Ontologies organize information models and background knowledge

information ontology:
- kinds of information sources
- logical structure -> relevance propagation
- meta properties (reliability, message type, availability, creation context, intended usage context)
- link to information content

enterprise ontology:
- provides usage and creation context
- basis for BPMs
- enterprise organizational structure

domain ontology / thesaurus:
- description of information content
- natural language expressions linked to formal concepts
- usually incomplete

content

context

DIMENSIONS OF INFORMATION MODELING

We extended standard modeling approaches by the context dimension.