1. 16/01/2004 1 DIP Data, Information, and Process Integration with Web Services Kick-Off Meeting Christoph Bussler Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Galway, Ireland Kongresszentrum, Innsbruck, Austria, January 16th, 2004

2. 16/01/2004 2 Welcome!

3. 16/01/2004 3 Congratulations!

4. 16/01/2004 4 Some History … "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers.” Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM (around 1948)

5. 16/01/2004 5 Some History … "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers.” Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM (around 1948) “There is no reason for any individuals to have a computer in their home.” Ken Olsen, President, Chairman and Founder of DEC, 1977

6. 16/01/2004 6 Some History … "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers.” Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM (around 1948) “There is no reason for any individuals to have a computer in their home.” Ken Olsen, President, Chairman and Founder of DEC, 1977 “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, 1981 (Bill Gates denies having ever said that)

7. 16/01/2004 7 Some History … "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers.” Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM (around 1948) “There is no reason for any individuals to have a computer in their home.” Ken Olsen, President, Chairman and Founder of DEC, 1977 “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, 1981 (Bill Gates denies having ever said that) “... Until someone finds a way for applications to understand each other, the effect of Web services technology will be fairly limited. When I pass customer data across [the Web] in a certain format using a Web Services interface, the receiving program has to know what that format is. You have to agree on what the business objects look like. And no one has come up with a feasible way to work that out yet -- not Oracle, and not its competitors...“ Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison, (around 2003)

8. 16/01/2004 8 DIP – General Vision Static – 500 million users and more than 3 billion pages WWW URI, HTML, HTTP Syntactic

9. 16/01/2004 9 DIP – General Vision WWW URI, HTML, HTTP – Serious Problems in information finding, information extraction, information representation, information interpretation and and information maintenance. Semantic Web RDF, RDF(S), OWL Static SyntacticSemantic

10. 16/01/2004 10 DIP – General Vision WWW URI, HTML, HTTP – Bringing the computer back as a device for computation Semantic Web RDF, RDF(S), OWL Dynamic Web Services UDDI, WSDL, SOAP Static SyntacticSemantic

11. 16/01/2004 11 DIP – General Vision WWW URI, HTML, HTTP – Bringing the web to its full potential Semantic Web RDF, RDF(S), OWL Dynamic Web Services UDDI, WSDL, SOAP Static Intelligent Web Services SyntacticSemantic

12. 16/01/2004 12 DIP – General Vision

13. 16/01/2004 13 DIP – General Vision

14. 16/01/2004 14 DIP – General Vision

15. 16/01/2004 15 DIP – Mission and Objectives Mission – “In a nutshell, it is the mission of DIP to make Semantic Web Services become a reality as the new infrastructure for eWork and eCommerce.” Objectives – Make Semantic Web technology a reality. – Combine Semantic Web technology with Web Services for semantics-based services. – Apply Semantic Web Services as an infrastructure in real world scenarios within an organization and between organizations and its customers/partners.

16. 16/01/2004 16 DIP – Partners SAP AG, Germany Tiscali Österreich GmbH, Austria Fundacion De La Innovacion.Bankinter, Spain Berlecon Research GmbH, Germany Essex County Council, UK Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany inubit AG, Germany Net Dynamics Internet Technologies GmbH u. Co KG, Austria Sirma AI Ltd., Bulgaria The Open University, UK Unicorn Solution Ltd, Israel Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Intelligent Software Components, S.A, Spain National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland British Telecommunications Plc., UK Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Universität Innsbruck, Austria ILOG SA, France

17. 16/01/2004 17 DIP – Architecture

18. 16/01/2004 18 DIP – Workpackages

19. 16/01/2004 19 Summary and Outlook We tackle a challenging problem

20. 16/01/2004 20 Summary and Outlook We tackle a challenging problem We have the winning team

21. 16/01/2004 21 Summary and Outlook We tackle a challenging problem We have the winning team We have an excellent plan

22. 16/01/2004 22 Summary and Outlook We tackle a challenging problem We have the winning team We have an excellent plan Let’s make our vision become true:

23. 16/01/2004 23 Semantic Web Services – the new infrastructure for eWork and eCommerce