Re: [regrep-cc-review] What if? CCRIM => CCOWL

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Farrukh,

I think CCOWL is a great idea. I'm also thinking that we can have the
best of both worlds here - that is, we don't need to halt our current
CCRIM work in order to pursue incorporation of semantic technologies. 
The reason I say this is that my understanding is that OWL would apply
to the assembly functionality in the CCTS spec, which is out of scope of
the CCRIM effort anyway. Basic registration and maintenance of Core
Components and their associated entities in the registry would be
covered by the base registry functionality for handling RegistryObjects.

Does that sound good?

Thanks,
Joe

Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> 
> I have been looking into OWL and RDF in the context of the Semantic
> Content Management work that we are just starting formally within the
> TC. In that process I have been developing an OWL ontology for ebXML
> Registry Information Model (ebRIM).
> 
> Dieter Jenz, a colleague that many of you may already know, has pointed
> me to an interesting  work he has been a key contributor to, called Open
> Business Process Management Ontology (BPMO) [1]. Though the BPMO
> ontology is much broader but parts of it seem to be a mapping of CCTS to
> OWL.
> 
> I am particularly intrigued by this work because I believe that OWL may
> be a much richer syntax to express CCTS concepts. Assuming that we have
> decent support for managing OWL ontologies and knowledge bases (Ontology
> + instance data) in ebXML Registry in the future, this could be a very
> good way to represent CCTS in ebXML Registry.
> 
> I realize that tremendous amount of good work has been invested into
> CCRIM. I believe much of the CCRIM work could be leveraged and mapped to
> a CCOWL (CC expresed in OWL syntax).
> 
> So the question the the group is whether we should explore re-directing
> our work from CCRIM to CCOWL.
> 
> Dieter, I urge you to consider joining the CCRIM SC as well as the soon
> to be approved Semantic Content Management SC within ebXML Registry TC.
> I suspect we will have much value from your contributions. This could
> also provide alignment and synergy between ebXML Registry and BPMO.
> Joining an SC requires joining the ebXML Registry TC which requires
> OASIS membership (corporate or individual).
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Farrukh
> 
> [1] Dieter Jenz's description of BPMO
> 
> Below are some quotes from Dieter that describe BPMO:
> 
> "
> There is a WP, which provides a high-level view of the BPMO approach.
> You can find it at
> http://www.bpiresearch.com/Resources/RE_OntBPM/re_ontbpm.htm
> 
> The ultimate goal of the ontology is to provide a semantic repository
> backbone, which allows business analysts to define business process
> definitions in a vendor-neutral, platform-neutral, technology-neutral
> format. In a nutshell, business process definitions can be generated in
> various target process definition languages (e.g. XPDL, Staffware, BPEL,
> ...) from a single source.
> 
> The BPMO also supports the definition of sophisticated public
> (colaborative) business processes, which I would also call
> "multilateral" business processes, since two or more parties need to
> agree on a process definition. In contrast, private processes are
> "unilateral", meaning that a business partner's consent is not required.
> XPDL, BPEL  and other languages fall into this category.
> 
> As you know, CCTS and UBL are adequate for the description of business
> documents. In addition, one can use CCTS to describe business entities
> (i.e. the business analyst's view of business objects).
> 
> If you are interested, you can have a look at it at
> http://www.bpiresearch.com/Resources/RE_OSSOntOWL/re_ossontowl.htm . You
> would need the Protege tool, though (http://protege.stanford.edu/).
> "
> 
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