Dynamic Ontology

Dynamic Ontology is a research and tooling initiative focused on making formal semantic structures practical, inspectable, and evolvable for real-world schemas and data systems.

This site introduces the Ontology Workbench (OWB) and related tools for exploring how schemas (XSD, JSON Schema, contractual models) encode latent ontological meaning — and how that meaning can be made explicit, computable, and verifiable.

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Current Status

This site is in early public preview.

Initial content establishes: - Core concepts and motivation - High-level architecture of OWB - Representative demonstrations (using simplified schemas)

Additional documentation, examples, and datasets will be added incrementally.

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Getting Started

• Ontology Workbench (OWB)
  Overview of goals, architecture, and demonstrations
  → /owb/

• MISMO Ontology Initiative
  A focused case study using mortgage industry schemas
  → /mismo/

• Philosophy & Positioning
  Why ontologies matter for AI, governance, and interoperability
  → /philosophy/

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This project emphasizes clarity over completeness. Each component is published once it is structurally sound, not merely when it is exhaustive.