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DIPData, Information, and Process Integration with Web Services

Kick-Off Meeting

Christoph BusslerDigital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)

Galway, Ireland

Kongresszentrum, Innsbruck, Austria, January 16th, 2004

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Welcome!

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Congratulations!

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Some History …

• "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers.” Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM (around 1948)

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Some History …

• "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers.” Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM (around 1948)

• “There is no reason for any individuals to have a computer in their home.”Ken Olsen, President, Chairman and Founder of DEC, 1977

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Some History …

• "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers.” Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM (around 1948)

• “There is no reason for any individuals to have a computer in their home.”Ken Olsen, President, Chairman and Founder of DEC, 1977

• “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, 1981 (Bill Gates denies having ever said that)

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Some History …

• "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers.” Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM (around 1948)

• “There is no reason for any individuals to have a computer in their home.”Ken Olsen, President, Chairman and Founder of DEC, 1977

• “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, 1981 (Bill Gates denies having ever said that)

• “... Until someone finds a way for applications to understand each other, the effect of Web services technology will be fairly limited. When I pass customer data across [the Web] in a certain format using a Web Services interface, the receiving program has to know what that format is. You have to agree on what the business objects look like. And no one has come up with a feasible way to work that out yet -- not Oracle, and not its competitors...“Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison, (around 2003)

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DIP – General Vision

Static

– 500 million users and more than 3 billion pages

WWWURI, HTML, HTTP

Syntactic

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DIP – General Vision

WWWURI, HTML, HTTP

– Serious Problems in • information finding,• information extraction,• information representation,• information interpretation and• and information maintenance.

Semantic WebRDF, RDF(S), OWL

Static

Syntactic Semantic

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DIP – General Vision

WWWURI, HTML, HTTP

– Bringing the computer back as a device for computation

Semantic WebRDF, RDF(S), OWL

Dynamic Web ServicesUDDI, WSDL, SOAP

Static

Syntactic Semantic

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DIP – General Vision

WWWURI, HTML, HTTP

– Bringing the web to its full potential

Semantic WebRDF, RDF(S), OWL

Dynamic Web ServicesUDDI, WSDL, SOAP

Static

Intelligent WebServices

Syntactic Semantic

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DIP – General Vision

DIP Research and Development space

Single, private, implicit ontologies

Networked, shared, explicit, dynamic ontologies

Static Web Services in a closed, trusted, known environment

On the fly composition of Web Services in an open environment

Independently evolving Web Services in a closed trusted environment

Discovery of Web Services in an open environment

Single, shared (exposed), explicit ontologies

Networked, shared, explicit, static ontologies

Meaningless area

Useless area

Useless area

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Activity 1 – Semantic Web

Activity 2 – Semantic Web Services

Today

Intelligent Web Services

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DIP – General Vision

DIP Research and Development space

Single, private, implicit ontologies

Networked, shared, explicit, dynamic ontologies

Static Web Services in a closed, trusted, known environment

On the fly composition of Web Services in an open environment

Independently evolving Web Services in a closed trusted environment

Discovery of Web Services in an open environment

Single, shared (exposed), explicit ontologies

Networked, shared, explicit, static ontologies

Meaningless area

Useless area

Useless area

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Activity 1 – Semantic Web

Activity 2 – Semantic Web Services

Today

Intelligent Web Services

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DIP – General Vision

DIP Research and Development space

Single, private, implicit ontologies

Networked, shared, explicit, dynamic ontologies

Static Web Services in a closed, trusted, known environment

On the fly composition of Web Services in an open environment

Independently evolving Web Services in a closed trusted environment

Discovery of Web Services in an open environment

Single, shared (exposed), explicit ontologies

Networked, shared, explicit, static ontologies

Meaningless area

Useless area

Useless area

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Activity 1 – Semantic Web

Activity 2 – Semantic Web Services

Today

Intelligent Web Services

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DIP – Mission and Objectives

• Mission– “In a nutshell, it is the mission of DIP to make Semantic

Web Services become a reality as the new infrastructure for eWork and eCommerce.”

• Objectives– Make Semantic Web technology a reality.– Combine Semantic Web technology with Web Services for

semantics-based services. – Apply Semantic Web Services as an infrastructure in real

world scenarios within an organization and between organizations and its customers/partners.

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DIP – Partners

• SAP AG, Germany• Tiscali Österreich GmbH, Austria• Fundacion De La

Innovacion.Bankinter, Spain• Berlecon Research GmbH, Germany• Essex County Council, UK• Forschungszentrum Informatik,

Germany• inubit AG, Germany• Net Dynamics Internet Technologies

GmbH u. Co KG, Austria• Sirma AI Ltd., Bulgaria• The Open University, UK• Unicorn Solution Ltd, Israel• Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium• Intelligent Software Components, S.A,

Spain

• National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

• British Telecommunications Plc., UK• Swiss Federal Institute of

Technology, Switzerland• Universität Innsbruck, Austria• ILOG SA, France

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DIP – Architecture

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DIP – Workpackages

WP1 Ontology Reasoning and Querying

WP2 Ontology Management

WP3 Service Ontologies and Service Description

WP4 Service Usage

WP5 Service Mediation

WP6 Interoperability and Architecture WP7 Technology Watch and Standardization

WP8 Case Study VISP

WP9 Case Study eGovernment

WP10 Case Study eBanking

WP11 Dissemination

WP12 Market Observation

WP13 IPR Activities

WP14 Training

WP15 Management

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Summary and Outlook

• We tackle a challenging problem

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Summary and Outlook

• We tackle a challenging problem• We have the winning team

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Summary and Outlook

• We tackle a challenging problem• We have the winning team• We have an excellent plan

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Summary and Outlook

• We tackle a challenging problem• We have the winning team• We have an excellent plan• Let’s make our vision become true:

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Semantic Web Services – the new infrastructure for

eWork and eCommerce