DBE Final Review MeetingZaragoza – April 18, SEAMLESS in a picture Consortium –Co-ordinator: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) –Other universities: Kosice (Slovakia), Maribor (Slovenia), Poznan (Poland), Stuttgart (Germany) –Research institutions: AITEX (Spain), CSTB (France) –Software developers: ANTARA (Spain), ATC ROM (Romania), ISOFT (Bulgaria), KELYAN (Italy), TIE (Netherlands) –Service providers: JAPTI (Slovenia), PRC SCCI (Slovakia), T-Online (Hungary) Objective: ICT services in the enlarged Europe –Semantic based search engine for potential partners –Support functions for negotiation (info exchange, quotations) –Support functions for collaboration (business documents) –Support functions for integration of enterprise information systems –So providing user companies with easy, entry level ICT solutions.

DBE Final Review MeetingZaragoza – April 18, 2007 Focus on small companies Craft & Trade companies (<50 employees) –Active in manufacturing and construction and related services –More than 90% of European enterprises (> 60% of employees) –Forced by main customers to “passive” eBusiness (e.g. basic purchase) –Presenting slow increase of “active” eBusiness (eSales, SCM, CRM) Fundamental role of mediators –Chambers of commerce or (sectoral, regional) company associations –Local development agencies or application service providers –Supporting small companies in organisational and bureaucratic activities –Can interpret company needs and represent them –Can help adapting new solutions to the expectations of the associated companies –Can ensure the rapid introduction of a critical mass of companies –Then, they are the best channel to promote innovative services –Can help overcoming technical problems and act as trust enablers –Ontologies management – Sectoral-Regional Ecosystem approach

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, General picture A technological platform at every mediator

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, Four main components /1 Ontology-based services … –To create, update and manage ontologies at different levels –To map pairs of ontologies (concepts, languages) –To perform automatic translation of queries, data and documents Distributed storage system … –Derived by adaptation from the SRRN of the SEEMseed project –To store the data types generated / used by the platform –To provide subscription and notification services –To execute queries on a network of eRegistries / Repositories

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, Four main components /2 User-oriented application services … –To support profile definition, partner search, negotiation and collaboration –To integrate existing enterprise information systems Partner profiling and searching Collaboration services Negotiation services Product/service modelling Translation services

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, Four main components /3 Security functionality … –To realise the SEAMLESS security requirements and policy –To take advantage of the SRRN native security mechanism

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, Automatic Translation Distributed Storage System Pre-existing (legacy) Enterprise System To / from other Mediators To / from other eServices LOCL COMM GLOB Mediator Basic (embedded) Services Automatic translation User Access Control The mediator platform

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, SEAMLESS ontologies Local ontology (LOCL) –The single company has its own enterprise information system –(then it imports / exports data from / to the mediator platform) –The single company has no enterprise information system –(then it starts using ICT by accessing the mediator platform) Common ontology (COMM) –Every mediator provides a semantic environment to the associated companies –Representing the concepts they use in business transactions –Expressed in the local language to be easily understood and accepted Global ontology (GLOB) –A semantic bridge expressed in English as lingua franca –For enabling mediators (and their companies) to communicate –Although using different languages and data models –Two or more GLOBs can coexist and mutually map

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, GLOB COMM LOCL Annotation Derivation Cross- reference A three-level hierarchy And three components –Data model (structured data, documents, etc.) –Taxonomy (to classify products/services) –Vocabulary (additional biz terms)

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, Ontology the process steps Ontology EDITOR –For building a GLOB –Deriving a COMM from its GLOB –Annotating a LOCL with its COMM EDITOR Ontology XXX MAPPER Ontology ZZZ Transformation file Ontology MAPPER –Relating data model concepts –Relating taxonomy terms –Relating vocabulary terms –And producing the transformation files TRANSLATOR Input biz document Semantic TRANSLATOR –It receives a biz document –Applies the transformation instructions –And generates the translated document

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25,

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25,

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25,

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25,

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25,

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25,

DBE Final Review MeetingZaragoza – April 18, 2007 Application LayerService LayerRepository LayerDistribution Layer User SEEM Registry and Repository Network SRRN Brief description  Based on embyonic development (SEEMseed project).  Federated Repository with semantic capabilities  Able to store any kind of data and its description (metadata)  Metadata stored in RDF  Natively queried on Sparql, ebXML based XMLQuery  Access control (digital certificates based)  Subscription / notification  Versioning, transactionID traceability, Logs on nodes…

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, SRRN in SEAMLESS  Give support to the semantic services  Store and share the Ontologies.  Store and share the mapping files between ontologies.  Subscription / notification on changes  Secure access to data  Access rights through security framework  Give support to the collaboration and negotiation processes  Store / share companies description  Store / share product/services demand / offer  etc…  Give support to the query controller  Broadcast queries  Ontologies mesh

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, Components

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, All together

STASIS WorkshopBerlin– March 25, Current Status Different 3 rd party applications integrated in the SEAMLESS and offering advanced services –Semantic enabled crawler –Product Configurator –Open Source ERPs Pilots –4 TEXTILE pilots (Spain*, Slovakia, Romania*, Italy) –2 B&C pilots (Poland*, Slovenia) –1 Generic pilot (Hungary) 40 SMEs involved in the national and international pilots 2 GLOBs, 7 COMMs, +10 complete LOCLs developed To be finished in 3 months.

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