OOA-Industry: Ontology Inreach

OOA-WG2: Inreach to Industry

The mission of this working group is to organize and support activities focused on lowering the barrier to entry to ontology technologies for industrial adopters. The working group will consist of both industry and research leaders, and will facilitate knowledge and technology transfer between both groups.

The current focus topics of this group include:

• Collection and dissemination of business cases which demonstrate the (potential) benefit of ontology technology to enterprises
• Extraction and analysis of the industry requirements, technological barriers and potential value areas of ontology technology from the business cases
• Organization and promotion of events promoting the needs of industry to leading ontology technologists
• Disseminating industry needs to the ontology research community through publications, white papers, technical reports etc.
• Actively directing the ontology research community towards developing methodologies, tools and documentation which meets industry requirements
• Disseminating mature research results to potential industry adopters
• Establishing communication channels between researchers and industry to facilitate technology and knowledge transfer
• Organization and promotion of events educating industrial users in the use of ontology technology

Planned Activities

• Two events in 2008 bringing industry and research leaders together to discuss industry requirements in ontology research and promote ontology based solutions to common business problems.
• One tutorial in 2008 promoting ontology technology to industry.
• Use case and requirements collection through the OOA web site and dissemination activities.
• An annual "state of ontology research" report focused on communicating industry user needs to ontology researchers.
• An annual "state of ontology technology" report focused on promoting available mature ontology-based tools to potential industry adopters

Previous Activities

This working group continues the work of Outreach to Industry carried out from 2004 until 2007 in the EU Network of Excellence Knowledge Web. http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/o2i

Contact
Lyndon Nixon Lyndon.Nixon@Ontology-Advisory.org (WG Chair)

Membership

A membership list will be provided soon