The EMTEBA core ontology aims at representing the core conceptual items, that makes up the EMTEBA knowledge space. Its structure is mainly inspired by DOLCE as foundational ontology and the SWRC domain ontology for research community and projects. (c) Emteba 2008, Andreas Gruber EMTEBA Core Ontolog version 1.0 (20081014) Workshop A interactive event with a theme and subject matter experts. {@en} An organisation unit of an university. University Institute A theme of any kind. Topic A real world domain, where results of research project can be applied to. Application Domain A materialized result of a research activity, a conference or a research project. Result Company A company, which participates in a research activity such as a project. {@en} W3C Recommendation A standard (here called recommendation) defined by the W3C committee. {@en} A concrete research activity with a plan, partners, objectives and results. Research Project A particular hardware or user device. Hardware The document, which supports a presentation. Presentation A standard approved by ISO. ISO_Standard A result of a research project and a document. Deliverable Object Any physical and located item. {@en} A large size enterprise Large Enterprise A document, describing a plan for a project. Proposal A newsfeed defined a a query of RSS. Newsfeed A specific kind of a website based on chronologically ordered articles. {@en} Blog {@en} Location A spatial location. The topic of some research activity. Research Theme A professional organisation of a particular domain or interest. Association Any document. Document A wiki is an encyclopaedic website with multiple even anonymous authors. Wiki Actor An agentive social object, a person or an organisation. A practice used to perform tasks. Practice A method or practice used to perform a singular task {@en} Method or Practice {@en} The human readable document for an URL. Website A scientific or general interest magazine. Magazine Item The topl level class of this ontology contains all particular individuals. A medium size enterprise. Medium size Enterprise University A public higher education institution. A small enterprise. Small Enterprise A general public media. Newspaper Start event A starting event of any process (Opening, kick-off etc.) A human individual. Person A methodology defining methods for achieving a technical or business goal. Methodology A legal entity of the public sphere. Public Administration A public event such as a Roadshow, Lecture, Speech ... Public Event A call invitation for a research program. Call A kind of legal entity. Public Organisation Software The main (digital) artefact as a result of software engineering. A private organisation which performs research as its main activity. Research Organisation Any kind of item, which is located in time. Process A interval of time. Duration Research Programme A public or private programme, which organizes and/or provides funding for research activities and projects. {@en} A socially constructed legal item. Organisation An abstract item, a time interval or a location. Abstract Ontology A standardized, machine readable logics-based software artefact. {@en} A scientific or research conference. Conference A kind of a legal entity, established by individuals. {@en} Private Organisation A data record such as a query result from a search engine. Data_Record Media The class of media relevant for research-oriented publications. A document focussing on technical issues of any kind. Technical Report A document summarizing trends and technologies from a particular perspective. White Paper A textual-oriented document. Article A standard defined by an (international) standards organisation. Standard A forum, which is part of a community communication. Forum News News is a state, where e.g. articles or newsfeeds participates and is defined by an fixed time-interval. Community A community is a very loosely organisation of individuals with a common interest or practice. Its virtual variant may be inferred from common topics. A document, which formally describes the results of a project. Project Report A database relevant for research activities. Database An architecture of any kind: software, business model etc. Architecture A specific kind of a website who offers query results. Search Engine A single item of an RSS or Atom Feed. Feed-Item has expertise A relation from a actor to a specific kind of theme. Topic is used to describe any item. experimental class v2 is theme of is start date Date, when a process starts. {@en} A result is used in a process (Project etc.) is used in A relation describing the mereology of items. is part has result Processes have results. {@en} Objects participate in processes. participates in A relation to the source media of an result, e.g. the magazine, that publishes an article. {@en} source A topic which can describe individuals, organisations or projects. This is exactly, what a tagging system does {@en} has theme A textual short description of any item is short description of Topic is considered as a expertise of an actor. is expertise of The legal relation of an individual to its organisation. affiliation A object is result of a process. is result A process uses results. uses Processes have objects as its participants. has participant is end date The end date of any process. is description of A textual description of any item A relation describing the mereology of items. has part The legal relation of an organisation to its employees. employee has end date The end date of any process. A textual description of any item has description {@en} has short description A textual short description of any item has start date The start date of any process.