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Most Critical Task(s) At Hand

... Publish the Business Of Information Technology Ontology using open source Adaptive Public License V 1.0'...

What's New

...First ONION project review conference call - OnionProjectConferenceCall_2006_12_18...

Key Date(s) to Note

... April 2007 The first formal release of the Business Of Information Technology Ontology is to be published under an open source Adaptive Public License V 1.0...

Project Charter

The ONION (ONtologies In ONtology) is an open source semantic reference tool for the Business Of Information Technology which uses many terms that have novel or dual meanings. It is structured as a Community of Practice (COP) ontology that has multiple, domain specific, layers. The content of each layer is scoped by the set of IT topics that are relevant to a particular Community of Interest (COI) or Community of Action (COA).

The foundational layers of the ONION are aligned with the public specifications of:

IT Service Management Best Practice e.g. ISO 20000, ITIL
IT Control Frameworks e.g. ISACA COBIT
Information Security e.g. ISO / IEC 27001, ISO 17799
IT Auditor Control Objectives e.g. COSO
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) e.g. OASIS BCM (Business Centric Methodology)

Acknowledging that ontologies are excellent classification schemas, the ONION core uses explicit links to controlled vocabularies as they become publicly available:

IT Infrastructure (Classes, properties, methods, values) e.g. Common Information Model
Open Source Components (XML elements, attributes) e.g. ET.gov

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In addition to the Ontolog IPR Policy, the ONION COP employs the OASIS RF on Limited Terms IPR Policy

Deliverables & Deadlines

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IT Service Management Ontology Layer

IT Control Framework Ontology Layer

Information Security Ontology Layer

IT Auditor Control Objectives Ontology Layer

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Ontology Layer

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Project Work-in-Progress

... First draft of the reference model contains the proposed relationships for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and IT Service Management is stored on the ONION shared-file workspace as:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/ONION/reference/onionCPLv1.owl ...

Project Plan

...January First COP Reviewed Draft ...

The Team

Carl Mattocks (Project Lead)

Discussion Archives & Shared-File Workspace

Discussions:
- To Post to project mailing list: mailto:onion-forum@ontolog.cim3.net
- Discussion Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/onion-forum/
Project Wiki homepage: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ONION (this page)
Shared-file workspace: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/ONION/

Resources

...OASIS BCM V1.0 specifications http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/17942/BCM.OASIS.Specification.2006-05-01.zip