(US Federal) SOA CoP forum members:
As part of a PowerPoint presentation by Disaster
Management Interoperability Services we have a diagram where COGs (Collaborative
Operations Groups) are pictured in a "bottom up fashion. I have placed the
diagram at
http://www.secondschool.net/beads/communityCentric/18.htm
Note that there is not an intermediator loop
involving knowledge engineers , but rather a vetting of information by COGs and
the aggregation of information structure by humans (non-IT professionals).
How do the members of this SOA CoP forum see this
type of human collaboration in the context of Service Oriented Architecture, let
us say specifically the demo of a simple SOA at the upcoming workshop April 23 -
24?
(This communication to the SOA CoP forum is posted
at [19] and responses will be posted (sometimes edited) at [20] and
beyond.)
The distinction I make between "simple services"
and "complex services" follows the distinction made by
http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/wi1/Mitarbeiter/schoop.php
where a complex service is one having a pragmatic
axis. see also the work by de Moor.
The current description of the SOA demo was
placed, by Cory, for reference at
http://osera.modeldriven.org/soademo/SOABrokerCommunitySpec.doc
The document states that
The goals of this demonstration are;
· To provide a concrete example of how the SOA
approach provides business value to a community
· To provide confidence that the approach and
technologies are real – secure, reliable, performing and practical.
· To validate that independently developed
applications can interoperate using SOA standards
This demo provides part of the solution to
observed failures in federal emergency response...
I propose that this SOA CoP forum develop
specifications that address the needs to assist and mediate the formation of
information (structure) as part of a parallel harvesting of text from the layers
of the COG as pictured in that diagram (at [18]). This specification would use
all of the types of tools in the SOA CoP demo (ebXML, WSDL being the primary
ones) as well as HML (Human Markup Language) and OASIS BCM (with a focus on
electronic contract/ agreement negotiation - again see references to Schoop and
de Moor and human choice points) as well as what are called "semantic
extraction" tools (see for "my" terminological use ..
http://www.secondschool.net/beads/communityCentric/vocabularyList.htm
This formation of information is the sameAs the
induction of symbols and meaning discussed by Rex Brooks presentation (see slide
7)
from
http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SOACoP/Proposals/Brooks_Semantic_Interoperability_at_Work_03.ppt
The issue of the origin of control/design over
emerging information structure from COGs, immediately after a disaster has
occurred, is addressed by the elements of the BCNGroup Roadmap...
http://www.bcngroup.org/area1/2005beads/GIF/RoadMap.htm
and in various posts that I have made to this
forum....
http://www.secondschool.net/beads/communityCentric/home.htm
Paul S Prueitt