gist Release Notes

Release notes gist 9.3.0

• Merged into a single module/file all of gist except the gistDeprecated module. Fixes issue 292.
• Removed import diagram generation and catalog files from bundling. Fixes issue 309.
• Amended bundle.yaml to add rdfs:isDefinedBy to all ontology terms during release bundling process. Fixes issue 266.
• Added gist:EmailAddress as a subclass of gist:ElectronicMessageAddress. Fixes issue 99.
• Changed gist:orderedMemberOf from Inverse Functional to Functional. Fixes issue 262.
• Added gist:Collection as the range, instead of domain, of gist:memberOf. Fixes issue 142.
• Removed redundant disjoints. Fixes issue 254.

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore9.3.0.

Release notes gist 9.2.0

• Replaced all “xs” namespace prefixes for XML Schema with “xsd”. Corrects issue 158.
• Corrected gist:convertToBase value for gist:_minute from 1.0 to 60.0. Fixes issue 82.
• Added initial draft of in-progress gist style guide. Fixes issue 163.
• Added documentation of change and release management process. Fixes issue 233.
• Added guidelines for submission of GitHub issues and pull requests. Fixes issue 190.
• Remove defunct tools and documentation. Fixes issue 193.
• Include direct imports of all gist modules in gistCore. Fixes issue 80.
• Corrected all typos and misspellings in annotations. Fixes issue 210.
• Added cardinality restrictions and disjoints to various gist unit classes. Fixes 69.
• Removed defunct owl:versionInfo from all ontology files. Fixes issue 212.

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore9.2.0.

Release notes gist 9.1.0

• Reformatted all files to match uniform serialization.
• Corrected restriction for gist:Collection.
• Provided missing labels for classes and properties.
• Corrected issues 72, 91, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 122, and 145.
• Removed outdated Visio and PDF files, documentation is now auto-generated as part of the release process.
• gistWiki has been removed.

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore9.1.0.

Release notes gist 9.0

Miscellaneous

• The gist namespace has been modfied from http: to https:.
• Added comments to ontologies.
• Added labels and comments to many properties and classes.
• SocialBeing has been removed.
• The property gist:party has been renamed to gist:hasParty.

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore9.0.0.

Agreement

• SocialBeing has been removed. A few restrictions that used SocialBeing as a filter class now use the expression (Person or Organization).
• Added Contract.
• The property gist:party was renamed to gist:hasParty.

Category

• New property: hasTag.
• A gist:Category now uses gist:hasTag instead of gist:containedText.
• The definition of Taxonomy was corrected. It used to be a controlled vocabulary that had a super category or a navigational parent. But it is not the taxonomy that is part of a hierarchy, it is the elements of the taxonomy that are part of the hierarchy. The definition for gist:Taxonomy now says it is a controlled vocabulary and has a member that has either a sub category or super category. The notion of navigational parent is no longer included in the definition.
• The object property gist:hasPreferredTerm that pointed to a gist:Text property was removed. Use the annotation skos:prefLabel instead.

Event

• Renamed occurredAt to occursAt.
• Changed restriction on gist:Event to be (occursAt gist:Place) rather than (occuredAt gist:GeoRegion).
• Renamed TemplateTask to TaskTemplate because it is a template related to tasks, not a task related to templates.
• Moved gist;characterizedAs to gistTop.
• Removed TimeInterval. A number of restrictions with filter class (TimeInstant or TimeInterval) changed to be just TimeInstant.

Intention

• A ServiceSpecifictation no longer produced a behavior. Rather, it is the basis for an Event (replaced a restriction)
• New property: basisFor, inverse of basedOn which is defined in gistTop.

IoT

Entirely new ontology for modeling Internet of Things concepts.

Measure

• Slight clarification of the meaning of OrdinalCollection. Mathematically, it is more than just a total order, it is a strict total order.
• directlyPrecedes replaces strictlyPrecedes.
• directlyPrecededBy replaces strictlyPrecededBy
• PhysicalThing removed, was a vestige from the past.

Network

• Entirely new ontology covering concepts for a virtual or actual network.

Organization

• New Class: GeoPoliticalRegion, a collection of gist:GeoRegion administered by a GovernmentOrganization.

Place

• The range of the property geoOccupies changed to gist:Place. It had been the union of GeoRegion and GeoVolume.

TemporalRelation

• TemporalRelation no longer a subclass of TimeInterval (which has been removed).

Time

• Just a few new labels and comments.

Top

• References to TimeInterval removed.
• Event is no longer a subclass of TimeInterval. Instead, it has a start and end time.
• gist:Content is no longer disjoint with Intention.
• gist:Magnitude is no longer gist:of something. We used to think of magnitude of say 180 pounds as necessarily being a value associated with something, e.g. a person. gist:of was the inverse of gist:hasA which no longer exists.

Unit

• RatioUnit used to have exactly 1 UnitOfMeasure as a numerator, now it can have more than one.

Deprecated

Added to the list of deprecated things:

1. Renamed a. gist:TemplateTask (renamed to TaskTemplate) b. gist:party (use hasParty instead)
2. Removed a. gist:SocialBeing - use (Person or Organization) instead b. gist:of (a vestige of the past) c. gist:sameOrderAs (was adding unnecessary mathematical precision) d. gist:TimeInterval (the idea of a time interval is captured by assigning it a start and end time, e.g. an event) e. gist:dateTime
3. Replaced by a variation a. gist:strictlyPrecededBy (using directlyPrecededBy instead) b. gist:strictlyPrecedes (using directlyPrecedes instead)

Release notes gist 8.0

This major version primarily changed all concept URIs to use / instead of # Additionally, gistWiki is no longer included by gistCore.

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore8.0.

Release notes gist 7.5

This version focused on making the import structure simpler and flatter, in order to make it easier for people to use subsets of gist if they want to. Because all of gist is in one name space this was relatively easy to do and will have very little impact on anyone who is using gist 7.* (see the change log there were a few changes that you may want to review).

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore7.5.owl.

Release notes gist 7.4

Gist 7.4 was an internal release.

Release notes gist 7.3

• An additional supplementary ontology was added for Units of Measure which introduces the concept of a Coherent Unit. This allows for conversions between units of the same dimension to be done using just SPARQL, as opposed to relying on rules.
• There are new and/or improved annotations (definitions, notes, examples, negative examples, etc.) on all Classes.
• The Category ontology added properties for true sub/super type relationship, including having a unique superType (parent).
• Other minor changes:
• removal of redundant imports and redundant classes already defined in another ontology
• relaxed the domain on gist:start and gist:end
• expanded the range of gist:fromAgent and gist:toAgent
• added to the Units of Measure ontology and corrected an erronoeously named class

See ChangeLog in pdf file for full details of changes.

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore7.3.owl.

Release notes gist 7.2

• Add wiki and rdfshape capability
• Removed some redundant assertions, and moved some comments to the ontology where the concept was first introduced.
• Removed currencyValue in favor of decimalValue
• Upgrades domains on some date properties and hasCommunicationAddress
• Deprecated a lot of the measurement stuff that wasn’t being used (as far as we know)

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore7.2.owl.

Release notes gist 7.1.1

• Fix an erroneous disjoint statement on the class gist:Magnitude. If you previously downloaded gist 7.1 you may have experienced an inference error if you attempted to run inference using Hermit. The gist 7.1.1 release has eliminated the cause of this error.
• In addition to using the OWL files locally, you can import these files via URL directly into your ontology editor of choice(Protegé, Topbraid, etc.) The import will take care of the dependencies.

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore7.1.1.owl.

Release notes gist 7.1

Primarily fixes minor errors like typos in our gist 7.0 release.

Below is a brief summary of the changes that have semantic import from an inference perspective (axiom added, removed, changed, etc.) or that are backward incompatible.

• Made gist:uniqueText a sub-property of gist:containedText.
• Added gist:Agreement to range of gist:governs.
• Changed gist:prevent, gist:allow and gist:require to gist:prevents, gist:allows, and gist:requires.
• Changed restriction on gist:Offer to use gist:hasDirectPart some gist:CatalogItem.
• Removed property gist:specifiedIn, no longer needed.
• Changed property restriction on gist:Account from gist:hasA some gist:Balance to gist:hasMagnitude some gist:Balance.
• Corrected inverse property of gist:hasDirectSubtask to gist:directSubtaskOf
• Added gist:IntellectualProperty and gist:PhysicalThing to the range of gist:governs.
• In the definition of gist:Requirement, removed gist:Conformance from the range of gist:requires.

In addition to using the OWL files locally, you can import these files via URL directly into your ontology editor of choice(Protegé, Topbraid, etc.) The import will take care of the dependencies.

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore7.1.owl.

Release Notes gist 7.0

gist 7.0 is a major upgrade from our last released version (6.7.1). The main differences are:

• gist 7.0 is extremely modular. There are 18 modules that can be used collectively or in subsets if you don’t need all the concepts in gist.
• gist 7.0 is more elegant than its predecessors. We have reduced the number of top level concepts that everything else derives from to 12. And these 12 concepts are not philosophical abstractions like endurants and perdurants, or qualia, there are normal terms whose definitions are quite close to what you already believe.
• gist 7.0 has more extensive and more-fine grained disjointness at the highest level. It turns out that in order for an upper ontology to help you avoid making logical errors in your derived enterprise or application ontology, it needs to make use of disjointness. Without disjointness, the reasoner does not find logic errors.

For documentation and OWL files regarding terms that were deprecated when moving from version 6.7.1 to 7.0, please see the sub-folder called “Deprecated terms from gist6.7.1”.

In addition to using the OWL files locally, you can import these files via URL directly into your ontology editor of choice(Protegé, Topbraid, etc.) The import will take care of the dependencies.

Import URL: http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/o/gistCore7.0.owl.