I would look at (some will cringe, sorry) the UMM from UN/CEFACT. They
are working on the semantics for business entities and integrating with
REA model (Economic Resource-Event-Agent). It's making some good
progress.  (01)
Contact John Yunker, yunker@xxxxxxxxxx
 Bill McCarthy, Michigan State University, mccarth4@xxxxxxx  (02)
Thanks.
Monica  (03)
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From: Leo Obrst [mailto:lobrst@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:46 PM
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Cc: Jones, David H
Subject: Re: [ontolog] Large Ontologies in Use  (04)
Mike,  (05)
The Gene Ontology Consortium has a few: http://www.geneontology.org/  (06)
Also, in medicine, UMLS: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/
MESH: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/filelist.html.  (07)
Leo  (08)
"Uschold, Michael F" wrote:  (09)
> Can anyone point to some very large ontologies that are in routine
use? I
> know there are some in the medical informatics area, but am unsure of
what
> they are called. One is on the order of 35K items, perhaps in
genetics.
>
> If anyone can supply any details I would be grateful.
>
> Thanks
> Mike Uschold
>
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