Publication
Experimental Research Ontology (ERO)
Christian Backe; Veit Briken
8/2025.
Abstract
The Experimental Research Ontology (ERO) is a small ontology that models some fundamental aspects of data creation in experimental research. ERO is aligned with several upper ontologies, including BFO, IAO, OBI, and SOSA. ERO enables the characterization of different types of experiments by specifying different methodologies and collections of parameters. Methodology specifications may include, e.g., research objectives, experiment setups and procedures, success criteria, or saftey regulations. Parameter usage may depend on experiment type, e.g., whether a parameter is required or not, or whether it is an independent or dependent variable. Parameter values are observed during experiment runs. Each experiment run has exactly one experiment type. Each experiment type can have any number of runs.
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