Open Group SOA Ontology

The Open Group has recently released a draft version of a SOA ontology. They have been developing a formal ontology for SOA for some time now. You can find the ontology described in OWL-DL also. This should give the ontology a more complete level of description.

Open Group explains the benefits as:

1. It defines the concepts, terminology and semantics of SOA in both business and technical terms, in order to:

1. Create a foundation for further work in domain-specific areas,

2. Enable communications between business and technical people,

3. Enhance the understanding of SOA concepts in the business and technical communities, and

4. Provide a means to state problems and opportunities clearly and unambiguously to promote mutual understanding.

2. It potentially contributes to model-driven SOA implementation. The ontology is designed for use by:

1. Business people, to give them a deeper understanding of SOA, and its use in the enterprise;

2. Architects, as metadata for architectural artifacts; and

3. Architecture methodologists, as a component of SOA metamodels.

The full draft can be found here:

http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa-ontology/doc.tpl?gdid=16940

Tags: Enterprise Architecture