Highlights from “Future of XML Vocabularies” Symposium –April 2005

• Justice XML

• Vocabularies for social networks

• RFID in supply chains

• oBIX– open building information exchange

Ellen Perry, MTG Management Consultants, L.L.C.

Tom Carlson, National Center for State Courts

Justice XML (JML)The Global Justice XML Data Model

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ProsecuteProsecute

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Justice XML

XML Vocabularies for Online Communities:

Past, Present, and Future

By William Barnhill

Vocabulary Challenges • Tool and content authors in domain are often not graph

theory experts, and want to read/write raw data

• No well-defined set of required information to describe a person

• Vocabulary will likely be extended within a short time for specific types of networks

• For many networks, keeping data within communities of trust is a necessity

• The amount of data within a Social Network can be very large, requiring efficient parsing

Features for expressiveness

• Typed nodes (types may include "person", "resource", "organization", "knowledge", etc)

• Multiple sets of nodes of the same type (to express multiple units within the company, etc)

• Multiple typed attributes per node

• Typed edges

• Multiple typed attributes per edge

• Multiple graphs (sets of edges), and dynamic network data, expressed within the same file

Some XML vocabularies for possible use by Social Software

• DyNetML

• XFN

• Feed variants (Attention, RSS, Atom)

• OWL/RDF

• XDI

The Multi-Layer Data Model

Vocabulary And Schemas For

EPC/RFIDA Joint Research Effort Between Raining Data Corporation

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MIT Web Services WAN SIG

Tentative Release Date July 2005

Next-Gen Supply Chain And The Technology Evolution

• The Opportunity:– 90% Of Real Gains In Deploying RFID/EPC Solutions Will Happen In The

COLLABORATION Zone.

• The Challenge:– Using XML And Web Services Technologies To Work Together In A Standards-Based

Manner To Improve The Velocity And Flow Of Funds, Goods And Information Throughout Complex Global Supply Chains While Reducing Production, Distribution and Inventory Costs.

The Next-Gen Supply Chain – EPC/RFID

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Connecting Buildings to the Enterprise

Paul Ehrlich, PE

President Building Intelligence Group

Co-Chair of the OASIS oBIX Technical Committee

Facility Management

• Facility management covers real time control and monitoring of all mechanical and electrical systems in a building– Heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC)– Fire alarm and security systems– Electrical distribution and metering– Other systems (medical gas, generators, etc.)

• FMS Definition...– “A facility management system should be a comprehensive

resource… a collection of data that helps you mange your business, whether it be the utilities, energy, human resources, work orders or inventories. “

What kind of data?

• Simple: Room Temperature of Lobby

• Lengthy: List of people currently in East Wing with time of entry

• Complex: Current state of all systems across an entire university campus

• Reports: Variation of internal humidity of sports hall over the last 6 months

How is the data accessed?

• Data is accessed at a ‘Datapoint’ and exposed by a ‘Point Service’

• Datapoints are revealed by a ‘Discovery Service’

• Data trends are reported by a ‘History Service’

• Critical events are signalled by the ‘Alarm Service’