Transitioning Applications to Ontologies

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Transitioning Applications to Ontologies or TAO is a project in the European Sixth Framework Program (FP6).

1 Description
2 Related Technologies and Standards
3 Partners
4 Factsheet
5 External links

[edit] Description

The goal of the TAO project is to define methods and tools for transition of legacy information systems to Service-Oriented Architectures, enabling semantic interoperability between heterogeneous data resources and distributed applications. This migration path is intended to be low-cost, to be accessible to both SMEs and large enterprises. TAO will ease the adaptation of the applications to these Service-Oriented Architectures through Semantic Web Services bootstrapping - an innovative methodology, based on state-of-the-art ontology learning and semantic data integration. The project will also tackle several major bottlenecks of knowledge technologies in the areas of semi-automatic creation of ontologies, automated methods for metadata creation and augmentation of legacy content, and distributed heterogeneous repositories.

[edit] Related Technologies and Standards

Semantic Web Services
Web Services Description Language : TAO is member of the W3C Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group
Web Service Modeling Ontology
RDF vocabularies, in particular OWL and SKOS

[edit] Partners

According to FP6 requirements, the project partners include universities, large and small companies, from five different European countries.

Universities
- University of Sheffield, UK : Content augmentation, user case study 1. Project co-ordinator.
- University of Southampton, UK : TAO methodology and related tools.
- Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia : Ontology learning tools.
Large companies
- Dassault Aviation, France : User case study 2.
- Atos Origin, Spain : TAO infrastructure developer, exploitation leader.
SMEs
- Mondeca, France : Technology provider in areas of expertise.
- Ontotext, Bulgaria : Heterogeneous knowledge stores, software provider.