XML Web Services Working Group April 15, 2003

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XML Web Services Working GroupApril 15, 2003

• Brand Niemann, Chair
• National Science Foundation, Stafford II
  Building, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555
• Ballston, Virginia
• 2 p.m. 5 p.m.

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Agenda

• 1. Introduction
• Updates and Announcements.
• Some Coming Attractions.
• 2. Business
• Report on the IAC Web Services SIG (Invited).
• Report on the MITRE Web Services SIG Pilot
  Projects (Invited).
• Report on Department of Homeland Security Web
  Services Community/Activity (accepted).
• 3. Presentations
• Organizations - Organizations Jayne Dutra,
  NASA-JPL, and Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies,
  Proposed Pilot Project Enabling Knowledge
  Discovery Taxonomy Development for NASA.
• Pilot Project - Kevin Williams, Blue Oxide
  Technologies, XML Collaborator with Taxonomies
  and Other Content, in coordination with the XML
  Working Group Meeting on Taxonomies for
  Classification of E-Records, April 16, 2003.
• Pilot Project - Adam Hocek, Broadstrokes, Inc.
  (and Co-author of Definitive VoiceXML), VoiceXML
  Applications.
• Pilot Project Muhannad Kanaan, DynCorp, and
  Team, EPA Facility Data Homeland Security XML and
  VoiceXML Web Services.

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1. Introductions

• Updates
• Working Group Chair Recognized with Emerging
  Technology/Standards Leadership Award at the
  SecureE-Biz.Net Summit, April 1st from Mark
  Forman, Associate Director, IT and eGovernment,
  OMB, and David McClure, VP e-Gov, Council for
  Excellence in Government
• for ushering in new technology to allow us to
  conduct e-Business securely to further implement
  the Presidents Management Agenda.
• Thank you Your participation and support for
  this Working Group made this award possible and
  you all share in it!

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1. Introductions

• Updates
• Federal Enterprise Architecture
• Data and Information Reference Model (DRM) In
  Process
• Second All-day Offsite March 19th. See
  Strengthening the Federal Enterprise Architecture
  (FEA) Data and Information Reference Model (DRM)
  (see Slides 15-17).
• CIO Council
• Architecture and Infrastructure Committee
• Participating in both the Governance and
  Components Subcommittees meetings as the Emerging
  Technology Subcommittees Representative and
  especially Governances Goal 3 Tasks and
  Components Component Based Architecture White
  Paper as a Basis for a Component
  Registry/Repository (see Slide 15).
• Meeting to finalize Work Plans and Budgets on
  April 17th.
• Emerging Technology Subcommittee
• Workshop to finalize Work Plan and Budgets on
  April 11th.

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1. Introductions

• Highlights provided to the Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee (continued)
• CIO's Office of the Department of Homeland
  Security starts program to encourage effective
  use of XML Web Services and related
  distributed-computing technology in the
  Department coordinated by Martin Smith
  (202-786-0193). See ListServ for DHS Web Services
  Community/Activity request for information.
• Coordination of agendas for the XML Working Group
  Meeting on April 16th and the XML Web Services
  Working Group meeting on April15th on Taxonomies.
• XML Topic Map Web Service for Conference
  Proceedings to be produced.
• Instructions and example provided for presenters
  at the Open Standards/Open Source for Federal and
  State eGovernment Programs Conference, March
  17-19, Washington, DC.
• Report on Pilot Project provided to the
  Collaboration Workshop on April 15th.

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1. Introductions

• Highlights provided to the Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee (continued)
• "Bringing XML Web Services to Your Agency" The
  CIO Council's XML Web Services Working Group and
  Some Examples (including Corel Smart Graphics
  Studio and XMetal), Workshop for the USDA
  Economic Research Service, on March 13th was an
  outstanding success with over 30 in attendance.
• Corel's XMetal and Smart Graphics Studio, 2003
  FOSE Best New Technology Award Finalists in the
  Electronic Government Software Category.
  Demonstrated at the March 13th workshop
  presentation of this Pilot to the USDA/ERS.
  (Note Other vendors are participating and are
  invited to participate in the XML Web Services
  Content Authoring Pilot.)
• The first of six military pilot projects
  proposed by the MITRE XML Web Services Special
  Interest Group was selected to begin work (see
  Business section)
• Concept of Operations for Federated Metadata
  Registries
• Lead Investigator Terry Alford (MITRE Lead
  Information Systems Engineer).

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1. Introductions

• Highlights provided to the Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee (continued)
• The first meeting of the "Eforms for E-Gov" Pilot
  Team, March 19th, at EPA West was an outstanding
  success with over 25 in attendance
• See Web Site and ListServ for Presentations,
  Minutes, etc.
• http//web-services.gov/
• http//listserv.gsa.gov/archives/cioc-web-services
  .html
• Charter approved with minor modifications and
  Sub-Teams with Deliverables proposed for Work
  Plan (see next slide).
• New Developments
• Fenestra produces an SVG version of the
  multi-page SF-424 from PDF.
• Meeting with Department of Commerce CIO on Open
  Source Community for their GIDS Eforms Tools.
• Enrollment in Sub-Teams exceeds expectations.
• One Stop Business Compliance asks for assistance
  with Eforms.

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1. Introductions

• Highlights provided to the Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee (continued)
• Eforms for E-Gov" Pilot Sub-Teams
• 1. Form Selection
• 2. XML Schema
• 3. Fixed Content and Behavior
• 4. Presentation
• 5. Accessibility
• 6. Security
• 7. Records-Keeping
• 8. Services
• 9. Client Specification
• 10. Business Case
• 11. Open Source

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1. Introductions

• Highlights provided to the Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee (continued)
• Eforms for E-Gov" Pilot Team Questions and
  Answers
• Process
• Open Collaboration with Open Standards in Support
  of the E-Gov and Agency Eforms Initiatives.
• XML Standards
• Schema, XForms, SVG, XHTML, XML-Signature, etc.
• Time Frame
• Initial Report (May or June) and Final Report
  (October).
• Meetings and Presentations
• Next April 23rd (tentative).
• FedWeb Conference Tutorial (May 5th) and Session
  (May 6th).
• Contacts
• Team Lead, Rick Rogers (rick_at_fenestra.com)
• Chair, Brand Niemann (niemann.brand_at_epa.gov)

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1. Introductions

• Highlights provided to the Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee (continued)
• Announcement (April 10)
• Opportunity for Vendors Participating in the
  "E-Forms for E-Gov" Pilot to Pilot the Use of XML
  Web Services in E-Gov Initiatives (e.g. e-Grants,
  One Stop Business Compliance, etc.) to Support an
  "Assessment of Readiness" by the Working Group
  for the Solutions Architects Working Group (SAWG)
  and the "QuickWin" Task of the Components
  Subcommittee of the AIC. All Vendors invited to
  participate - Adobe (Acrobat 6) and Microsoft
  (InfoPath) have expressed interest so far.

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1. Introductions

• Highlights provided to the Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee (continued)
• Three new pilots projects were launched and
  presented at the Open Standards/Open Source for
  Federal and State eGovernment Programs
  Conference, March 17-19, Washington, DC, as part
  of the Enterprise Architecture Driven
  E-Government with XML Web Services Open
  Collaboration with Open Standards TwoDay Track
  of 15 presentations
• MetaMatrix The MetaMatrix System for
  Model-driven Integration with Enterprise Metadata
  (Rap Sheet Example).
• CollabNet, Collaboration and CoSourcing
  Designing Intergovernmental Services and Sharable
  Components (Migrate GIDS to Open Source).
• TopQuadrant, The Potential of Semantic
  Technologies for E-Gov (Semantic FEA Capabilities
  Advisor).

See press at http//gcn.com/22_6/community/21478-1
.html
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Joint Governance, Components Emerging
Technology Subcommittees Pilot Projects
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Joint Governance, Components Emerging
Technology Subcommittees Pilot Projects
(continued)
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Joint Governance, Components Emerging
Technology Subcommittees Pilot Projects
(continued)
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How the Pilots Map to the Knowledge Architecture?
FEA Capabilities Advisor

• Intelligent search
• Capabilities search
• Composable Applications
• Dynamic web services discovery

Knowledge Enablement
MOF Integrator
Topic Maps
XML Collaborator
E-Forms
Information Integration
Agencies Content Managers
Agencies Databases and Systems
Information and Data Sources
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1. Introductions

• E-Gov Initiatives Being Supported
• G2C
• Recreation One Stop (DOI)
• Gov Benefits (DOL)
• USA Services (GSA)
• G2B
• Online Rulemaking Management (EPA)
• One-Stop Business Compliance (SBA)
• Consolidate Heath Informatics (HHS)
• G2G
• Geospatial Information One-Stop (DOI-OGC)
• eGrants (HHS)
• IEE
• eRecords Management (NARA)
• Other
• Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA-PMO)
• XML Registry (GSA)

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1. Introductions

• Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA)
  Potential Pilot Projects
• WS-Security
• May have applicability to E-Government
  initiatives (such as E-Authentication) as an
  authentication gateway mechanism.
• WS-Policy
• May have applicability to E-Government
  initiatives (such as E-Grants) for defining
  capabilities and requirements as policies.
• WS-Policy Attachment
• May have applicability to E-Government
  initiatives (such as GovBenefits) as mechanism
  for associating policies with the WSDL endpoints
  that identify their services, as well as the WSDL
  messages associated with those endpoints.
• WS-Trust
• May have applicability to E-Government
  initiatives (such as Federal Asset Sales) for
  issuance of security tokens to users based on
  trust requirements.
• WS-Referral
• May have applicability to E-Government
  initiatives (such as E-Travel) for load
  balancing.
• WS-Transaction
• May have applicability to E-Government
  initiatives (such as Pay.gov) for transactional
  processing.

Source Joseph M. Chiusano, Booz Allen
Hamilton, Open Source for National and Local
eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU,
Washington, DC, March 17, 2003.
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1. Introductions

• One-Stop Business Compliance (SBA)
• Governance
• Structure for Regulatory Compliance OMB/OIRA,
  SBA, DOT, HHS, EPA, USDA, DOI, Cross Boundary,
  etc.
• Components
• Harmonization of information collection forms
  across multiple agencies to reduce burden and
  improve information reuse and interoperability
  through XML Web Services.
• Emerging Technologies
• Operationalize Four Pilots
• Eforms for E-Gov XML Standards-Based
  Applications.
• XML Collaborator and Design Software Platform.
• XML Data Exchange Across Multiple Levels of
  Government.
• Intergovernmental Services and Sharable
  Components.

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1. Introductions

• Some Coming Attractions
• April 30-May 1, 2003, 2nd Annual Speech
  Technology for Government and Military
  Applications Forum. VoiceXML Pilots.
• May 5-7, 2003, FedWeb Spring 03, Tutorial Using
  the Generalized Instrument Design System
  (GIDS-XML Standards-based Forms), the XML
  Collaborator, and the MetaMatrix System to Build
  E-Gov Projects and Session "Eforms for E-Gov"
  Pilot Project.
• May 14, 2003, in conjunction with the Universal
  Access Collaboration Workshop 24 at the National
  Science Foundation (Ballston, VA Orange Line
  Metro Station). Agenda in process.
• June 9-12, 2003, E-Gov 2003 Conference and
  Exposition, proposed session "Bringing XML Web
  Services to Your Agency" The CIO Council's XML
  Web Services Working Group and Some Examples.
• June 17, 2003, in conjunction with the Universal
  Access Collaboration Workshop 25 at the National
  Science Foundation (Ballston, VA Orange Line
  Metro Station). Agenda in process.

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Strengthening the Federal Enterprise Architecture
(FEA) Data and Information Reference Model (DRM)

• 1. Suggestions for the Federal Enterprise
  Architecture (FEA) Data and Information Reference
  Model (DRM), January 22, 2003/Updated January 27,
  2003.
• Recommended that the Data and Statistics
  Development Line of Business (see next slide) be
  done with existing infrastructure (Federal
  Committee on Statistical Methodology)
• On March 13th, Commerce CIO Tom Pyke said that
  Mark Forman had agreed to this.
• 2. Include more standards than just XML and
  Process Knowledge Languages (e.g. ISO 11179 and
  ebXML)
• Content Management Languages.
• Software Modeling Languages.
• Semantic Technology Languages.

See slide next slide from Ralph Hodgson,
TopQuadrant, Inc.
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The Tree of Knowledge Technologies
Content Management Languages
Semantic Technology Languages
Process Knowledge Languages
AI Knowledge Representation
Software Modeling Languages
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Strengthening the Federal Enterprise Architecture
(FEA) Data and Information Reference Model (DRM)

• 3. Provide a checklist for the review of new
  investment proposals
• Participation in cross-organization data
  management activities (e.g. Global Justice
  Information Network, Interagency Electronic
  Grants Committee, etc.)
• Statement of reusable components, metadata
  models, and registries that will be developed and
  contributed to the federation infrastructure and
  CIO Councils Component Repository.
• Piloting experience with Emerging technologies
  (e.g. XML Web Services).
• 4. Include related work
• Geospatial Data and Information Reference Model
  (GDIRM).
• Canadian Government Strategic Reference Model
  (GSRM) and ebXML Registry Version 3.
• Governance and Components Subcommittees.
• Government Data Reference Model (GDRM).
• Federation of Distributed Enterprise
  Architectures, Components, Metadata Models, and
  Registries.
• XML Web Services Working Group Pilot Projects.
• Other.
• 5. Address detailed review comments received
  (provided separately without attribution if
  requested) (see next slide).

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Strengthening the Federal Enterprise Architecture
(FEA) Data and Information Reference Model (DRM)
Common Content Linked by XML Web Services

• Types of Registries(1)
• ISO 11179Registries
• OASIS/ebXMLRegistries
• UDDIRegistries
• OntologicalRegistries
• Database Catalogs
• Software Component Registries
• CASE Tool Repositories

• Pilot Projects with Registries
• XML Design Collaboration and Registry Platform
• XML Design Collaboration and Registry Platform
• XML Design Collaboration and Registry Platform
  and Tamino
• Open Standard Ontology Tool and Platform (Topic
  Maps)
• Various (MetaMatrix, etc.)
• Various (CollabNets SourceCast, etc.
• Various (GIDS, etc.)

(1) Source Eliot Christian, USGS, based on work
of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32 Data Management Subcommittee
chair, Bruce Bargmeyer (NIST, EPA, LBL).
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1. Introductions

• Participants
• Need two volunteers for minutes.
• Acknowledge David Isaac.
• Who you are
• Your name.
• Your affiliation.
• Your interests in XML Web Services.

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2. Business

• Report on the IAC Web Services SIG (invited)
• Pilot Project Proposal from Object Builders
• Dynamic Discovery of XML Web Services Across
  Multiple Levels of Government (State of PA and
  the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program) (Tentative).
• Report on the MITRE Web Services SIG Pilot
  Projects (invited)
• Title Concept of Operations for Federated
  Metadata Registries
• Lead Investigator Terry Alford (MITRE Lead
  Information Systems Engineer)
• Description This initiative will develop a
  draft Federated Metadata Registries Concept of
  Operations (CONOPS) document.
• Report on Department of Homeland Security Web
  Services Community/Activity (accepted).

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3. Presentations

• Organizations - Organizations Jayne Dutra,
  NASA-JPL, and Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies,
  Proposed Pilot Project Enabling Knowledge
  Discovery Taxonomy Development for NASA.
• Pilot Project - Kevin Williams, Blue Oxide
  Technologies, XML Collaborator with Taxonomies
  and Other Content, in coordination with the XML
  Working Group Meeting on Taxonomies for
  Classification of E-Records, April 16, 2003.
• Pilot Project - Adam Hocek, Broadstrokes, Inc.
  (and Co-author of Definitive VoiceXML), VoiceXML
  Applications.
• Pilot Project Muhannad Kanaan, DynCorp, and
  Team, EPA Facility Data Homeland Security XML and
  VoiceXML Web Services.
• See press at http//www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/
  0324/cov-web2-03-24-03.asp