, having either the role of Materiel or some similar role.
Definition: A GeospatialRegion that is playing a ControlFeatureRole.
Definition: A Role played by a GeospatialRegion when it is referred to in a Plan.
Definition: A Consumable whose participation in certain sorts of Acts is regulated by some Government Organization.
Examples: Drugs, hazardous chemicals, radioactive materials. Comment: The sorts of Acts in question may include creation, cultivation, consumption, and sale.
Definition: The Role played by a Consumable in virtue of the fact that it is regulated by some Government Organization.
Definition: A GeospatialRegion that is distinguished through some Analysis of conditions that is prepared for the sake of action.
Comment: A violation of law implies that the act and/or the agent is subject to the jurisdiction of the authority that enforces that law.
Definition: An Act that violates some law.
Definition: An ArtificialAgent that is a piece of software operating in cyberspace.
Definition: an Event that occurs in cyberspace
Definition: An InformationBearingEntity that is a structured collection of data items.
Definition: An InformationBearingEntity which is labeled with an identifying file name and which is the bearer_of some collection of information content.
Definition: A Event that is sudden and causes great damage or destruction to property or LivingThings, especially to Persons
Examples: A signed contract, a printed copy of 'Common Sense', a handwritten letter.
Definition: An InformationBearingEntity that is a PhysicalObject and is the bearer_of some InformationContentEntity.
Definition: A GeographicEvent in which some surface region of the Earth and any PhysicalObjects on it shake violently, due to movements caused within the Earth's crust.
Definition: An Event that is a part of the economy or that affects Events that are part of the economy.
Definition: A Document that is created in some digital medium, using a computer or other digital device, and that is the bearer_of some information content intended to be transferred in an ActOfCommunication via a network.
Definition: A Thing [owl:Thing] that exists in full at any time in which it exists at all, persists through time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts.
Definition: An Entity consisting of a GeospatialRegion or SpaceRegion together with an aggregate (bfo: ObjectAggregate) of all the physical components located therein.
Comment: These components will be primarily of a physical medium (air and water) and will be affected by physical factors (e.g., ambient temperature, weather, solar flares, etc.). A SpaceEnvironment may be empty.
Definition: An Event that affects the Environment of one or more LivingThings.
Definition: An Event consisting of an Increase in the number of new cases of an infectious disease in a specific large population during a specified period of time.
Definition: An Artifact that has been designed to serve a Function that helps Agents to perform Acts.
Definition: An Event in which some LivingThings, possibly with PhysicalObjects, leave a place of danger for a destination considered to be safer.
Definition: A thing that occupies a spatiotemporal region.
Definition: A PlannedEvent whose planning, preparation, and execution is carried out with an Objective of training and evaluation.
Definition: An Incident that involves a rapid expansion of gases of a destructive type (i.e., an explosion).
Definition: An Artifact that is a real-property asset within a limited GeospatialRegion, consisting of one or more of the following: a building, a structure, a utility system, pavement, and underlying land.
Definition: An EconomicEvent in which a FinancialInstrument plays an instrumental Role.
Definition: A Document that has legal force and that embodies or conveys monetary value.
Definition: A GeographicEvent in which water covers a surface Geographic Feature that is normally dry.
Definition: A Consumable that has a disposition to be used up in the production of heat or power.
Definition: A NaturalEvent that affects some GeographicFeature.
Comments: This includes both natural PhysicalEntities and Artifacts. Examples: Dams, road systems, mountain ranges, waterfalls, wadis, settlements, and localized variations in the geomagnetic and gravity fields of the Earth.
Definition: A PhysicalEntity whose (relatively) stable location in some GeospatialRegion can be described by location-specific data.
Definition: A PhysicalProperty that inheres in a GeographicFeature.
Comment: The degree of sovereignty may be limited in specific areas (for example: matters of economic, administrative, legislative, judicial, military and/or foreign policy).
Definition: a GeospatialRegion that is the whole region controlled by a single sovereign government.
Definition: A PhysicalEntity that is the boundary of a GeospatialRegion.
Definition: A PhysicalEntity that is a spatial region at or near the surface of the Earth.
Definition: An Organization with political responsibility for governing in a specified GeospatialRegion.
Definition: A Vehicle whose intended use is for TransportationEvents on or under the Earth's land surface.
Definition: A PhysicalEntity that is an aggregate (bfo:ObjectAggregate) of PhysicalEntities that are located together, or treated as a unit for some Objective.
Definition: A Group that includes only Organizations.
Comment: Not the same as an Organization made up of suborganizations as parts; for example, a bank consists of suborganizations, such as the Loan Department and Trust Department. An example of a GroupOfOrganizations would be the group of banks who are members of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation); also note, that group is not equivalent to the FDIC.
Comment: GroupOfPersons is a different concept from Organization.
Definition: A Group that includes only Persons.
Definition: An Event which presents a Danger to human or non-human biological entities.
Definition: An Incident in which there is a dispersal of a quantity of some PhysicalEntity that endangers the natural functioning of LivingThings, especially Persons.
Definition: An Act in which some Person or GroupOfPersons enters some GeopoliticalEntity of which they are not a citizen, with the intention of remaining in that GeopoliticalEntity.
Definition: An Event that requires or would have required some Act to avoid harm or minimize danger.
Definition: A LivingThing with a disposition to cause infection by becoming transferred to another LivingThing.
Definition: a PhysicalEntity in which some InformationContentEntity inheres.
Definition: An Entity which consists of information and which inheres_in some InformationBearingEntity.
'information' comprises correct descriptions of existing things, but also fiction and falsehood.
Comment: Information is an InformationContentEntity inherent in some physical InformationBearingEntity in which it is provided.
Definition: The Role a PhysicalEntity has in virtue of its creation or provision of information.
Definition: A PhysicalEntity that is an aggregate (bfo:ObjectAggregate) consisting of durable and stable Artifacts with the Function of supporting the operations of a society or enterprise.
Definition: An Event that affects the operation, availability, or condition of some Infrastructure.
Definition: A GeographicEvent in which a mass of soil or rock that is part of a mountainside descends rapidly to a lower altitude.
Definition: An Act in which authorized Agents of a Government enforce laws or apply regulations of that Government on Persons, Groups, or Organizations who are subject to them.
Definition: A Document that is written, typed, or printed, and which is intended to be transported by post or messenger thereby realizing an ActOfCommunication.
Definition: A PhysicalObject that is a biological entity.
Definition: A PhysicalEntity that has an intended use as an instrument or input in some Event.
Definition: The Role of a PhysicalEntity that has an intended use as an instrument or input in some Event.
Definition: An AffiliationRole held by a member of an Organization in virtue of its membership in that Organization.
Definition: A LivingThing of microscopic dimensions.
Comment: Especially a bacterium, virus, or fungus.
Definition: An Event in which Persons or other LivingThings move from one GeospatialRegion to another with the Objective of resettlement.
Comment: The Act realizes a role in that Organization.
Definition: An Event in which some MilitaryOrganization or Member of a Military Organization performs an Act with a military Objective.
Definition: An Event in which some missile is launched.
Definition: A Consumable that is created or packaged to contain some substance with a disposition for rapid or explosive combustion.
Definition: A SecurityEvent that is assigned a status of national significance by an authorized U.S. government official.
Definition: An Event that does not have a Person or GroupOfPersons as an agent.
Definition: An Incident that involves some nuclear substance or device
Definition: An InformationContentEntity that represents the content of an ObjectiveSpecification.
Definition: an InformationContentEntity that represents the intended result of a present or possible future Act.
Definition: An Environment that is located_in some part of Earth's oceans.
Definition: A NaturalEvent that occurs in some OceanographicEnvironment and affects some OceanographicEnvironment.
Definition: A PhysicalProperty that inheres_in some OceanographicEnvironment or a part_of some OceanographicEnvironment.
Definition: An InformationContentEntity that is believed by some Person.
Definition: An Agent that has (1) members which are Agents, (2) one or more Objectives, and (3) MemberRoles (and other AffiliateRoles) which are realized in the pursuit of the Objective or Objectives
Definition: An Epidemic that affects many people over multiple GeospatialRegions.
Comment: Derived from the Infectious Disease Ontology (ICO) at http://infectiousdiseaseontology.org/.
Definition: An Animal that is a human being who is capable of acting.
Comment: PhysicalEntity does not map to UCore.owl 2.0
Definition: A thing that occupies a spatial region.
Definition: A three-dimensional PhysicalEntity that has a continuous physical boundary.
Definition: A Property that inheres_in some PhysicalEntity.
Definition: An InformationContentEntity that is a specification of Events that are to occur in order to attain some Objective.
Definition: An Event brought about by the Act of implementing a Plan that is part of the Objective of the Plan.
Definition: A LivingThing that absorbs raw materials through its roots and makes nutrients by photosynthesis.
Definition: An organized governing body with political responsibility in a given geographic region. (Derived from OED)
Definition: An Event that involves or affects the government or civic affairs of a GeopoliticalEntity, for example due to Persons acting in roles assigned by their government.
Definition: An InformationContentEntity which is the realization of a Plan in a specific artificial language for the operations of a computer’s processing unit.
Definition: A characteristic or attribute of some Entity.
Definition: An Event with the Objective of protecting or improving the community health of some community.
Comment: This includes preventive medicine, sanitation, and activities to improve public health based on results of social science research
Definition: An Incident that involves some radiological substance.
Definition: A Property (of type bfo:RealizableEntity) the manifestation of which brings about some result or end that is not essential to an Entity in virtue of the kind of thing that it is but that can be served or participated in by that kind of Entity in some kinds of natural, social or institutional contexts.
Definition: A GeospatialRegion that is a course that may be followed from an origin to a destination.
Definition: An Event with the Objective of maintaining the safety of a Person, Group, or GeopoliticalRegion by avoiding or averting a Danger, or by minimizing the effects of an Incident.
Definition: An Artifact that detects or measures a PhysicalProperty.
WordNet - any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner
Definition: A GeospatialRegion that is the object of an ActOfObservation by some sensor which is the Agent of a corresponding observation Task.
Definition: An AtmosphericEvent that is a storm with ice, snow, sleet, or hail.
Definition: A SpaceEnvironmentEvent in which some plasma and high-energy radiation erupt from the Sun.
Definition: an Environment that is located_in some SpaceRegion.
Definition: a NaturalEvent that occurs in some SpaceEnvironment and affects some SpaceEnvironment
Definition: A PhysicalProperty that inheres_in some SpaceEnvironment
Definition: A region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
Definition: A Vehicle whose intended use is for transportation outside the Earth's atmosphere.
Comment: Applies especially to buildings or to artifacts that are part of the physical Infrastructure, such as bridges.
Definition: An Event that is a rapid collapse of some large Artifact.
Definition: An Event which is a piece of work specified in a TaskSpecification.
Definition: An InformationContentEntity that describes some Act or Acts whose performance would fulfill a certain Objective.
Definition: an Act in which some Agent or Agents use violence or intimidation with some social (i.e., political, economic, or religious) Objective
Definition: An AtmosphericEvent in which a storm originates from some cumulonimbus cloud and involves rain with lightning or thunder.
Definition: An AtmosphericEvent that involves a column of air which is rotating between 18-135 mps (40-300 mph) and which is in contact with the surface of the Earth, below a cumuliform cloud.
Definition: A GeospatialRegion that is the path of some PhysicalObject as it moves. Commment: Compare 'Route'
Definition: An Event in which one or more PhysicalObjects are moved from one location to another by means of one or more Vehicles.
Definition: An AtmosphericEvent in which a cyclone originates in some tropical or subtropical area and has a sustained surface wind speed equal to or greater than 64 knots.
Definition: An AtmosphericEvent in which a cyclone originates in some tropical or subtropical area and has a highest sustained surface wind speed between 34 and 63 knots (inclusive).
Definition: An OceanographicEvent in which a series of long, high waves travels through the surface of an ocean.
Definition: A PhysicalObject whose intended use is for TransportationEvents.
Definition: a GeographicEvent in which there is an ejection of volcanic material from some opening in the Earth's crust.
Definition: A Vehicle whose intended use is for TransportationEvents on or under a body of water.
Definition: A ControlFeature that is some point located along a Route.
Definition: The Role of some GeospatialRegion that is located on a Route and used as a reference point.
Definition: An InformationBearingEntity that consists of some hypertext pages Iand possibly other digital assests) that are addressed with a common domain name or IP address and are accessible on the internet.
Definition: A Website consisting of web pages (known as "wiki pages") that can be collaboratively edited and interlinked by any Person granted access to the site by the Agent or Group of Agents who own or maintain the site.
Comment: Typically a simple markup language is used to format wiki pages.
Definition: A GeographicEvent in which there is an uncontrolled burning of vegetation in a wildland.