Re: [ontolog-forum] Semantic Enterprise Architecture

[ravi sharma <drravisharma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rick

 

As you might recall I was tuned in to that wonderful effort closely and yes George is contributing to Health Services Architectures.

 

Can you kindly give us a view of how you see that effort tied to

• Linked Open Data
• Semantic Web
• Ontology - integration,

at least in Government / Federal EA space.

 

Also on the thread dealing with DODAF - DM2 and Ontic Foundation of DODAF 2.0 still are not semantically or through ontology integrated; and their roadmap is not clear?

 

Thanks.

Ravi

 

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Rick Murphy <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ian:

Readers of the TQ paper will notice references to GSA, the sponsoring agency. Between 2004 and 2009 our team had the opportunity to examine the relevance of semantics to enterprise architecture at a reasonable level of financial and management support. With a change in leadership that support was lost.

Thankfully, we placed some of our work in an open source repository so others could take advantage of the tax dollars that funded this effort.

http://osera.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/osera/

Unfortunately, what's available in the repository represents only part of our team's work. Our most promising work extended well beyond model driven architecture and the semantic web, though we did a LOT of that. The Information Flow Framework, Category Theory and Goguen and Burstall's Institutions became part of the core team's understanding.

As I reflect on those five amazing years and what has followed since, I am resolved to follow the truth instead of a trend and thankful that the government has a leader in George Thomas.

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Rick

On 8/22/2010 4:18 AM, Ian Bailey wrote:

Hi,

 

The defence departments of Australia, Canada, Sweden, UK and US have been working on a formal ontology to support their enterprise architecture efforts – www.ideasgroup.org

 

All we’ve released so far is the foundation - http://www.ideasgroup.org/foundation/ - but quite a bit more has been done on building patterns for processes, agents, information, systems, capabilities, etc. The foundation has been used to underpin the DoDAF 2.0 meta-model (DM2) – though the resulting meta-model isn’t what most people would recognise as an ontology. The Swedish Armed Forces are investigating how the MODAF Meta-Model (currently a UML Profile) could be re-engineered into a formal ontology based on IDEAS.

 

John Zachman was over in the UK in March for the Integrated-EA conference and had some discussions with UK MOD on ontology and enterprise architecture. From the brief conversations I had with him, he seemed very enthusiastic about ontology in general.

 

At the same conference, Jonathan Carter and Jason Powell presented on an open-source approach to EA development using Protege – see http://www.integrated-ea.com/Previous-Years

 

Back in 2007, I presented on ontology and EA at the Open Group and EA Europe conferences – slides are here: http://www.modelfutures.com/Publications/

 

That, and the paper from Top Quadrant (which has already been mentioned in this thread) are the only efforts I’m aware of for “semantic EA”.

 

Hope this helps

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Ian Bailey

Model Futures

 
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