Ontology Outreach to Industry

EU-IST Network of Excellence (NoE) IST-2004-507482 KWEB Deliverable D1.3.6 (WP1.3) Abstract. This document reports on the activities of the Ontology Outreach Advisory (OOA), a legal body recently founded by KnowledgeWeb consortium members to assure extension of KnowledgeWeb results and activities into the future. The OOA has been legally registered according to the Belgian law as an international non-profit association (VzW). Currently, there are 28 registered members, and 16 organisations expressed their interest in becoming a member. The OOA mission is to develop strategies for ontology recommendation and standardisation, and promote the ontology technology to industry. The OOA is implementing this mission specially in two domain sectors: Human resources and eHealth. Several activities have been carried out by the OOA in these two domains, including: the successful OOA-HR kick-off workshop, a new OOA-HR roadmap, in-reaching and out-reaching workshops, the HR summit, contribution to HR standards, a repository of eHealth uses cases, quality guidelines for ontology authoring, OnToContent06, and OntoContent'07.