Corporate Ontology Grid

The objectives of COG are: Demonstrate the Applicability of Grid Technologies to Industry Realize the Concept of an Information Grid Incorporating Real Corporate Data Give Semantics to Corporate Data Formats, including Legacy, Relational, and XML, through a Detailed Mapping to a Central Ontology Demonstrate the Technological Innovation of Automatically Translating Data Between Data Formats on the Grid by Way of a Semantic Mapping to a Central Ontology Publish a Reusable Ontology with Concepts from Discrete Manufacturing, and Specifically Automotive Capture Best Practices in Achieving these Objectives and Document the Methodology Disseminate the Methodology and the Results to Europe's Corporations Re-use of Methodology in Industry