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The Official OASIS Semantic Execution Environment TC Press Release: An Order of Semantic Web Heavy on the Web Services
By
Zachary Alexander
The IT Investment Architect®
The official OASIS press release for the Semantic Execution Environment (SEE) Technical Committee is now available. The SEE TC will be an effort by OASIS members to define semantic interoperability architecture using web services. Semantic interoperability in theory will allow computers to explicitly talk and understand each other. This is a problem that dates back to the early 1970’s.
Concentrating solely on semantic interoperability using web services doesn’t really address the concerns of small businesses. Interoperability is a major concern of organizations with large portfolios of legacy systems and huge amounts of sunk cost. Small companies don’t have either of these problems. They are constrained by resources. They have to pick their projects very carefully. So, concentrating solely on semantic interoperability using web services doesn’t help produce the next generation of productivity.
The only way to get buy-in and the participation of small businesses is to start an outreach program. There should be an effort at the very beginning to gather support from a broad range of industries and companies of different sizes. Web services architecture efforts need to have more industry flavoring. There needs to be more and better discussion of when web services applications aren’t the best solution.
The desire to divorce industry idiosyncrasies from the software architecture and standards development process stem from an enterprise software management mindset. Enterprise software management is a business theory that holds that the way to enhance the economic value of information technology services is by reducing them to their most basic generic configuration. This business theory is most often practiced by large companies and large government agencies with large portfolios of legacy systems and huge amounts of sunk costs.
Hopefully, the SEE TC
development effort won’t be heavy on the web services and light on the
outreach.
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