Hi,
The defence departments of Australia, Canada,
Sweden, UK and US
have been working on a formal ontology to support their
enterprise architecture
efforts – www.ideasgroup.org
All we’ve released so far is the foundation - http://www.ideasgroup.org/foundation/
- but quite a bit more has been done on building patterns
for processes,
agents, information, systems, capabilities, etc. The
foundation has been used
to underpin the DoDAF 2.0 meta-model (DM2) – though the
resulting
meta-model isn’t what most people would recognise as an
ontology. The
Swedish Armed Forces are investigating how the MODAF
Meta-Model (currently a
UML Profile) could be re-engineered into a formal ontology
based on IDEAS.
John Zachman was over in the UK in March for the
Integrated-EA
conference and had some discussions with UK MOD on ontology
and enterprise
architecture. From the brief conversations I had with him,
he seemed very
enthusiastic about ontology in general.
At the same conference, Jonathan Carter and Jason
Powell
presented on an open-source approach to EA development using
Protege –
see http://www.integrated-ea.com/Previous-Years
Back in 2007, I presented on ontology and EA at
the Open Group
and EA Europe conferences – slides are here: http://www.modelfutures.com/Publications/
That, and the paper from Top Quadrant (which has
already been
mentioned in this thread) are the only efforts I’m aware of
for “semantic
EA”.
Hope this helps
--
Ian Bailey
Model Futures