John Beverley

University at Buffalo
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
  • University at Buffalo
    Department of Philosophy
    Assistant Professor
  • National Center for Ontological Research
    Administrator
  • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
    Other (Part-time)
Northwestern University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2021
CV
Buffalo, NY, United States of America
  • Ontology Development Strategies and the Infectious Disease Ontology Ecosystem
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies. 2023.
    After motivating a framework for evaluating top-down, middle-out, middle-in, and bottom-up ontology development strategies, we apply our framework to investigate whether infectious disease ontologies - specifically, the Virus Infectious Disease Ontology (VIDO) and the Coronavirus Infectious Disease Ontology (CIDO) - effectively promote semantic interoperability.
  • BFO: Basic Formal Ontology
    Applied ontology 17 (1): 17-43. 2022.
    Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level ontology consisting of thirty-six classes, designed to support information integration, retrieval, and analysis across all domains of scientific investigation, presently employed in over 350 ontology projects around the world. BFO is a genuine top-level ontology, containing no terms particular to material domains, such as physics, medicine, or psychology. In this paper, we demonstrate how a series of cases illustrating common types of change may be repr…Read more
  • A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time (review)
    Philosophy in Review 38 (3): 97-99. 2018.
  • The Infectious Disease Ontology in the Age of COVID-19
    Shane Babcock, Lindsay G. Cowell, John Beverley, and Barry Smith
    Journal of Biomedical Semantics 12 (13). 2021.
    The Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) is a suite of interoperable ontology modules that aims to provide coverage of all aspects of the infectious disease domain, including biomedical research, clinical care, and public health. IDO Core is designed to be a disease and pathogen neutral ontology, covering just those types of entities and relations that are relevant to infectious diseases generally. IDO Core is then extended by a collection of ontology modules focusing on specific diseases and patho…Read more