Hi -
For some time now, The Open Group has been developing a formal ontology for SOA. We made an early version available for comment by W3C members over a year ago. We have now reached the stage where we believe that it is almost complete, and are exposing it to outside bodies for review and comment prior to its final review within The Open Group.
The ontology is a formal OWL ontology, but the draft also includes extensive heuristic explanations of its concepts. We believe that it complements work on OWL-S and WSMO, in that it includes a compatible concept of "Service" and relates this to concepts in other areas, including Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Modeling.
The draft is publicly available at
http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa-ontology/doc.tpl?gdid=16940 We would very much appreciate your input, not only on the relation of this work to OWL-S and WSMO, but on all aspects that are of interest to you. We will address comments received at this stage before creating the draft for final Open Group review. I therefore invite you to review the draft, and to send me comments on it.
Regards,
Chris
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