Community Profile for Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group (ONTACWG) (HT5)
By Patrick Cassidy/ Date: 9 November 2005
Last Updated: 9 November 2005 (HT6)
- Community (name): Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group (ONTACWG) (HT7)
- Home Page: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyTaxonomyCoordinatingWG (HTL)
- Date Established: October 5, 2005 (HT8)
- Key Stakeholders: Builders and users of Knowledge Classification Systems (HT9)
- Constituency: Same (HTA)
- Domain: General -- Knowledge Classification Systems (KCSs) (ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, graphical knowledge representations) for any topic or community. (HTB)
- Mission / Charter: Semantic Interoperability and Coordination of KCS construction; see Mission statement. (HTC)
- With respect to Ontology work (esp. eGov-related work), the community's: (HTD)
- Medium Term Goal: begin alignment of domain KCSs with COSMO (HTE)
- Short Term Goal: Build limited-scope Common Semantic Model (COSMO) (HTF)
- Deliverables within the next 6 months: TBD (HTG)
- Key Differentiation (with the other communities presenting today): Actual collaborative construction of a common semantic model is part of the community activity; maintaining pointers resources to ongoing KCS work and providing recommendations to builders of registry systems are associated activities. (HTH)
- 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. (HTI)
- Status: Recently organized, methods and goals are still under discussion and input from all interested parties is requested. (HTM)
- Contact: Patrick Cassidy: pcassidy at mitre.org (HTK)
