Meta-data from Ontologies for JBI Operations (MOJO)

Current approaches to representing meta-data are insufficient. System engineers currently resort to specifying a great deal of meta-data in English prose. This method is subject to errors of misunderstanding or incorrect implementation. Becausecomputers cannot understand English, automation support for meta-data has been limited to information such as type constraints or cardinality of lists. We can do better.JBI has the potential to revolutionize information processing and dissemination for the Air Force as well as serving as a model for other services and organizations. Expanding the richness of meta-data, and providing JBI users and consumers with aframework for reasoning with meta-data can be a key component of that revolution. Our approach is to use formal logic, along with a suite of tools that make it easy for systems analysts to manipulate logic statements, to specify meta-data.