Architecture: Ontology & Applications
Ontology Layer
Ontology Application Services Layer
Application Layer
User Interface Layer
Semantic
Representation
Requirements
User
(& presentation)
Requirements
Support for User
to Representation
Requirements
Search
Transact
User Roles
Buyer (Engr., Analyst)
Seller
Search
Transact
Navigate
Get/Put Data
Make/Get Alias
Look-up
Contextualize
Infer
Taxonomies
Metadata
Attributes
In the emerging Web Services paradigm, Levels 1 - 4 consist of
composable services
1
2
3
4