Technology Outlook: Federated Ontologies and Industrial Applications
Mira Kim, Shao‐Ting Wang, David Alfred Ostrowski, Nestor Rychtyckyj, Perry MacNeille · International Journal of Semantic Computing · 2016
Proprietary Ontologies allow for internally developed machine-usable content to be leveraged for greater purpose. In this context, Industrial Ontologies can be considered first and foremost, an integration technology, supporting connections between any numbers of disparate data sources. By this application, it is possible to leverage proprietary and public ontologies thus supporting a Federated Ontology. This paper explores the potential of a Federated Ontology for the purpose of supporting reasoning in the manufacturing sector. To this goal we summarize the current state of publically available ontologies examining how they are currently utilized, their application challenges and a realistic assessment of their potential.