Industrial Ontologies Foundry
The IOF (The Industrial Ontologies Foundry) is a unit of OAGi (Open Applications Group), a non-profit organization with the mission to reduce the cost of integration by developing inter-operable, cross-functional, cross-industry, data-model-driven, and extensible standards to meet the challenge of a rapidly-changing global digital economy.
IOF’s mission is to create a suite of ontologies intended to support digital manufacturing by facilitating cross-system data integration within the factory and across an enterprise; in commerce between suppliers, manufacturers, customers, and other trading partners; and throughout the various stages of the product life cycle. The IOF ontologies consist of a common mid-level ontology, “Core,” and several domain specific ontologies.
The IOF Core Ontology resides at the top of this suite from an architectural perspective and contains terms found in several operational areas of manufacturing. Additionally, the architectural approach chosen by the IOF is to base all of its ontologies on a single foundational or top-level ontology–for which the IOF chose the Basic Formal Ontology or BFO. The Core Ontology contains many intermediate-level terms that derive from BFO and from which the IOF ontologies derive domain industry terms. Core intermediate-level terms are often domain independent–meaning one can find them in other industries and fields, such as in the banking, insurance, and healthcare industries, or the sciences, as in the physics, chemistry, and biology domains.
Browse the ontologies below — each entry is its own fully searchable browser, generated from a branch of the iofoundry/ontology repository.
Releases
Published IOF releases. Each is diffed against the previous release.
| Version | Contents | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 202603 | 999 classes · 158 properties · 7 domains | +601 −8 ~219 (vs 202602) |
| 202602 | 427 classes · 137 properties · 7 domains | +10 −5 ~140 (vs 202601) |
| 202601 | 428 classes · 131 properties · 7 domains | +180 ~10 (vs 202502) |
| 202502 | 261 classes · 118 properties · 6 domains | +382 −209 (vs 202401) |
| 202401 | 205 classes · 0 properties · 3 domains | +133 −132 ~30 (vs 202301) |
| 202301 | 205 classes · 0 properties · 3 domains | — |
Staging
Release candidates staged (staging/*). Each is diffed against master.
None currently available.
Review
Branches under review (review/*). Each is diffed against master.
None currently available.