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!!!

A number of folk from a variety of international standards activities are planning the development of an ontology for units and measures to address requirements for formalization of these concepts for scientific, engineering, healthcare and e-commerce applications.  A virtual panel was held to kick off this effort on Friday, 19 June 2009 at 16:00 UTC.

New:

The Ontology Definition Metamodel specification is now available as a formal OMG specification.

Last updated on: 06/22/2009