The Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO)

The Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO) is the result of a multidisciplinary effort within the EMMC, aimed at the development of a standard representational ontology framework based on current materials modelling and characterization knowledge. Instead of starting from general upper level concepts, as done by other ontologies, the EMMO development started from the very bottom level, using the actual picture of the physical world coming from applied sciences, and in particular from physics and material sciences.

The EMMO has grown from the bottom (i.e. scientific application field) to the top (i.e. conceptualization), staying focused on the original scope while at the same time maintaining an approach as general as possible. The ontological framework has been built around concepts like elementary particles, wave-particle dualism, finiteness of space and time intervals coming from the perspective for experimental physics. The development of the middle and upper layers of the ontology has been functional to the respect of these low level concepts, to facilitate the understanding of the high level concepts to users with limited or no philosophical background.

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Compacted ontology1 Inferred ontology2 Documentation
Version Asserted ontology rdf/xml turtle rdf/xml turtle html pdf
development http://emmo.info/emmo/1.0.0-rc1 1.0.0-rc1 1.0.0-rc1 1.0.0-rc1
1.0.0-beta7 http://emmo.info/emmo/1.0.0-beta7 1.0.0-beta7 1.0.0-beta7 1.0.0-beta7 1.0.0-beta7 1.0.0-beta7
1.0.0-beta6 http://emmo.info/emmo/1.0.0-beta6 1.0.0-beta6 1.0.0-beta6 1.0.0-beta6 1.0.0-beta6 1.0.0-beta6
1.0.0-beta5 http://emmo.info/emmo/1.0.0-beta5 1.0.0-beta5 1.0.0-beta5 1.0.0-beta5 1.0.0-beta5 1.0.0-beta5
stable http://emmo.info/emmo/1.0.0-beta4 1.0.0-beta4 1.0.0-beta4 1.0.0-beta4 1.0.0-beta4 1.0.0-beta4
1.0.0-beta3 http://emmo.info/emmo/1.0.0-beta3 1.0.0-beta3 1.0.0-beta3 1.0.0-beta3 1.0.0-beta3
1.0.0-beta2 http://emmo.info/emmo/1.0.0-beta2 1.0.0-beta2 1.0.0-beta2 1.0.0-beta2 1.0.0-beta2
1.0.0-beta http://emmo.info/emmo/1.0.0-beta 1.0.0-beta 1.0.0-beta 1.0.0-beta 1.0.0-beta 1.0.0-beta 1.0.0-beta
1.0.0-alpha2 http://emmo.info/emmo/1.0.0-alpha2 1.0.0-alpha2 1.0.0-alpha2 1.0.0-alpha2 1.0.0-alpha2 1.0.0-alpha2 1.0.0-alpha2
1.0.0-alpha http://emmo.info/emmo/1.0.0-alpha 1.0.0-alpha 1.0.0-alpha 1.0.0-alpha 1.0.0-alpha 1.0.0-alpha 1.0.0-alpha
0.9.10 http://emmo.info/emmo/0.9.10 0.9.10 0.9.10 0.9.10 0.9.10 0.9.10 0.9.10
0.9.10-beta http://emmo.info/emmo/0.9.10-beta 0.9.10-beta 0.9.10-beta 0.9.10-beta 0.9.10-beta 0.9.10-beta 0.9.10-beta
0.9.9 http://emmo.info/emmo/0.9.9 0.9.9 0.9.9 0.9.9 0.9.9 0.9.9 0.9.9
0.9.9-beta http://emmo.info/emmo/0.9.9-beta 0.9.9-beta 0.9.9-beta 0.9.9-beta 0.9.9-beta 0.9.9-beta 0.9.9-beta

1 Compacted ontology means that all modules have been squashed together into a single file with no imports. Also, rdfs:isDefinedBy annotations referring to the original module IRI have been added.
2 Inferred ontology is reasoned and compacted.