What is the semantic core?

The semantic core represents a vision of complex systems that are defined and provisioned based on high-level models. This vision is being pursued by multiple groups in multiple organizations based on a variety of paradigms such as UML, Ontologies, Business Rules, MOF, EDOC, Data Modeling, OWL, SQL, Etc.. It is the intent of the semantic core to integrate these diverse paradigms into family of languages that leverages their commonality while taking advantage of their unique capabilities.  We will define normalized Meta-Models capturing unique semantics, independent of the notation.  These models will be part of the semantic web.

This group has strong ties to the Object Management Group as the organization behind the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), UML, MOF and many of the related technologies and standards. It is our expectation that this work will help to drive standards in the OMG as well as other standards bodies. OMG has also made recent advances in the areas of Ontologies and Business rules, which are central to our mission.  It is our intent to create a combined submission appropriate for multiple OMG initiatives including Ontologies, Business Rules, Business Process Modeling and a UML infrastructure library.

While much of this work has been initiated as part of the OMG, it is our intent to embrace the work and knowledge of other bodies who are expanding our ability to define and build systems at higher levels of abstraction.

Currently this group is informally organized and sponsored by its members. Other organizational structures may evolve from this foundation. Much of the foundation for this work has grown out of the UML and Semantic Web communities.