EDM Council FIBO Glossary

Generated from the OWL, the FIBO glossary is a list of classes and properties defined in FIBO, including their logical definition, curated natural language definition and synonyms where available. As with all of FIBO, there is a Production version of the Glossary, which includes definitions of terms that have been vetted by the FIBO content teams, as well as a Development version, which includes terms that are currently being developed.

There are four ways to work with the FIBO Glossary.
  1. Web Searchable
  2. Downloadable as a .csv for working in a spreadsheet
  3. Downloadable as a .xlsx for working in a spreadsheet
  4. Downloadable as RDF annotations for use with FIBO itself
The glossary incudes human-readable versions of the logical relationships in FIBO that are represented in OWL. These definitions are available on their own as annotations on the FIBO classes in rdf-xml and ttl formats.

Web Searchable

A user-friendly web page that includes label, curated definition, synonyms (where available) and model-generated definitions for all classes and properties in FIBO.

Example:

Comma Separated Values format

A comma-separated file with the same information as the web page; label, curated defintion, synonyms and model-generated defintion. For use in spreadsheets, including Excel.

Excel format

A file that can be read with Microsoft Excel, containing label, curated definition, synonyms, model-generated definition, examples and explanatory notes (when available). Exclusively for use with Excel, this file includes formatting to make the spreadsheet easier to read.

Example:

glossary example

Downloadable RDF Annotations

For application developer who want to be able to query for the human-readable versions of the FIBO logic, that is avaiable in ttl and RDF/XML formats. Release Notes:
  • 2018 Q3
    • Publication of human-readable logic in RDF
  • 2018 Q1
    • Improved spreadsheet generation
    • Added fields to the tabular glossary
  • 2017 Q4
    • Overhaul of the glossary generation system to keep glossaries in sync with all versions of FIBO
    • Updated the Excel format to freeze the title row
    • Improved natural language rendition of model-driven definitions
  • 2017 Q3
    • Initial release