PDS is a major movement to enable individuals
to gain control of their own data and identities. One
emerging technical solution
(Higgins) includes a 'Persona Ontology' as part
of their broader identity solution.
This project is based on the premise that a Person
Ontology is important enough to be a separate standard, developed and
championed by its own focused community (that's us). Of
course, a Person Ontology is only one piece of the ecosystem, so we
will work with other PDS innovators to ensure the pieces fit
together.
A separate and supporting Upper Ontology is also needed,
which will allow vendors to extend their ontologies from the
same Upper Ontology that the Person Ontology is extended
from. This will enable better data interoperability (and even
inferencing) between an individual's PDS and vendor
applications. This will not be an effort to create
an Upper Ontology for all purposes, but rather will start small and
focus on meeting bottom-up requirements from this use-case. It could
potentially expand to other uses, but that is not the focus at this
time.
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