OntoIOp (Ontology Integration and Interoperability), the ISO 17347 Standard Development Initiative    (2VTR)

ISO/TC37/SC3/WG3: ISO WD 17347 - Ontology Integration and Interoperability (OntoIOp) – Part 1: The Distributed Ontology Language (DOL)    (2VTS)

General Information    (2XSB)

News    (2XQX)

Resources    (2XS4)

Public    (38JZ)

As usual with ISO standards, the working draft is not currently open access. However, related ISO standards, such as Common Logic, are open. We aim at obtaining the permission to make the OntoIOp standard open around summer 2012.    (38K1)

Restricted to ISO working group members    (38K2)

Applications    (38K3)

COLORE (Common Logic Repository)    (38K4)

COLORE is an open repository of first-order ontologies implemented in Common Logic. COLORE is self-contained and using one single logic, but it is “distributed” in its high modularity.    (38K5)

Meta-theoretical relationships between the COLORE ontologies are of particular interest, including maps (signature morphisms), definitional extension, conservative extension, inconsistency between modules, imports, relative interpretation, faithful interpretation, and definable equivalence. DOL allows for formalizing them (as compared to the earlier approach of just writing them down as metadata) and makes them amenable to fully automated verification with tools such as http://www.dfki.de/cps/hets Hets (Heterogeneous Tool Set)].    (38K6)

First mappings implemented in DOL can be found in the directories for OWL Time intervals and Periods.    (38K7)

Ontohub, a DOL-enabled Ontology Repository Engine    (38K8)

The Ontohub repository engine (demo installation, sources) supports many notions of DOL as first-class citizens:    (38K9)

This presentation introduces Ontohub with a slide show and a demo video.    (38KE)

Publications (newest first)    (2XSD)

  1. TillMossakowski, OliverKutz, ChristophLange: Three Semantics for the Core of the Distributed Ontology Language; in 7th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), Graz, Austria, July 2012.    (38JX)
  2. ChristophLange, OliverKutz, TillMossakowski, MichaelGruninger: The Distributed Ontology Language (DOL): Ontology Integration and Interoperability Applied to Mathematical Formalization; in Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM), Systems & Projects track, Bremen, Germany, July 2012.    (3AD2)
  3. ChristophLange, TillMossakowski, OliverKutz, ChristianGalinski, MichaelGruninger, DanielCoutoVale. The Distributed Ontology Language (DOL): Use Cases, Syntax, and Extensibility; in Terminology and Knowledge Engineering (TKE), Madrid, Spain, June 2012.    (3AD3)
  4. OliverKutz, TillMossakowski, ChristianGalinski, ChristophLange. Making Heterogeneous Ontologies Interoperable Through Standardisation – A Meta Ontology Language to be Standardised: Ontology Integration and Interoperability (OntoIOp); in Accessibility Reaching Everywhere, AEGIS Workshop and 2nd International Conference, Brussels, Belgium, November 2011. (presentation slides, poster)    (2XSF)
  5. OliverKutz, TillMossakowski, ChristianGalinski, ChristophLange. Towards a Standard for Heterogeneous Ontology Integration and Interoperability; in International Conference on Terminology, Language and Content Resources (LaRC), Seoul, Korea, June 2011. Proceedings (see from page 101)    (2XSE)

The Team    (2XSG)

The list of people on the OntoIOp working group:    (2XSH)

History (may be incomplete)    (2XR0)