The Automotive Ontology Working Group

Breaking News: W3C Automotive Ontology Community Group

On May 8, 2015, we founded a W3C Community Group. In the coming weeks, we will gradually migrate this informal working group into that framework. This will provide a much more reliable legal and organizational environment for our work. Stay tuned!

W3C Automotive Ontology Community Group Web Site
Please join that new group. W3C membership is not required.

Aim and Scope

The Automotive Ontology Working Group is an informal group of individuals and corporations who want to advance the use of shared conceptual structures in the form of Web ontologies for better data interoperability in the automotive industry, and this at Web scale. In particular, we want to develop

extension proposals for schema.org so that automotive information can be better understood by search engines and
OWL Web ontologies for the automotive industry.

Also, we want to provide a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on advancing the field.

Licensing and Terms of Contributions

By contributing to this group, you grant a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license on all your contributions. All published deliverables by the group are also released under this license.

Deliverables and Planned Work

Number	Description	Status	Link (if available)
D01	GAO Core: A schema.org-compliant fundamental ontology for vehicle information in e-commerce	Ongoing	W3C Wiki
D02	GAO Compatibility: A schema.org-compliant ontology for vehicle configuration information.	Planned	N/A
D03	GAO Vehicle Lifetime Information: A schema.org-compliant ontology for vehicle life-time information.	Planned	N/A
D04	GAO Vehicle Data Backbone: An ontology for information interchange within a vehicle, between vehicles, and between vehicles and their external entities.	Planned	N/A

Forum

For discussions etc., please use the group's Google Plus community at https://plus.google.com/communities/104510681993581444051.

Joining the Working Group

If you are interested in joining the working group, simply send an e-mail to mheppATcomputerDOTorg.

Organization

General Chairs

Martin Hepp, Hepp Research GmbH
Mirek Sopek, Makolab SA

Members

For the moment, we have a very informal notion of membership, based on the group's Google Plus community. For a list of all members of, see https://plus.google.com/communities/104510681993581444051/members.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp

Hepp Research GmbH
Kuppelnaustrasse 5
D-88212 Ravensburg
Germany

Phone: +49 751 2708 5256-0
eMail: contact@heppresearch.com
Web: http://www.heppresearch.com/, http://www.heppnetz.de/
Twitter: @mfhepp

Dr. Mirek Sopek

CS Inc..
1115 NW 4th St
Gainesville , FL 32601
USA

Phone: +1 551 226 5488 (US), +44 7408 839825 (UK), +48 732 407632 (PL)
eMail: gao@makolab.com
Web: http://sopek.net/, http://www.makolab.com
Twitter: @sopekmir

Karol Szczepański

Makolab S.A.
Demokratyczna 46
Łódź 93-430
Poland

Phone: +48 42 6837468
eMail: gao@makolab.com
Web: http://www.makolab.com/