![[photo-1558980875-d8314c2fd931.jpg]] Photo by [Bradley Pisney](https://unsplash.com/@multamedia?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/_npJ3suyMfs?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) ## Why do we need an Ecosystem Language today? The business case for CIEL (CLOUD INTERACTIVE ECOSYSTEM LANGUAGE) and the new visualization language is based on the need to develop a better way to visualize architected systems and efficiently interact with them on daily basis. Historically, CIEL was an ambitious project established at [Open Group conference at San Diego 2011](http://archive.opengroup.org/events/q111/baranek.htm), built and co-chaired by Vladimir Baranek and Mark Skilton, with the bold vision to establish new era of architecture language and universal meta-models. The CLF (Cloud Language Foundation) represents a holistic approach to Cloud description languages, targeted at a wide range of audiences, and covering the complete design lifecycle from first vision to service execution, with proposed alternative name (to Open Group Standard body as) CIEL. The power of CIEL is in unified symbolic language, abstraction and minimalization of complex interactions, and preservation of translational capabilities into next stages of service design and execution. ![[Pasted image 20230708091052.png|Figure 1: Space Relationships]] ## Metadata Models of Today While there are individual vertical industry standards for data and metadata exchange, often many systems and interconnections are cross-cutting many business and social borders and devices. Today’s modeling notations are more specific to Information technology systems design but do not have the more literal visualization of social networks, clouds of data and multiple interactive media experience that are typical of today’s cloud enable ubiquity. ![[Pasted image 20230708091401.png|Figure 2: Metadata Models of Tomorrow and their visual representation]] #CIEL is an Ecosystem Ubiquitous notation designed to help express and visualize this interactive experience across multiple systems, web sites, devices and associations in a holistic way. Additionally, CIEL's semantically oriented symbolic visualization bridges the communication barrier between human-to-machine , human-to-human and machine-to-machine interactions. ### Fundamental CIEL attributes are expressed as: - A language describing a range of systems both living and non-living such that the scale and scope is an ecosystem wide perspective of participants, systems, resources, connections, relations, connections and rules involved in that ecosystem. - Is a language enabling communication via easy to interpret symbols that are non-technical and expressive for general users as well as professionals with selective perceptions - Is an ecosystem level approach that means it can cut across multiple distributed systems to systems modeling these interactions to better express "How" - Has a semantic ID system to enable the symbols and relationships to have a real meaning in context of the use of the model - Has levels of model visualization that can express the technical as well as non-technical business view of the ecosystem - Can connect to existing systems and business process modeling notations. The aim is that CIEL complements and supports these providing a semantic ecosystem wide visualization approach. > As Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge". Imagination is responsible for creation of initial vision and we need a language which can easily interpret whole process from first idea, through vision into realistic concept and translate it into cloud service execution language. Management and execution of businesses is not possible without appropriate knowledge, but more striking is that new markets and industry leaderships can't emerge in separation from imagination and vision. To the human mind, symbols are cultural representations of reality and only humans can use symbols to think reflectively. These symbols emerges when a perception is separated from its action and represents a unique interpretation of semantics and as Wittgenstein stated " semantics is considered as a property of language, whereas meaning is often defined in terms of use". --- Where did we get from the CIEL project and how we evolved these ideas into the real applications? We will discuss that in the next CIEL sections and the connections made between architecture, art and semantic representation in **Infosymbolism** section as part of **the spheres movement**. ## Related to [[How to visualize XaaS Patterns]] [[MetaX - The Definition]]