Re: [soa-rm] Fw: Formal Ontology for SOA

We have no formal liaison with this group but it may be a good subject to
talk about during our next con call for RM.

Duane


On 1/9/07 5:39 PM, "Jeffrey A. Estefan" <>
wrote:

> 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" <>
> To: <>; <>
> 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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