The Netherlands MoJ and TQ Presentation at EDW2010

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Enterprise Data WorldSan Francisco

March 14th 18th, 2010

Generation of BusinessDocument XML Schemas

using OWL and UN/CEFACTCCTS

Harry Biersteker, InformationArchitect, Ministry of Justice

Ralph Hodgson, CTO,TopQuadrant


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Agenda

Introductions

Justice Data Exchange

Problems

Challenges

Issues with Past Approach

New Approach

Solution Architecture

Benefits

Q&A


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Introductions

Harry Biersteker Information architect of the Judicial Information

Service Ministry of Justice The Netherlandssince 2006

Specializes in Ontologies, metadata andbusiness intelligences;

Responsible for the electronic messageexchange within the criminal law chain, alien

chain and juvenile chain. The Judicial Information Service is a key player

in the identification process of prosecutedsuspects and criminals in detention and supportsthe judicial chains with federative informationsystems.

Ralph Hodgson co-founder and CTO of TopQuadrant, Inc., a US-

headquartered company that specializes insemantic technology consulting, training, toolsand platforms;

Lead Ontologist for the NASA NExIOMOntologies.

Prior to starting TopQuadrant in 2001, Executive

Consultant at IBM Global Services and foundingmember of the Portal and Object TechnologyPractices;

Co-authored \Adaptive Information, published byJohn Wiley in 2004, and Capability Cases: ASolution Envisioning Approach, published by

Addison-Wesley in July 2005. Member of INCOSE, and participates in the

Model-Based Systems Engineering Initiative.


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Judicial Information Sharing

Seamless information sharing is challenging:Data resides in many diverse systems supporting unique operation requirementsof courts, police, hospitals, border control, motor vehicle, local and federal offices.


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Electronic Message Exchange



The challenge



Ontology Management



Previous Approaches have failed

There is only version control for eachseparate project.

No conceptual model everything is in thehead of the ontologist.

No traceability comparisons are donemanually

No generic reusable components this only

works fine for a short time.



The Metadata Workbench Solution



From Conceptual Models to XML Schema



Example of a Business Document

Business Information Entitiesthat make up the BusinessDocument

Metadata about PersonBusinessDocument



Justice Metadata Workbench Process

PersonFirst NameLast NameDriver LicenseBirth DatePhysicalCharacteristics

Eye ColorHair ColorWeight

HeightPhysicalCondition

BloodAlcoholLevel

PhysicalDamages

AddressAddressCoreComponent

Person.NameFirst NameLast Namecardinality =1

Person. Driver

LicenseFirst NameLast NameDriver LicenseBirth DatePhysicalCharacteristics

Eye ColorHair Color

Core Components Business Information Entities

Change ofAddress

Person.NameFirst NameLast Name

Address.Old

Select fieldsfrom theAddress BIE

Address.NewSelect fieldsfrom theAddress BIE

Business Document(message) Structure

AddressStreet Number

StreetCity

CollaborateGovern

Evolve



Metadata Workbench:Solution Capabilities

Creation of reusable Core InformationComponents

Construction of purpose-specific BusinessInformation Entities from the Core Components

Construction of Business Documents (electronicmessages) by combining one of more Information

EntitiesGeneration of XML Schemas for the Business

Documents

Support for Code Lists and Data Types

Support for the Evolution of information objects versioning, comparison, governance, etc.

Merge and aggregation of the data Messages



RichOntologies

CCTSOntologies

CoreComponent

Overlay

Creation of XML Message Schemas

Contexts

Domains

BusinessDocumentOntologies

CCTSMetaModel

CCTSDocument

SPIN Transformation rules

CCTS XMLSchemaPlus

CCTS XMLSchema

XSPMetaModel

XSLTScript

Business

ComponentOverlay

Rich Ontologies areexpressive models ofdomains. These includeLKIF and detailedsituations of law and

legal document andprocedures.

CCTS-Compliant XMLSchemas are generatedfrom the XSP Document

CCTS Document Editor XSP Generation XSD Generation

Users create CCTSdocuments from BIEs andCore Components

Projects

Acronyms

BIE Business Information EntityCCTS UN/CEFACT Core Component Technical

Specifications

LKIF Legal Knowledge Interchange FormatSPIN SPARQL Inferencing NotationXSLT XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0XSP XML SchemaPlus



XML Schema Generation at the push of a Button



Managing Versions



MDW FlexUser

Interface

Solution Architecture

TopBraidLive Server

OracleDB

Ontologies

OWL RDF/XML

REST

JENA SDB

SPARQLMotion

SPIN

OWL FULLOWL DL

CCTS Model

Vocabs

CCTS Domain Model

CCTS Metamodel

CCTS Metamodel Values

CCTS Pragmas

Full CCTS Domain Model

CCTS UDT

VocabMetamodel

Values



Benefits of the New Approach

Business Benefits

Accurate communication between organizations

Agility in response to legislation changesData Quality Guarantees

Reduced Message Schema Development Costs

Technical Benefits

Reuse

Semantic Consistency

Traceability

Version Management



Looking to the Future

Translation of XML instances to OWL willenable the power of reasoning to be

available.applications can then infer new information,

perform smart queries and generate

comprehensive reports.Through workflow controls, sophisticated

content-based routing of electronic

messages becomes possible.



Where to Find Out More

DEMO at TopQuadrant Booth

Tuesday 4 to 5pm

Wednesday 12 to 3pm

Enterprise Data Journal Article http://www.enterprisedatajournal.c

om/article/netherlands-ministry-justice-metadata-workbench-

composing-xml-message-schemas-owl-models.htm

TopQuadrant Tools andResources

TopBraid Composer

TopBraid Live

User Tutorial

coming soon

Download the latest version
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Thank you

Harry BierstekerE-mail: [email protected] +31 6-51102354

Ralph HodgsonE-mail: [email protected]: @topquadrant, @ralphtq, @oegovnews
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Backup


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Business Challenges for the Message Builders

I am spending allmy time comparingbusinesscomponents acrossdifferent versions

of XML Schemas.

Am I working withthe right XMLSchema?

I want genericbuilding blocks and

reuse them!

How do I sharedomain knowledgewith my

colleagues?

How do we make anintegrated model thatmakes sense?

Actually, I dontwant to be

bothered withdetails of XMLSchema at all !

What is themeaning of this

business entity?Give me a properdefinition.

I dont like toretypeeverything byhand.

I need morecontext, morecontextplease.

Semantics cantwork without aconceptual model.


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Technical Challenges

Bridging the gap between the conceptual modeland the physical implementation, with:

Version Control

Change Management

Reuse of common data representations

Conceptual Model of a

Crash, relevant Legal

Domains, Reporting

Policies and Procedures

Messages about a Crash

compliant with relevant

Legal Domains, Reporting

Policies and Procedures


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What do we mean by Ontology?

An Ontology is a formal representation of theconcepts, properties, associations, constraints

and rules that characterize a subject area ofinterest

There are differentkinds of ontologies:

Ontologies Of

Ontologies About

All depends on

what the Ontologies

areFor


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Example of an Ontology: Car Crash

Crash

Car

Person

Passenger

Driver

involved

Location

Witness

occurredAt

witnessedBy

drivenBy

Tree

causingInjuryTo

subclass of

Inanimate

Objectsubclass of

AnimateObject

subclass of

involved


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Of-Hood and About-Hood

Rich Models

SituationModelSituation

TimeEvent

DomainModelsVehicle

Person

Car

CCTS Models

CCTSBusinessInformationEntitiesCCTSCoreComponents

Ontology About

CCTSBusinessDocuments

Electronic Messages

Crash

Car

Person

Passenger

Driver

involved

Location

Witness

occurredAt

witnessedBy

drivenBy

Tree

causingInjuryTo

subclass of

InanimateObject

subclass of

AnimateObject

subclass of

involved

1. Who2. Where3. When4. What5. Why6. How

Conceptual Model of a Crash, relevant LegalDomains, Reporting Policies and Procedures

Messages about a Crash compliant withrelevant Legal Domains, Reporting Policies and

Procedures

Projection,Qualification

andTransformation

PQT:

DriverPassengerWitnessLocationDamageConditionsInsurances3/2/2010

DriverPassengerWitnessLocationDamageConditionsInsurances3/2/2010

Ontology Of


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Metadata Workbench Ontology Architecture

Named Graphs can be composed to build the Ontologiesthat are right for a specific context and purpose.

OWL FULLOWL DL

CCTS Model

Vocabs

CCTS Domain Model

CCTS Metamodel

CCTS Metamodel Values

CCTS Pragmas

Full CCTS Domain Model Expresses the cardinalities, ordering ofelements and other metadata for aspecific CCTS Domain Model.[cpb1crash, cpc1crash]

CCTS Domain Model (e.g.:Crash), is OWL-DL[e.g.: cdb1crash, cdc1crash]

Specifies the metamodel values for aCCTS domain model[cmb1crash, cmc1crash]

Specifies the metamodel constructs for

BIE Elements as OWL metaclassesand the classes needed for Pragmas.[mc1ccts]

Aggregates CCTS model schema andCCTS UDT Model [cb2ccts]

CCTS ModelRich Ontology

Pre-CCTS Ontology

A rich Domain Model(e.g.: Crash)[e.g.: jd1crash]

transform

A pre-CCTS model[e.g.: pj1crash.owl ]

The full CCTS model is OWL FULLand is used for generating XMLSchemaPlus specifications for XML

Schemas. [cfb1crash, cfc1crash]

code lists and other QDTs[e.g.: cqb1crash]

CCTS UDT

OWL-DL compliant CCTSmodel schema[e.g.: cb1ccts]

Specifies UDTs [cb1udt]

VocabMetamodel

Values

Specifies metamodel values for codelists and other QDTs [cvb1crash]