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Defense ontologies aligned for UK and NATO data infrastructure

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Researchers have developed a method to align three upper ontologies used in UK and NATO defense data infrastructure: the Information Exchange Standard (IES), the Higher Quality Data Model (HQDM), and the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). This work addresses the lack of a public alignment between IES and HQDM, creating a hand-curated crosswalk to OWL and reasoning over the merged ontologies. The findings are presented as significant for defense data integration beyond the specific alignment of IES and HQDM. AI

IMPACT This research could improve interoperability and data consistency in defense systems, potentially impacting AI applications that rely on structured defense data.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a technical methodology for ontology alignment. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.4]

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Defense ontologies aligned for UK and NATO data infrastructure

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Fabio Rovai ·

    Consistency Is Not Coherence: Orientation Search for Certified Alignments Between 4D Defence Upper Ontologies

    arXiv:2608.21914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We align three upper ontologies that sit under UK and NATO defence data infrastructure: the Information Exchange Standard (IES), the Higher Quality Data Model (HQDM) that underpins the National Digital Twin, and Basic Formal Ontolog…

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