Graphwise took part in the AIOTI Workshop on Semantic Interoperability for Digital Twins held on 5-6 February 2025 in Sophia Antipolis, France (and online). The workshop was organized by the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Edge Continuum Innovation (AIOTI) in collaboration with ERCIM (the European counterpart of W3C), Inria, and the NEPHELE and SmartEdge projects.
The workshop sought to advance the field of semantic interoperability and lay the groundwork for the next generation of information systems. It was focused on finding practical solutions for real-world industrial challenges. Discussions involved a mix of invited talks, breakout sessions, and community-submitted presentations, all aimed at addressing industrial needs for semantic interoperability.
The event provided ample opportunities for real discussions and will be followed up with a publicly available workshop report. It focuses on solutions for industry and encouraged greater take-up of semantic technologies, including controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and ontologies.
Semantic interoperability is essential for many industrial areas including dataspaces, manufacturing, maintenance, energy, supply chains, and circular economy. Graphwise participated with 3 Keynotes, focused on dataspace interoperability and how semantic technologies can facilitate it:
- Martin Kaltenböck, SVP of Customer Success, presented on the Semantic Interoperability in Data Spaces workshop series that Semantic Web Company organized together with W3C, BDVA and IDSA in 2022-2024, and which grabbed a lot of attention at the last European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF 2024).
- Vladimir Alexiev, Lead Data Architect in Innovation, discussed semantic representation problems of dataset metadata in dataspaces, and describing datasets in a richer way by using ontologies such as CSVW and PROV.
- Alongside co-authors Ken Wenzel (Fraunhofer IWU) and Hossein Rimaz (Metaphactory), Vladimir Alexiev also talked about semantic representation issues with Asset Administration Shell (AAS) used for digital twins, ECLASS used for product catalogs, and the Semantic Aspect Meta Model (SAMM) of the Eclipse Semantic Modeling Framework (ESMF) used to describe AAS submodel schemas.
Graphwises’ research work in this field is supported by the UNDERPIN project that builds a dataspace of manufacturing/ predictive maintenance data in the energy sector (refineries and windfarms).
References
- Semantic interoperability for dataspaces Workshop series 2022-2024. Martin Kaltenböck. AIOTI Workshop on Semantic Interoperability for Digital Twins, Sophia Antipolis, France, February 2025. Paper, presentation
- Semantic Problems in Dataspaces. Vladimir Alexiev. AIOTI Workshop on Semantic Interoperability for Digital Twins, Sophia Antipolis, France, February 2025. paper, presentation
- Semantic Representation Challenges in AAS, ECLASS and SAMM. Vladimir Alexiev, Ken Wenzel, Hossein Rimaz. AIOTI Workshop on Semantic Interoperability for Digital Twins, Sophia Antipolis, France, February 2025. paper, presentation
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