The purpose of this Public Resources Website is to provide resources that will assist enterprises in reaching BORO's goal.

Links to the four main types of resources are given below:

• Educational materials–for developing an understanding of the BORO approach.
  • In his website these are in the form of Working Papers and can be found here.

• A business object ontology–an overall framework for encouraging simplicity and ensuring consistency within reference ontologies.
  • The evolution of this ontology is described in Volume O - Ontology of the Working Papers and can be found here.
  • Explanations of elements of the ontology are described in Volume B - The BORO Business Object Ontology of the Working Papers and can be found here.
  • The FRO - the Framework Reference Ontology - can be found here.


• Reference ontologies–standard frameworks for supporting the integration of particular business areas.
  • These can be found here.

• A methodology for extracting reference ontologies from existing systems.
  • An overview of this, as well as extensive worked examples, can be found in Volume M - The BORO Methodology of the Working Papers available here