Hello everybody,
I would be truly grateful if you could point me towards ontologies that model software items and hardware components. Have been struggling to find some simple light-weight ontologies on software & hardware in Swoogle and the other ontology search engines, but haven't been able to find something convenient thus far.
Thank you all very much in advance!
Probably your query is too general. There are so many aspects of Software and Hardware (design, requirements, development, languages, models, metamodels, functions, operating environments, architectures,...) that it would be very hard to find an ontology covering all those topics.
Only Cyc claims to build ontology of everything, http://www.cyc.com/platform/opencyc/downloads. Surely, you can find inside many concepts related to software and hardware.
Hi Piotr, thanks a lot for your response.
Actually, I am looking for light-weight models that represent (hierarchies of) software items (like e.g. OS, source code, compiler, word processor etc.) and hardware components (e.g. motherboard, graphics card, memory etc.).
At this point, I would like to stay away from these vast generic ontologies like Cyc.
Any help is welcome, Thanks a lot in advance!
You should take a look at this page: www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/swo
Also a couple of ontology look up sites:
EBI: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/
Bioportal: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies
http://www.obofoundry.org/
also you could post a question here: [email protected]
You might want to take a look at the FIPA device ontology specification: http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00091/PC00091A.html#_Toc511707121
Thanks a lot Suparna! Actually, this is quite close to what I wanted. Btw, I couldn't find an OWL/RDF implementation at the FIPA site, but found a small CoBrA extension here (http://cobra.umbc.edu/ontologies-2003-11.html). Any additional resources are welcome, though!
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