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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 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