1. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Knowledge Management in Geodise Geodise Knowledge Management Team Barry Tao, Colin Puleston, Liming Chen, Paul Smart University of Southampton University of Manchester Epistemics Ltd.

2. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Knowledge Management Architecture for Grid Computing

3. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002.

4. Geodise Knowledge Models

5. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Ontology Services & Semantic Annotations

6. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Knowledge-based Ontology-assisted Workflow Construction Architecture Workflow construction  Use ontology & ontology services to facilitate method selection & instantiation Design advice  Use process knowledge & advice reasoner to provide design advice Storage & query  Add semantics to databases & workflow automatically, thus facilitate content-based search and query

7. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Ontology service Ontology-driven Workflow Construction Ontology-assisted task navigation & selection (Drag and Drop) Ontology assisted task configuration Task ontology

8. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Knowledge-based Systems for EDSO Gambit journal file editor Knowledge-based advisor Design advice Add a task Process-level design advisor  Service-oriented paradigm  Ontology as common terms Task-level design tools  Ontology-assisted Gambit journal file editor  Critique on commands & workflow  Knowledge APIs  XML-based messaging

9. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. XML-Based Component Management XML & XML Schema Java/JAXFront technology Access via knowledge APIs Potential ontology support Visualisation Implementation Framework Problem Definition Design Variable Definition Problem Instance in XML Use Problem Instances in Matlab Framework

10. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Semantic Component Management PSE: Workflow Construction Functions in.m files Matlab Execution Environment Semantic Description Using DAML-S Enactment or Mapping to.m Scripts Ontology Services Resour ce annotati ons Geodise Service Ontology Geodise Domain Ontologie s Knowledge Repositories With Embedded Semantics (RDF Triple Store) Inference engines Retrieval and Query APIs To knowledge-enable EDSO Ontologies (service/function) Ontology Services Service/Function Form or Templates Semantics- based Query & Inference RDF Triple Store & Permanent Storage (DBS) Concept Java Classes RDF Generator Jena RDF APIs Geodise Users Creat e Re- use Geodise toolkit in Matlab Common interface Semantic content Machine understandable Flexible discovery & composition Service-oriented semantic descriptions Automated form generation RDF as the representation formalism RDF triple store & DBMS Semantic & knowledge technologies Implementation framework

11. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Ontology Delivery Classification Language Indexing FaCT Terminology Service OilEd User Interface toolkits Browser & viewers, Query builders, Form builders, Wizards Annotation & Linking (COHSE) Instance Store Views Matcher Core Ontology Service (OS)

12. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Ontology Building Environments Knowledge acquisition Ontology creation and maintenance Ontology parsers and checkers Ontology alignment and merging Ontology reasoning

13. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Ontology View Framework Other Views Other Views?? Ontology Client Ontology Server WEB Semantic Network View (Configurable) DAML+OIL/OWL Ontology Instance Store (Database) Geodise Tasks Geodise Concepts FaCT Reasoner GONG Concepts Concept Query View

14. © Geodise Project, University of Southampton, 2002. Geodise Task Ontology View Ontology Client API GUI Geodise Task View Geodise Workflow Application Semantic Network View Semantic Net Configuration Semantic Net Access Configured for Geodise task ontology