The modus-operandi for information systems is shifting. Agility and adaptability will be the kingmakers in the decentralising enterprise architecture where on-premise and cloud systems have to be combined seamlessly. At the same time the wealth of data available to organisations needs to be understood and interpreted so as to provide information and inferences needed to generate the knowledge that drives competitive advantage. This chapter offers a high-level introduction to OpenSEA, a framework that combines the open semantics of TOGAF with the open syntax of ISO 24707:2007 Common Logic to provide an Open Semantic Enterprise Architecture.Because of its open nature it is free to adopt and extend, yet retains a root commonality to ensure all participating agents can agree on a common understanding without ambiguity, regardless of the underlying ontology or logic system used.
We propose an OpenSEA (Open Semantic Enterprise Architecture) as a conceptual framework for enterprise interoperability that combines ontology of enterprise architecture with an abstract syntax for logic systems. This framework could provide the foundations for different domains using different ontologies and different systems to interoperate at a semantic level and provide meaningful descriptions to all levels of the enterprise.
As such business processes, web services, data and skills could all be traded across open networks. This framework refers to the open standards of TOGAF9 and ISO 24707:2007 CommonLogic to create a Semantic Enterprise Architecture, hence OpenSEA. Specifically, we provide an overview of how terms used by TOGAF can be represented using Common Logic and specialized with different logic systems and terminology yet retaining enough commonality to allow meaningful communication across open networks.
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