RE: [soa-rm-ra] OASIS' Ref Ontology for SOA

["Danny Thornton" <danny.thornton@scalablearchitectures.com>]

At this point, quite a bit of the document is currently a review of
Ontologies in general and the OASIS SOA RM.  Currently, section 4
contains most of the new material.  The emphasis of section 4 is
semantics based service description with the inclusion of mediators for
the purpose of automated ontology-based reasoning for matching needs and
capabilities in a SOA-based ecosystem.

Comparing and contrasting the OASIS Ref Ontology for SOA with the OASIS
SOA RA would mostly be a comparison between section 4 of the Ref
Ontology for SOA and Section 4.1, Service Description, of the OASIS SOA
RA. With some time and effort, this could be a merging point between the
two documents. 

The Reference Ontology for Semantic Service Oriented Architectures does
distinguish itself from the OASIS SOA RA by stating:

"The Reference Ontology presented in this document is a further step
towards formalization of the Reference Model but also accommodates the
extensions associated with Semantic Web Services resulting in Semantic
SOAs. Since the start of this work, the SOA-RM committee have also
started work on a Reference Architecture, which also aims at further
formalisation of the reference model, but we consider ontologisation
central to the semantics-based approach and diverge. Indeed when we say
Reference Architecture we shall refer to a reference architecture for
SEEs, not to the SOA Reference Architecture.  Furthermore when we say
Concrete Architectures we refer to implementations of semantics-enabled
SOAs such as WSMX [2] , IRS III [3] and METEOR-S [4] ." 

Danny

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [soa-rm-ra] OASIS' Ref Ontology for SOA
From: "Estefan, Jeff A" <jeffrey.a.estefan@jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, December 01, 2008 7:00 am
To: "soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org" <soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org>

  Duane and Frank,
  
 Was wondering if you’ve seen this body of work (see attached spec). 
Unlike TOG SOA ontology, this reference ontology for SOA is based off
the SOA-RM.  I didn’t even realize this spec existed until recently
when I was trying to come up to speed with SOA work in the open
standards communities.
  
 Cheers…
  
  - Jeff, JPL
 
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