The document outlines the integration of SMIF (Semantic Modeling for Information Federation) and FIBO (Financial Industry Business Ontology), highlighting the need for higher abstraction tools, specifically the Cameo Concept Modeler (CCM). CCM facilitates 'round tripping' between business and ontological viewpoints, allowing seamless forward and reverse engineering of models while ensuring semantic interoperability. Key features include simultaneous modeling and versioning, making it a valuable resource for the FIBO team and enhancing the development of financial ontologies.

1. Introducing the
Round Trip through
SMIF / FIBO
Wednesday March 5th, 2017
Jim Logan
Director of Semantic Technologies and Interoperability
Product Manager of the Cameo Concept Modeler

2. What is SMIF?
• Semantic Modeling for Information Federation
• (Please see separate slide deck from Cory Casanave)
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3. Setting the Stage: What is FIBO?
• Financial Industry Business Ontology
• Developed with business experts
• Provides:
• Unambiguous meaning for financial concepts
• A “Rosetta Stone” for information models
• A basis for creating new information models
• Expressed in a form of description logic
called the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• FIBO has been years in the making
• A large portion is complete
• Much more left to do
• The FIBO team needed tools to go faster!
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4. Setting the Stage: FIBO Tooling Needs
• Needed a business-facing
viewpoint
• Needed to work at a higher level
of abstraction
• Needed to normalize ontologist
modeling practices as OWL
patterns
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5. The Road to a Business-Facing Viewpoint
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Figure 10.16 Reference and Referent Concepts and Relations
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• RDF/XML
• Protégé
• ODM / Visual Ontology Modeler
• SMIF / Cameo Concept Modeler

6. OWL as RDF/XML in a Text Editor
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7. OWL in Protege
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8. OWL in ODM / Visual Ontology Modeler
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nce and Referent Concepts and Relations

9. OWL in SMIF / Cameo Concept Modeler
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10. OWL as a Glossary in the Cameo Concept Modeler
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11. Introducing the Cameo Concept Modeler (CCM)
• CCM was being developed at the same time as FIBO
• Started out as a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) tool that:
• Bridged the OMG’s UML-based architectural ecosystem and the Semantic
Web ecosystem
• Ingested just enough of foundational ontologies into normal-looking UML
• Extended / tailored foundational ontologies within an organization
• Allowed SMEs to review simple diagrams and natural language glossaries
• Emitted organization-specific ontologies out to OWL for reasoning
• Would transform concept models into system architecture and design
models
• Would provide semantic interoperability among information systems
• CCM was what the FIBO team needed when they started
• CCM was purposely not called “The Cameo OWL Editor”
• We deferred developing transformations and semantic
interoperability to help the FIBO team
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12. Forward Engineering and Reverse Engineering
• Programmers used to program in machine code
• Then they programmed in assembly language and generated
machine code
• Then they programmed in higher-level languages and generated
assembly language
• Why?
• Higher-level languages are optimized for programmers
• Lower-level languages are optimized for machines
• A higher-level language can be transformed into a lower-level language
• Forward engineering is the transformation of a higher-level
language into a lower-level language
• Reverse engineering is the reconstruction of the abstractions in a
higher-level language from a lower-level language
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13. What Is “Round Tripping”?
• Uses the metaphor of traveling to a place
and then returning again
• “Round tripping” is short for round trip
engineering
• Entails forward engineering from higher
level of abstraction to a lower level of
abstraction and then reversing the process
• To make this tractable, we forward and
reverse engineer sanctioned patterns
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14. Round Tripping in SMIF/CCM
• Two viewpoints are needed for FIBO:
• SMIF: High-level abstractions for business experts
• OWL: Logical axioms for ontology experts
• CCM can now forward and reverse engineer between viewpoints
• A SMIF/CCM model emits sanctioned patterns in OWL, such as:
• Complex restrictions
• Property reification
• Phases and roles
• Ontologists can edit the emitted OWL
• CCM can read the edited OWL and merge changes into the model
while preserving diagrams
• The FIBO team has since standardized on both OWL and SMIF
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15. Putting It All Together: Round Tripping between
Viewpoints
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Formal Ontology Expert
Business Expert

16. Fulfilling Additional FIBO Team Needs
• A TeamWork Cloud (TWC) server provides:
• Simultaneous modeling
• Versioning of models
• Branching of models
• Merging model changes between branches
• A Cameo Collaborator server enables:
• Ontologists to publish SMIF/CCM diagrams and glossaries to a web server
• Business experts to review and comment on diagrams and plain-English
glossaries using just a web browser
• The EDMC Wiki to accumulate comments from business experts
• New Cameo Concept Modeler features enable:
• Recognition of patterns in OWL to reconstruct higher-level abstractions
• Automatic merging of OWL changes into diagrams and glossaries
• Enforcement of “FIBO-sanctioned” patterns
• New Cameo Concept Modeler features have fed back into the
Semantic Modeling for Information Federation (SMIF) specification
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17. In Summary
• SMIF: Semantic Modeling for Information Federation
• CCM: the Cameo Concept Modeler
• CCM provides a viewpoint with a higher level of abstraction
• CCM can now “round trip” back and forth between viewpoints
• The FIBO team has been using CCM, TWC, and Cameo Collaborator
• Coming SMIF features in CCM:
• Transform concept models into system architecture and design models
• Provide semantic interoperability among information systems
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18. Thank you!
To find out more,
please contact:
Jim Logan
jlogan@nomagic.com