Why UI Standards Should Come Together with Formal Ontologies

Formal ontologies have been successfully used in various places in the domain of user interface development, e.g. in the integration of heterogeneous user interface components. Besides providing a sound basis for comparing interface components from distinct developers, a central advantage is that ontologically enhanced user interfaces allow controlling interactions between user interface components at run-time. For making these advantages available on a large scale, we strongly plead for taking principals from ontology engineering into account when standardizing user interface models.