Gervas,
{Thanks, Kelvin, but it wasn't me who posed the question!
Gervas}
Dave McComb of Semantic Arts is a good resource to tap for ontology design.
http://www.semanticarts.com/
You might be interested in attending the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference
that will be held in San Jose, June 14-18
http://www.semantic-conference.com/
The following article resources may be of interest to others that are
unfamiliar with Canonical models and ontologies.
IBM DeveloperWorks published a series of articles in 2007 that may be of some
interest (in particular, "Web services and the semantic Web, Part 3: Understand
RDF and RDFs" and "Web services and the semantic Web, Part 4: Create an
ontology")
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/xml/libraryview.jsp?type_by=Tutorials&search_by=The+ultimate+mashup+semantic+Web
Common Models in SOA: Tackling the Data Integration Problem
http://www.progress.com/dataxtend/resources/soa-common-model/index.ssp
Exploring the Enterprise Service Bus, Part 3: Four approaches to implementing a
canonical message model in an ESB
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/architecture/library/ar-esbpat3/
The information perspective of SOA design, Part 4: The value of applying the
canonical modeling pattern in SOA\
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0803sauter/
Single Canonical form - not for SOA
http://service-architecture.blogspot.com/2006/08/single-canonical-form-not-for-soa.html
Erl's soapatterns web site: Foundational Inventory Patterns > Canonical Schema
http://soapatterns.org/canonical_schema.asp
SOA: Canonical "Data" Model
http://kjellsj.blogspot.com/2007/07/soa-canonical-data-model.html
SOA: Canonical Domain Model, Federated Canonical Domain Models
http://kjellsj.blogspot.com/2007/07/soa-canonical-domain-model-federated.html
ECDM Mediation: Esperanto vs Babel Fish
http://kjellsj.blogspot.com/2007/10/ecdm-mediation-esperanto-vs-babel-fish.html
Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #4 - Incorrectly applied Canonical Data Model
http://blog.xebia.com/2008/06/02/top-10-soa-pitfalls-4-incorrectly-applied-canonical-data-model/
Information Architecture for SOA
http://www.opengroup.org/projects/si/uploads/40/17533/Information_Architecture_for_SOA.pdf
Kelvin Meeks
http://intltechventures.blogspot.com
--- In [email protected], "gvarada" <gvar...@...>
wrote:
>
> Lately I've been reading a lot on canonical models and the patterns around
> it. There is a lot of information and articles out there that explains the
> benefits of canonical models, but I'm yet to find one that describes the
> process of arriving at a canonical model.
>
> Can somebody point me to some information around the process of arriving at
> canonical models?
>
> Thanks much
> GV
>
