Ontology Working Group

Mission:

Contacts:

To enable the OMG to rapidly develop ontology- related technology by

bringing together the expertise in the semantics of software with the expertise for knowledge representation, consistency checking, and knowledge-processing, in order to leverage each other’s technologies
coordinating the semantic foundations of the platform independent models within OMG domain activities and to encourage the various domain-oriented groups to adopt appropriate ontology technologies as a means of maximizing reuse of members' contributions
capturing OMG's existing domain knowledge to maximize reuse of experience gained from developing domain-oriented APIs
developing working relationships among OMG activities and related activities, such as the semantic web and agent communities and
gathering together prior work and developing white papers, languages, and mappings (profiles and MOF metamodels).

Contacts:	Evan Wallace NIST ewallace@nist.gov
	Elisa Kendall Sandpiper Software ekendall@sandsoft.com

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Hot topic!!!

The Ontology PSIG and other OMG subgroups are developing a repository of Ontologies and Vocabularies. OMG has asked for input on this by issuing a Request for Information on Ontology and Vocabulary Management Information. An RFP to develop the first content for this repository has also been issued: Date-Time Foundation Vocabulary RFP. See the Vocabulary Management page for other news and resources regarding this effort.