This agenda shows the Semantic Interoperability activities taking place at The Open Group Architecture Practitioners Conference in San Diego.

Focus

The focus of the activities is on delivering value to Semantic Interoperability Working Group members and the wider enterprise IT architecture community by:

• Presenting and discussing current and emerging trends in Semantic Interoperability in the conference sessions; and
• Producing and promoting deliverables that will benefit the enterprise architecture community in the Working Group meetings.

Conference Sessions

The conference sessions are open to all conference attendees. They include:

• A presentation by Eric Samson, Chief Technology Officer, Data Services, DataDirect Technologies on Designing a Data Access Standard in SOA, WOA, and Cloud Computing Context.
• A presentation by Nikhil Kumar and colleagues from ApTSi on Information Architecture and Actionable Enterprise Architecture.

Semantic Interoperability Working Group Meetings

The Semantic Interoperability Working Group meetings are open to Semantic Interoperability Working Group members and invited guests. (If you are a member of the UDEF Interested Parties group, please ask for an invitation!) They include discussions on:

• Data and semantic technology architectures for SOA; and
  
• The Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF), and the development of distributed UDEF.