the enterprise semantic reference framework by simon polovina

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

LEAD The Way Conference 2014

College of Charleston, SC USA1March 5-6th

Some explanations…

• Semantics

• Ontology

• Vocabulary

• Enterprise

• Architecture

• Models

March 5-6thLEAD The Way Conference 2014

College of Charleston, SC USA2

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



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”



Models

• 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)



Sowa, 2002

The Semiotic Ladder Challenge(Organisational Semiotics, after Stamper 1997)

Sem

antic

Arc

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ctu

re &

Mode

lling

The C

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pute

r W

orld

The

Real

World?

more like a

semiotic

snake to me



Lanir (2012)

Peirce's Triadic

Objects Create Signs



Essential

Essential Import

Utility

Essential

Modeller in

Protégé

Essential

Viewer

Semantic MappingHow spreadsheet maps to EMM

Knowledge BaseClasses and Instances of EMM

ViewsDynamically rendered

from knowledge base

snapshot

UpdateUpload Publish

EMM = Essential Meta

Model

Re

nd

er



Context

Rule of 3



Object Objectrelation

some triples...March 5-6th



Laurier & Poels (2012)

Polovina (2007)

w3c.org

Performance Meta Model, leadingpractice.com

some contexts...March 5-6th



Polovina (2007)

w3c.org

leadingpractice.com

Laurier & Poels (2012)

Global University

Alliance: Object

Vocabulary types



ReferencesBox, 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, http://www.decodedscience.com/charles-sanders-peirces-semiotics-the-triadic-model/22974, December 27, 2012

Laurier, W., & Poels, G. (2012). Ontology-Based Structuring of Conceptual Data ModelingPatterns. Journal of Database Management (JDM), 23(3), 50-64.

Polovina, S. (2007) An Introduction to Conceptual Graphs, Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications, July 2007, Sheffield, UK, 1-15.

Sowa, J. (2002). Representing Knowledge Soup in Language and Logic, http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/souprepr.htm

Stamper, R. (1997). Organisational semiotics. Information systems: An emerging discipline, McGraw Hill, London, 267-283.



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