Ontology Outreach Advisory

The Ontology Outreach Advisory (OOA) is an international not-for-profit association that consists of industry, government, and research leaders and innovators with respect to ontology development, use, or education.

The general mission of the OOA is 'to develop strategies for ontology recommendation and standardization, and promote the ontology technology to industry'.

The OOA is organized as a number of domain chapters and working groups. A domain chapter is responsible for implementing the OOA mission in a vertical market sector, such as Human Resources, eHealth, digital libraries, legal, finance, etc. A working group focuses on a certain issue that is horizontal for several or all domain chapters; examples are Ontology Evaluation and Quality, interoperability, Domain Upper-Levels, etc.