On this page ontologies which where created by or in cooperation with DERI members are listed.
EDI Ontology
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems for transmission of business messages using compact standardized formats were promulgated in the 1970s.
As standards became more complex to handle additional message types and variants, the utility of simpler, semantically-enabled, systems became apparent. We have started to ontologize EDI standards to enable the creation of semantically enabled messages which are backwardly compatible with traditional EDI systems. Through ontologizing EDI syntax, automatic calculation of the intersection of message formats - necessary for initiating new EDI collaborations - is enabled even before the semantics is ontologized. Encoding the message format is a necessary first step, while standardizing the contents will later foster a precise understanding of EDI messages. We initially ontologized the ANSI X12 EDI syntax and encoded it in several ontology languages.
In the TripCom project, we extended the ontologies to cover a different EDI standard, EDIFACT, by adding intercomponent constraints not found in X12 and renaming X12-specific terms. We settled on encoding the ontologies the WSML language, having already demonstrated that the ontology was independent of the semantic language.
SIOC
SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) provides methods for interconnecting discussion methods such as blogs, forums and mailing lists to each other. It consists of the SIOC ontology, an open-standard machine readable format for expressing the information contained both explicitly and implicitly in internet discussion methods, of SIOC metadata producers for a number of popular blogging platforms and content management systems, and of storage and browsing / searching systems for leveraging this SIOC data.
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