Koneksys is a data integration company founded in 2012 that focuses on connecting data sources using open standards like OSLC. It offers consulting services to create link-enabling APIs and integrations between various engineering tools. Its CEO, Axel Reichwein, has experience in aerospace engineering and data integration standards. Koneksys helps clients address the challenges of data silos and improving data integration across different systems using linked data approaches and RESTful APIs.

1. Koneksys
Offering Services to Connect Data using
Link-Enabling APIs
February 2021

2. Koneksys
● Created in 2012 by Axel Reichwein
● Located in San Francisco
● Focused on offering services to connect
data by using open standards
● Composed of remote consultants
located in Mexico and Brazil
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3. Services and Solutions Created by Koneksys
OSLC Solutions
● OSLC APIs
● Integrations with IBM® Engineering
Lifecycle Management (ELM)
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Engineering-related
● Integrations with Cameo SysML,
Simulink, Modelica, FMI, PLM, etc.
Pilot Projects
● To create new mashup apps for
global-level data management
● UI Design
Research
● NIST grant to develop new
interoperability standard for FEA
models

4. Koneksys Clients
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● Engineering organizations
● Software vendors
● Research organizations
● Universities
● Standards organizations

5. Koneksys CEO: Axel Reichwein
● Developer of multiple data integration solutions based on Open
Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)
● Background in aerospace engineering
● Previously involved in standardization efforts related to SysML
(Systems Modeling Language)
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6. Data Integration Problem
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7. Why Data Integration Matters
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“When you have data coming at you from too many different
sources, you run into a data integration challenge. As near as I can
tell, that is what is causing problems for nearly every major
enterprise on the planet. Most enterprises are siloed, meaning they
have independently constructed data stores, perhaps for each
business unit. The problem comes when these business units
want to integrate their data”
“Benefit we expect from Big Data depends on seamless data
integration. Solving the problem of how to improve data
integration is going to be key in getting the most benefit from all
the data being created”
Computer scientist specializing in
database research.
2005 IEEE John von Neumann Medal
and 2014 ACM Turing Award Winner.
Michael Ralph Stonebraker

8. In Engineering: Many Data Silos
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Product Lifecycle
Management
(PLM)/
Mechanical
Engineering
Application
Lifecycle
Management
(ALM)/ Software
Engineering
Business
Intelligence/
Analytics
Enterprise
Resource Planning
(ERP)/
Manufacturing
etc.
How can I
establish
traceability
How do I know
what is
related to
what?
How can I
assess the
impact of a
change?
How can I manage
changes/updates?

9. Link Enabling APIs
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10. Link-Enabling APIs For Humans To Connect
Data Across Silos As Needed
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11. Resource Discovery Through Hypermedia
without Switching Applications
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Application #1 can discover data of Application #2 and display
possible link targets to the user within Application #1
Web API 1 can discover API
Resources of API 2 and
display possible link targets
to the user within Web App 2
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12. Hypermedia Example To Discover URL
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What is the URL of the Web page describing a specific
soccer game?
As a user, I know the main entry point Web page (e.g.
kicker.de)
I also know the category of the game (e.g. Bundesliga)
And then I can find the specific game and its URL (e.g.
https://www.kicker.de/dortmund-gegen-mainz-2021-b
undesliga-4667193/spielbericht )
Entry Point
List of data containers
Resources of a specific
type within a container
URL of specific resource

13. Hypermedia Applied to an API
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All OSLC APIs support the discovery
of resources exposed by the API
according to:
● Data container
● Version of data container
● Resource type
● Sometimes full-text search
http://api2.com/serviceprovidercatalog
http://api2.com/serviceproviders
http://api2.com/model1/parameters
http://api2.com/model1/parameters/12
Entry Point
List of data containers
Resources of a specific
type within a container
URL of specific resource

14. Link-Enabling APIs help create Linked Data
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15. Link-Enabling APIs help create
Configuration-Managed Linked Data
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16. Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
Standard for Link-enabling APIs
● Based on Linked Data principles
● REST API
● Supporting resource and service
discovery
● Generic data aspects and API
discovery aspects described in a
standard way
● Easily consumable by knowledge
graphs
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Schemas for Generic Data Aspects
● API entry point and services
● Containers of resources
● Shapes (and constraints) of resources
● Versions of resources
● Change events on resources
● Resource access rules

17. New Linked Data Applications based on Linked Data
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18. Examples of Koneksys Solutions
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19. OSLC APIs for Various Engineering Apps
● Cameo Systems Modeler
● PTC Integrity
● Jama
● Simulink
● FMI
● AMESim
● Ansys Minerva
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20. OSLC SDK in Python (PyOSLC)
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https://github.com/cslab/pyoslc
Data
GET
POST
PUT
DELETE
OSLC API
Client
RDF Lib
Python
HTTP RDF

21. Consumer-oriented APIs for IBM Doors Next
Generation (DNG)
We go “underwater” to discover and use many different
IBM DNG/RQM APIs with limited or no documentation
We create simple, clean, approachable
consumer-oriented APIs for developers wanting to
access data in IBM DNG/RQM
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OSLC APIs
Reportable
REST APIs
DNG Module API
DNG Private Header
Requests
RQM/DNG Incoming
links endpoint
DNG Locks API
DNG Multi Request
API DNG View/
SPARQL API
Other endpoints
called by frontend

22. Linked Data Applications
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Link Prediction Algorithms
Link Editors Linked Data Visualization
Global Configuration Management

23. Thanks and get in touch!
axel.reichwein@koneksys.com
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