Who is in control? Technical Committees ? Business Investment and IT Vendor Community ? Interdisciplinary Scholarship ? The public discussion space ?

We are all in control if... Interdisciplinary scholarship from the universities is applied to a selection from all existing standards. Those standards that are found in support of community centric service provision are adopted by the education community. serves compensates

Next major step: Service Orientation serving Universal Education The core standards (proposed) OASIS: SOA Reference Model, SOA Information Model, SOA Collaborative Services, Business Centric Methodology and Federated Enterprise Reference Model. W3C: Web Ontology Language

OASIS: SOA Reference Model, Provides a conceptually complete high level model of “service”. This model is independent of technology and has a system of systems viewpoint. SOA Information Model: Provides a set of 38 data objects with standardized bit structure. This set is sufficient and complete for most data transmissions between providers and consumers of services. This model is independent of vendor platform. SOA Collaborative Services: Provides an more detailed enumeration of processes described in the SOA Reference Model. This model is independent of vendor platform. Business Centric Methodology. Provides a methodology for the deployment of human centric architecture. This methodology requires that an operational interface be established between user communities and technology providers, where the control over information structure is in the hands of the user communities. Federated Enterprise Reference Model: Provides a model for federation of various independent viewpoints as defined by different communities. Manages repositories and registries. This model is independent of vendor platform. W3C: Web Ontology Language (OWL): Provides a well understood formal structure for representation of many aspects of human knowledge. OWL is to be used to preserve long term agreements reached by user communities regarding a body of human knowledge. The established limitations of OWL are to be used as a feature supporting the creation of new knowledge by user communities.

Where does information come from? Current Picture: International Technical Committees develop specifications consistent with the desires of business investors and with a first generation of IT and computer science. Interdisciplinary scholarship is ignored Faculty needs are ignored IT costs bankrupt some colleges The public discussion space is shaped by specifications that constrain the community in a top down fashion, and in support of a basic confusion about the nature of human information exchanges

The second generation of IT is process centric... serves University faculty Compensates serves

Service Orientation serving Universal Education Goal: Investments are developed for long term solutions to education administration, financial management, and services to the public. Functional Objective: A selective (teaching /learning) measurement of the social-discourse/university-scholarship is achieved and used to drive the development of human/human- community choice points. Choice points use service blueprints developed by mediation between local and global interests. Standards: Choice point enabled decisions by humans create contracts and/or Memorandums of Understanding between parties to service provision. (consistent with W3C OWL; and OASIS FERA, CS, IM, BCM and RM standards)

The Community Centric Orientation Next Step: Real time generation of extensive information structure without undue IT dependencies