The course “Formal Ontology” at Neuchâtel
Since 2021, the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel has offered a course on formal and applied ontologies. The course is open to undergraduate students both in data science and in the humanities.
- 2024 Syllabus
- Some problem sets, built on tutorial ontologies and other online ressources
- “Building Ontologies” slides
External learning resources
The website for the US-based National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) contains many useful resources for learning to develop and deploy ontologies, especially when you want to use Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), i.e. an ISO-standard foundational ontology (ISO/IEC 21838).
If you are interested in writing an ontology paper, you may want to read this editorial paper in the journal Applied Ontology.