March 2005 EC Presentation 1
Data, Information and Process Integration with Semantic Web
Services
IST Project Number : FP6 – 507483
Funded by Unit E2 Knowledge Management and Content Creation
March 2005 EC Presentation 2
DIP - Partners and Workplan• 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.”
• Main Results– Standard proposal through SWSI, 3WC and / or OASIS.– Open source based Semantic Web Service Architecture
(WSMO/WSMX) made public on a world-wide basis– Tools exploitable for the DIP partners on a large scale
• Partners– 6 Universities and 12 leading edge Companies from 10
Countries make up the DIP Consortium formed Jan 2004 – Dedicating 3 years substantial efforts to the DIP project
and are committed to accomplish these targets
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DIP Core Research Partners National University of Ireland Galway The NUIG linked organization of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) is the coordinator of the project. DERI has a strong record in IST projects and is the world leading institute in Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services area.
EPFL Lausanne The Distributed Information Systems Laboratory has a solid track record in research in Web Services and workflow area.
University of InnsbruckThe Institute for Computer Sciences (IFI) is one of the leading Semantic Web research groups in Europe, its Scientific Director has a successful record in undertaking IST projects.
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DIP Industrial Core Partners British Telecommunications PLC (BT) is the largest telecommunications company in the UK. BT Exact’s Next generation Web Research group is a major successful participant in EU research programs.
ILOG is based in France and has over 600 employees in 9 countries. It develops, markets and supports software components for visual interface, resource optimization and business rules functions that are fundamental to the development of strategic business applications.
SAP AG is the world's leading provider of e-business software. The mySAP.com e-business platform enables people in businesses around the globe to improve relationships with customers and partners.
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DIP Associate Research Partners
FZI Karlsruhe (FZI) is a non-profit research organization with focus on novel information technologies for providers of investment and consumer products, of production or business products and of information services. It has extensive research experience in the field of ontology
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. The Knowledge Media Institute brings its vast research expertise to the fields of knowledge modeling and the Semantic Web
Vrije Universiteit Brussels STAR Lab contributes its research know-how in the fields of ontology and databases.
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DIP Associate Tool Developing Partners
Inubit (Berlin) The name inubit stands for integrating business and IT. Inubit’s main product is the Inubit Business Integration Server (inubit IS), which can be used in various scenarios, such as B2B, EAI or Process Integration.
iSOCO (Madrid) provides intelligent software for the network economy and contributes industrial expertise in Web Services, Java and .Net technologies
Unicorn Solutions (Israel) has a proven record in supporting data integration. Unicorn™ leverages a semantic metadata approach to deliver one of the world's leading data management systems.
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DIP Associate Case Study PartnersBankinter is the fifth largest bank in Spain (284 branches and over 3000 employees). It is at the forefront of innovation in the banking sector in Europe, Technology has been a key success factor for Bankinter since it was founded.Bankinter leads the case study on e-Banking.
Essex County Council is a large local authority, covering 1,300 square miles in South East England. Together with 12 District Councils and other agencies it delivers services to 1.3 million citizens.Essex leads the case study on e-Government.
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DIP Associate Horizontal support Partners
Berlecon Research (Berlin) provides support in exploitation activities (market analysis etc.) and in standardization efforts.
OntoText is an R&D laboratory within Sirma AI Ltd. (Sofia, Bulgaria) focused on core technology for Semantic Web, knowledge management, language engineering, and Web Services.It supports integration and tool developing efforts of the core partners.
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DIP Workplan Structure
WP1 Ontology Reasoning and Querying
WP2 Ontology
Management
WP3 ServiceOntologies and
ontologies and
WP4 Service Usage
WP5 Service Mediation
WP6 Interoperability and Architecture
WP7 Technology Watch and Standardization
WP8 Case
WP12 Market
WP13 IPR Activities
WP14 Training
B2B Telecom
WP10 Case StudyeBanking
WP9 Case StudyeGovernment
WP11Dissemination
Observation
ManagementWP15
Service Description
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DIP – Case studiesThe Project will implement three real-world applications
demonstrating the use of Semantic Web Services in three sectors:
• B2B in Telecoms– Demonstrates the added value of Semantic Web Services in
B2B applications required and used in the Telecom Industry
• E-Government– The delivery of more comprehensive and user-friendly
services to citizens by multiple agencies at three different levels (Government, National, County)
• e-Banking – Provide clients with integrated banking services e.g. account
querying, financial transactions, as well as other value added services e.g. house mortgages, share trading and mobile phone banking.
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DIP Results
About 150 “Deliverables” will be submitted by end of 2006. There is a large variance in their • Nature
– Reports– Ontologies– Prototypes– Dissemination– Training and Support Services
• Dissemination level– Public– Confidential
• Submission– 6-monthly Submission Cycles (M6, M12, M18...) allow Quality
assurance and control of Deliverables dependencies, relations, impact and coherence
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DIP Management Structure
EC (Project Officer)Advisory Board
Project Coordinator General Assembly
Project Management Office
Executive Project Management Board
Technical Project Management Board
Exploitation Board
WP Management Team 1
WP Management Team 2
WP Management Team 15
operational
operational
management
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Project Management Office (1)
• Sustain and execute all Project Management items as agreed with the partners
• Develop, implement and sustain the required Management system with focus on– Processes
e.g. Review / Submission of Deliverables (M6) – Quality management system
e.g. DIP Quality Plan (M12) – Risk management system
e.g. DIP Risk Management plan (M6)– Conventions
e.g. “DIP Ground rules”, templates, etc (ongoing)
• Act as the DIP Quality Assurance Coordinator
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Project Management Office (2)
• Sustain the inter-communication between the partners and Workpackages to ensure that they are kept up-to-date with necessary information, progress, accomplishments and problems
• Manage and administer the required and agreed quarterly DIP meetings as well as on events on demand– Plenary Sessions– EPMB– TPMB– WP Sessions
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Project Management Office (3)
• Provide a repository and resourcefor dissemination and interchange of information, documents and a forum for ongoing communication between the partners
• BSCW - a web based groupware system to share workspace – More than 100 Users, heavy usage– THE base for DIP Information sharing
• Establish and extend a central DIP Web-site to support dissemination
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Project Management Office (5)• Periodic preparation of and delivery of reports and
statements– Bi-monthly EC Reports– 6/12 monthly EC reports
All submitted EC reports have been approved.
• The On-time Delivery in M6 (and M12) and the effort-related progress of the project have proven, that the implemented processes have been accepted and are working
• Reviews and improvement are made after each cycle.
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DIP Dissemination Concept (1)
Continuous extension and maintenance and of the DIP Web-site http://dip.semanticweb.org
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DIP Dissemination Concept (2)
• Bundling / Consolidation of all Dissemination / Exploitation activities within the SDK Cluster
• Encourage and track all Publications by members of the DIP consortium directly referencing the DIP project and acknowledging the EC’s support.
– Academic Publications (Scientific Journals)– Books
• Conferences, symposia– Subject Presentations– Poster presentations– Demos– Tutorials– Workshops
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DIP Dissemination Concept (3)
• Bundling / Consolidation of all activities within the SDK Cluster Publications by members of the DIP consortium directly referencing the DIP project and acknowledging the EC’s support.
– Academic Publications (Scientific Journals)– Books
• Conferences, symposia– Subject Presentations– Poster presentations– Demos– Tutorials– Workshops
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• Press releases– Press information pack – invitations to journalists to attend events
• Articles by journalists (persons outside the consortium)
DIP Dissemination Concept (4)
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DIP - expected impact
After its completion (December 2006) the project will impact the Semantic Web Services sector in a number of ways:
• Open source Semantic Web Services architecture• Practical, exploitable tools and methods for
deployment in e-Work, e-Commerce and e-Government
• Contribution to standards - proposal through the Semantic Web Services Initiative (SWSI)
• Co-operation and alignment of Europe with DAML, the US DARPA initiative