Ron Schuldt is a Senior Staff Systems Architect within the Systems Design and Integration – Service Oriented Architecture organization of Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems.

Currently, he is the Co-Chairman of the Aerospace Industry Association’s Electronic Enterprise Integration Committee and Chairman of The Open Group UDEF Forum.

Since 1987, he has been involved in multiple data interchange standards activities and is recognized as a corporate expert on ebusiness data standards. He is involved in Lockheed Martin’s effort to establish a corporate-wide Information Architecture Strategy.

Prior to joining Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) in 1981, he served for nine years as an officer within the United States Air Force.

Ron received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska in 1972 and a Master of Science in Facilities Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1978.

Presentation
The True Business Value of Semantic Interoperability
All too often, little attention is given to the concept of semantic interoperability since applications are built or acquired to perform certain business functions with little attention being given to the life cycle costs of building and maintaining interfaces to the application. This presentation will focus on this "missing link" to interoperability and will include a summary overview of a proposed approach that has been adopted and is being promoted by The Open Group. The proposed approach has recently received substantial media coverage due to a Disaster Response Pilot live demo that leverages the approach and has been promoted by the federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice.

Semantic Interoperability - Panel Discussion & UDEF Disaster Response Pilot Demo
The Chairman of the federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) requested that The Open Group UDEF Forum submit a pilot to the SICoP for inclusion within their collection of pilots that illustrate implementations of the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Data Reference Model (DRM)

The submitted UDEF Disaster Response Pilot live (on Dec 1, 2005) demo assumes a large-scale natural disaster creates a situation where search and recovery response personnel need to carry GPS transmitters and portable walkie-talkies so that the recovery operations can be coordinated from a nearby command center. Unfortunately, the 9-volt batteries brought to the site exceeded their shelf life more than four years ago and therefore are unable to provide sufficient power. Through the use of two simple UDEF names and IDs and exposed Web Services, the response team discovers the availability of 9-volt batteries in current inventory from nearby retail locations and is able to select the closest location based on distance from the response team.

The Open Group UDEF Forum is promoting the UDEF as the universally-used classification system for data element concepts.

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