Tuesday, 5/22/2007
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Level: Technical - Introductory

To fully exploit the reasoning power of the Semantic Web sooner rather than later, subject matter experts need to be able to record their knowledge in as natural and familiar a way as possible – in the way they already think about their knowledge; i.e., natural language. The OMG’s new Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) standard provides the connection between vocabularies, definitions, natural language grammar, and formal logic. SBVR Structured English, a simplified version of English grammar, provides a natural language that SBVR tools can understand and have the potential to use to generate OWL models. In this session you will learn about:

• The features of SBVR that offer the possibility of generating OWL models
• The latest progress in defining the SBVR to OWL mapping
• The currently defined mappings of SBVR to OWL
• What tool vendors are planning to implement this capability

Donald Chapin has pioneered methods for defining concepts, structuring knowledge, and expressing business rules in the language of the business since the beginning of his career. Having co-founded a manufacturing company with responsibility for its organization, processes, management system and recordkeeping, he proceeded to bring that business orientation to the design of IBM's first training program for business application development. He continues to enable organizations to document and manage their business vocabularies, policies, rules, services and processes as a strategy, tools and methods consultant, workshop facilitator, trainer, mentor, and quality reviewer. Donald is chair of the OMG Finalization Task Force for the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR), co-chair of the OMG Business Modeling & Integration Domain Task Force, and the OMG Liaison to ISO TC 37 (Terminology and other Language and Content Resources).