Its probably short sighted and biased, but I looked up Portland Common Data Model, read a little, saw the key phrases "Data Model" and "Ontology", and ran. Anyt

Its probably short sighted and biased, but I looked up Portland Common Data Model, read a little, saw the key phrases "Data Model" and "Ontology", and ran. Anything to do with formal Ontology specifications feels like overly abstracted databases.