Welcome to the FIBO Semantics Repository Home Page

This Site

This website provides a partial report of sections of the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO). This is being submitted into the Object Management Group (OMG)^TM as a set of proposed standard ontologies under the FIBO umbrella. These FIBO OMG specifications are optimized for semantic technology applications.

Alongside these we are working to release the full canonical reference ontology (as seen in these pages) as RDF/OWL. These form the raw material for derivation of OMG submissions. Please refer to the presentations below for details about these.

The material on this site is presented in a range of business facing formats, namely spreadsheets and technology-neutral diagrams. These are generated from an underlying repository.

Current Status

FIBO Foundations

FIBO Foundations is in the OMG "Finalization" phase, expected to complete in December 2014. The current version is the "Beta2" specification and accompanying machine readable files.

FIBO Business Entities

FIBO Business Entities is in the OMG "Finalization" phase, expected to complete in March 2015. The current version is the "Beta1" specification and accompanying machine readable files.

FIBO Indices and Indicators

FIBO Indices and Indicators is in theOMG "Finalization" phase, expected to complete in June 2015. The current version is the "Beta1" specification and accompanying machine readable files.

Upcoming FIBO Specifications

Future FIBO specifications are developed under a "FIBO Content Team" headed up by a representative from the financial industry, working with a core group of industry participants and ontologists.

Work is under way on a specification for FIBO Securities Common Terms and Equities under the leadership of a representative from Bloomberg. These will reflect the substantively complete material as reflected on these pages.

Following this we expect work to get under way shortly on FIBO Loans (common terms) and the first part of FIBO Derivatives. These will take the draft material reflected in these pages and progress them to formal OMG standards submissions.

Please click through to the Business section for full details of scope, coverage and development status.

FIBO Joint Work (EDM Council / OMG-FDTF) Current Work Status

Please see the OMG Finance Domain Task Force Working Wiki for full current status, available OMG specifications, draft OMG specifications and roadmap. This link also takes you to the latest monthly update slides on the progress of this and other FDTF work.

Explanatory Presentations

• Business Conceptual Ontology - introduction to theory - see Conceptual Modeling Exploration slides presented at OMG in September 2014 (superseded presentation given at OMG in March 2014).
• Update on FIBO given at the Open Financial Data Group - this deck includes a deeper introduction to the application of semantic principles in the FIBO Business Conceptual Ontology.
• A recording of this presentation is available here.
• Earlier general overview on the conceptual FIBO models - in Technical/Modeling Principles section.

Please note that all current work is ongoing using the modeling tools and therefore many sections of this web interface are not up to date.
To view the current model, please navigate to the repository file which can be downloaded in the Downloads section.
You may also download a free viewer at that page