COMMONS13 — Need to augment the locations ontology to cover sites and facilities, or create a new ontology for these concepts

Several OMG members have requested a general ontology that includes sites and facilities, which are currently modeled in FIBO, primarily for lending and asset management purposes, but they are also needed for retail and manufacturing. The relationship between a site and a facility is many to many, and modeling them for manufacturing as well as retail, energy, military, and other domain areas can be tricky. Having the general pattern that can be extended by any domain area would be very useful for extension purposes.

Need to augment the locations ontology to cover sites and facilities, or create a new ontology for these concepts

This resolution adds a new Sites and Facilities ontology, per the request from several OMG task forces and members as well as external Commons users. The proposed ontology has been tested extensively by FIBO and IDMP-O users, among others.