Friends and Colleagues,
I just concluded a two-day workshop held by Mantech International for the Department of Defense on the subject of enterprise information integration. There were many interesting presentations from thought leaders out of Unicorn, MetaMatrix, Contivo, IBM, Microsoft and more - each on the subject of information level interoperability.The fascinating thing about this workshop was the hands-on interaction between vendors, and also the CIO architect thought leaders from Army, Navy, Air Force, DLA, OSD and others. This was clearly a battle of competing ideas.We had the inventors/founders of UDEF, Topic Maps, BizTalk, and Contivo in the room, and of course I was doing my best to represent the W3C OWL/RDF standards-based view of information interoperability - and Network Inference's strengths in those areas of course.I had the honor of doing the keynote for the two day event, I wanted to share that with all of you so that you can see the kinds of things I am speaking towards these days - I hope you enjoy the attached briefing (and workshop outbrief).Also, over the coming few days, you will be able to view and download all the presentations from the speakers at the following URI: http:\\www.meiim.comOne final thought; in speaking with bright minds from so many different backgrounds I have come to distill one simple proposition that OWL gives users that no other technical approach can claim: using OWL-driven inference, your data schemas become virtual - they can adapt in response to outside business change (and propagate those changes to instance data). Other systems, so XSD/XML-centric, are locked into a fixed, unresponsive set of schematic metadata/data that remain ever-so brittle in these changing times. Build for change!All the best,-Jeff-
Jeff T. Pollock
Vice President, TechnologyMain: 760-476-0650 Direct: 415-971-2223 Fax: 760-476-0648 Web: www.networkinference.com Email: jeff.pollock@networkinference.com
Carlsbad, CA 92008The schema is virtual.
