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Stakeholders collect input on existing data documentation for semiconductor domain

Within the SC3 consortium, the focal domain is semiconductor industry. Such consortium domain knowledge along with our methodological approach towards retrieving, understanding, analysing and categorizing all relevant existing information will enable the implementation of consistent ontologies and taxonomies ensuring their intra-and cross-domain interoperability. The goal of SC3 is to gather these stakeholders in order to collect, consolidate and confine documentation in a top-level ontology connecting all relevant pillars for semiconductor domain. SC3 will capitalize on the semiconductor industry inclusive ontologies and taxonomies that will be developed as well as the partners’ industrial and research domain experience, and will work systematically towards defining a top-level ontology able to connect to all relevant subdomains.

Examine data documentation with respect to top-level ontology

Digital Reference offers a commonly-agreed top level ontology of relevant manufacturing and supply chain processes for the semiconductors domain. The goal is to identify the status of Digital Reference as output from H2020 / ECSEL / Productive 4.0 project. SC3 will systematically examine Digital Reference with respect to other existing industrial generic data models accepted by other industrial companies, especially semiconductor data models depicted by the major semiconductor manufacturers. The goal of SC3 is to devise a semantic vocabulary for the domain, thus the project examines different data models relatively to Digital Reference to identify the gaps in the domain vocabulary. Further, we will devise steps to create a complete semantic standard vocabulary for the domain being the updated Digital Reference.

Identify missing semantic data documentation for the domain

Following the definition of the top-level ontology and the identification of existing data models for the domain, SC3 will proceed in identifying missing semantic data documentation for the domain. A series of co-design workshops will be scheduled, with relevant bodies and wide representation of the industrial sector in order to acquire consensus, receive input and agree on the final missing documentation for the semiconductor domain to extend Digital Reference and reach a full commonly-agreed top level ontology representing the domain. SC3 will collect input on existing data documentation, identify the existing semantic representation and missing data documentation.

Extend top-level ontology for semiconductor domain

After identifying the missing data document, SC3 will work systematically towards extending a top-level ontology able to connect to all relevant semiconductor models. The project will foster the industry inclusive ontologies and taxonomies that will be developed as well as the partners’ industrial and research domain experience, and will work systematically towards defining a top-level ontology able to connect to all relevant semiconductor concepts. Following the gap analysis, SC3 extracts semantic data from different data structures and link them to the ontology. Existing industrial generic data models serve as an input for the ontology engineering process in order to ensure reuse-ability of existing models. Following the integration of vocabularies into Digital Reference, SC3 emphasizes how semantic documentation overcomes fragmentation due to lack of consensus in different communities having widely differing requirements for the same domain.

Extend Digital Reference to other domains

SC3 will proceed developing ontologies for other relevant industrial domains namely: automotive, industrial domain, communication, pharmaceutical and agricultural. Consensus with a wide number of industries and relevant bodies will be achieved through a series of dissemination events where wide representation of the industrial sector is due in order to acquire consensus, receive input and agree on the final definitions. SC3 will examine the effect of semiconductor supply chain on other domains by analysing existing ontologies while safeguarding industrial applicability and fitting to Digital Reference. The integration of identified vocabularies into Digital Reference, highlights the impact of semiconductor industry on the widest use of data and, ultimately, reliable end-user products.

Harmonise ontologies into top-level ontology

SC3 will work towards harmonizing newly created ontologies in order to be able to connect seamlessly to the top-level scheme, Digital Reference. An iterative and recurring process will be deployed in order to adapt ontologies to the new scheme. SC3 will analyse existing vocabularies, ontologies from other domains and include them into Digital Reference. All modifications will be systematically disseminated to all relevant stakeholders. Digital Reference will be iteratively refined in a stakeholder-in-the-loop approach in order to maximize acceptance, applicability and ability to connect to all relevant sub-domains.

Standardise documentation for proposed taxonomies and ontologies

SC3 will liaise with relevant standardisation bodies so that the proposed taxonomies and ontologies are included in a standardised documentation with metadata that will be widely accepted by researchers and the industry. Providing such an approach the proposed top-level and sub-domain ontologies can be easily employed in existing efforts that aim at bringing together European researchers and innovators acting as key enabler for data discovery, access, use and reuse within a broad spectrum of resources for semiconductor domain as well as others.

Establish a communication platform

SC3 enables collaboration not only among semiconductor manufacturers but beyond the semiconductor supply chain via Industrial Reference platform (i.e. the extended, merged or linked Digital Reference to other accepted or upcoming ontologies) , which aims to evolve as an open standard and as a basis for a commercial B2B platform. This framework acts as a key enabler for realizing an agile development, validation, refinement loop of the Digital Reference ontology. Its infrastructure and hosting mechanisms assure accessibility in an open yet suitably controlled and secure manner. A series of co-design workshops will be scheduled, with relevant bodies and wide representation of the industrial sector in order to acquire consensus, receive input and agree on functional specifications.

Sustainability and further development of ontologies and data documentation

SC3 will ensure the maintenance and further development of the ontologies and data documentation after the project duration through working with industry associations and other relevant EU-funded projects. The platform acts as a sustainable platform, which generates to a large extent its own income to ensure that the platform stays alive after the project lifetime.