Date: Sep. 27, 2000
Link: http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/
Source Author or Organization: On-To-Knowledge Project, Information Society Technologies (IST)

The On-To-Knowledge Project is working to to develop develop tools and methods for supporting knowledge management relying on sharable and reusable knowledge ontologies (ontologies are formal theories supporting knowledge sharing and reuse). Using ontologies to represent semantics of semi-structured information enables sophisticated automatic support for accessing information. The Ontology Interchange Language (OIL) is a proposal for a joint standard for specifying and exchanging ontologies.