ABSTRACT:  This presentation will highlight some of the current tools that have been developed to improve semantic standardization in practice. For instance BOMOS, a model for the governance of standards (and other IT artifacts) will be introduced, just as ADONIS, a model to steer the adoption of standards, and also the iQMSS for quality measurement, including examples. For the future challenges I want to share and discuss the vision how (enterprise) inter-organizational interoperability is evolving into what is called the Linked Enterprise (the Semantic Web), and what the consequences are for business processes and data exchange.

SPEAKER:  Erwin Folmer was born on July 10, 1975 in Zevenaar, the Netherlands. He received his Masters degree in Technical Business Administration from the University of Twente. In 1999 Erwin started working for KPN Research as an innovator, and was especially involved in designing order entry and billing systems for new KPN services such as ADSL. From 2001 Erwin joined TNO to lead the European OpenXchange project focusing on business to business integration. Since then he has been involved in standardization and interoperability research with a special interest in semantic standards.

He is involved in a number of standard domains such as temporary staffing industry, waste, invoices, transportation and education, amongst others. Erwin is the founder of the SETU Timecard standard, which is used nowadays by the whole Dutch staffing industry. He chaired many standardization workgroups, including HR-XML SIDES, SETU and STOSAG. Currently he chairs the Standards steering board for the Dutch Semantic Invoice Model. Erwin was involved in setting up the Integrate consortium that led to the development of several instruments for semantic standards, such as the adoption instrument.

As a standardization expert he was a member of the Netherlands Open in Connection (2009-2011) project team to improve the adoption of open standards (and open source software) in the Netherlands. As part of this role, Erwin authored the BOMOS (management and development of open standards) book that many standardization organizations use as a guidance when organizing the management of standards.

In 2009 he joined the University of Twente part-time to embark on a PhD research program on standardization, while continuing his work for TNO. Erwin’s research has led to many publications in books, magazines, conference proceedings, and journals; Electronic Markets and Information Systems and E-Business Management, amongst others. After finishing his PhD in April 2012, Erwin continued working for the University as Twente as Research Associate, but also started working for Geonovum to lead the Pilot Linked Open Data the Netherlands. In 2013 Erwin is visiting researcher at the ERCIS institute of the University of Munster.