Digitalisation Levels 2 Context Adopting a top-level ontology requires both: the top-level ontology itself and an approach that enables one to evolve one’s existing data towards the top-level ontology. bCLEARer is such an approach and has been in continuous development since the late 1980s. It provides a basis for comparing the before and after states of the model. This can then be used to assess and visualize the improvements. We are developing an assessment based upon digitalisation levels. A basis for comparing the before and after states 3 BEFORE AFTER 4 Adding the digitalisation level (to data items) BEFORE AFTER 1 3 5 1 5 8 paper brain unknown unstructured implicit semantics syntactic explicit semantics 5 key grounded semantics 2 4 6 3 1 7 8 8 View across the enterprise: aggregating levels 5 BEFORE AFTER paper brain unknown unstructured implicit semantics syntactic explicit semantics 5 key grounded semantics 2 4 6 3 1 7 8 6 Data Item Digitalisation Levels {073A0DAA-6AF3-43AB-8588-CEC1D06C72B9} unknown is not known about at the start of the analysis brain is known but not documented paper is documented, but not on a computer unstructured is not organized in pre-defined manner syntactic is on a computer , structured but no obvious semantics implicit has a semantics one can work out, but does not map directly explicit has a semantics that maps directly to the real world grounded has a semantics that is grounded on a top ontology This is intended to be a rough scheme: easy to use, and suitable for a broad assessment. Its prime purpose is to enable the assessment of the level of digitalisation across a system (or portion of a system). It can be used to assess how data quality improvement processes increase the level of digitalisation . 2 4 6 3 5 7 1 8 7 The facets behind the classification Flat structure known extent computer media structured paper brain unknown unstructured implicit syntactic explicit implicit syntactic explicit unstructured paper brain unknown 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 form semantics grounded grounded Questions & Feedback