1. Enterprise Vocabulary Management TopQuadrant TopBraid Suite 3.0 Solution Overview

2. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 2 TopBraid Suite

3. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 3 TopBraid Suite Application Infrastructure

4. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 4 Solution Overview  Specialized ontologies to support governance  Application templates to serve as a starting point  SPARQLMotion scripts implementing change management, collaboration support and version control  Specialized import modules for common spreadsheet patterns

5. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 5 Model-driven Change Management  Change Management and Approval processes are described in a governance model  This approach has many benefits: –Process definitions are flexible – different roles and steps can be supported –Different items (groups of items) can have different processes –The model itself is extensible  Changes and change requests are accommodated –Management of changes directly entered in the vocabulary system –As well as change requests submitted as textual descriptions

6. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 6 Overview of the Governance Model

7. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 7 Process used for the demo

8. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 8 Processing is implemented in SPARQLMotion scripts  SPARQLMotion scripts: –Listen for the changes in the data –Infer what and how needs to be acted on –Apply the right steps in the change management processes –Log changes –Send notifications  Out of the box scripts –Support majority of requirements an enterprise may have –Are easily extended and customized to meet unique requirements

9. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 9 Sample SPARQLMotion script

10. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 10 Three Key Datasets: Operational, Change Log and “Gold” or Published  Up to date changes, current state of the work  Work in progress, some may not be approved  Typically, accessed through the web editing application Operational Dataset Vocabulary Schema Vocabulary Data Gold/Published Dataset Vocabulary Schema Vocabulary Data  Only approved information and structures  Populated by the approval/change management processes  Typically, accessed through the web application only for viewing and reporting  Used for publishing/transmitting of information to the downstream systems Change Log Dataset Records of all changes  Populated by the approval/change management processes  Used for reporting and rollback

11. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 11 Process in Action Operation: Change Taxonomy Operational Dataset Modify Geographic Taxonomy < :UK :synonym :UnitedKingdom > :UK :synonym :England. Record all information about change operations  Added triples, Removed Triples  Who, When Identify the appropriate approval process  Set change states, send notifications Steward of the Geographic Taxonomy (as per the process) Approve Change Change Log Dataset Content Editor Published Dataset < :UK :synonym :UnitedKingdom > :UK :synonym :England. > :_b a :Change  :_b :status :Submitted

12. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 12 Commenting on Changes

13. © Copyright 2007-2008 TopQuadrant Inc. Slide 13 Viewing the Change Log