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== Community Profile for Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group (ONTACWG)  ==

By Patrick Cassidy/ Date: 9 November 2005

Last Updated: 9 November 2005 

* Community (name): Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group (ONTACWG) 
* Home Page:  http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyTaxonomyCoordinatingWG 
* Date Established: October 5, 2005 
* Key Stakeholders: Builders and users of Knowledge Classification Systems 
* Constituency: Same 
* Domain:  General -- Knowledge Classification Systems (KCSs) (ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, graphical knowledge representations) for any topic or community. 
* Mission / Charter: Semantic Interoperability and Coordination of KCS construction; see [http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyTaxonomyCoordinatingWG#nid2QJZ Mission] statement. 
* With respect to Ontology work (esp. eGov-related work), the community's: 
** Medium Term Goal: begin alignment of domain KCSs with COSMO 
** Short Term Goal:  Build limited-scope Common Semantic Model (COSMO) 
** Deliverables within the next 6 months:  TBD 
* Key Differentiation (with the other communities presenting today): Actual collaborative construction of a common semantic model is part of the community activity; maintaining pointers resources to ongoing KCS work and providing recommendations to builders of registry systems are associated activities. 
* What we can bring to the table to foster collaboration with other communities here today: A forum and method to maintain and relate the high-level concepts in each community KCS to permit accurate translation of knowledge from one community's representation to that of annother. 
* Status: Recently organized, methods and goals are still under discussion and input from all interested parties is requested. 
* Contact: Patrick Cassidy: pcassidy at mitre.org 

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