Standard upper ontology
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Standard upper ontology is a IEEE P1600.1 term for a near-universal upper ontology
(or foundation ontology).
The following ontologies are now competing to be used as the foundation for standard:
The real progress of the standard development and discussion can be monitored at Upper Ontology Summit and in this IEEE 1600.1 SUO email archive.
Upper ontology (computer science)
In information science, an upper ontology is an ontology which describes very general concepts that are the same across all knowledge domains. The most important function of an upper ontology is to support very broad semantic interoperability between a large number of ontologies accessible...
(or foundation ontology).
The following ontologies are now competing to be used as the foundation for standard:
- IFF Foundation Ontology
- Suggested Upper Merged OntologySuggested Upper Merged OntologyThe Suggested Upper Merged Ontology or SUMO is an upper ontology intended as a foundation ontology for a variety of computer information processing systems. It was originally developed by the Teknowledge Corporation and now is maintained by . It is one candidate for the "standard upper ontology"...
- OpenCyc
- Lattice of Theories including the above and
- A 4D ontology based on ISO 15926ISO 15926The ISO 15926 is titled: "Industrial automation systems and integration—Integration of life-cycle data for process plants including oil and gas production facilities" is a standard for data integration, sharing, exchange, and hand-over between computer systems.This title is regarded too...
. - The Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) brings together some of these in a practical environment.
The real progress of the standard development and discussion can be monitored at Upper Ontology Summit and in this IEEE 1600.1 SUO email archive.