Ontology Outreach Advisory OOA

The OOA is an international not-for-profit association that consists of industry, government, and research leaders and innovators with respect to ontology development, use, or education. The general mission of the OOA is to develop strategies for ontology recommendation and standardization, and promote the ontology technology to industry. The OOA is organized as a number of domain chapters and working groups. A domain chapter is responsible for implementing the OOA mission in a vertical market sector, such as, HR, eHealth, digital libraries, legal, finance, etc. A working group focuses on a certain issue that is horizontal for several or all domain chapters; examples are Ontology Evaluation and Quality, interoperability, Domain Upper-Levels, etc. The OOA is a KnowledgeWeb initiative. KnowledgeWeb (FP6-507482, http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/) is a European Commission-funded Network of Excellence and the world's largest coordinated research effort on Semantic Web Technology and on ontology in particular.