Shared Semantics

Workstream Summary

Goal: Identification and evaluation of shared semantic models to avoid duplication of efforts and eliminate ambiguitySuccess Criteria: When all non-financial instrument/entity terms are traceable to a term owned by an industry/academic body and traceable to a relevant URICurrent Status: Starting on Proof of Concepts for Address, then accounting (REA, XBRL)Participant Profile: Domain experts with experience in semanticsTeam Leads:

Mike BennettBack to start

Interesting Links

This paper on ontologies integration (the HETS project):

Ontology Merging with V-alignments in HETS by Liwei Deng

Working Documents

REA OWL Ontologies

Per recent correspondence from Bill McCarthy, the normative version of REA should be considered as being the UML model identified in the ISO documentation.

Meanwhile this is what MB has received, from Frederik Gailly in Feb 2011:

REA.zip - archive containing GIF and some other files - archive containing an RDF file and some other files

Address Pilot Working Notes

For the current “Pilot” experiments on address terms:

Address Semantics working document (version 2)

Session Notes

In reverse order:

WS3 Thursday 29 September

Thursday 22 September: no session (OMG Quarterly Meeting)

Thursday 15 September: no session (EDM Council London Briefing)

WS3 Thursday 08 September

WS3 Thursday 01 September

Thursday 18 August

Thursday 11 August

Thursday 04 August