Org Founded in May 1998 by Computer Sciences Corporation, Ontology. Org has established a steering group of leading experts in the field of Ontology, XML and Internet commerce. Kevin Poulter, CTO of Ontology. The addition of semantics to the information exchanged between trading partners will enable greater agility and flexibility in the business models possible and reduce the need for organisations to adopt common infrastructure. Spontaneous and organised commerce between trading partners becomes more viable.
Ontology is a word adopted by researchers in artificial intelligence and knowledge representation.
It refers to the semantic information attached to vocabulary and taxonomy, forming the meaningful building blocks from which domain models can be constructed. Org is focussing upon ontologies that support the domain of Internet commerce. About CommerceNet CommerceNet is a non-profit industry association for companies promoting and building electronic commerce solutions on the Internet. Launched in April 1994 membership has grown to more than 500 companies and organizations world-wide. They include the leading banks, telecommunications companies, VANs, ISPs, online services, software and service companies, as well as end-users, working together to transform the Internet into a global electronic marketplace.