Semantic Interoperability in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Challenging Testbed for Semantic Technologies

This paper outlines some of the inherent difficulties present in large-scale standards-based semantic interoperability in the Oil and Gas industry. This domain in particularly interesting for semantic interoperability, as the complexity is manifold: data sets are large, span many different domains, are modeled and represented differently in various standards, which have evolved considerably over time. We outline the main challenges with respect to sustained interoperability and advocate that the interoperability scenarios could serve as an interesting test bed for evaluating semantic interoperability techniques.