Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology

Ontologies are built in a variety of circumstances, for different applications. Some are quite small and built with minimal consideration (or need) for extensibility. Others, such as many of the large-scale efforts in the OBO Foundry, have a team of developers, domain specialists and collaborators actively engaged in interactive development [1-2]. The size of the ontology, or the complexity of the domain, aren’t necessarily indicators of the development methodology and to what extent efforts are made to integrate the ontology with existing ontologies or other semantic resources. The use of ontologies by large organizations and government agencies is growing. For example, the Common Core ontologies by the US Army, the Joint Doctrine ontology, Untied States Geological Survey [3-4]. Within the context of integrating ontologies with sizable agencies, problems arise over harmonizing current vocabularies, agency doctrine and standards, while still attempting to build a useful tool that still adheres to best practice in developing modular and extensible realism-based ontologies.