Kenneth Laskey
Biography:
Ken Laskey began working on Web-based metadata cataloguing systems through a DARPA research project during the late 1990s and began examining the use of XML while the specification was still in draft form. He continued to investigate the use of the Web as the backbone of a distributed catalog and the particular challenge of converging and coordinating the diverse vocabularies of distributed contributors of information. This led to an interest in service-oriented architecture as a means to access distributed resources and effectively mediate between local vocabularies. The use of semantics technology to facilitate workable solutions is of particular interest because the local vocabularies often express specialized information and the challenge is to both preserve and make effective use of the subtleties and differences. Dr. Laskey is currently on the W3C Advisory Board and an editor for the SOA Reference Model TC. He is technical lead for the Information Semantics group at MITRE and a contributor to the description and analysis of mediation services for DoD's Net-Centric Core Enterprise Services (NCES).The author's affiliation with The MITRE Corporation is provided for identification purposes only, and is not intended to convey or imply MITRE's concurrence with, or support for, the positions, opinions or viewpoints expressed by the author.
