An Architecture of Ontology-aware Metamodelling Platforms for Advanced Enterprise Repositories

Enterprise repositories have become core information assets of today's enterprises. They store and manage models of different aspects of an enterprise, such as business strategy, business processes, organizational structures, and IT infrastructure in an integrative way based on a bundle of domain-specific modelling languages. To produce such models for enterprise repository and profit from their usage, number of mechanisms such as model querying, validation, simulation, model transformation, versioning and traceability are needed. Metamodelling platforms provide flexible and extensible environment for realizing such advanced enterprise repositories, where various mechanisms working on repository may be integrated, thus providing a superior modelling solution. Going one step further, the question is, can such platforms profit from semantic technologies? How architecture of ontology-aware metamodelling platforms can be designed? In this paper, we give an in-depth view of such platform architecture by discussing its main building blocks and their dependencies.