State of the Semantic Web and US Federal Government Ontologies

All:

I've been working with semantic web technologies for about five years now and wanted to engage the drupal community on two issues: a) a set of ontologies that specify the functions of the U.S. Federal government and b) a post I recently published called the state of the semantic web: representation and realism.

The ontologies are based on what's called the Federal Enterprise Architecture and are available here ...

http://www.osera.gov/owl/2004/11/fea/FEA.owl

The reference implementation for the ontologies is Swoop and Pellet, but my team would be interested in hearing about the drupal community's use of other tools as well as what cool applications you might develop targeted at the public sector.

We use them internally at my agency and there has already some work done in the private sector. Also we have a new release coming out in the next few months so stay tuned.

Also, I recently published a post to my blog that should be of interest to the semantic web group of the drupal community. The post is called "The State of the Semantic Web: Representation and Realism." You'll find it more philosophical than technical, but part of my experience in understanding what the semantic web really offers, is that there's some great underlying philosophy behind all the great technology. You'll find the post here ...

http://phaneron.rickmurphy.org/?p=25

Enjoy DrupalCon and I look forward to hearing back about these issues.

Rick