1 Proposed PLCS TC Organization and Functional Responsibilities Revision

2 Agenda PLCS TC Organization and Participants Hierarchical Functional Responsibility

3 OASIS TC Chair Secretariat 1 Voting Member per Company Technical Lead Implementers Forum Lead PLCS TC Organization and Participants Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts Secretariat 1 Secretariat Quality Assurance Lead Testers Pilots/Projects Norwegian Pilot UK MOD Pilot Swedish Pilot Others OASIS TC Management Technical Development Oversight for DEX, Capabilities, and Reference Data and other documentation Related, independent Projects/Pilots established for a business need. Efforts are shared with PLCS TC Ensures material submitted for OASIS balloting meet requirements. Works closely with Implementers Forum

4 Quality Assurance Lead Testers OASIS TC Chair Secretariat 1 Voting Member per Company Technical Lead Implementers Forum Lead PLCS TC Organization Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts DEX Development Teams 1 Team Lead 1 Modeler 1 Business Expert Implementers Forum Lead Software Product Vendors Implementers Integrators Infrastructure / Tool Team Information Architect 1 Tool Expert Secretariat 1 Secretariat Pilot/Project Test Runs Pilots/Projects Norwegian Pilot UK MOD Pilot Swedish Pilot Others DEX 0 Development Team DEX 1 Development Team DEX 2 Development Team DEX X Development Team DEX Y Development Team Reporting

5 Organization Functionality – OASIS TC Publish AP239 as IS Monitor and Maintain AP239 PLCS TC Administration PLCS TC Work Programme Management Balloting within PLCS TC Publishing within OASIS Communications Marketing OASIS TC Secretariat 1 Secretariat Chair Secretariat 1 Voting Member per Company Technical Lead Implementers Forum Lead

6 Provide Technical Oversight for DEX, Capability, and Reference Data Development Establish and maintain documentation Review DEXs, capabilities and reference data Harmonize with established SC4 and related standards Organization Functionality – Technical Oversight Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts

7 Organization Functionality – DEX Development Teams Develop Capabilities Develop DEX Packages Develop Reference Data Develop Rules Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts DEX Development Teams 1 Team Lead 1 Modeler 1 Business Expert

8 Organization Functionality – Infrastructure/Tool Team DEXLib Infrastructure DEX specification template Reference Data Library Infrastructure DEXLib Tools Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts Infrastructure/Tool Team Information Architect 1 Tool Expert

9 Organization Functionality – Quality Assurance Establish Quality Framework Establish and Liaison with Implementers Forum Ensure submissions meet requirements for OASIS Balloting Verify and Validate DEX Team Testing Quality Assurance Lead Testers

10 Organization Functionality – Implementers Forum Testing Reuse of solutions Review and recommend changes Implementers Forum Lead Software Product Vendors Implementers Integrators Quality Assurance Lead Testers

11 Organization Functionality – Pilots/Projects Establish DEX Development Teams under Technical Oversight Establish Pilot Test runs with Implementers Forum Development of non-OASIS documentation Share results and lessons learned Pilots/Projects Norwegian Pilot UK MOD Pilot Swedish Pilot Others

12 OASIS TC Chair Secretariat 1 Voting Member per Company Technical Lead Implementers Forum Lead PLCS TC Organization Summary Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts Secretariat 1 Secretariat Quality Assurance Lead Testers Pilots/Projects Norwegian Pilot UK MOD Pilot Swedish Pilot Others Publish AP239 as IS Monitor and Maintain AP239 Balloting within PLCS TC Publishing within OASIS PLCS TC Administration PLCS TC Work Programme Management Communications Marketing Provide Technical Oversight for DEX, Capability, and Reference Data Development Establish and maintain documentation Review DEXs, capabilities and reference data Harmonize with established SC4 and related standards Establish DEX Development Teams under Technical Oversight Establish Pilot Test runs with Implementers Forum Development of non-OASIS documentation Share results and lessons learned Establish Quality Framework Establish and Liaison with Implementers Forum Ensure submissions meet requirements for OASIS Balloting Verify and Validate DEX Team Testing

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14 Organization Functionality – OASIS TC Monitor and Maintain AP239 –Implement change programme –Monitor SC4 modules for input on AP239 –Submission of change requirements to SC4 OASIS TC Secretariat 1 Secretariat Chair Secretariat 1 Voting Member per Company Technical Lead Implementers Forum Lead

15 Organization Functionality – OASIS TC PLCS TC Administration –Meetings and conference calls –Identify potential future DEXs –Develop Business Ontology –OASIS exploders –OASIS PLCS TC Website –Administration of DEXs, capabilities, reference data, documentation tool through the ballot process OASIS TC Secretariat 1 Secretariat Chair Secretariat 1 Voting Member per Company Technical Lead Implementers Forum Lead

16 Organization Functionality – OASIS TC Balloting within PLCS TC –Rules for approval of methods –Agree process for review / ballot / update / maintenance of technical documentation –Review DEXs and Reference Data submitted for OASIS standards –PLCS TC balloting, OASIS balloting, publishing and regular reporting to OASIS members OASIS TC Secretariat 1 Secretariat Chair Secretariat 1 Voting Member per Company Technical Lead Implementers Forum Lead

17 Organization Functionality – OASIS TC Publishing within OASIS –Procedures for publishing Agree with OASIS how the DEXs are to be published, i.e. what format. Agree with OASIS how to publish Reference data –Publish DEXs as OASIS standards Core PLCS Reference Data Business domain extensions as standardized extensions to PLCS Reference Data OASIS TC Secretariat 1 Secretariat Chair Secretariat 1 Voting Member per Company Technical Lead Implementers Forum Lead

18 Organization Functionality – OASIS TC PLCS TC Work Programme Management –Agreed programme of work –Establish resource requirement –Agreed prioritization of tasks and resources –Agreed allocation of programme tasks –Establish and maintain a detailed project plan –Manage activities described in the project plan Recommend additional activities Identify actions relevant for the OASIS TC scope –Track progress OASIS TC Secretariat 1 Secretariat Chair Secretariat 1 Voting Member per Company Technical Lead Implementers Forum Lead

19 Organization Functionality – OASIS TC Communications –SC4 AP239 relevant working groups –OASIS PLCS Teams –Implementers Forum –Pilots/Projects Marketing –Promotion –Maintain library of success stories –Maintain library of presentations for PLCS member reference –Outreach needed to spread word on PLCS value OASIS TC Secretariat 1 Secretariat Chair Secretariat 1 Voting Member per Company Technical Lead Implementers Forum Lead

20 Provide Technical Oversight for DEX, Capability, and Reference Data Development –Administer the Technical Development work programme –Establish a standardized, stable Business Ontology for PLCS –Consolidate existing Reference Data files to establish baseline core –Agree DEX and Reference Data development processes –Establish API for PLCS –Specify a representation of a thesaurus of business concepts reflecting business terms –Incorporate the recommendations from the series of DEX Sync Workshops –Agree how Reference Data will be maintained –Develop Rule types for DEXs and capabilities Organization Functionality – Technical Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts

21 Establish and maintain development documentation guidance –Format and content –Rules –Guidelines –Capabilities, Data Exchange Sets, and Reference Data –Mapping –Testing and Test documentation –Business Concepts –Translators –Conformance Guidance/Requirements Organization Functionality – Technical Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts

22 Establish and maintain usage documentation guidance – Business user guidance – Software implementer guidance – Contract managers guidance – Specialisation pruning of DEXs Organization Functionality – Technical Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts

23 Review DEXs, capabilities, and reference data –Reduce duplicate development and improve interoperability –Ensure submissions meet OASIS ballot requirements –Harmonization within PLCS TC of Reference data Interpretations / mapping solutions Translators Mappings Projects –Impact of SC4 module changes on DEXs Organization Functionality – Technical Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts

24 Harmonize with established SC4 and related standards –Harmonisation with SC4 standards STEP APs PLIB Oil & Gas –Harmonisation with other standards ASD (AECMA) 1000D and 2000M MIP OAGIS 9 OMG SCORM UK MOD W3C Organization Functionality – Technical Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts

25 Organization Functionality – Technical Develop Capabilities –Develop new capabilities as required –Enable representation of instantiation capabilities –Set up a review structure for capabilities Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts DEX Development Teams 1 Team Lead 1 Modeler 1 Business Expert

26 Organization Functionality – Technical Develop DEX Packages –Develop DEX Documentation Develop Implementation options Capabilities Business concepts DEX Documentation Reference data Prune of long forms –Develop a ‘core’ capability set –Initial testing using DEX developed test data –Re-develop initial set of DEXs i.a.w. common agreements –Incorporate new Reference Data Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts DEX Development Teams 1 Team Lead 1 Modeler 1 Business Expert

27 Organization Functionality – Technical Develop Reference Data –Populate RDL services –Propose reference data from pilot sources –Instantiate reference data –Link with other standards –Develop a programme to monitor the resolution of ballot comments Develop Rules Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts DEX Development Teams 1 Team Lead 1 Modeler 1 Business Expert

28 Organization Functionality – Technical DEXLib Infrastructure –Develop the DEXLib architecture and a framework explanation –Enhance user friendliness –Indexing mechanism From the Business Concepts to DEX capabilities From terminology dictionary to DEXlib –Develop Thesaurus Tool for extracting semantics/definitions –Expand the introduction to DEXLib –Extend existing DEXLib functionality to activate and complete scripts with information –Develop template for exchange agreements as part of each specific DEX –DEXlib publication environment Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts Infrastructure/Tool Team Information Architect 1 Tool Expert

29 Organization Functionality – Technical DEXLib Infrastructure (cont’d) –Continue to maintain DEXLib on Source Forge Maintain an HTML mirror of DEXLib for non- developers Allow an XML view facility in browsers (other than Internet Explorer) Extend DEXLib to allow HTML publications Extend DEXLib to allow individual (or sets of) DEXs to be published as a standalone package electronically and on paper Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts Infrastructure/Tool Team Information Architect 1 Tool Expert

30 Organization Functionality – Technical DEX specification template –Develop an agreed DEX template for acceptance by OASIS based on the example DEX “Assembly part list” to DEXLib Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts Infrastructure/Tool Team Information Architect 1 Tool Expert

31 Organization Functionality – Technical Reference Data Library Infrastructure –Define reference data architecture –Establish a PLCS web server –Develop Pilot RDL service –Agree and standardised RDL services –Develop industrial strength RDL services –Define management of RDL services –Publish OWL files on the PLCS Web server –Establish PLCS RDL server accessed via APIs from translators –Establish a better development environment for reference data consolidation and management –User-friendly interface to reference data library from DEXLib Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts Infrastructure/Tool Team Information Architect 1 Tool Expert

32 Organization Functionality – Technical DEXLib Tools –Develop and maintain tools supporting DEX, Capability and Reference Data development Tools for the revised DEX architecture containing –business concepts –specializations of generic capabilities and DEXs –rules –Establish tools to develop / view the test data and validate test results –Tool for Work Progress tracking in DEXLib –Tool for converting existing Part 28 file to Part 21 file –Extend DEXlib tool set User friendly front end Develop terminology dictionary Interface to reference data Allow publication of DEXs and Reference Data –Develop templates for main rule types –Develop scripts for business concepts, using rule templates Technical Oversight Lead (Information Architect) 2 Tool Experts 2 Business Experts Infrastructure/Tool Team Information Architect 1 Tool Expert

33 Organization Functionality – Quality Assurance Establish Quality Framework –Review Framework for Quality –Editing and approval of DEXs Establish and Liaison with Implementers Forum Ensure submissions meet requirements for OASIS Balloting Verify and Validate DEX Team Testing Quality Assurance Lead Testers

34 Organization Functionality – Implementers Forum Testing –Define new or identify existing industrial strength test data –Develop implementer’s test tools –Test DEXs –Test interoperability by round robin test rallies Reuse of solutions –Establish library of “Lessons Learned” Implementers Forum Lead Software Product Vendors Implementers Integrators Quality Assurance Lead Testers

35 Organization Functionality – Implementers Forum Review and recommend changes –Capabilities, DEXs, and Reference Data –Business concepts –Harmonization Establish guidelines for the implementers Raise harmonization issues and recommend changes for –Capabilities, DEXs, and Reference Data –Interpretations / mapping solutions –Mappings –Projects/pilots –Translators Implementers Forum Lead Software Product Vendors Implementers Integrators Quality Assurance Lead Testers

36 Organization Functionality – Pilots/Projects Establish DEX Development Teams under Technical Oversight Establish Pilot Test runs with Implementers Forum Development of non-OASIS documentation –Capabilities, DEXs, and Reference Data –Guidelines Share results and lessons learned –Implementers Forum –OASIS TC –Other DEX Development Teams –Quality Assurance –Technical Oversight Pilots/Projects Norwegian Pilot UK MOD Pilot Swedish Pilot Others

37 Measures of Goodness Develop a data exchange template –A "data exchange contract" shall require Identification of the specific DEX(es) that shall exchange the business data – to enable conformance testing Identification of standards used, and the resulting usage of reference data –Involved parties need to agree what is their recognized identifier. A text shall be added in the exchange agreement to note the “preferred” option as the one to be used for globally unique identifiers, e.g. for identifiers that may be used for data merge. Reference Data Library –Class of class definitions in PLCS/OASIS RDL may be needed for contracting purposes. How to define class of class in OWL shall be investigated –Separate OWL project files shall be defined for representation of specific projects and their local terms Develop DEXs for business implementation

38 Measures of Goodness Input recommendations from the synchronisation workshops Rules shall be uniquely enumerated (in capabilities etc) to allow normative reference to them Rules shall be placed at the lowest possible level, i.e. in capabilities, without mandating PLCS global rules. Experience will show where the lowest level is. Expand the introduction to DEXLib. Shall include information as –Data exchange architecture –Reference data –Global identifiers –Rules Graphical presentation of information in DEXLib shall be considered User-friendly interface to reference data library from DEXLib –Graphical representation of reference data hierarchy HTML version