ramphias/universal-ontology-definition

The 'Universal Ontology Definition' is in its infancy, with only 6 stars and no forks 14 days after creation. Qualitatively, it addresses the perennial 'schema problem' in enterprise data by proposing a layered architecture. However, it lacks a technical moat; it is currently a set of definitions rather than a software engine or an enforced standard. It faces massive competition from established standards like Schema.org, FIBO (Financial Industry Business Ontology), and the ISO 15926 suite. Furthermore, the rise of LLMs and GraphRAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation over graphs) is moving the industry toward probabilistic schema mapping rather than rigid, manually defined 'universal' ontologies. Platform domination risk is high as Microsoft (via Fabric/OneLake) and Google (via BigQuery/Dataform) are building their own semantic layer abstractions that effectively lock users into their proprietary data models. The project's current state is closer to a personal methodology or a blog post in repo form than a defensible open-source project.