gist Forum—gistBFO: Pragmatic Domain Modeling with ISO-Certified Compliance

With the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community adopting Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as a baseline standard, organizations face the challenge of achieving compliance without sacrificing modeling agility. This presentation introduces gistBFO, a semantic alignment that bridges Semantic Arts' pragmatic, business-focused gist ontology with the ISO-standard BFO. Learn how you can kickstart domain ontology development using everyday terminology while ensuring your data remains fully interoperable with the broader BFO ecosystem.