Assessment Frameworks
Buyers often evaluate WWKG through frameworks that were not written for knowledge graphs: cybersecurity frameworks, AI risk frameworks, privacy law, identity trust frameworks, data-product standards, and audit criteria.
This section does that mapping directly. It explains where WWKG gives you native evidence, where it gives you useful building blocks, and where the framework remains the responsibility of your organization, deployment, or auditor.
These pages are not certification claims. WWKG can help produce evidence for an assessment, but the assessment itself depends on how WWKG is deployed, operated, governed, and integrated into the rest of your environment.
How to read the status
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Native fit | WWKG has product primitives that directly support the framework’s assessment question. |
| Partial fit | WWKG supplies useful evidence or architecture, but surrounding controls are still required. |
| Roadmap | The direction fits WWKG, but the feature should not be treated as complete yet. |
| External responsibility | The framework depends mainly on customer process, deployment, legal analysis, or third-party audit. |
Data product, catalog, ontology, and data-management frameworks
- DPROD - OMG Data Product Ontology, with WWKG workspaces as publishable data products.
- DCAT - W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary, with WWKG catalogs, services, distributions, and versioned metadata.
- FIBO - EDM Association’s Financial Industry Business Ontology for financial-services semantics.
- FAIR Data Principles - findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable digital assets.
- DAMA-DMBOK - data-management governance, architecture, quality, metadata, integration, and lifecycle practice areas.
- DCAM - EDM Association’s Data Management Capability Assessment Model for assessing data-management maturity.
Business capability and semantic-delivery methods
- EKGF Use Case Tree Method - business-owned EKG use-case planning, governance, reuse, stories, outcomes, and executable semantic components.
Semantic interoperability and domain standards
- W3C Linked Data standards - RDF, SPARQL, SHACL, PROV, OWL, and related standards used to evaluate semantic interoperability.
Identity and trust frameworks
- IDESG / IDEF - identity ecosystem assessment, privacy, security, interoperability, and accountability.
Cybersecurity and defensive architecture
- MITRE ATT&CK - adversary behavior mapping and threat-informed defense.
- MITRE D3FEND - defensive countermeasure taxonomy and acquisition support.
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework - governance, identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover outcomes.
AI risk and governance
- NIST AI RMF - govern, map, measure, and manage AI risk.
- EU AI Act - AI regulatory obligations, especially for high-risk AI systems and data governance evidence.
Privacy and assurance
- GDPR - privacy, access control, minimization, provenance, and data-subject-process evidence.
- ISO/IEC 27001 - information security management system evidence.
- SOC 2 - service-organization controls for security, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity, and privacy.
Terms that are not frameworks
Some terms used in white papers or architecture discussions are useful, but they are not assessment frameworks by themselves. Examples include Knowledge Communication Protocol, Sovereign World Model, Attribute-Based Encryption, SWRL policy enforcement, dynamic masking credentials, and Active Directory, OAuth, or SCADA bridges.
Those terms should be described as architecture patterns, roadmap items, or integration ideas unless they are tied to a specific external framework or implemented WWKG feature.