RE: Ontologies for describing Enterprise Architectures

["Zachary Alexander" <onto-z@ebtdesign.com>]

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Jim,

 

I have not seen any announcements of Enterprise Architecture Ontology Work.

 

However, using ontology engineering practices should really help in standardizing Enterprise Architecture Descriptions. If you are thinking about developing an EA ontology, I would look at the presentation Leo Orbst gave to the Ontoforum. The presentation really outlines the differences in ontology representation.   The ontology representation will have a huge impact on the Enterprise Architecture description and the potential to do automated reasoning about the resources. I would also look at some of the old semantic modeling discussions, circa 1980, early 1990.

 

[1] http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/tutorial/OntologiesForSemanticallyInteroperableSystems-ONTOLOG--LeoObrst_20040115b_files/frame.htm

 

Zachary Alexander

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ebTDesign LLC, (703) 283-4325

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-standard-upper-ontology@listserv.ieee.org [mailto:owner-standard-upper-ontology@listserv.ieee.org] On Behalf Of Schoening, James R CECOM DCSC4I
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:57 AM
To: 'standard-upper-ontology@listserv.ieee.org'
Subject: Ontologies for describing Enterprise Architectures

 

Folks,

 

    'Enterprise Architectures' are in vogue, but when a large organization has multiple subordinant organizations independently developing their own enterprise architectures, there barely relate. 

 

    Is anyone aware of the use of an ontology for describing an Enterprise Architecture?  Or better yet, use of a common domain ontology for describing multiple architectures? 

 

    As an example, the U.S. Federal Enterprise Architecture is at http://www.feapmo.gov/fea.asp.

 

Jim Schoening