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1 The Enterprise Semantic Reference Framework Simon Polovina Conceptual Structures Research Group Communication and Computing Research Centre Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) Sheffield Hallam University, UK 1

2 Some explanations Semantics Ontology Vocabulary Enterprise Architecture Models 2

3 Enterprise Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. (Star Trek, quotes) Origin: late Middle English: from Old French, 'something undertaken', feminine past participle (used as a noun) of entreprendre, based on Latin prendere, prehendere 'to take (OED) An undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk (thefreedictionary.com) A business organization (thefreedictionary.com) You and me 3

4 Architecture The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings (OED) The complex or carefully designed structure of something (OED) The conceptual structure and logical organization of a computer or computer-based system (OED) Winchester Mystery House From the blank piece of paper to the last nail in the wall 4

5 Models Sowa, 2002 Dictionary.com All Models are Wrong, But Some are Useful (Box, 1987) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler than that (attr. Einstein) 5

6 The Computer World Human Information Functions VALUE PRODUCING more like a semiotic snake to me PHYSICAL WORLD signals, traces, physical dimensions, hardware, component density, speed, economics The Semiotic Ladder Challenge (Organisational Semiotics, after Stamper 1997) SOCIAL WORLD beliefs, expectations, commitments, contracts, law, culture,... PRAGMATICS intentions, communication, conversations, negotiations,... SEMANTICS meanings, propositions, validity, truth, signification, denotations,... SYNTACTICS formal structure, language, logic, data, records, deduction, software, files,... EMPIRICS patterns, variety, noise, entropy, channel capacity, redundancy, efficiency, codes,... The Real World? Semantic Architecture & Modelling The Technology Platform COST IMPOSING 6

7 Peirce's Triadic Objects Create Signs Lanir (2012) 9

8 Upload Essential Import Utility Update Essential Modeller in Protégé Publish Essential Viewer Render Semantic Mapping How spreadsheet maps to EMM Essential Knowledge Base Classes and Instances of EMM EMM = Essential Meta Model Views Dynamically rendered from knowledge base snapshot 10

9 Rule of 3 Context Object relation Object 12

10 w3c.org Laurier & Poels (2012) Performance Meta Model, leadingpractice.com some triples... Polovina (2007) 13

11 leadingpractice.com w3c.org Laurier & Poels (2012) some contexts... Polovina (2007) 14

12 Global University Alliance: Object Vocabulary types 15

13 References Box, G. (1987, p.424) In: Box, G. & Draper, N.R. (1987). Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics Lanir, L. (2012). Charles Sanders Peirce s Semiotics The Triadic Model, December 27, 2012 Laurier, W., & Poels, G. (2012). Ontology-Based Structuring of Conceptual Data Modeling Patterns. Journal of Database Management (JDM), 23(3), Polovina, S. (2007) An Introduction to Conceptual Graphs, Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications, July 2007, Sheffield, UK, Sowa, J. (2002). Representing Knowledge Soup in Language and Logic, Stamper, R. (1997). Organisational semiotics. Information systems: An emerging discipline, McGraw Hill, London,

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