RE: [ontac-forum] A question on the Federal Enterprise ArchitectureRefer

[richard.murphy@xxxxxxx]

Thanks for the heads up Brand.

Sorry for the late response, I had my home account subscribed and have
now updated my GSA account. Yes, please include me in the COSMO working
group, though you'll find that I lean more towards information flow and
knowledge kinematics than monolithic structures.  ;-)

Yes, I'd be happy to answer any FEA-RMO questions and we here in GSA OCIO
are excited to support the ongoing interest in FEA-RMO. As Brand explained
below, there's information on FEA-RMO's background, purpose, and underlying
principles here: http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/project/fea-rmo/fea-rmo.html
and FEA-RMO is freely available under our OSERA Open Source Agreement.

As suggested by Ralph Hodgson and Jim Hendler we now use this URL instead
of the prior zip file download. Please consider this URL the authoritative
reference to FEA-RMO. 

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

Briefly, FEA-RMO is a domain specific, parsimonious ontology (see Occam's
principle of parsimony ) that directly translates the natural language
reference models into executable artifacts.  By establishing parsimony
as a principle, concepts and properties that made it into FEA-RMO had to
come directly from the reference models. 

It's worth reading TopQuadrant's report ( http://www.topquadrant.com/documents/TQFEARMO.pdf
) to better understand FEA-RMO. Our current results are driven by the four
mandatory use cases we defined in the project plan: Semantic Detective,
Shared Concept, Line of Sight, and Legislative and Best Practice Drivers.
The patterns section is especially informative. 

Once you've had a chance to browse FEA-RMO feel free to post any questions,
and I'd be happy to answer. 

Best wishes,

Rick

office: 202-501-9199
cell: 202-557-1604

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10/11/2005 02:59 PM

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Subject	RE: [ontac-forum] A question on the Federal Enterprise ArchitectureReference Model Ontology (FEA-RMO)

All question on the FEA-RMO should be directed to
Rick Murphy (I am
cc:ing him on this email response) at the GSA who produced and hosts
this ontology per the bottom of the Web page at
http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/project/fea-rmo/fea-rmo.html. Rick
also presented on the FEA-RMO at the October 5th ONTAC WG Meeting.

Brand



                    
                     
                     
       
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Gary,
  As far as I know, the OWL version of the FEA-RMO reachable from
that
site is the only version.
  In the version I have, I have "Outcome" but not "StrategicOutcome"
Is the  latter in some version that you have seen?

  Pat



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      [mailto:ontac-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gary
      Berg-Cross
      Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:54 AM
      To: ontac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      Subject: [ontac-forum] A question on the Federal Enterprise
      ArchitectureReference Model Ontology (FEA-RMO)

      The Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Model
Ontology
      (FEA-RMO) has been mentioned several times and I believe
that a
      version is on the wiki at
      http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/project/fea-rmo/fea-rmo.html

       I wanted to be sure that this is one of the ontologies
that we
      are discussing as a starting point and something that
we can use
      as examples in our discussion.

      For example are concepts like “Strategic Outcomes”
in the
      Ontology as sub-types of  a top-level (for this
the FEA Ontology)
      of “Outcome” .?


      Does the FEA Ontology show BRM links to SRM using
 concepts
      like“customerProtection” “hasPerformance” “realizedWith”?

      I would be interested in these concepts but more interested
in one
      that contains the entities of architectures reported
in the FEA
      reference model for domains such as healthcare and
human
      resources, but in any case I'd like to see the taxonomic
structure
      of whatever FEA ontology we are using as input and
base work.

      Gary Berg-Cross




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