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Welcome to the Omneity project wiki.

Sadly, this site has been subject to attack by spammers. I'm cleaning it up, removing the jerks and rebuilding elements of the database.

This also means I've prevented new account creation. If you're interested in becoming an editor then please contact me and I'll manually create an account. Once I've sorted out the mess I'll re-enable account creation with some additional safeguards.

Think of this wiki as an Open Engineering Log Book. A collection of engineering notes that you can contribute to if you're so inclined. Please feel free to comment and discuss any page using the Discussion tab on each page (available once you're registered as a user and logged in to the wiki).

If you're new to the project, please look at the project's objectives.

Motivation
Frustration with dealing in heterogeneous tool environments where the only solution that seems to be on offer is to consolidate on, and consequently effectively lock your organisation into, one vendor's ALM solution. Dealing with either a mixed and largely incompatible system, or locking yourself into one central solution where you are at the whim of the vendor when it comes to features or problem resolution, are both unacceptable.

Omneity aims to offer a third way; provide consolidated view over a heterogeneous tool environment.

Omneity is more about 'understanding' IT system configuration than about controlling it. For example, with Omneity, questions such as, 'Is this system internally consistent with respect to all the available configuration data?' may be answered, irrespective of the source of that data.

Developers

 * Development Environment
 * Omneity's Core Technologies
 * Ontologies
 * Research
 * Development site (this contains the current project snapshot documentation)
 * Latest ramblings on Tumblr (also has an 'Ask Anything' facility)

Users

 * Introduction to the Semantic Web
 * Ontologies
 * Research

Relationship to other standards and specifications
Omneity is a tool and testbed rather than a standard. It implements new standards required to communicate data, information, and knowledge. There are other technologies under development that are related to, and of interest to, the Omneity project.

Isn't there already a tool for this?
Maybe. I'm not aware of it though.

To be fair, Kovair offer Omnibus. Omnibus has some features in common with Omneity in that it provides a way to federate ALM tools to provide a 'single source of truth'. However, the similarities end there. Omnibus offers two way linking of ALM systems, Omneity is currently intended only for retrieving information from external systems. Omnibus has no 'intelligence', Omneity will use inferencing and other analytics to provide additional information. Omnibus is based on a 'bus' principal, Omneity is peer-to-peer. Omnibus is designed to work within an organisation, Omneity is designed to work without boundaries (it can reach peers anywhere on the internet and share information with them—subject to policy set by users).