Collaboration Expedition Workshop

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Collaboration Expedition Workshop 23 To Explore
the Potential and Realities for Excellence in
Public Space Architecting Forms with Meaning,
That Stand the Test of Time

• April 15, 2003
• National Science Foundation
• Stafford II Building, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555
• Susan Turnbull, GSA, Chair, Universal Access WG
• Brand Niemann, EPA, Chair, Web Services WG

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Purpose of Workshops

• Open up communication circles among diverse
  stakeholders.
• Accelerate commitments and maturation of open
  standard components for e-government.
• Collaborative incubator process.

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Sponsors

• Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the
  CIO Council (http//www.cio.gov)
• Emerging Technology, Governance, and Components
  Subcommittees
• http//cio.gov/documents/architecture_subcommittee
  _charters.html
• Interagency Working Group for Information
  Technology Research and Development
  (http//www.itrd.gov).

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Roles and Relationships

• Unite the CIO Councils Architecture
  Infrastructure Committee exploring near-term
  technology designs for citizen-centric
  government.
• With the Interagency WG on IT RD exploring
  long-range research agendas.
• How can IT RD be harnessed to build broad
  communities of practice to advance e-government?

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Relationship to Universities

• Internet 2 A consortium of 180 universities
  advancing the next generation internet.
• Cyberspace Policy Institute, School of
  Engineering and Applied Science, George
  Washington University.
• University and Federal Laboratory Researchers
  invited to participate in workshops.

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Monthly Open Workshops

• Explore common purposes with scope beyond what
  government can do alone.
• Participation by innovators/bridge-builders.
• Contributes to culturally expansive learning
  among separate communities.
• Collaboration site at http//ioa-qpnet-co.gsa.gov/
  UA-Exp.

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Workshop Community Values

• Accommodate Difference
• Greater Diversity of Participation around Shared
  Purpose.
• Faster Innovation Diffusion
• Improved Ability to Appreciate the Whole Picture
  and Engage in Sustained Dialogue.
• Better Marketplace Discernment
• Nexus of common sense and good science.

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Benefits

• Catalyst for emergence of open standards based,
  government without boundaries activities.
• Contributes to Federal EA development and IT RD
  research agendas.
• Joint authorship of Extending Digital Dividends
  guide.
• Incubator platform for proof of concept pilots
  and Innovators.

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Transforming How We Work Together To Better Serve
the Public
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Outcomes

• Fostered Two CIO Council Award Recognitions.
• Emerging Technology/Standards Leadership Award.
• Distributed the Digital Dividends Guide to 3500
  Senior Executives.
• New incubator pilot projects from collaboration
  with the XML Web Services WG.
• Development of the e-Health and FEA/XML Web
  Services Tracks of the GWU e-Gov Conference that
  will become part of FOSE in 2004.
• Initial XML Topic Map Web Service of FEA and
  Conference content being presented today!

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Briefing for Web-Enabled E-Gov Conference, Bob
Haycock, Acting Manager, FEA-PMO, February 10,
2003

• The Federal Government has a multi-billion dollar
  consolidation opportunity
• Citizen Centered Consolidation and Migration to
  the 24 E-Government Initiatives.
• Lines of Business Overlap and Leverage
  Assessment on IT Spending for Common Functions
  (focus on 6)
• Financial Management.
• Human Resources.
• Data and Statistics Development.
• Public Health Information.
• Criminal Investigations.
• Monetary Benefits.
• Office Automation and Infrastructure Leveraging
  Enterprise Licensing and Buying at Commercial
  Benchmarks or Less.

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The CIO Councils Architecture and Infrastructure
Committee

• Leadership
• John Gilligan, USAF CIO, Co-Chair.
• Laura Callahan, DHS Deputy CIO, Co-Chair.
• Norman Lorentz, OMB CTO, Advisor.
• Three Subcommittees
• Governance Policy guidance and assistance in
  design and implementation of the Enterprise
  Architecture discipline and practice.
• Components Identify, mature and facilitate
  use/reuse of Component-based Architectures.
• Emerging Technology Identify technologies with
  the potential to improve the value and quality of
  the FEA
• Public Key Encryption WG
• XML WG
• Universal Access WG
• XML Web Services WG

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Some Emerging Technology Subcommittee Principles

• Open Collaboration, with Open Standards
• Open up communication circles among diverse
  stakeholders.
• Include University and federal laboratory
  researchers.
• Accelerate commitments and maturation of open
  standard components for e-government.
• Collaborative incubator process.

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Workshop 23

• Purpose
• To Explore the Potential and Realities for
  Excellence in Public Space - Architecting Forms
  with Meaning, That Stand the Test of Time.

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Questions

• As we look back over the history of notation
  systems (language, music, books, mathematics,
  money) are we overdue for a notational
  breakthrough to accommodate the complex forms and
  relationships of our era?
• Is the notation the limitation?
• How are new Collaborative Discovery and
  Collaborative Engagement tools like Digital
  Talking Books and Topic Maps broadening how
  societies share and preserve meaning over time?

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Agenda

• 845 a.m - Welcome and Introductions
• Susan Turnbull, GSA, Chair, Universal Access WG.
• Brand Niemann, EPA, Chair, XMLWeb Services WG.
• 900 a.m.- Leveraging Notation Systems
  Developing Applications that Stand the Test of
  Time, Jeff Long, Independent Consultant.
• 945 a.m. Dialogue
• 1015 a.m. - Surpassing Gutenberg Demonstration
  of Digital Talking Books and Implications for
  Citizen-Centered Service Delivery, Selene
  Dalecky, GPO, Janina Sajka, AFB, and Dave
  Schleppenbach, GH Braille.
• 1100 a.m. Dialogue
• 1125 a.m. Overview of XML Web-Services WG at 2
  p.m. and Future Events, Brand Niemann.
• 1130 am. - Aggregating Information Across
  Individual Agencies and E-Gov Initiatives with
  Topic Maps, Michel Biezunski, Coolheads
  Consulting.
• 1215 p.m. Dialogue
• 1245-115 p.m. - Who is Here? Who is Missing?
• 115-2 p.m. - Lunch and Networking.
• 2-5 p.m. - XML Web Services Working Group Meeting.

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Overview

• Leveraging Notation Systems Deploying Code for a
  Perceptual Revolution, Jeff Long, Independent
  Consultant
• By studying and applying the power and principles
  of notation systems from the ancient past to the
  present (music, currency, mathematics,
  chemistry), Jeff has evolved a new way to embed
  business process rule-making in programming code.
   This enterprise architecture approach yields 1)
  a life-cycle of productive usage (10 years) that
  resembles a built, real property asset 2)
  continuous, flexible adaptation to changing
  business rules and 3) maintenance costs 10 times
  less than comparable enterprise code.  Is
  notation the limitation?  Are we overdue for a
  notational breakthrough to accommodate the
  complex ideas, rules, and relationships of our
  era?

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Overview

• Surpassing Gutenberg Demonstration of the Open
  Standard Digital Talking Book and Implications
  for Citizen-Centered Service Delivery
• Highlights of the US Governments first digital
  talking book, in use by patrons at 1300 Federal
  Depository Libraries by Selene Dalecky, GPO.
• Demonstration of Anticipated Benefits of Digital
  Talk Book Technology in E-government and Data
  Reference Model Initiatives Rendering Content in
  Six Ways to Meet Citizen Expectations and
  Preferences. Presentation and Demonstrations by
  Janina Sajka, American Foundation for the Blind
  and Dave Schleppenbach, GH Braille.

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Overview

• Aggregating Information Across Individual
  Agencies and E-Gov Initiatives with Topic Maps,
  Michel Biezunski, Coolheads Consulting
• Topic Maps represent an open standard, open
  collaboration approach to navigating knowledge
  that provides a Third Way for individuals and
  organizations who witness 1) failed attempts at
  full control and 2) infoglut burdens of no
  control. Demonstrations will include IRS Topic
  Map Pilot and a Topic Map of Open
  Source/Standards for Egovernment Conference
  Presentations.

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XML Web Services Working Group Meeting

• 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 (invited).
• 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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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.