Archive for August, 2009

QUDT Ontologies for Quantities, Units, Dimensions and Types

Ontologies for Quantities, Units and Dimensions have now being published at this page. This post will be updated with more explanation of the QUDT Ontologies in the coming days. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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Federal Enterprise Architecture Models Published as SKOS Models

Simplified forms of the FEA Reference Models (FEARM) have now been published using SKOS, the W3C Recommendation for Simple Knowledge Organization Systems. More details and access to the ontologies can be found at this page.

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oeGov Foundation Ontologies on the way to becoming International

The foundation for oeGOV is currently undergoing some re-factoring to insert a layer for the U.S. Core concepts of ‘democracy‘ will be in the ‘gov‘ namespace and specialization for the U.S. is in the ‘usgov‘ namespace. The TopBraid Composer figure below illustrates how this works for the concept of a ‘Government‘:

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oeGOV Release 1.0

Today we published an initial set of Ontologies for oeGOV. These ontologies are catalogued on the Ontologies Page. Release 1.0 Government Core Ontology (gc) Democracy Ontology (initial version – oegov) – includes constructs for associating published data with government bodies Organizational Structure of Government Bodies Government Acts – what acts led to what changes in [...]

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