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The Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) perspectives

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Mohamed H. Karray, Neil Otte, Rahul Rai, Farhad Ameri, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Barry Smith, Dimitris Kiritsis, Chris Will, Rebecca Arista

Abstract

In recent years there has been a number of promising technical and institutional developments regarding use of ontologies in industry. At the same time, however, most industrial ontology development work remains within the realm of academic research and is without significant uptake in commercial applications. In biomedicine, by contrast, ontologies have made significant inroads as valuable tools for achieving interoperability between data systems whose contents derive from widely heterogeneous sources. In this position paper, we present a set of principles learned from the successful Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry initiative to guide the design and development of the Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF), which is a counterpart to the OBO Foundry initiative for the manufacturing industry. We also illustrate the potential utility of these principles by sketching the conceptual design of a framework for sustainable IOF development.
Proceedings Title
Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF) - achieving data interoperability Workshop, International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications
Conference Dates
March 17-24, 2020
Conference Location
Tarbes,
Pub Type
Conferences

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Keywords

ontology, industrial engineering, semantic interoperability, collaborative manufacturing, production engineering
Manufacturing, Interoperability in manufacturing and Artificial intelligence

Citation

Karray, M. , Otte, N. , Rai, R. , Ameri, F. , Kulvatunyou, B. , Smith, B. , Kiritsis, D. , Will, C. and Arista, R. (2021), The Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) perspectives, Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF) - achieving data interoperability Workshop, International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications, Tarbes, , [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=925879 (Accessed October 8, 2025)

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Created March 3, 2021, Updated April 6, 2021
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