Dr Chris Harding is Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability at The Open Group.

He has been with The Open Group for ten years, and is currently responsible for managing and supporting its work on semantic interoperability and SOA.

Before joining The Open Group, he was a consultant, and a designer and development manager of communications software. With a PhD in mathematical logic, he welcomes the current upsurge of interest in semantic technology, and the opportunity to apply logical theory to practical use.

He has presented at Open Group and other conferences on a range of topics, and contributes regular articles to ebizQ. He is a certified TOGAF practitioner.

Presentation
The Open Group Ontology for SOA
The Open Group's SOA Working Group is developing a formal ontology for SOA, in order to enhance the understanding of SOA concepts in the business and technical communities, and potentially contribute to model-driven SOA implementation. There was significant input to its development from a workshop meeting at the Lisbon conference in October 2006, resulting in a version that was exposed to external bodies including the OMG and W3C. There have been major developments since that version. This workshop session will discuss these developments, and its results will be included in the new version of the ontology which will be prepared for publication following the conference.

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