Demo IV Service Oriented Architecture governance using semantics and BPMN

This talk will present the results of pilot projects that have been conducted by the US Army and OSD AT&L. OWL/RDF were used to describe various data sources and to build an ontology of the domain where the data sources were in operation. The ontologies were developed using a semantic wiki. The ultimate use for the semantic descriptions is to semantically enable any Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) operated by the Department of Defense by using the semantics of the data sources and domain to define the services. In this way the services can be easily discovered and properly used. Further analysis of the domain of the SOA can be performed by using SPARQL to query the resulting knowledge base. BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) was used to define the governance processes required to insure that the project was conducted in accordance with data governance policies as defined by OSD. The BPMN models were executed by a BPM (Business Process Management) execution engine that was interfaced to the semantic wiki. A dash board was developed that facilitated the monitoring and enforcement of the governance policies in real-time by the executives funding the pilot and the managers of the project.