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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] [uk-government-data-developers] OMG Issues RFP
for Linking Architectures & Models with RDF Linked Open Data
Cory Casanave wrote:
>
> At the technical committee meeting last week in Long Beach California,
> the Object Management Group issued a request for proposals to provide
> better connectivity between models and modeling languages defined in
> OMG and RDF Linked Open Data.
>
> The OMG (
www.omg.org <
http://www.omg.org/>) is the premier standards
> organization for modeling, middleware and architecture. OMG standards
> include UML, BPMN, UPDM (UML Profile for DoDAF), SoaML, SysML,
> Ontology Definition Metamodel, Model Driven Architecture (MDA),
> Records Management, Corba and may others. All of these modeling
> standards are based on the "Meta Object Facility" (MOF) which uses the
> XMI interchange format for model interoperability.
>
> The RFP issued last week will result in a standard for representing
> all MOF based models and modeling languages using RDF and Linked Open
> Data. This has multiple advantages: All OMG-MOF based models (UML,
> BPMN, SOA, UPDM, Etc) will be able to be published as Linked Open Data
> and thus take advantage of the LOD tools and community. This will
> allow architectural information to be linked, queried with and
> analyzed with other kinds of information on the web and will also
> allow architectures to be linked and queried with architectures in
> incompatible models. Architectures as data will become first-class
> citizens in the global data cloud.
>
> The RFP asks for a "Structural mapping" which means that the model
> vocabulary remains unchanged. For example, a UML model retains the UML
> vocabulary. The structural mapping can then convert any kind of model
> without information loss, but it does not translate between
> vocabularies as is done in the UML class diagram to OWL mapping
> defined in the Ontology Definition Metamodel. Other semantic mappings
> and ontologies are expected in the future.
>
> More information on the details can be found in the RFP document here:
>
http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ad/2009-12-09
>
> /The objective of the RFP is summarized as follows:/
>
> *Title: MOF to RDF Structural Mapping in support of Linked Open Data*
>
> RDF and Linked Open Data (LOD) have become important technologies for
> exposing, managing, analyzing, linking and federating data and
> metadata. This set of RDF based technologies, sometimes known as the
> "Semantic Web" or "Web 3.0", are emerging as the lingua franca of data
> on the web. Major initiatives such as the President's open government
> initiative are moving to the use of RDF & Linked Open Data as the
> foundation for publishing all government data and metadata in support
> of transparency. OMG & MOF based models should be a part of the LOD
> and Web 3.0 data cloud.
>
> The objective of this RFP is to define a structural mapping between
> OMG-MOF models and RDF to provide for better integration of MDA and
> LOD, to enable the ability to apply LOD capabilities to MOF compliant
> models and to make the information available in MOF compliant models
> available as LOD web resources. Any MOF based model should be able to
> become a LOD resource.
>
> The model/LOD connection is also very good news for the *Open
> Government Initiative* which calls for government to be more open,
> visible, collaborative and participatory. Government architectures are
> the primary source of structured information about government
> processes, services, rules and data. As such the data contained in
> these models, which will become visible as Linked Open Data, will
> further the open government initiative.
>
> ModelDriven.org has done a preliminary open source implementation of
> this mapping as part of the Enterprise Knowledge Base (EKB) project
> (
http://portal.modeldriven.org/project/EKB). Those interested in
> participating in the standards and/or open source efforts are welcome
> to contact us for more information on how to engage. Cory Casanave,
> who championed the RFP, may be contacted at: (cory-c at modeldriven
> dot com).
>
> Please forward this notice to other interested parties in the ontology
> and modeling communities.
>
Great news!!
Any chance of a URL to an HTML or XHTML doc? Word, PDF, and Open Office
as only options just doesn't play well, especially if the theme is about
Web of Linked Data etc. :-)
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