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Hello
John,
We are
interested in knowing more, and seeing where we might participate in your UDEF
efforts.
Please
add us to your mailing list of "Friends of UDEF"
Regards,
Bob
Smith, Ph.D.
Ontology Projects
Tall
Tree Labs
Dear Friends, Associates and Industry Leaders:
Below are the introduction paragraphs of an open letter, directed
towards participants and leaders in the information technology communities who
are focused on semantic-based data element identification, contextual
representation (ontologies and taxonomies including frameworks for
representing same). This letter was also sent to groups
that are concerned with communication of data element
semantics, specifically Web Services groups, the Semantic Web groups
and e-business standards groups. The letter was sent to approximately
450 targeted persons. To view the entire open letter at http://www.geocities.com/johnchardin
along with some additional information. The objective is to foster
communication (beginning with a mailing list for discussion and archive)
within the core groups that are identifying and designing global semantic
solutions, and the standards / organizations that will utilize them. To
subscribe to the maillist, send an email to
<letterintro>
The Aerospace Industry Association's Electronic Enterprise groups ( http://www.aia-aerospace.org), the
Association for Enterprise Integration ( http://www.afei.org), the Electronics Industry
Data Exchange ( http://www.eidx.org) and
others have been participating in the formation of an approach for identifying
and managing semantic equivalency for data elements, and feel that this
approach represents a potential approach for the IT industry, standards
bodies and web services frameworks to move towards interoperability and
convergence.
This approach is termed the Universal Data Element Framework ( http://www.udef.org), and is designed to
provide a (semi) intelligent identifier, attached in some way to a data
element (perhaps as an attribute within schemas or in an RDF based reference
file), that can be resolved to produce an exact identification of the data
element meaning.
This open letter describes, at a high level, a summarization of the
usability of the UDEF within the various semantics/ontology/taxonomy
communities, and the current status and efforts around the UDEF.
</letterintro>
Best regards,
John Hardin
*********
john
hardin
webservices_integrations --
businessmodels::analyst::architect::manager
http://www.geocities.com/johnchardin/
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