Presented by Roger Burkhart (with help from additional contributors) at Meeting #12 of NAFEMS-INCOSE Systems Modeling and Simulation Working Group (SMSWG), February 1, 2016.

This page currently provides links to available resources on Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC), Linked Data Initiatives of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and activities at INCOSE, OMG, and elsewhere to apply OSLC and Linked Data to specific needs of Model-Based Systems Engineering and to Systems Modeling and Simulation.

There is a wealth of information on OSLC and its use of W3C specifications for RDF and Linked Data on the above sites. For more specifics on how OSLC and linked data can solve specific problems of engineering tool integration, see presentations at the recent OMG OSLC Summit, the August 2015 Insight article, or last year's OSLC breakout. For a starting introduction to OSLC for engineering applications, a good place to start is the most recent Introduction to OSLC presentation by Axel Reichwein at the December 2015 OMG OSLC Summit.

A role for which OSLC and linked data may be especially well suited is to share metadata and systems engineering context data across multiple engineering tools. Roger Burkhart highlighted this potential use case for OSLC in a brief panel presentation at last year's OSLC breakout, and recently in a short talk at ASSESS 2016. A breakout group at ASSESS 2016 has also begun discussing the potential standardization of metadata for analysis and simulation models, which could be another potential use case for OSLC or similar data representation and exchange capabilities.

Multiple commercial tools.

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