The Value Of Ontologies

Austin Info Systems (AIS) is developing the Open Source Automated Link Analysis Tool (OSALAT), an application that uses ontologies to help search open source repositories and processes the search results. The use of ontologies has greatly benefited OSALAT in a variety of ways, including the decoding the information contained within the open source documents. This document discusses the use of ontologies by OSALAT and then proposes some extensions to support Lessons Learned systems.