Saturday, June 24, 2006
Generative Methodology Glass Bead Games
transactional space measurement and
web service provision using OASIS standards
The metaphor between gene, cell and social
expression à [217]
On Formal verses Natural systems à [206]
Link to education commons à [***]
Services are a type of natural social/economic transaction. Some services are not business
processes.
The issue is not merely the meaning of words used, like “business
processes”. Even business process have
significant non-locality in the cause and consequences of events within those
processes. Non-locality is not measured
in most of the W3C and OASIS standards for SAO (service oriented architecture)
mostly for two reasons, (1) the business orientation has generally been short
term and (2) the computer science and information science in most IT sector
activities just has not developed measures of non-locality. #2 does not mean that these measurements
could not be developed as part of new software systems. John Nash (the movie “The Beautiful Mind”)
worked on this problem (for example).
We do not say
this to be mean or impolite. It is just
that so much of the service oriented architecture discussion is about
technology stuff. The services get lost
in this focus on technology.
One needs balance.
The first step in creating service systems supporting the full sense of
Higher Education and K-12 education “transaction spaces” is to map the
information flow. The second step is to
inspect and model the content of that information flow.
These two steps are conducted within what has been called “knowledge
management” practices. The first step
should involve a knowledge elicitation exercise involving multiple teams of
stakeholders in informal meetings. (see
previous note [226])
A taxonomy is created, not by IT specialists, by the output of the
measurement of the content of the information flow.
This taxonomy then becomes the managed/controlled vocabulary that is
used to model “services” that can be used and reused in an agile fashion.
A model for doing this type of information flow mapping is given at:
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/generativeMethodology/complexOntology.ppt