*ANNOUNCEMENT* (01)
We are pleased to announce that we will be having Ms. Elisa F.
Kendall from Sandpiper Software, Inc. as our invited speaker for
September 2005. The session is scheduled for Thursday, Sep. 8,
2005 and Ms. Kendall's talk is entitled: *"The Model Driven
Semantic Web – Emerging Technologies & Implementation Strategies"* (02)
*Conference call-in details*: (03)
Date: Thursday, Sep. 8, 2005
Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 17:30 UTC (World Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=8&year=2005&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224
Session Duration: 1.5 ~ 2 Hours
Dial-in Number: +1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
Participant Access Code: "686564#"
VNC shared-screen support available (04)
*The Model Driven Semantic Web – Emerging Technologies &
Implementation Strategies*
by Elisa Kendall (05)
*Abstract*: (06)
The Object Management Group’s (OMG) Meta Object Facility (MOF™)
defines the metadata architecture for Model Driven Architecture
(MDA®) and provides a basis for automating metadata management.
Metadata, in this context, includes database schema, UML™
(Unified Modeling Language) models, workflow models, business
process models, business rules, API definitions, and so on. MOF
defines standards for automating the physical management and
integration of different kinds of metadata through metamodels and
mappings among them. (07)
The Semantic Web is a logical extension of existing World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) standards, such as XML, XML Schema, and SOAP
that enables explicit representation of business semantics. The
goal is to make domain-specific context, nomenclature, and the
language used to describe content and services on the web
unambiguous from a computing perspective. Its underlying
formalisms and technologies have evolved from more than two
decades of research in knowledge representation, computational
linguistics, and automated reasoning. (08)
MDA and the Semantic Web were conceived independently and evolved
with little cross-pollination over the course of several years.
However, participants from both communities have recognized
business benefits to bridging the two technologies to form a
coherent, enterprise information interoperability architecture.
The main realization of this to date is the Ontology Definition
Metamodel (ODM) standard, which is nearing completion in OMG with
the participation of key members of the Semantic Web community. (09)
In this talk, we will: (010)
o Provide a high-level overview of the technology areas. (011)
o Introduce some of the standards and related work that has been
done to date to bridge these communities. (012)
o Discuss the relationships between these standards and others
emerging from the ISO/IEC Metadata standards community (e.g., ISO
11179, ISO 19763, XMDR) (013)
o Discuss related efforts in the W3C and OMG and how they may
relate to the ODM over the course of the next couple of years
(e.g., W3C Semantic Web Services & Rules, OMG Semantics of
Business Vocabularies and Rules (SBVR), Production Rules) (014)
o Explore ground-breaking research and its implications for next
generation architectures and solutions that embrace the marriage
of MDA and Semantic Web services technologies. (015)
*About the Speakers:* (016)
*Ms. Elisa Kendall* is the CEO of Sandpiper Software, which she
founded in 1995. She has over 25 years professional experience in
the design, development and deployment of enterprise-scale
information management systems for communications, high
technology, and manufacturing applications, with a focus on
information interoperability. Over the last five years she has
been instrumental in bridging emerging technologies from
professional software engineering disciplines, such as the Object
Management Group (OMG)’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA®)
methodology, which provides a basis for automating metadata
management, and knowledge representation and reasoning (Semantic
Web) technologies. She is principal architect of Sandpiper's
UML-based knowledge representation, ontology analysis, and
reasoning architecture, and has developed rigorous methodologies
for domain assessment and ontology design and development. Her
formal training in Situation Semantics coupled with extensive
systems integration experience led to Sandpiper’s innovative
approach. (017)
Ms. Kendall currently supports a number of key customers in large
scale, complex taxonomy, ontology and knowledge-based systems
development activities, leads the ontology and policy-based
network management segment of SPARTA’s DARPA/SAPIENT effort, and
is a key contributor to standards such as the OMG’s Ontology
Definition Metamodel (ODM). She is an active participant in the
Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment activity at the W3C,
with a focus on software and ontology engineering. Recent
customer projects include supporting development of ontologies
for a large-scale chemical engineering application, development
of ontologies for monitoring and management of software in a
service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework, and policy-based
information integration architecture development for a financial
services company. (018)
While acting as an independent consultant for Lockheed Martin in
early 1996, she conceived the notion of applying knowledge
sharing technologies to complex engineering data integration and
drove the reuse strategy for the DARPA/TRI-Services RASSP
program. Before founding Sandpiper, Ms. Kendall served as product
development manager for Aspect Development, a provider of
component and supplier management systems acquired by i2
Technologies. She started her career in development, integration,
and deployment of ground-based communications, signal, and data
processing systems at Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space. She holds
an MA in Linguistics from Stanford University and a BS in
Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of
California at Los Angeles. (019)
*Refer to details on the session wiki page at:*
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_09_08 (020)
This will be a virtual session over an augmented conference call.
The session is expected to start with 45 min. ~ 1 Hour
presentation followed by an extended discussion between the
participants and the speaker. The entire session will be recorded
and made available as open content under the prevailing Ontolog
IPR policy (see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32). (021)
I look forward to having you at the session. Please pass this
announcement along to those who might be interested to join us
too. All are welcomed. (022)
Regards. =ppy (023)
P.S. Reminder: Our invited speaker session is on tomorrow, with
Professor Jim Hendler doing a "Semantic Web Q & A" with us. Refer
to details are at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_11
Talk to you then. Tx. =ppy
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