Collaborative Expedition Workshop

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Collaborative Expedition Workshop 37Toward
Coherence in Knowledge Through All Things
Ontological Making Sense Together

• December 9, 2004
• National Science Foundation
• Room 375, Stafford I
• Ballston, VA

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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

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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

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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 peoples
  natural ability to express forms of expertise.
  Prof. David D. Woods

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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.

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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

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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 RD (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.

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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?BestPractice
  ProcessforImplementingFEA_Data_Reference_Model_XML
  Profile_2004_10_19nid3ZX

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Introduction

• Upcoming Events
• Semantic Web Applications for National Security
  (SWANS) Conference, February 8-9, 2005,
  Washington, DC Area.
• February, 2005, Collaborative Expedition-Emerging
  Technology Workshop 38 at the NSF.
• Sixth Emerging Technology Components Conference,
  March 2005
• See Componenttechnology.Org for details.

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• 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.

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Agenda

• 830 a.m. - Check-in, Box Lunch Order
  (8.00/person) and Coffee
• 900 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction Networking
  of the Communities of Practice
• Susan Turnbull, GSA, Co-Chair, Emerging
  Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair,
  Social Economic and Workforce Implications of IT
  Coordinating Group, NITRD.
• John McManus, NASA, Co-Chair, Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee (AIC) and CTO, NASA.
• Brand Niemann, EPA, Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Semantic
  Interoperability CoP.
• Pat Cassidy, Common Upper Ontology WG and The
  MITRE Corporation.
• Owen Ambur, Emerging Technology Subcommittee
  (AIC) and Co-Chair, Government XML CoP, Emerging
  Technology Life-Cycle Management Process.

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• 900 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction (continued)
• Ira Grossman, Chair, Chief Architects' Forum,
  (AIC) and Chief Enterprise Architect, NOAA.
• 15 Minute Introduction to the Chief Architects'
  Forum.
• Peter Yim, Ontolog Forum.
• Kathy Covert, Project Manager, Geospatial Digital
  Rights Management Policy Forum and member,
  Federal Geospatial Data Consortium.
• Andy Reamer, Coordinator, National Infrastructure
  for Community Statistics Community of Practice.

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• 930 a.m. - Summary Briefing from the Semantic
  Interoperability Study Group of the AIC Susan
  Turnbull, Lead, Brand Niemann, Owen Ambur and
  other team members (to be determined)
• Some Key Questions
• How can multiple Communities of Practice discover
  and organize around common mission needs to build
  shared understanding?
• How can shared understanding around several
  select, urgent cross-boundary scenarios be
  accelerated?
• What is the role of collaborative prototyping
  around emerging technology potential, in light of
  the FEA's Data Reference Model?
• How can the FEA Data Reference Model evolve to
  provide the common frame of reference needed to
  support diverse communities tune up together
  around their information sharing capacities?
• Implementation Demonstration
• The FEA Reference Model Ontology, Rick Murphy,
  GSA Office of the CIO.

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• 930 a.m. (continued)
• Audience Survey - First Vote Only Yes or No, Then
  Discuss, and Finally Vote Again
• Do you agree with this statement?
• Dr. Tom Gruber "Every Ontology is a treaty - a
  social agreement among people with some common
  motive in sharing."
• Do you agree on which communities need to be
  involved and how?
• Dr. Tom Gruber - "If the ontologies are to enable
  software interoperability of reasonably complex
  programs, I would say that it requires highly
  technical people - trained in architecture and
  systems thinking - to be involved...At the same
  time, "non-technical" people must also be
  involved in an ontology design process, if they
  hold the vision about what these interoperating
  programs are going to do for us."
• 1015 A.M. BREAK

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• 1030 a.m.- Community Perspectives Potentials
  and Realities for Building our Knowledge Sharing
  Capacity with Standard Vocabularies and
  Ontologies in Health Care and Defense
• Standard Vocabularies in Health Care, Kathy Lesh,
  RN, EdM, MS, Technical Manager, Clinical
  Informatics, Kevric.
• Upper Ontologies, Patrick Cassidy, The MITRE
  Corporation and the Common Upper Ontology Working
  Group.
• 1130 a.m. - Who is Here? Who is Missing? What's
  the News from CoPs?
• DAML PI Conference (November 30-December 2)
  Report.
• Swans Conference Preview (Planning Committee).
• Ontolog Forum report on the EIDX "Semantic
  Harmonization" panel and discussion session (Dec.
  1, 2004, Menlo Park, CA).
• Request for Information by the National
  Coordinator for Health Information Technology
  Development and Adoption of a National Health
  Information Network, November 15, 2004.

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• 1200-100 PM - Networking Lunch
• 100 p.m. - Perspectives from Individual
  Innovators at the Workshop
• Some Key Questions
• How can Open Standards Tools Advance Information
  Sharing and Strategic Access to Disparate
  Information Assets?
• How can we Achieve Coherency in Shared Knowledge
  through Smarter Data Flows that Include Machine
  Inferencing Around Similarity/ Difference
  Relationships?
• Implementation Demonstration The Tucana
  Knowledge Server and Ontology Designer, Jim
  Rogers and Tom Adams, Tucana Technologies.

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• 145 p.m. - Keynote Presentation Building
  ontologies from the ground up - When users set
  out to model their professional activity
• Mark Musen, Head of Stanford Medical Informatics
  (SMI) and Founder of the Protégé Project.
• Note This will be a joint virtual session with
  the members of the Ontolog Forum.
• 245 p.m. - BREAK
• 300 p.m. - Demonstrations of New Open Standards
  Technologies with Health Care Use Case
• Carl Mattocks, CEO, CHECKMi Semantically Smart
  Compendiums, Co-Chair OASIS (ISO/TS 15000) ebXML
  Registry Semantic Content SC and Co-Chair OASIS
  Business Centric Methodology TC
• Ontology Pragmatics BCM eBusiness
  Registry/Repository.

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• 300 p.m. - Demonstrations of New Open Standards
  Technologies with Health Care Use Case
  (continued)
• Professor Asuman Dogac, Director, Software RD
  Center, Department of Computer Engineering,
  Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
• Artemis Project A Semantic Web Service-based P2P
  Infrastructure for the Interoperability of
  Medical Information Systems.
• 400 p.m. - Reflections from workshop presenters
  and participants.
• Audience Survey Again Vote Only Yes or No.
• 415 p.m. - ADJOURN