Semantic technologies. Ontology Instances. Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules. The Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) is an adopted standard of the Object Management Group (OMG) intended to be the basis for formal and detailed natural language declarative description of a complex entity, such as a business.
SBVR is intended to formalize complex compliance rules, such as operational rules for an enterprise, security policy, standard compliance, or regulatory compliance rules. Such formal vocabularies and rules can be interpreted and used by computer systems. SBVR is an integral part of the OMG’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Overview[edit] The SBVR defines the vocabulary and rules for documenting the semantics of business vocabularies, business facts, and business rules; as well as an XMI schema for the interchange of business vocabularies and business rules among organizations and between software tools. SCRIBE Models and Methodology: Smart Cities Reference Information and Behavior Exchange ontologies. The SCRIBE project has a computer science aspect and a Smarter Planet aspect.
As a computer science project, we are exploring methods to build sets of modular ontologies (using OWL) starting from existing open standards, and we also specify the appropriate methods to compose these sets of ontologies with specific deltas (not built by us) that add and remove from the general purpose ontology for a general well-run client (in our case, a general well-run city), the specifics that could apply to one specific instance of a client (in our case, city) and its current processes and IT infrastructure. This research relates to Knowledge Engineering as well as to Model-Driven Development. SCRIBE Ontologies will eventually support many open standards, but critical to supporting inter-agency interchange is the Common Alerting Protocol and the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM).
Ontology Design. SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer. Abstract SKOS—Simple Knowledge Organization System—provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other similar types of controlled vocabulary.
As an application of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), SKOS allows concepts to be composed and published on the World Wide Web, linked with data on the Web and integrated into other concept schemes. This document is a user guide for those who would like to represent their concept scheme using SKOS.