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October 19, 2004 National Science Foundation 12th Floor Board Room, Stafford I Ballston, VA

Collaborative Expedition Workshop #36: Best Practices Process for Implementing An FEA DRM XML Profile and Open Standards Web Applications. October 19, 2004 National Science Foundation 12th Floor Board Room, Stafford I Ballston, VA. Introduction to Collaborative Expedition Workshop Series.

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  1. Collaborative Expedition Workshop #36:Best Practices Process for Implementing An FEA DRM XML Profile and Open Standards Web Applications October 19, 2004 National Science Foundation 12th Floor Board Room, Stafford I Ballston, VA

  2. Introduction to Collaborative Expedition Workshop Series • Learning opportunities for individuals and policy-makers from all sectors: government, business, and non-government organizations • Practice Intergovernmental Collaboration to advance Citizen-Centric Government Goal of President's Management Agenda • Accelerate multi-sector partnerships around IT capabilities to help government work better on behalf of all citizens

  3. Introduction • Organize participation around common purpose, larger than any institution, including government. • Learn to appreciate multiple perspectives around potentials and realities of a larger “purpose” • Improve quality of dialogue and collaborations at crossroads of Intergovernmental Initiatives, Communities of Practice, Federal IT research, State and Local government • Subsequent actions of participants, representing many forms of expertise, expressed more effectively in their respective settings

  4. Introduction • Create conducive conditions for “breakthrough” innovations in government and community services such as emergency preparedness, environmental monitoring, healthcare and law enforcement: • Authoritative Communities of Practice around Common Business Lines • Agile Framework for Building Intergovernmental Services • Emergence of Open Standards, Semantic Technology • “to distill” context-aware data and services needed by people and machines to solve problems within complex, adaptive systems • “In design we either hobble or support people’s natural ability to express forms of expertise.” Prof. David D. Woods

  5. Introduction • Key FY03 Finding: • Many agile business components surfacing in innovative settings • Not easily discovered by e-government managers, resulting in lost or delayed opportunities for all parties. • To address this potential, a quarterly Emerging Components Conference Series was established in FY04 • Four national dialogue conferences have been held: two at the White House Conference Center, one at the Washington DC Convention Center and one at MITRE. • Next conference on Oct. 25, for more information see: http://componenttechnology.org.

  6. Introduction • Key FY04 Finding: • Growing Opportunity to apply Emerging Technologies (web services, grid computing, and semantic web) to tune up Innovation Pipeline with better linkages among: • Business incubators (state economic development programs) • Innovation diffusion networks (SBIR, angel investors, etc.) and • Business intelligence centers with quality information about e-government and e-commerce gaps. • Semantic Interoperability CoP, Best Practices Committee • XML CoP, Architecture & Infrastructure Committee

  7. Introduction • Workshop Sponsors: • General Services Administration's Office of Intergovernmental Solutions. • Architecture and Infrastructure and Best Practices Committees of the Federal CIO Council. • National Coordination Office of the Interagency Committee on IT R&D (Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development (SEW) Coordinating Group). • Workshop Value: • “Frontier Outpost" to open up quality conversations, augmented by information technology, to leverage collaborative capacity of united, but diverse sectors of society, seeking to discover, frame, and act on national potentials.

  8. Introduction • Past Workshop Archives, Collaborative Pilots, and Related Resources: • http://ua-exp.gov • http://colab.cim3.net • http://web-services.gov • http://componenttechnology.org* • http://www.gsa.gov/intergov* • http://www.itrd.gov* • See Brief Tour of Highlights*: • http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BestPracticeProcessforImplementingFEA_Data_Reference_Model_XMLProfile_2004_10_19#nid3ZX

  9. Introduction • Semantics for Manufacturing: • Manufacturing paradigms have changed. Now, the model is to design where the knowledge is, manufacture where labor and other factors are most economical and compete in global markets. A key theme is the role of knowledge-based technologies in “smart” products and processes. • According to Craig Schlenoff of NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), the evolution toward smart products and processes starts with common models of data, then advances to explicit, formal semantics (dealing with the relationships rather than just the terminology), to self-describing systems, and eventually to self-integrating systems (see next slide figure). • The goal is to create autonomic and autonomous systems that know, learn and can reason as people do and can self-evolve. Currently, the aims of advanced manufacturing studies are to develop methodologies and approaches to machine learning and rational theory construction in every area well practiced by humans. Source: Mills Davis, TopQuadrant, Inc., “Semantics for Manufacturing” (pages 18-19) in Next-Wave Publishing, Part 3: Revolutions in Content, Seybold Reports, Vol. 3, No. 23 • March 15, 2004. Also Invited Speaker at the Second Annual Semantic Technologies for E-Government Conference, September 8-9, 2004, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA.

  10. Introduction Figure 13: Systems That Know, Learn and Evolve. This diagram depicts stages in the evolution of intelligent products and processes.

  11. Introduction • Upcoming Events: • October 25, 2004, Fifth Emerging Technology Components Conference, Hosted at MITRE. • See Componenttechnology.Org for details. • November 15-19, 2004, XML 2004 Conference, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC, USA. • Joint XML CoP/SICoP Exhibit and Government XML-based CoPs Networking Event on November 17th (early evening). • Note: November 17, 2004, Collaborative Expedition-Emerging Technology Workshop #37 at the NSF cancelled due to XML Conference, but Learning Phase Workshops (State Organizations) of the National Infrastructure for Community Statistics Community of Practice (NICS CoP) to be held at NSF (by invitation only). Note: This activity supports the Data and Statistics Line of Business. • December 9, 2004, Collaborative Expedition-Emerging Technology Workshop #37 at the NSF.

  12. Introduction http://colab.cim3.net/wiki/ 

  13. Introduction • To help our Enterprise Architecture, Emerging Technology, and Federal Networking and Information Technology Research & Development (NITRD) communities explore an expanded context for advancing intergovernmental mechanisms in light of convergence challenges relevant to e-Government. • Exploration will include how to evolve multi-stakeholder best practice processes for implementing a Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model XML Profile. • In addition we'll have hands-on introduction to Semantic Technology tools and demonstrations of new Open Standards Web Applications.

  14. It Was a Sprint That Produced This! • September 8-9, 2004 - Second Semantic Technologies for eGov Conference: • This year's event was twice the size of last year's. Over 300 individuals registered. More than 40 Defense and civilian agencies sent personnel. Also, more than 50 major contractor organizations were represented. • September 14, 2004 - Collaborative Expedition-Emerging Technology Workshop #35 at the NSF. • Design Workshop to Frame National Dialogue on Intelligent Information Use in Manufacturing and Implications for e-Government. Semantic Web and Web Services (Sirin and Hendler). Semantics for Manufacturing (pages 18-19) in Next-Wave Publishing, Part 3: Revolutions in Content. • September 16, 2004 - IAC EA SIG Third Quarterly Meeting: • Presentations on "Data Management and Interoperability (and the FEA DRM)“ by Jim Feagans (DOJ), Mike Daconta (DHS), Eliot Christian (USGS & ICGI), and Tim West (IC MWG).

  15. It Was a Sprint That Produced This! • September 20, 2004 - Mike Daconta’s Proposed XML Profile for the DRM: • Discussed with Acting Chief Architect, SICoP, XML CoP, Ontolog Forum, etc. • September, 20-22, 2004 - Enterprise Architecture Conference: • Session on Best Practices for Adopting Service-Oriented Architectures: Service Taxonomy, Federated Repository, and Semantic Interoperability (Ontology). Suggested Roadmap to (SOA) Implementation Consistent with Chief Architects Forum Lines of Business Discussion Summary (July 30, 2004). • September 22, 2004 - Chief Architects Forum: • Decides to work on Semantic Interoperability! FHA is also doing that!

  16. It Was a Sprint That Produced This! • September 24, 2004 – KM.Gov Roundtable: • Intellectual Capital – “Keep the focus relevant and harvest (best practices) compassionately.” • Work on networking of the Chief Architects Forum (CoP) and the KM.Gov CoPs. They bring real value and expertise to one another: KM has the business case that EA lacks and EA has the technology innovation that KM needs. • September 28-29, 2004 - Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative: • Endorses Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) As the Architectural Framework of Choice and Grantee Guideline Language That Requires Use of the Global Justice Data Model. • September 30, 2004 - Federated Repositories FEA Pilot Site Launched: • Nearly 200 High-Quality Components (follows more a "push model" than the "pull model" of Core.Gov). • Also Metadata Registries and Repositories: Lessons Learned Provided to the SAIC/DHS Metadata Center of Excellence.

  17. It Was a Sprint That Produced This! • October 4, 2004 - Mike Daconta Leads Data Interoperability Team for Executive Order 13356: • Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans (August 27, 2004). • October 7, 2004 - Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS) - formerly Semantic Web for Military Users: • Two-Day Conference Being Planned with SICoP for January 20th - February 10th, 2005, Time Period. • October 9, 2004 - Town Hall at the XML 2004 Conference "Networking of U.S. Federal Government Communities of Practice Using XML“: • Early Evening of November 17th with Six XML-Based CoPs Participating. • October 13, 2004 – EPA IT Contractors Forum: • CIO, Kim Nelson, is the GCN Civilian Executive of the Year! • Service-Oriented Architecture with support for Reuse, Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), Internal Data Integration – External Interoperability, etc. • EPA Region 4 Pilot Taking the FEA Reference Models (BRM/TRM/SRM mapped to the SOA and an XML Profile for the DRM) and Enterprise Architecture (Innovation and Value-Driven) to the Next Levels.

  18. It Was a Sprint That Produced This! • XML 2004 Conference Presentations (some, not all): • Keynote - Creating Relevance and Reuse With Targeted Semantics. • Michael Daconta, Metadata Program Manager, Department of Homeland Security, United States. • Government Track - How the US Federal Government is Using XML: One Year Later. • Kenneth Sall, XML Specialist, SiloSmashers, United States. • Government Track - The Federal CIO Council's Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP). • Brand Niemann, Computer Scientist, US EPA, United States. • Storing XML Track - Managing Medical Ontologies using OWL and an e-business Registry / Repository. • Carl Mattocks, CEO, CHECKMi, United States • Tutorial - The Semantic Web: Building Applications with RDF & OWL • Irene Polikoff, Executive Partner, TopQuadrant, United States • Tutorial - Semantic Integration Using Topic Maps • Steven Newcomb, Consultant and Michel Biezunski, Consultant, Coolheads Consulting, United States

  19. Subscription and Aggregation with RSS • If vocabularies like the Dublin Core can be considered children of RDF (Resource Description Framework), then RSS is the RDF’s rebellious teenager! • RSS – RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication. • RSS is the most prevalent implementation of RDF in the world at this time (weblogging-online journals and online media like BBC News, etc.) • RSS is solidly RDF based, developers constrained the XML syntax to simplify the development of tools and technologies to generate and consume RSS, and RSS is validate RDF with the RDF element and channel, title, link, and one or more item elements. The RSS Specification is extended through modules. • RSS Tutorials, Aggregators, Consumers, etc. are available: • See for example the O’Reilly RSS DevCenter at http://www.oreillynet.com/topics/rss/ Source: Chapter 13 – Subscription and Aggregation with RSS, in Practical RDF, Shelley Powers, O’Reilly, 2003

  20. Subscription and Aggregation with RSS • Census, EPA, and other agencies are beginning to use RSS: • See example at http://epa.gov/pesticides/alerts-epa-pesticiderecalls.rss • Yahoo! and others are offering feeds in RSS format free for individuals and non-profit organizations for non-commercial use. • Clusty (from Vivisimo) and other advanced search engines are now dynamically clustering results from RSS databases. • The COLAB Community Wiki will support RSS very soon. • It could be used for the XML CoP Emerging Technology Process (Stage 1, Identification, Stage 2, Subscription, and Stage 3, Stewardship).

  21. Subscription and Aggregation with RSS • Seize the Feed: Web Feeds for Enhanced Governmental Information Services, October 18, 2004, Library of Congress, FLICC/FEDLINK: • Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University Library • http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SeizeTheFeed.ppt • Video to be posted at http://www.loc.gov/flicc/whatsnew.html • Taxonomy (Topic Maps) Video Presentations Already Available at http://www.loc.gov/flicc/video/taxonseries.html

  22. Examples of Semantic Web Interoperability Markup • Describing things using simple subject-predicate-object statements or triples , such as: • serial number 82735 is an Aircraft , or • serial number 82735 needs part part456 • Using RDF: • usaf:sn82735 rdf:type usaf:Aircraft usaf:sn82735 usaf:needsPart usaf:part456 The Semantic Web: A Path to Large-Scale Interoperability, by Frank Manola, Mary Pulvermacher, and Leo Obrst, MITRE The Edge: Information Interoperability Issue (Summer 2004).

  23. Examples of Semantic Web Interoperability Markup • An OWL ontology might specify that an F15 is a kind of aircraft using the statement: • Usaf:F15 rdfs:subClassOf usaf:Aircraft • Beyond ontologies, the Semantic Web defines a rule layer to further enrich these descriptions: • e.g., to define myOnt:altitude as distance over the earth’s surface (an ontology used by another organization might define anotherOnt:altitude as distance from the earth's center), or to state that myOnt:weight in kilograms = myOnt:weight * 2.2046 in pounds. The Semantic Web: A Path to Large-Scale Interoperability, by Frank Manola, Mary Pulvermacher, and Leo Obrst, MITRE The Edge: Information Interoperability Issue (Summer 2004).

  24. Agenda • 8:30 a.m. - Check-in, Box Lunch Order ($8.00/person) and Coffee • 9:00 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction: • Susan Turnbull, GSA, Co-Chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Social Economic and Workforce Implications of IT Coordinating Group, NITRD • Brand Niemann, EPA, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Semantic Interoperability CoP (BPC) • Owen Ambur, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Government XML CoP • 9:15 a.m. – Joint SICoP/XML CoP Data and Information Reference Model (DRM) XML Profile • Mike Daconta, Metadata Program Manager, US Department of Homeland Security and Data Interoperability Team Lead for Executive Order 13356 • Documents for review: Daconta DRM for Info-Sharing, Daconta Comments on Draft DRM, DRM V1 Draft, January 22, 2004, and Draft DRM Data Management Strategy, February 16, 2004 • For a suggested use case scenario for the revised FEA DRM, see the vignettes in Appendix D of the Markle Report at: http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/nstf_report2_full_report.pdf • 10:15 a.m. - BREAK

  25. Agenda • 10:30 a.m. - Perspectives: • DOJ – Jim Feagans, Enterprise Data Architect • IC MWG – Tim West (DIA), Chair • OASIS – Carl Mattocks (Checkmi), Co-chair (two committees) • 12:00-noon - Networking Lunch • XML Registries Meeting with Roy Morgan • 1:00 p.m. - Tools for Producing RDF and OWL (shared hands-on facilities will be available in the NSF Board Room): • Bijan Pascia & James Hendler, University of Maryland (OntoLink, Ontology Browser Editor) • Peter Yim, OntologForum & Holger Knublauch, Stanford (SMI) Protege Project representative and developer of the OWL plug-in for Protege (Protege, Etc.) • TopQuandrant Representative (TopBraid) • 2:30 p.m. - BREAK

  26. Agenda • 2:45 p.m. – Demonstrations of New Open Standards Technologies: • Rich Site Summary (RSS) or Really Simple Syndication (RSS) - LisaWolfisch, Census Bureau • Building Enterprise Architecture through Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) in Sample EPA Regional Portal – Rex Brooks, Executive Director, Humanmarkup.org, Inc., President, & CEO, Starbourne Communications Design • 3:45 p.m. - Reflections from workshop presenters and participants: • What are some next steps for the proposed DRM XML Profile? • What are some additional pilots for the RDF/OWL Tools and new Open Standards technologies? • 4:15 p.m. – ADJOURN TO JOINT XML CoP/SICoP GET ACQUAINTED MEETING UNTIL 5 P.M.

  27. Critical Success Factors in Building Community • Management Challenge • 1. Focus on topics important to the business and community members. • 2. Find a well-respected community member to coordinate the community. • 3. Make sure people have time and encouragement to participate. • 4. Build on the core values of the organization. • Community Challenge • 5. Get key thought leaders involved. • 6. Build personal relationships among community members. • 7. Develop an active passionate core group. • 8. Create forums for thinking together as well as systems for sharing information. • Technical Challenge • 9. Make it easy to contribute and access the community’s knowledge and practices. • Personal Challenge • 10. Create real dialogue about cutting edge issues. Source: Knowing in Community: 10 Critical Success Factors in Building Communities of Practice by Richard McDermott, Ph.D.

  28. Upcoming Needs • Help with the Joint XML Profile for the DRM. • Help with the Joint XML CoP /SICoP exhibit at the XML 2004 Conference. • Help with the Joint Town Hall at the XML 2004 Conference. • Help with review of the SICoP Module 1 White Paper: Introducing Semantic Technologies and the Vision of the Semantic Web (Ken Fromm, Editor). • Help with the Trade Show at the SWANS Conference. • Help with planning future Joint XML CoP and SICoP activities.

  29. Upcoming Needs • Networking of U.S. Federal Communities of Practice Using XML – Town Hall at the XML 2004 Conference, November 17th (early evening): • (1) XML.Gov's ET.Gov for the CIO Council's Architecture & Infrastructure Committee: • Owen Ambur, Co-Chair (accepted) - update from last year's conference. • (2) XML Authoring/Editing Forum, September 21, 2004: • Betty Harvey, Forum Co-chair (accepted) - how to plan an XML Conference using XML. • (3) Army Knowledge Management Symposium, Semantic Web Track, August 30-September 3, 2004: • Rick Morris, SICoP Co-Chair (accepted) – support for the Army’s Battle Command Knowledge System (BCKS). • (4) Second Annual Semantic Technologies for E-Gov Conference,  September 8-9, 2004: • Brand Niemann, SICoP Co-Chair (accepted) – two-day conference with over 300 registered produced by a public-private partnership. • (5) Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group, October 6, 2004: • Tim West, Chair (accepted) – xml-based metadata standards for the Intelligence Community and other national security communities of interest. • (6) Joint XMLCoP - SiCoP Data and Information Reference Model XML Profile, October 19, 2004: • Mike Daconta, DHS Metadata Program Manager and Data Interoperability Team Lead for Executive Order 13356 (accepted) – update on DHS, DRM, and EO 13356.

  30. Introduction of Mike Daconta • IC MWG Panels. • The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management, Daconta, Obrst, and Smith, Wiley, 2003. • First Semantic Technologies for eGov Conference, White House Conference Center, September 8, 2003: • Keynote (Data Independence Challenge) and Copy of Book to Participants by MacDonald-Bradley. • Smart Data Associates: • Designing the Smart Data Enterprise, EA Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 3, December 1, 2003. • SICoP White Paper Module 3: Roadmap the Semantic Web Team Lead. • XML 2004 Conference Keynote: • The Senior Government Official! • Metadata Program Manager, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. • Data Interoperability Team Lead for Executive Order 13356.

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