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The Semantic Enterprise
Enabling information architectures


Day 1
Understanding Semantic Enterprise

1. The semantic imperative.
    Creating strategic advantage.
• From the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
• The importance of semantic interoperability in government and business
     - Real world drivers for semantic solutions: Semantic web and the semantic wave
     - New government imperatives: net-centricity
     - Evolving business imperatives: semantic web and interoperability
• Creating the innovation-driven, meaning-centric organization
     - Understanding the market for semantic solutions
     - The knowledge basis for action

2. Creating clarity.
    Achieving a shared understanding.
• How do we organize knowledge?
• Common confusions: taxonomies, ontologies, conceptual semantic and enterprise
   models, metadata
• Understanding the “O” word: ontology defined
• The role of Communities of Interest (COI) in achieving clarity
     - Shared meaning, vocabularies, ontologies and metadata
     - Common standards
• Focused discussion: COI standards in your organizations

3. Semantic architecture.
    A map for enterprise knowledge.
• Three components of business knowledge
• The purpose of ontologies & semantic models
• Semantic enterprise processes
• Creating meaningful concepts from data
• Constructs of a semantic model
• Relation types and uses: connecting concepts in
   meaningful ways
• Formal foundations: tightening up semantic interpretation
• Business processes and rules

4. Getting Real.
    Building a semantic domain model.
• Semantic analysis vs. the ontology modeling process
     - Five sources of domain semantics
     - Seven steps for building an effective ontology model
• Gaining semantic insight: analyzing sources for a real project
• Putting semantics to work
     - Implementing an ontology to semantically integrate information
     - Integrating structured and unstructured data
     - Accessing and visualizing integrated information through an ontology

Days 2 & 3 — Implementing the Semantic Enterprise

1. A virtual tour.
    Semantic interoperability in action.
The virtual tour takes participants through the various stages of a semantic project including strategy, approach, concept of architecture, applications and funding.

2. The meaning behind the models.
    Architecture frameworks, information and business process reference models.
• Semantics: the mortar for Enterprise Architecture frameworks
• The role of semantics in developing Reference Models
     - Guidelines for adding meaning to architecture models
• The semantics of business process models and service-oriented architectures

3. Life cycle management.
   Organically growing your semantic architecture.
• Business application of ontologies
• Addressing the data integration problem
• Hard business questions for management
• Semantic model decision process
• Key modeling questions for designers
• The semantic life cycle model
• Validation, model maintenance and risk management

4. Return on meaning.
    Making the business case.
• The business value of semantics: core components
   of the management decision process
• Assessing life cycle costs/benefits
• Analyzing intangible benefits to the enterprise
• Case Study: applying the business decision process to real projects

5. Metadata and information values.
     Context and quality of information.
• Roles of metadata for the business, major initiatives and architectures
• Challenges in metadata capture and representation
• Using ontologies to integrate metadata & data
• Improving information quality using metadata and ontologies

6. We speak your language.
     Representation standards.
• The purpose of standards organizations
• Relationships among representation languages
• The building blocks of expressive power

7. Tools to make it easier.
    Enabling semantic technologies.
• Current state of semantic technology
• Modeling tools and methods
• Identifying features relevant to your business
• Case study demonstrations

8. The next big thing.
     Semantic web for the enterprise.
• Vision: knowledge sharing and discovery
     - Systems that understand meaning
     - Information that describes itself
• The Semantic Web and Wikis — the growing need for semantics and normalized
   representation
• Infusing semantic information into content
• Building an enterprise semantic web with a corporate ontology
• Real World Case Studies
     - International Council of Museums
     - USAF 45th Space Wing
• The real payoff: Semantics and Innovation

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“I thought this was a wonderful course – Kent’s insight and teaching style was fantastic.”
Glenn Assheton-Smith
Architect
Canwest Global

“An intellectually stimulating course offering that is addressing the key concepts of tomorrow’s enterprise architectures.”
Robert Weisman
Executive Consultant
CGI Group Inc.


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