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Below is a list of the ontologies I am currently using for semantic web domain modeling.

Core Ontologies

• RDF Vocabulary The RDF Schema for the RDF vocabulary defined in the RDF namespace xmlns:rdf=”http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”
• RDFS The RDF Schema vocabulary xmlns:rdfs=”http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#”
• XML Schema xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#”
• OWL Web Ontology Language xmlns:owl=”http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#”
• Dublin Core xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”
• Dublin Core Metadata Terms xmlns:dct=”http://purl.org/dc/terms

Common Ontologies

• FOAF (Friend of a Friend) xmlns:foaf=”http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/”
• Basic Geo Vocabulary xmlns:geo=”http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#”
• Geonames (Overview) xmlns:gn=”http://www.geonames.org/ontology#” Use the web service to get a geonameId, e.g. http://ws.geonames.org/search?country=nz lists main New Zealand features.
  Wellington is http://www.geonames.org/2179538/about.rdf. Search for specific places in a country using a query such as http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=Breaker%20Bay&country=NZ which finds Breaker Bay in New Zealand (geonameId = 6244700). Also an example linking geonames in a FOAF file.
• Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) xmlns:skos=”http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#”
• SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) Core Ontology xmlns:sioc=”http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#”
• vCard (Personal information including address) xmlns:vcard=”http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#”
• iCal (RDF Calendar) xmlns:ical=”http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ical#”
• DOAP (Description of a Project) xmlns:doap=”http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#”

Additional Ontologies

• Address Schema xmlns:address=”http://schemas.talis.com/2005/address/schema#”
• baetle (Bug And Enhancement Tracking LanguagE) xmlns:baetle=”http://xmlns.com/baetle/#”
• BIO ( Biographical information) xmlns:bio=”http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/”
• MOAT (Meaning Of A Tag) xmlns:vcard=”http://moat-project.org/ns#”
• PRJ (Vocabulary for describing generic projects) xmlns:prj=”http://purl.org/stuff/project#”
• RDF Review Vocabulary xmlns:rev=”http://purl.org/stuff/rev#”
• ResumeRDF Ontology xmlns:cv=”http://purl.org/captsolo/resume-rdf/0.2/cv#” also base taxonomy containing possible values for ResumeRDF properties xmlns:cvbase=”http://purl.org/captsolo/resume-rdf/0.2/base#”
• Tag Ontology xmlns:tag=”http://www.holygoat.co.uk/owl/redwood/0.1/tags/”
• vCards (An RDF vCard subset equating to hCard) xmlns:vcards=”http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#”
• WOT (Web of Trust) xmlns:wot=”http://xmlns.com/wot/0.1/
• eClassOWL 5.1.4 Products and Services Ontology (OWL) http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ontologies/eclass/5.1.4/
• Good Relations http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1
• UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer)
• Yago

The ISO-15926 standard is titled: “Industrial automation systems and integration—Integration of life-cycle data for process plants including oil and gas production facilities“. One of its main requirements was that the scope of the data model covers the entire lifecycle of a facility (e.g. oil refinery) and its components (e.g. pipes, pumps and their parts, etc.)

The data model that has evolved is an RDF/OWL ontology. Its development and evolution has set some important precedents that other engineering and construction projects such as the development of the Common Inspection and Test Plans can learn from. These include:

• The use of OWL to model concepts and the potential reuse of concepts already identified by ISO-15926 and modeled in OWL.
• The construction of OWL ontologies through community participation.
• Public sharing of web based ontologies in order to speed up the adoption of standardized concepts.
• The development of a Semantic Web Ontology browser.
• Provisioning for individual companies to provide their own customizations.

Wikipedia provides overviews of both ISO-15926 and ISO-15926 WIP (Work In Progress).

15926.ORG is a wiki based site providing a Knowledge Base dedicated to the practical implementation of, and information about ISO 15926. It includes an ISO 15926 General Introduction.