Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice SICoP Public Meeting

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Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice
(SICoP) Public Meeting

• Brand Niemann (US EPA), Chair,
• Knowledge Management Working Group
• Best Practices Committee (BPC), Federal CIO
  Council
• The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia, MITRE-1
  Building Auditorium, 7515 Colshire Drive McLean,
  VA
• September 14, 2005
• http//web-services.gov/ and
• http//colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoPConfere
  nce_2005_09_14

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Welcome and Introduction

• Thank You to
• The MITRE Corporation for hosting
• Rick Tucker and the Conference Support Staff.
• Presentors
• Mills Davis for the morning keynote and the
  afternoon Implementation Profile and Pilot Demos.
• SICoP and Ontolog Forum CoP Members
• Especially Susan Turnbull, Mills Davis, and Peter
  Yim for the many rich conversations, meetings,
  and contributions.
• Attendees
• For participating and sharing your valuable time
  and thoughts for the improvement of our CoP and
  its activities.

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Logistics

• Collaboration Wiki (Peter Yim, CIM3, and Susan
  Turnbull, GSA)
• http//colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoPConfere
  nce_2005_09_14
• Presentors please call out slide numbers.
• Telecon
• 800-857-9370, passcode 40167.
• Security
• MITRE escort required outside the conference
  area.
• You must turn in your badge when leaving the
  building.
• Breaks and Lunch
• MITRE Cafeteria.

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Agenda

• 730 a.m. - Registration Opens
• 830 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction Brand
  Niemann, EPA, Chair, Semantic Interoperability
  Community of Practice (SICoP)
• 845 a.m. - The Business Case for Semantic
  Technologies - Mills Davis, SICoP Team Lead for
  the Module 2 White Paper and Managing Director,
  TopQuadrant, Inc.
• 930 a.m. - Open Discussion Using a Best Practice
  Business Case Example
• Continuity Communications Working Group Status
  Report Presented to the Architecture
  Infrastructure Committee and the Chief Architect
  Forum by Roy Roebuck, Chief Architect, Continuity
  Communications Enterprise Architecture Program
  Office.

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Agenda

• 1000 a.m. - BREAK
• 1030 a.m. - Implementing the Semantic Web Web -
  Brand Niemann, SICoP Chair and Interim SICoP Team
  Lead for the Module 3 White Paper. Roadmap,
  Resources, and Featured Best Practice
  Implementation Example
• Modeling Data and Processes for 360 Degree Views,
  Rohit Agarwal, Digital Harbor
• 1115 a.m. - 1145 a.m. - Open Discussion
• 1145 a.m. - LUNCH

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Agenda(continued)

• 100 p.m. - How to Build Readiness Advancing
  Discernment and Value Through Implementation
  Profiles and Pilots (30 minutes each)
• SICoP SIA Pilot Demos for the Information Sharing
  Tool Kit Part 3 Ontology for Executable Data
  Interoperability
• Collaborative Ontology Development Server -
  Multi-User Protégé, Peter Yim, et. al.
• Social Security Administrations Policy Net,
  Duane Degler, SSA.
• Ontology Modeling of Documents for the FEA
  Records Management Profile Pilot with Siber-Safe
  FKM (Formal Knowledge Management), Ken Berger,
  SiberLogic.
• Cerebra Integration and Scalable Inferencing with
  the Oracle RDF Data Model, Jack Berkowitz,
  Cerebra.

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Agenda(continued)

• About 300 p.m. - Special Recognitions and Break
  (15 Minutes) for Those That Want to Stay for
  Informal Discussions
• 430 p.m. - MUST LEAVE THE FACILITY
• Thank You All!
• ANNOUNCEMENT
• SICoP Public Meeting/Fourth Semantic Technologies
  for E-Government Conference, March 23-24, 2006,
  MITRE (Day 1 for Vendor/Poster Displays and
  Tutorials and Day 2 for Presentations/Demonstratio
  ns/Discussions like the SWANS 2005 Conference).
  Those interested in being part of the Planning
  Committee should contact the SICoP Chair ASAP.

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Past, Present, and Future

• Conferences
• Second Semantic Technologies for E-Government,
  September 7-8, 2004, Eric Miller and Jim Hendler
  keynoted and 220 attended!
• SWANS, April 7-8, 2005, Sir Tim Berners-Lee
  keynoted and 350 registered!
• White Papers
• Module 1 delivered in February (being translated
  to Japanese).
• Modules 2 and 3 for public discussion today.
• Pilots
• 24 presented in the last 3 months not counting
  todays four!
• 2003-8 vendors, 2004-20 vendors, SWANS 2005-40
  vendors, and todays Module 2 database-over 150
  vendors!

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Past, Present, and Future

• Upcoming Presentations
• FCW Enterprise Architecture Conference, September
  21, 2005, Session 1-7 Using EA to Support the
  Budget Process.
• Also Joint Meeting of the Chief Architect Forum,
  Federal IT Performance Measurement, and Semantic
  Interoperability Communities of Practice (see
  next slide).
• GCN Data Lifecycle Management Conference Storage
  to Management, October 11, 2005, Session 2 Data
  sharing and standards.
• Also SICoP Public Meeting on White Papers (The
  Business Case for Semantic Technologies and
  Implementing the Semantic Web)?
• National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR),
  Inaugural Event, October 27-28, 2005.
• Towards e-Government The Federal Enterprise
  Architecture Reference Ontology (with Peter Yim,
  Co-Convenor, Ontolog Forum)
• IDEAlliance XML 2005 Conference, November 15
  17, 2005
• Theme From Syntax to Semantics! (see slide 11)
• Joint Planning Committee Presentation on XML
  Deployment (RDF/OWL).
• Presentation on The US Federal CIO Council's
  Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice
  (SICoP).

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Past, Present, and Future

• Mind Map
• 1. Human Understanding
• E.g., Chief Architect Forum EA Glossary, the FEA
  PMO Web Site re-design, Mapping Your Investments
  to the FEA, etc.
• Computer Implementation of Human Understanding
• E.g., FEA Reference Model Ontology, DRM XML
  Schema, SiberLogic Pilot for the Records
  Management Profile, etc.
• Computer Execution of Previous in Actual Systems
• E.g., the reference model is an XML schema which
  is the service component bus in the IT system
  (Andreas Tolk), SIA Pilots (Digital Harbor and
  Broadstokes Group), Federal Executive Branch
  Continuity of Communications (Roy Roebuck), etc.

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Past, Present, and Future

• XML 2005 Conference, Tuesday, November 15, 9 AM.
• Opening Keynote From Atoms to OWLs the new
  ecology of the Semantic Web.
• Presenter Jim Hendler, Professor, University of
  Maryland, USA.
• Over the past couple of years, Semantic Web
  deployment has really started rolling. Successes
  have included adoption of RDF by major
  corporations and the development of new
  ontology-based technologies of use for many
  enterprise and web applications. Despite this,
  controversy still seems to abound with respect to
  both the relationship of the Semantic Web to XML,
  and the use of these technologies. This talk will
  explain what the Semantic Web is all about and,
  perhaps more importantly, attempt to dispel two
  pervasive myths -- that XML and the Semantic Web
  are incompatible, and that XML is able to do all
  that the Semantic Web promises without
  reinventing the semantic extensions inherent in
  RDF and OWL.

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Past, Present, and Future

• SICoP Support for the Data Reference Model
• Implementing the Semantic Web Part 1. Semantic
  Technology Profile for the Data Reference Model
• Use Case 1 Geospatial Data
• Use Case 2 U.S. EPA
• Use Case 3 FEA
• Use Cases XX See next slide for all the
  possibilities.
• SICoP Paradigm for the Data Reference Model
• A model (ontology) for the document, the
  reference model itself, and for applications.
• SICoP Leadership of the new DRM Implementation
  Through Iteration and Testing Team (ITIT) (e.g.
  todays Implementation Profile presentations).

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Past, Present, and Future
FEA Reference Models and Profiles PRM BRM SRM
TRM Security Privacy Records
Management Geospatial Other E-Gov Section 207
(d)
Communities of Interest IC MWG NIEM GEOINT NI
CS NARA State of Pennsylvania ISO 11179/XMDR,
UBL, UDEF, etc. Etc.
Phase 1 Taxonomy Phase 2 Metadata
Interoperability Phase 3 Executable Data
Interoperability
Semantic Interoperability
DRM Core
Semantic Interoperability
Discussed in Use Case 1, August 16th.
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Past, Present, and Future
Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Model
Maintenance Process Consolidated Reference
Model FY07 Reference Model Revisions Summary
Case Management (CM) Financial Management (FM)
Grants Management (GM) Human Resources
Management (HR) Federal Health Architecture (FHA)
Reference Models
Lines of Business
FEA PMO Action Plan FEA Assessment FEA in the
Budget FEA Profiles and Case Studies
Library
EA Assessment Presentations Other
FEA Mind Map
Activities
Portfolio Management
Government to Citizen Government to
Business Government to Government Internal
Efficiency Effectiveness E-Authentication IT
Security (ITS)
Note Not all connections Can be shown.
Partners
CIO CAF IAC Etc.
Tools
Core.gov FEAMS
Source http//www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/a-1-fea
.html
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Past, Present, and Future
Convergence in the FEA Paradigm Shifts
Evolving to Service Oriented Architecture
Evolving to a Data-Driven Approach for the DRM
Semantic Interoperability Architecture
The problem is not that there are no semantics,
the problem is that the semantics is hidden in
software components, Stefan Decker, quoted by
Christopher Welty in Towards a Semantics for the
Web.
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Past, Present, and Future
Suggested Roadmap to Semantic Interoperability
Architecture
Dimensions of Interoperability
Line of Sight
3
Semantic
2
Technical
1
Organizational
Simple
Composite
Infrastructure
Evolution of the SOA Platform
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Past, Present, and Future

• Example 1 - Web Services for E-Government
• 1. Organizational-Simple
• Led CIO Council award winning VoiceXML Web
  Service for EPA Emergency Response pilot that has
  subsequently been commercialized and implemented
  as Infrastructure (see below).
• 2. Technical-Composite
• Lead the CIO Councils E-Forms for E-Gov Pilot
  that saw 13 E-forms vendors each build an XML Web
  Service using a common XML Schema for E-Grants to
  increase their collective technical
  interoperability with one another.
• 3. Semantic-Infrastructure
• Our recent Semantic Web for Military Applications
  Conference featured 40 vendors implementing
  RDF/OWL including the Putting Context to Work
  Semantic Keys to Improve Rapid First Response
  that used an event ontology to achieve semantic
  interoperability across five vendors.

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Past, Present, and Future
Modeling the FEA Reference Model Documents

• Federal Enterprise Reference Model Ontology (FEA
  RMO)
• This is a composite application with multiple
  ontologies created from manually extracting the
  concepts from the FEA PRM, BRM, SRM, and TRM
  documents into Protégé.
• This has been recommended to OMB/AIC as the way
  to maintain and update the Reference Models in
  the future to insure semantic consistency across
  all the Reference Models (and Profiles).
• Online Version
• Home Pages
• http//colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/project/fea-
  rmo/fea-rmo.html
• http//www.osera.gov
• Documentation
• Best Practices Repository at http//web-services.g
  ov
• Submit FEARMO comments
• http//colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HowToSubmitF
  EARMO_Comments

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Past, Present, and Future
Concise Format Abstract Syntax RDF/XML Turtle
Ontology List
Ontology Hierarchy
Reasoner Pellet RDFS-like
FEA-RMO at SWANS in SWOOP 2.2.1 from MindSwap
Research Group (Jim Hendler).
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Past, Present, and Future
Pilot Progress to be reported by Mills Davis at
the Joint CoP Meeting at the Enterprise
Architecture Conference, September 21, 2005,
noon-2 p.m., Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center, Hemisphere A,
Washington, DC.
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The Business Case for Semantic Technologies
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Mills Davis, Managing Director, TopQuadrant, Inc.
Presented at the 2005 SICoP Annual Meeting,
September 14, 2005, at the MITRE Corporation,
McLean, VA, by SICoP Chair, Brand Niemann, U.S.
EPA.
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Roy Roebuck, Chief Architect, Continuity
Communications Enterprise Architecture Program
Office, Federal Executive Branch
Presented at the 2005 SICoP Annual Meeting,
September 14, 2005, at the MITRE Corporation,
McLean, VA, by SICoP Chair, Brand Niemann, U.S.
EPA.
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Rohit Agarwal, Founder, President and CEO,
Digital Harbor
Presented at the 2005 SICoP Annual Meeting,
September 14, 2005, at the MITRE Corporation,
McLean, VA, by SICoP Chair, Brand Niemann, U.S.
EPA.
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Peter Yim, President CEO of CIM Engineering,
Inc., and Mark Musen, Stanford Medical
Informatics, Stanford University
Presented at the 2005 SICoP Annual Meeting,
September 14, 2005, at the MITRE Corporation,
McLean, VA, by SICoP Chair, Brand Niemann, U.S.
EPA.