InstantForum.NET v4.1.4CompTIA e-Business Forumhttp://ecforums.comptia.org/webmaster@comptia.orgFri, 25 Jul 2008 18:59:04 GMT20http://ecforums.comptia.org/Topic63-16-1.aspxI gave a keynote presentation at a joint Open Group and Federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice and Federal Metadata Management Consortium Conference in April 2006 that highlighted the issues associated with convergence of two basic approaches toward semantic interoperability. One approach is based on the Semantic Web standards - OWL, RDF and domain specific ontologies. The other approach is based on the international standard for metadata registries -- ISO/IEC 11179 coupled with a proposed global instantiation of ISO/IEC 11179-5 named the Universal Data Element Framework. The keynote presentation is available online at <A href="http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenGroupSICoP_2006_04_27">http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenGroupSICoP_2006_04_27</A> in the Final Agenda section.</P><P>From my point of view - both approaches have a role toward semantic interoperability and semantics is the missing link toward a service oriented architecture. Do you agree?Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:24:00 GMTRon Schuldt