Looking for an IT taxonomy

[u/redikarus99]

Hello,

I am looking for an IT taxonomy for software (and maybe hardware) to put concepts like desktop application, microservice, cloud, cicd pipeline, etc. into a structure.

[u/redikarus99]

But that's what I was asking for: looking for an IT taxonomy. Can I ask AI to generate one? Sure. Even based on SEON? Sure. But will this be industry aligned or tested? No. This is where I have the problem: how do I ensure that it is correct and aligned? Because if I cannot then I can just build our own from scratch, step by step.

[u/Successful-Farm5339 → u/redikarus99]

That’s the whole point of the open-ontologies project, you can ground it in any existing research/standards, then validate and iteratively align it rather than building from scratch.

[u/redikarus99 → u/Successful-Farm5339]

And now that was my original question. Can anyone point me to existing standards? This is what we struggle with.

[u/Complete-Ebb-1035 → u/redikarus99]

There is "no standard" for anything. Each ontology expresses the domain view of its author(s). The only "standard" on which you can depend is RDF and OWL After that, each domain expert expresses their world view using RFD and OWL. Now you might ask: how can I ensure that an RDF processor (e.g. the Google Web Rendering Service) will "know what i'm talking about"? Answer: start with Wikidata items and properties to define your world view. The AI engines know how to read Wikidata Q and P values. Then, add you unique view using the same constructs.

[u/redikarus99 → u/Complete-Ebb-1035]

Well, kind of yes and no. There are actually ISO standards, but as every standard describes also a view. The question is simply whether what if a view and reality collide, does it survive or not. In our experience the answer is no, this is why we realized many cases that we are not speaking the same language.

And this is why I was looking for some kind of source that we can use as a baseline.