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TopSail Methodology
TopSAIL™ is TopQuadrant's lifecycle methodology for developing semantic solutions. (SAIL -- Semantic Application Integrated Lifecycle). It incorporates Solution Envisioning for Semantic Solutions. TopSAIL is a component of TopBraid Suite™ TopQuadrant's complete Semantic Web solutions support for building and maintaining enterprise semantic solutions.
TopSail is divided into seven phases:
1.Engagement
Start-up |
- Review client agreement, scope of services, level of effort, deliverables, and schedule commitments
- Conduct client engagement start-up meeting, meet key personnel, review mutual expectations, and document any refinements in a finalized project workplan & schedule.
- Plan engagement; tailor processes, methods, resources, materials, and schedule of deliverables as mutually agreed with client.
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| 2.Semantic Technology Briefing & Training |
- Conduct TopMIND™ semantic technology briefings & trainings. TopQuadrant and Professor Jim Hendler ( U. OF MD , pioneer of the Semantic Web design these programs. The curriculum features:
· case studies and success stories
· standards and strategic direction
· products and vendors
· state-of-the-art knowledge and experience
· interactive participation, exploration and evaluation.
- Tailor different programs to meet the needs of executives, managers and ‘change agents’, technologists and implementers.
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| 3.Solution Envisioning & Conceptual Design |
- Assess current business situation; explore business needs and specify solution capabilities that will deliver results.
- Create a business case and perform tradeoff analysis.
- Develop a solution roadmap and high level implementation plan.
- Define technical strategy and major building blocks of the solution architecture are identified.
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| 4. Architecture and System Design |
- Develop solution architecture for integrating a semantic infrastructure with other technical components of the overall solution such as web application servers, databases, document management systems, web services, XML-feeds and legacy systems.
- Establish ontology architecture and modeling guidelines.
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| 5.Development & Implementation |
- Construct and integrate solution functionality.
- Build and populate ontology models.
- Test and validate solution.
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| 6. Solution Deployment and Maintenance |
- Deploy solution.
- Cut-over to production.
- Establish maintenance and support processes for the solution. Tailor and optimize knowledge engineering processes.
- Make fixes and enhancements as necessary. Fine-tune ontologies and system performance.
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| 7.Engagement Wrap-up |
- Evaluate the solution as-built and deployed.
- Prepare final report that summarizes project accomplishments, lessons learned, and recommendations for next steps
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