Ontologies—February 2008

Work on the device ontology continued, and work on the platform ontology was restarted. MMI contributed to several planning and strategy sessions about hosting an ontology server. Device ontology work is progressing, but progress has been delayed pending the hire of a replacement technical lead. Extensive work toward an effective vocabulary for device parameter names is being performed. The platform ontology work has been restarted to provide a vocabulary for use in OOSTethys (and potentially other Sensor Web Enablement projects). The idea of hosting an ontology server will be presented to the Steering Committee this week.