OntoCommons is an H2020 CSA project dedicated to the standardisation of data documentation across all domains related to materials and manufacturing.
OntoCommons lays the foundation for interoperable, harmonised and standardised data documentation through ontologies, facilitating data sharing and pushing data-driven innovation, to bring out a truly Digital Single Market and new business models for European industry, exploit the opportunities of digitalisation and address sustainability challenges.
Develop a ready-to-use Ontology Commons EcoSystem (OCES) for data documentation, including a set of ontologies and tools;
Cooperate & Engage with relevant stakeholders at both EU and international level to collect existing resources and tools for data storage and identify possible bottlenecks;
Deliver a set of Demonstration Cases built upon the OCES that will prove the effectiveness of our approach through activities of harmonisation, standardisation and coordination;
Develop and roll-out an OntoCommons Roadmap that will include a number of recommendations for policy instruments towards Data Sharing for the European Single Market.
OntoCommons will prove the effectiveness of its approach through a set of 11 demonstration cases.
The cases will be built on OCES and provide ready-to-use ontologies, tools and data samples in order to provide harmonisation and standardisation.
Further stakeholder involvement and international demonstrators from related projects are expected during the project.
Industrially-relevant validated use cases will demonstrate the expected impact of OntoCommons on standardisation, findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of data.
Given the crucial role played by standards and ontologies in OntoCommons, we have interviewed Barry Smith, External Advisory Board member of the OntoCommons project, to better understand what are the challenges and priorities to focus on.
FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and industrial practitioners meet to analyze and discuss application issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. This year's event is going to take place from 12 to 15 September in INP-ENIT, Tarbes, France.