Information scientists have announced an agreement on a “concept bank” programmers could use to build an Internet facility called the Open Ontology Repository (OOR).

The OOR would comprise diverse collections of concepts (ontologies) such as dictionaries, compendiums of medical terminology, and classifications of products, that could be stored, retrieved, and connected to various bodies of information.

OOR users, tasked with creating a computer program for manufacturing machines, for example, would be able to search multiple computer languages and formats for unambiguous words and action commands.