Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Managers Guide (The Savvy Managers Guides)

object modeling, 82-86

see also data and object modeling

Object Oriented Software Construction (Meyer), 258

object role modeling (ORM), 200-201, 358

object-based systems, 83

object-oriented programming languages, 84

obligation and relationship, 112-120

occultism, 8

OCR (optical character recognition), 357

ODBC (open database connectivity), 173, 358

office productivity, 24

official and unofficial data, 172-173

Ogbuji, Uche, 265

OIL. See ontology inference layer

OilEd, 195, 202

O'Leary, Jim, "Tying it Together," 223

OMG (object management group), 358

On a New List of Categories (Peirce), 171

Ontolingua, 194

Ontologies: Principles, Methods and Applications (Uschold), 147

ontology, 7, 8-9, 45-57, 291-292, 358

resources, 317-320

Semantic Web, 273-275

see also terms: vocabulary, taxonomy, and ontology

ontology editors, 194-195

ontology inference layer (OIL), 267, 300, 358

ontology Web language (OWL), 220, 267, 269, 282, 300, 358

Ontoprise, 239

Ontosaurus, 194

OO (object oriented), 358

open-ended questions, 169

open systems, 358

Oracle, 215

orchestration, 358

orchestration and choreography in Web Services, 257

O'Reilly's XML site, 160

Organic Architecture, 96

organization and classification of knowledge, 8-9

ORM. See object role modeling

orthogonal taxonomies, 53, 358

overlap between industry and business, 48-51

overloading of common words (homonyms), 44-45

OWL. See ontology Web language