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The Open Group SOA Ontology Technical Standard defines the core concepts for SOA and relationships between the concepts in both business and technical terms. This ontology includes natural language, UML, and OWL representations to enable use by both people and tools.
The Open Group SOA Ontology Standard defines the core concepts for SOA and relationships between the concepts in both business and technical terms.
The purpose of this standard is to establish a mutual understanding of these terms and concepts in the context of SOA to help improve alignment business and technical communities and facilitate adoption of SOA. The SOA Ontology can be used as a foundation for extensions in domain specific areas and to facilitate model driven implementation.
The SOA Ontology can be used by business people, architects, architecture methodologists, system designers and software designers.
The Ontology standard includes an OWL representation (Web Ontology Language) which allows tools to process it and to enable automation. The formal OWL definitions are accompanied by natural language descriptions; UML diagrams illustrations, and examples of their use.
The SOA Ontology is being used by the SOA repository specification, S-RAMP, being standardized in OASIS, as a basis for the repository model.
The SOA Ontology Technical Standard is available free of charge and may be downloaded from The Open Group website.
| Description | Date | Access method |
|---|---|---|
| SOA Ontology Technical Standard | December 2010 | HTTP download |
The SOA Work Group is an Open Group Work Group. Its mission is to develop and foster common understanding of SOA in order to facilitate alignment between the business and information technology communities. The Work Group carries out its mission by conducting a work program to produce definitions, analyses, recommendations, reference models, and standards to assist business and information technology professionals within and outside of the Open Group to understand and adopt SOA. In addition, it produces the SOA Source Book, which is a collection of source material for use by enterprise architects working with service-oriented architecture, derived from the work of the project teams. Further information about The SOA Work Group can be found at http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa/.
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, which drives the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ that will enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability. The Open Group works with customers, suppliers, consortia and other standard bodies. Its role is to capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies and share best practices; to facilitate interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and to operate the industry's premier certification service. Further information on the Open Group can be found at http://www.opengroup.org.
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SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP).
