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Thomas and John
cc: Ivan Prueitt
I have worked on this email for a few days. I will be brief.
I am drafting a
"Service Transactions in K-16" document over the next four months.
Some of the detail has not been set, but this note sets forth the elements. John, for you to focus on this would be new terrain for you, but I feel that it would be helpful both to you and to the working group.
The draft will likely start out as an internal document to www.digital-schools.com , which may be funding part of the initial work. My brother is the founder of this six year old company. A review of his web site shows that he is having stellar success in developing assistance to K-12 administrative and financial services in California.
My brother and I have long discussed extending from K-12 administrative and financial services, in California, to complete standards package for K-16, world wide. A big undertaking, but perhaps this is doable, using the digital-schools experience and some process development methodology.
1) a true SOA orientation for the current digital-schools products and services
1.1) the refinement of some SOA "non-IT centric" business centric processes
1.2) the refinement of that refinement in the direction of community centric service orientation
2) the development of a International standard reflecting the kinds of things being done at www.educationcommons.com for which you, Thomas have been an important contribution.
2.1) the standard would have four orbs of interest, reflecting four quite different communities of interest
2.2) the communities are
financial, administration and human resources
the students
the faculty
the communities that the schools serve
An initial template will be based on
www.businesscentricmethodology.com
and various SOA standards such as the SOA Reference Model and various models , mostly OASIS, on XML acceleration, repositories and registry and
SOA Blueprints.
John, I hope you will join this effort, since what is different about where we want to go and current SOA, as described in Thomas’s books, is that there is a step beyond XML with XML type data models.
This step moves us to SOA with ontology, and SOA with 'n"-ary ontology and with primitives in the sense that Peirce talked about, and which John have extended.
For a different impression of "n"-ary ontology from primitives based on linguistic analysis see Tom Adi's work:
But this is off topic for the initial discussion.
We see the primitives as being a type of Zackman Framework for the generation of SOA Blueprints.
I will stop here and ask for comment.