Community Profile for Common Semantic Model Working Group (COSMO-WG) (HTN)
By Patrick Cassidy/ Date: 9 November 2005
Last Updated: 9 November 2005 (HTO)
- Community (name): Common Semantic Model Working Group (COSMO-WG) (HTP)
- See ONTACWG Home Page: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyTaxonomyCoordinatingWG (HTQ)
- Date Established: October 5, 2005 (HTR)
- Key Stakeholders: Those who are interested in helping construct the Common Semantic Model (HTS)
- Constituency: Builders and users of Knowledge Classification Systems (HTT)
- Domain: General -- Knowledge Classification Systems (KCSs) (ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, graphical knowledge representations) for any topic or community. (HTU)
- Mission / Charter: Semantic Interoperability and Coordination of KCS construction (HTV)
- With respect to Ontology work (esp. eGov-related work), the community's: (HTW)
- Medium Term Goal: begin alignment of domain KCSs with COSMO (HTX)
- Short Term Goal: Build limited-scope Common Semantic Model (COSMO) (HTY)
- Deliverables within the next 6 months: TBD (HTZ)
- Key Differentiation (with the other communities presenting today): Actual collaborative construction of a common semantic model is part of the community activity; providing recommendations to builders of registry systems is an associated activity. (HU0)
- What we can bring to the table to foster collaboration with other communities here today: A forum and method to maintain and relate the high-level concepts in each community KCS to permit accurate translation of knowledge from one community's representation to that of annother. (HU1)
- Status: Recently organized, methods and goals are still under discussion and input from all interested parties is requested. (HU2)
Contact: Patrick Cassidy: pcassidy at mitre.org or
Dagobert Soergel: dsoergel at umd.edu (HUG)