SKLSE’s Efforts
for GEMET
PENG Rong
State Key Lab. Of Software Engineering,
Wuhan University, China
2010.01.27
Content
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Introduction of WHU and SKLSE
Current Situation of Environmental Information
Sharing in China
ISO/IEC 19763-3 Metamodel for Ontology
Registration
Current Progress of GEMET project in China
Wuhan University
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Wuhan University dates back to Ziqiang Institute founded in
1893
It was named National Wuhan University in 1928, and was
among the first group of national universities in modern China
In 1999, Wuhan University was rated as one of the most
outstanding universities in China in the world famous journal
“Science”
Top 10 university in China
Introduction of SKLSE
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Established in 1985
A flagship institute in Software Engineering field of
China
In charge of many key projects in 973, 863 and
National Science and Technology Pillar Program
Various awards from the country and the local
http://www.sklse.org
Prof. HE Keqing
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Professor and Ph.D
Supervisor
Founder of SKLSE
Chinese representative of
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32
In charge of many
national projects
Research interest:
Technology and
Standards of Semantics
Interoperability ，
Software Engineering on
Internet
Dr.PENG Rong
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Associate Professor
Vice Director of SKLSE
Research interest
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Requirement Eng.
Service Computing
Trustworthy Computing
Current Situation of Environmental
Information Sharing in China
Homepage of MEP
http://www.mep.gov.cn/
Government Affair Opening
Public Service
Environment Protection Report
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Data Center of MEP
http://datacenter.mep.gov.cn/
Air quality
Provincial Department of
Environmental Protection
http://www.hbepb.gov.cn/
Daily Environmental Information
Index of air quality
water quality
Provincial Environment Quality
Publishing Platform
http://monitor.hbepb.gov.cn:8080/hbzlfb/kqzlrbView.do
Air Quality
Sources of
Drinking
Water
Major Rivers
Water
Quality
Noise
Monitoring
Data
Tributaries
Lakes
Monthly and Yearly Report of
Environment Quality（1/2）
Monthly and Yearly Report of
Environment Quality（2/2）
Summary
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Environmental Information Sharing has already started.
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Status: initial stage, to provide the public with basic data of
environmental information.
Problem
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Difficulty in national integration: every province has its own
information publication system based own national standards; the
national information integration is done vertically via excel sheets.
Difficulty in international integration: the data is recorded
based national environmental standards, which are not a good fit for
GEMET, and there is no mapping between them. Therefore, it leads
to the difficulty of integrating Chinese environmental information
with that of other GEMET-using countries.
Difficulty in utilization: other software systems is difficult to
analyze and utilize the environmental data directly.
Difficulty in participation: it’s difficult to appeal individuals to
participate the information sharing.
Summary
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Environmental Information Sharing has already started.
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Status: initial stage, to provide the public with basic data of
environmental information.
Problem: Difficulty in national integration, international integration,
utilization, participation
Solution
 Standards Mapping and Extension
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Formulate GEMET’s Chinese version, and make suggestions to
enrich GEMET’s content according to Chinese national standards
Technology Promotion
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User- friendly interface should be established.
apart from text format, well-defined languages, like XML, RDF and
OWL should be employed to express environmental information.
Environmental terminology’s ontology could be used to support
logical reasoning on environmental information and aid users’
decision
ISO/IEC 19763-3 Metamodel for Ontology
Registration
Background
Interoperation
Semantic Interoperation
Syntactic Interoperation
Interchange
Interconnection
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Ontology & Semantic Interoperation
Ontology
GEMET
An Example of Ontology: Rice
“growsIn”
“are”
“hasVariety”
“hasSynonym”
ISO/IEC 19763-3
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With Ontology, we can get inference about the
relationship between the concepts in an ontology
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With ISO/IEC 19763-3, we can get accurate
information about the relationship between
concepts in different ontologies
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogu
e_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38637
“Software Component Repository” and its extensions,
which are based on ISO/IEC 19763-3, has been widely
adopted by 240 enterprises in China
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10 of which are “Top 500 Corporations in China”
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Information Resource Interoperation under ISO/IEC 19763-3
Standard
Layer
Ontology
Layer
ISO/IEC 19763-3
Electric Machinery
Motor
sameAs
Information
Layer
cast
Standard Component
Purchased Component
Electric Machineryplanking Motor
shaft
Component
Registry
Drawing
Software
Component lib
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Remark to ISO/IEC 19763-3 from KMSoft
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Jin Zhang (General Engineer of KMSoft)：
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“…Seen from the light of application, ISO/IEC 19763-3
is beneficial for the communication between end user
and system analyzers. …We marked the components
with semantic annotations. Then system analyzers can
seek the components according to user requirements
to create prototype system rapidly. ….This method is
proven much more efficient than before….”
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Current Progress of GEMET project in China
Ecoinformatics Conference in
Copenhagen, 2007
SKLSE’s Proposal in Copenhagen Meeting
Ontology Registry based on ISO/IEC
19763
Apply MFI-3 to administrate ontologies in the field of
environmental information sharing
File sent by U.S. EPA to China SEPA, 2007
ISO/IEC 19763-3 will
be excellent in GEMET
future application
Mr. Zhou Jian, Vice
Minister, State
Environmental
Protection
Administration
Invite WHU to join
GEMET
Invite SEPA/China
Molly O’Neill
CIO, U.S. EPA
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Invitation Letter from UNEP，2009.12.23
Qinghua Xu, Director General,
Dept of International
Cooperation, MEP/China
Invite MEP, with WHU
responsible for the
primary effort on the
GEMET project.
Yolodymyr Demkine
Officer-in-Charge,
Division of Early Warning
and Assessment, UNEP
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1st China Environment
Informationization Working Meeting
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Jan 5th-6th, Beijing
Co-sponsored by MEP and MIIT( Ministry of Industry and
Information Technology)
Minister ZHOU Shengxian points out:
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By 2015, China will establish an environmental informationization
mechanism that is suitable for the environmental protection in the
new era.
We’ll Construct an advanced and comprehensive “Digital
Environmental Protection” system, to widely support the sharing and
employment of the environmental information resources.
We’ll Establish catalog system and communication platform for
environmental information resources, and forming the work layout
as uniform management, distributed storage, co-operate and coconstruct, and resources sharing.
We’ll improving information systems in business application,
propelling the optimization and coordination of different modules of
business application, and increasing the efficiency of environment
management.
Today, environmental information sharing is been
given weight by China’s government, which is a
good opportunity.
The import Role GEMET has played in environmental
sharing is obvious. The advanced state of the
technology in GEMET has been widely recognized.
We are looking forward to contributing in the
GEMET China Project, to improve China’s
environment information sharing level as well as
enhance the world-wide environmental information
exchange, sharing and employment.
Future work
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LI Jian, the Secretary of WHU will try to get contact with
MEP high level
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Mr. ZHOU Jian, Mr. XU Qinghua…
They will arrange official meeting on behalf of WHU in 2010
Gain support from MEP, begin GEMET translation work
and provide revision advice based on China National
Standards on environmental terms.
Apply ISO Standards to environmental terms
administration
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Ontology Administration (MFI-3)
Provide environmental information services to satisfy user
requirements (MFI-5，-7，-8，-9)
Build up Environmental Information Sharing Platform on the
basis of ISO Standards
UNEP
EPA
MEP
EEA
Collaboration
SKLSE
(武汉大学)
JRC
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Thank you！
The Relationship between MFI -5/7/8/9
On Demand
Model Selection
(MFI-9)
Role and Goal Registry
（MFI-8）
Process Registry
（MFI-5）
Service Registry
（MFI-7）
Registration
Interoperation
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BMM
…
BPEL
…
WSDL
Specification
Tropos
RM-ODP
FOAF
PSL
UML
OPM
WADL
OWL-S
WSMO
2007.12, During Visit of SEPA Information Center
Manufacture Industry Informationization—Application of MFI-3
Ontology Repository based on
MMFI4Ontology Registration
Ontogy Registry Repository
based on19763-3 Ontology Registry
Software Component
Attribute Ontology
SC
Registra
tion Info
SC
Regirtrati
on info
Local Onto A
SC Repository
A
RO SC_Attribute_Onto
Attr. Ontology of
Software Component
Local Onto B
SC Repository
B
Different ontology
LO A
LO B
SC_Attribute
Management_Attr
Sofware
Component
Registered
Information
Local Ontology
Software Component lib
A
Software
Componet
Registraton
information
Producer_Info
Producer_Name
Product_Info
Product_Name
Product_ID
Expired_Date
Tech_Attr
Component
Lib
Running_Platform
OS_Info
Local Ontology B
Sofware
B
Domain
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ISO/IEC 19763-3 Standard on the ISO website
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogu
e_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38637
ISO/IEC 19763-3,2007
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