Community Profile for Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group (ONTACWG)

By Patrick Cassidy/ Date: 9 November 2005

Last Updated: 9 November 2005

• Community (name): Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group (ONTACWG)
• Home Page: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyTaxonomyCoordinatingWG
• Date Established: October 5, 2005
• Key Stakeholders: Builders and users of Knowledge Classification Systems
• Constituency: Same
• Domain: General -- Knowledge Classification Systems (KCSs) (ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, graphical knowledge representations) for any topic or community.
• Mission / Charter: Semantic Interoperability and Coordination of KCS construction; see Mission statement.
• With respect to Ontology work (esp. eGov-related work), the community's:
  • Medium Term Goal: begin alignment of domain KCSs with COSMO
  • Short Term Goal: Build limited-scope Common Semantic Model (COSMO)
  • Deliverables within the next 6 months: TBD
• 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.
• 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.
• Status: Recently organized, methods and goals are still under discussion and input from all interested parties is requested.
• Contact: Patrick Cassidy: pcassidy at mitre.org