| ActingFor + | Matteo Sanvitale is working as an officer for CEMA s.r.l. + |
| Action + | The action of making coffee is dependent on the action of buying coffee. +, The action of making coffee is 'completed'. +, The consequence of making coffee is drinking coffee. +, … |
| ActivitySpecification + | This pattern is applicable for a wide range of scenarios. In essence + |
| Actuation-Actuator-Effect + | A light switch has an impact on the luminosity when it is toggled + |
| AffectedBy + | A room (feature of interest) has a temperature (quality) and this temperature is affected by the air conditioner status +, By the number of people in the room +, And by the sun radiation that passes through the room’s windows. A basement (feature of interest) has a temperature (quality) that is affected by the air conditioner status +, … |
| AgentRole + | She greeted us all in her various roles of mother +, Friend +, And daughter. + |
| AquaticResourceObservation + | The aquatic resource for Skipjack tuna in Northern Atlantic in 2004 (as reported in 2008) was observed with low abundance level. + |
| AquaticResources + | Give me the Species for water area 24; give me the Water areas for species Gadus morhua. + |
| Biological Entities + | TestScenario1 +, TestScenario2 + |
| City Resident Pattern + | The definition of Resident varies from city to city and country to country. We use as our use cases definitions of Resident as provided by four cities: Toronto Canada: “you are identified as a resident if you reside in +, Own property +, The more regular dwelling is considered their place of resi-dence” (Li +, … |
| Classification + | Mac OSX 10.5 is classified as an operating system in the Fujitsu-Siemens product catalog. + |
| ClimaticZone + | Give me the resource observations where the zone is 'Tropical' + |
| Co-participation + | Mike and Greta had a great fun together +, Aldo Gangemi and Valentina Presutti co-participate at the ISWC 2007 conference. + |
| Collection + | My saxophone collection includes a Mark VI tenor +, A Balanced Action alto +, And a Conn Transitional bari. + |
| CollectionEntity + | The Louvre Aegyptian collection. + |
| CommunicationEvent + | A sales call between John at company x and Mary at company y took place on January 7 2009. In the call John had the role of seller and Mary the role of buyer. The call was made in the context of the long-term relation between comanies x and y +, Where x is the subcontractor of y. The purpose of the call was to agree on a price for a particular order item. +, In todays boardmeeting John was elected chairman of the meeting +, … |
| Complaint Design Pattern + | A complaint refers to the narrated facts of an agent +, Grounded with a motive and a request +, Through a specific medium (used to generate the complaint document) +, … |
| Componency + | The turbine is a proper part of the engine +, Both are parts of a car. Furthermore +, The engine and the battery are proper parts of the car. + |
| ComputationalEnvironment + | The tool Wireshark was run on a particular computer in order to analyze network traffic. + |
| ConceptGroup + | Used to describe whole vocabulary entity or vocabulary concepts subset. Compliant with RefSets in SNOMED-CT or themes in GEMET. + |
| ConceptTerms + | Used for vocabulary representation. For example in Eurovoc(http://europa.eu/eurovoc/) +, In a particular information retrieval context +, We could define a coumpound non preferred term "social sciences awards" which is related to preferred terms "social sciences" and "award". + |
| Constituency + | Different types of wood constitute this table. + |
| Description in Range + | The wine "Amarone della Valpolicella" has to comply with a set of rules including grape composition rules. In particular +, It has to be made with a specific ampelographic composition that indicates the different types of grapes that contribute to form the wine +, Together with their percentage ranges. In this case +, … |
| EventCore + | The 1990 World Chess Championship Match takes place in New York from October 8 to November 7 +, 1990 +, And in Lyons +, … |
| Experience & Observation + | A letter or diary entry reports on the writer's experience when reading a book or listening to music + |
| GO Top + | A 'template for synthesis of G-rich strand of telomere DNA activity' must be part of a 'telomerase activity' +, All 'templates for synthesis of G-rich strand of telomere DNA activity' are 'molecular functions' + |
| GearSpecies + | Give me the gears targeting species 'tuna'; give me the gears which incidentally catch species 'dolphins'; give me the species caught using 'bottom gillnets' + |
| GearVessel + | Give me the vesseltypes that use 'trawls' + |
| GearWaterArea + | In which water areas are 'bottom gillnets'? + |
| Gesture Interaction + | How can the system accommodate the user's preferred gesture and let the user continue +, As in their own room +, Without having to read instructions. This ontology pattern will help to model parsonlised gesture details. Further +, … |
| HasPest + | Bugs are pests for humans +, Gundy bug is a pest for rice + |
| HazardousSituation + | The farmer is spraying pesticides on the fields. He asked a student working on a farm for help in carrying pesticide sprayers and storage containers. In this situation +, Neither the farmer nor the student is wearing any personal protective equipment such as gloves or using any respirators. After 4 hours of spraying +, The student developed skin irritation. + |
| Information realization + | The book of the "Divina Commedia". + |
| IntensionExtension + | 'Leonardo da Vinci' is the name of the main Rome airport +, 'Legal Person' means an incorporated entity with legal status. + |
| Invoice + | An invoice refers to transactions related to an ordered item for a certain amount of currency +, And is grounded in a (legally valid) document. + |
| LCA Pattern + | Installation emissions +, Operation emissions +, And the final disposal emissions. Such assessment first requires the gathering of all relevant data from different sources into a so-called Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) +, … |
| LicenseLinkedDataResources + | Declaring rights on both Linked Open Data and Linked Closed Data + |
| Literal Reification + | Modelling domains concerning descriptive tags +, In which each tag may have more than one meaning depending on the context in which it is used. Extending quickly the capabilities of a model by adding the possibility to make assertions on values +, Previously referred through data properties +, … |
| Material Transformation + | A pile of wood is transformed into ash by burning. Emboddied energy involved in the process of mixing aggregate +, Water +, Cement and other binders to create concrete. Materials required to construct a manufactured artifact such as a window (glass +, … |
| Metonymy-species-commodity + | Yellowfin tuna is provided as fresh or chilled food commodity + |
| ModifiedHazardousSituation + | A person who is lactose intolerant (a susceptibility) exposes herself to a hazard (eating ice cream) and experiences a consequence (stomach ache). + |
| Nary Participation + | The match lasted 95 minutes +, And the winner used a new nano-carbon racquet. + |
| NewsReportingEvent + | A single actual event +, Bus drivers protest +, Is presented in to different media: a TV news stationand a news website. John Doe prepared the material for the station Channel 55 +, … |
| OOPMetrics + | Find if a class (or which class) is a God Class based on it's metrics. +, Gaseste daca o clasa (sau care clasa) se inscrie in anti-sablonul "God Class" pe baza metricilor ei. + |
| Object with states + | A sample scenario is the following. A software defect created in an issue tracker must have a creator and be associated to a certain software product. Once it is checked that the defect is reproducible +, It must be assigned to some developer and have a certain priority. However +, Before checking the defect reproducilibty the defect must not have either asignee or priority. + |
| Objectrole + | This old glass is used as a flower pot. + |
| Observation + | The aquatic species 'Skipjack tuna' was observed in 2004 having the exploitation state 'fully exploited' in the climatic zone 'tropical' at the vertical distance 'pelagic'. + |
| PartOf + | Brain and heart are parts of the human body +, Substantia nigra is part of brain. + |
| ParticipantRole + | John was elected the meeting secretary of today's board meeting. During the party we used the blue cup as a vase. + |
| Participation + | Aldo Gangemi participated in the premiere of La Dolce Vita. + |
| PeriodicInterval + | Sam teaches every monday + |
| Place + | The Colosseum is located in Rome. + |
| Reactor pattern + | As an exemplifier for the reactor pattern +, Water +, Total infrastructure area +, … |
| RecurrentEventSeries + | Umbria Jazz is a collection of events +, Which all take place in July and in the Italian region of Umbria +, And has the musical genre jazz as a topic. Its events recur at regular time periods +, … |
| RecurrentSituationSeries + | Umbria Jazz is a collection of situations +, Which all take place in July and in the Italian region of Umbria +, And has the musical genre jazz as a topic. Its situations recur at regular time periods +, … |
| ReportingNewsEvent + | A single actual event +, Bus drivers protest +, Is presented in to different media: a TV news station and a news website. John Doe prepared the material for the station Channel 55 +, … |
| ResourceAbundanceObservation + | Give me the resource observations for the year 2004 Give me the resource observations where the abundance level is 'Low abundance' + |
| ResourceExploitationObservation + | Give me the resource observations for the year 2004 Give me the resource observations where the exploitation rate is 'Moderate fishing mortality' Give me the resource observations where the state is 'fully exploited' + |
| Role task + | Students have the duty of giving exams + |
| Situation + | The lecture was held in January 1921 by Bela Fleck +, With some physicians in the audience making questions +, In a very relaxed athmosphere. + |
| Smart City Strategy Design + | Strategies design or planning; problem analysis +, Decision-making + |
| SmartHome FeatureOfInterest + | A feature of interest can be "the pressure sensed on the couch" or "the electric-current of the TV". + |
| Spatial Graph Adapter (SGA) + | IFC +, GBXML +, And CityGML (current work) + |
| SpatioTemporalExtent + | The World Chess Championship Match 1990 was held in two parts: New York (October 8 to November 7) and Lyons - France (November 26 to December 30).The Renaissance occured in different places at different times.A hurricane moves through the spacetime. + |
| SpeciesBathymetry + | Give me the species found below 200 metres for water area '24' + |
| SpeciesConditions + | Give me the species found below 200 metres for water area '24'; give me the species having a 'demersal' habitat in water area '24' + |
| SpeciesConservation + | Give me the species for which conservation status contains 'Vulnerable'; Give me the species for which conservation status is 'vulnerable'; Give me the conservation status for species 'Ostrica gigas + |
| SpeciesEat + | What species eat 'shrimp'; What species are eaten by 'seals' + |
| SpeciesHabitat + | Give me the species having a 'demersal' habitat in water area '24' + |
| SpeciesNames + | Give me the species containing local name 'oyster'; give me the synonyms and localnames for species 'Ostrica gigas'; give me the species with which species 'Ostrica gigas' can be confused + |
| Standard Enforcer Pattern + | As an exemplifier for SEP +, The ontology defines the concepts and relationships for the operation and incorporates SEP by enforcing a guideline for measuring Carbon input to the operation. + |
| Tagging + | A Flickr picture showing a leopard +, Tagged with the Tag 'leopard' +, A Flickr picture showing a boy surfing with a sombrero hat +, … |
| TaskExecution + | She smiled at us +, So obtaining the effect of making us feeling positive. + |
| Time indexed participation + | This morning I've prepared my coffee and had my fingers burnt +, The football match lasted only ten minutes for Totti + |
| TimeIndexedPartOf + | My Toyota Yaris mounted Michelin pneumatics in 2007 +, But in 2008 it mounts Pirelli pneumatics. + |
| TimeIndexedSituation + | Mustafa's address in 2005 was in Brussels + |
| TimeInterval + | The time interval “January 2008” starts at 2008−01−01 and ends at and ends at 2008−01−31. + |
| TimePeriod + | A time period of 1 year elapses between two consecutive editions of Umbria Jazz Festival. + |
| Topic + | "The topic of Moby Dick is the hatred of humanity" +, "What is the main subjects in neswpapers today? And more specifically?" + |
| Trajectory + | Mike's trip to the GeoVoCamp 2012 from his home integrating data from GPS device +, Vehicle information +, And personal information.A toucan flies through the air as recorded by researchers in the MoveBank.The 1990 World Chess Championship event that was held in two locations at two different times. + |
| Transition + | The addition of Bud Powell on piano made the tune jump from a static +, Aerial comping into a hard driving swing improvisation + |
| VerticalDistribution + | Give me the resource observations where the vertical distribution is 'Pelagic' + |
| VesselSpecies + | Give me the species caught using 'gillneters' + |
'Ontology Design Patterns'