R1. Shared Ontologies (original) (raw)

The purpose of this document is to identify requirements that are too general to result from any single use case area, cut across all use cases areas, or are not directly related to the existing use cases, but nonetheless important. ... The following requirements are recommended by the group. ... Ontologies are publicly available and different data sources can commit to the same ontology for shared meaning. ... Any use case in which distributed data sources use shared terminology. ... Interoperability requires agreements on the definitions of terms. ...