Track: Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF)

Wednesday, October 20 — 4:00 - 5:30

4:00 - 4:45 Next Generation UDEF - A Framework for Enabling Global Interoperability Ron Schuldt, UDEF-IT, LLC This presentation highlights the re-launch and future evolution of the UDEF as a framework that enables global interoperability. The Open Group's UDEF standard is in the process of an important transformation that builds on the existing standard while allowing future extensions to support vocabularies from virtually any industry. http://www.opengroup.org/udef/ Audience: Program Managers, Enterprise Architects, Data Architects, Data Modelers Key takeaways: A summary of UDEF as a framework and why it enables interoperability A summary of the UDEF transformation process The Next Generation UDEF roadmap Commercial aspects of UDEF Ron Schuldt, UDEF-IT, LLC Ron Schuldt is a Senior Partner of UDEF-IT, LLC. He has over twenty years experience with national and international data standards covering the gamut from Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). He is Chairman of The Open Group UDEF Project.

4:45 - 5:30 Distributed UDEF Architecture - The Global Enabler for Semantic Interoperability Arnold van Overeem, Global Architect, Capgemini This presentation highlights the development work on the UDEF as a distributed framework for global semantic interoperability. The next generation of Open Group's UDEF standard will have an architecture that supports vocabularies from virtually any industry while building on the existing standard. Its architecture will enable universal semantic interoperability to be achieved in near future. Audience: Architects, information managers Key takeaways: how the next version of UDEF can work how enterprise vocabularies and industry sector vocabularies can be managed for interoperability strategic directions for continued UDEF development technical aspects of UDEF

Arnold van Overeem, Global Architect, Capgemini Arnold van Overeem is global architect in Capgemini and has fulfilled assignments in many sectors of business, industry and public sector. He currently leads the interoperability efforts in the Open Group.

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