Ontologizing EDI: First steps and initial experience

Douglas Foxvog, Christoph Bussler

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Abstract

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards for transmission of business messages were promulgated in the 1970s. As standards became more complex to provide additional message types and variants, programmers and businesses started calling for simpler, semantically-enabled, systems; some even predicting traditional EDI's imminent demise. Numerous projects to create successor systems using XML were unable to stop traditional EDI's growth. DERI is taking a different approach: ontologizing EDI to allow the creation of semantically enabled messages, while being backward compatible with traditional systems. We argue that ontologizing syntax first enables automatic calculation of the intersection of message formats necessary for initiating new EDI partnerships as well as provides the groundwork for ontologizing message meanings.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce, DEEC 2005
Pages49-58
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
EventInternational Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce, DEEC 2005 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 9 Apr 20059 Apr 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce, DEEC 2005
Volume2005

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce, DEEC 2005
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period9/04/059/04/05

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