Industry Ontology Standards
Established, industry-specific RDF/OWL ontologies and information models — the vocabularies that domain experts have already standardised.
The Data Landscape covers the cross-cutting standards a modern data architecture is built on. This page covers the other half: the ontologies your domain has already standardised. They define the concepts, relationships, and identifiers that data in a given industry tends to be shaped around.
EDM Council
Financial Industry Business Ontology — concepts and relationships for banking, securities, derivatives, corporate actions, and regulatory reporting. The most mature business-domain ontology in production use, governed by the EDM Council under the Object Management Group.
TM Forum
Shared Information/Data model — the canonical information model for the telecom industry. Defines core concepts (Party, Product, Service, Resource, Customer, Order) that underpin TM Forum's Open APIs and most operator BSS/OSS stacks.
tmforum.org — Information Framework (SID) · repository
IEC / ENTSO-E
Common Grid Model Exchange Standard — the RDF profile of IEC 61970 (CIM) used by European transmission system operators to exchange grid topology, steady-state hypotheses, state variables, and dynamics. The reference model for cross-border energy data exchange.
entsoe.eu — CIM & CGMES · repository
ISO / Pistoia Alliance
Identification of Medicinal Products — the ISO 11238/11239/11240/11615/11616/21090 family rendered as RDF by the Pistoia Alliance. Defines substances, pharmaceutical products, dose forms, units, and the harmonised datatypes regulators expect in submissions.
pistoiaalliance.org — IDMP Ontology · spec.edmcouncil.org/idmp
GS1
Electronic Product Code Information Services — GS1's vocabulary for supply chain event visibility and traceability. Answers the "what, where, when, why" of physical objects moving through a chain, anchored to GS1 identifiers (GTIN, SSCC, GLN) and bound to the GS1 Web Vocabulary.
gs1.org — EPCIS · standardPDF
IATA
Linked-data model for digital air cargo, replacing the legacy EDI-based messaging that has carried the industry for decades. Defines shipments, pieces, transport movements, and the parties involved as a single graph that participants exchange via REST APIs.
EBU / SMPTE
Metadata ontology for audiovisual content in broadcasting and media production — programmes, episodes, rights, contributors, technical formats. Extends EBUCore with the structure broadcasters need for archive management and content exchange.
Martin Hepp / schema.org
Vocabulary for product, price, store, and company data in e-commerce. Largely subsumed into schema.org's commerce vocabulary, but still the reference model when you need the full expressivity of the original (offerings, price specifications, business entities).
This list reflects the industry ontologies that the Entropy Data platform imports out of the box for semantic modelling. Each one is a real, governed, in-production specification — not aspirational.
Know an industry ontology we're missing?
If your domain has a governed, in-production ontology that belongs here, let us know — suggestions welcome.