iff

The Language for

the Information Flow Framework

 

Overview

Associated with the Information Flow Framework is a markup language (XML application) of the same name. The markup language IFF incorporates ideas from other knowledge representation languages such as RDF/S, OKBC, OIL, CGIF and CycL. IFF has a principled model-theoretic foundation, based upon the logic of Information Flow and expressed in terms of category theory. IFF is the sequel to the markup language pair OML/CKML.

 

Examples

 

Comparisons

 

Ontologies

 

 

 

 

We have begun the transformation of all of the OML/CKML, WAVE and Bioinformatics pages to the Information Flow Framework. This will take several months, not being finished until September or October.

 

 

 

OML 0.3

 

Relations and Expressions

 

RDF Contexts

 

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Please send questions, comments and suggestions about this page to: Robert E. Kent rekent@ontologos.org

 

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