Fw: Formal Ontology for SOA

Duane and Frank,

What is our relation to this work?  Is anybody from this TC providing 
feedback to Harding?

 - JAE
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Harding" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:29 AM
Subject: Formal Ontology for SOA


>
> Hello -
>
> The Open Group is developing a formal ontology for SOA. We have now 
> reached the stage where we have a draft that we would like to share with 
> other organizations that are working on SOA, in order to obtain feedback 
> and comment. We believe that a common ontology for SOA can be a very 
> valuable resource for everyone to use, and we therefore wish to receive 
> input from as wide a constituency as possible. We would appreciate input 
> from the W3C community, and I am therefore sending this invitation to 
> comment to the W3C's Semantic Web interest group and the Semantic Web 
> Services interest group.
>
> The latestdraft is draft 0.6 and is available from our web page at 
> http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa-ontology/ together with some simple 
> example ontologies that import it. Perhaps the best starting point is the 
> presentation at 
> http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa-ontology/doc.tpl?gdid=12153 which I 
> delivered at the recent OMG meeting. This explains the ontology and how we 
> think it will be used.
>
> Please send your comments to  and/or 
> , or directly to me (). 
> Comments sent to both lists will clearly produce the widest discussion!
>
> We will address the comments in our next draft.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
> +++++
>
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