Collaboration Expedition Workshop Series

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Collaboration Expedition Workshop Series 22
Potential and Realities for Emerging Discovery
Processes

• March 4, 2003
• National Science Foundation
• Stafford II Building, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555
• Susan Turnbull, GSA, Chair, Universal Access
• Brand Niemann, EPA, Chair, Web Services Work Group

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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).
• Interagency Working Group for Information
  Technology Research and Development
  (http//www.itrd.gov).

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Roles and Relationships

• Unite affinity groups of the CIO Council
  exploring near-term technology designs for
  citizen-centric government.
• With affinity groups of 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 for proof of concept pilots and
  Innovators.

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Outcomes

• Fostered Two CIO Council Award Recognitions.
• Distributed the Digital Dividends Guide to 3500
  Senior Executives.
• New incubator pilot projects from collaboration
  with the XML Web Services Working Group.
• Development of the e-Health and FEA/XML Web
  Services Tracks of the March Conference that will
  become part of FOSE in 2004.
• XML Topic Map Web Service of Workshops and
  Conference content being planned.

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Transforming How We Work Together To Better Serve
the Public
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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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Workshop Purpose 22

• Purpose To explore the Potential and Realities
  for Emerging Discovery processes (on-line
  rulemaking, national asset accounting standards,
  and enterprise architecture topic maps) to Help
  Citizens See and Participate inthe Workings of
  their Government. How can these open standards
  for discovery yield synergistic gains in the
  vitality and agility of institutions and
  inter-enterprise collaborations?

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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.
• 9-945 a.m. - Online rulemaking a Step toward
  E-governance, Robert D. Carlitz and  Rosemary W.
  Gunn, Information Renaissance.
• Dialogue 945-1015 a.m.
• 1015-11 a.m. - How can we Build a Distributed
  Intelligence Information Infrastructure to
  Leverage Synergies between Local Government Asset
  Accountability (Government Accounting Standards
  Board 34) and National Response Capability?,
  Bruce Cahan, President, Urban Logic.
• Dialogue 11-1130 a.m.
• 1130-1215 p.m. -The Promise of Ontology-based
  Knowledge Technologies for Enabling Citizens An
  Exploration with Scenario-based "Capability
  Cases, Ralph Hodgson, Co-founder and Executive
  Partner, TopQuadrant, Inc.
• Dialogue 1215-1245 p.m.
• 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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XML Web Services Working Group Meeting

• 1. Introduction
• Updates and Announcements.
• Some Coming Attractions.
• 2. Business
• "Eforms for E-Gov Pilot", Rick Rogers, Fenestra,
  Team Lead, Charter.
• Topic Maps for the FEA, Michel Biezunski,
  Coolheads Consulting, Proposed Pilot, Cognitive
  Topic Map Web Sites (CTW) Aggregating
  Information Across Individual Agencies and E-Gov
  Initiatives.
• 3. Presentations
• Organizations - IRS Topic Map Pilot, David Brown,
  IRS, and IRS Integrated Navigation System, Michel
  Biezunski, Coolheads Consulting.
• Education/Analysts - The Business Case for XML
  Web Services - Scott Christiansen, Seattle
  Pacific University and Boeing Company (via
  telephone).
• "Eforms for E-Gov" Pilot Team, The eGrants SF 424
  XML Schema in the XML Collaborator, Kevin
  Williams, Blue Oxide Technologies.
• Pilots/Priorities XML Data Exchange Across
  Multiple Levels of Government Using Native XML
  Databases (Tamino 4.1 with UDDI, WebDAV Server),
  Joel Patterson, SoftwareAG.

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Some Coming Attractions

• March 12, 2003, OASIS E-Government Technical
  Committee Meeting in Washington, DC (confirmed -
  agenda to be announced).
• March 13, 2003, Bringing XML Web Services to
  Your Agency The CIO Council's XML Web Services
  Working Group and Some Examples, Workshop for the
  USDA Economic Research Service, 12-230 p.m.
• March 18, 2003, no meetings because of other
  event. See next.
• March 17-19, 2003, Open Standards for National
  and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and
  EU, Washington, DC, http//www.egovos.org/ (see
  next slide)
• April 15, 2003, in conjunction with the Universal
  Access Collaboration Workshop 23 at the National
  Science Foundation (Ballston, VA Orange Line
  Metro Station). Agenda in process. Digital
  Talking Books focus.
• 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 20, 2003, in conjunction with the Universal
  Access Collaboration Workshop 24 at the National
  Science Foundation (Ballston, VA Orange Line
  Metro Station). Agenda in process.

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March 17-19, 2003, Open Standards for National
Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. EU,
Washington, DC

• Monday 17th
• 1. 830 a.m. Susan Turnbull, GSA, and Brand
  Niemann, EPA Introductions and Overview.
• 2. 900 a.m. Robert Haycock, Office of Management
  and Budget's Federal Enterprise Architecture
  Program Management Office The Federal Enterprise
  Architecture (FEA) - An Overview of Vision and
  Progress.
• 3. 945 a.m. John Rehberger, USDA, Managing EAMS
  As An Open Source Project.
• 4. 1030 a.m. Farrukh Najmi, SUN Microsystems,
  and Joseph Potvin, Public Works And Government
  Services Canada, An Open Source ebXML Registry
  For eGov.
• 1115-1145 a.m. Break
• 5. 1145 a.m. Joseph Chiusano, Booz Allen
  Hamilton Web Services Security and More The
  Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA).
• 1230-200 p.m. Lunch
• 6. 200 p.m. Tod Jackson and Steve Wheat,
  Enterprise Architects for Administrative IT at
  the University of Illinois and Co-Founders of the
  OpenEAI Software Foundation The OpenEAI Project
  - Open Source Enterprise Application Integration
  Software and Methodology.

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March 17-19, 2003, Open Standards for National
Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. EU,
Washington, DC

• Monday 17th (continued)
• 7. 245 p.m. Rick Rogers, Fenestra E-Forms for
  e-Gov The Use of XML Standards-based
  Applications.
• 330-400 p.m. Break
• 8. 400 p.m. Kevin William, Blue Oxide
  Technologies The XML Collaborator-Industry
  Standards Interoperability and Applicability to
  E-Gov Initiatives.
• 9. 445 p.m. Michael Lang and Ed Falkner,
  MetaMatrix The MetaMatrix System for
  Model-driven Integration with Enterprise
  Metadata.
• 10. 530 p.m. Michel Biezunski, Coolheads
  Consulting Cognitive Topic Map Web
  Sites-Aggregating Information Across Individual
  Agencies and E-Gov Initiatives.
• March 18th
• 11. 900 a.m. Jeff Harrison, Open GIS Consortium
  Open Web Services Demonstration and Geospatial
  One-Stop Portal E-Gov Initiative.
• 12. 945 a.m. Sam Hunting, eTopicality, Inc.
  Goose 1.0 The Open Source, RESTful Topic Map
  Server.
• 13. 530 p.m. Brian Behlendorf and Michael
  Kochanik, CollabNet, Collaboration and
  CoSourcing Designing Intergovernmental Services
  and Sharable Components.

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E-Rulemaking

• Lead Agency EPA
• Web Site http//www.regulations.gov
• Description Allows citizens to easily access and
  participate in high quality, efficient rule
  making process. Improves the access to, and
  quality of, the rulemaking process for
  individuals, businesses, and other government
  entities while streamlining and increasing the
  efficiency of internal agency processes.
• G2B
• Cross agency portal for finding and commenting on
  proposed rules (in testing).
• Firstgov.gov links to all agency regulatory
  docket sites.
• Completed the benchmarking study and evaluation
  of existing agency websites.
• Clinger-Cohen letter issued to consolidate
  redundant and siloed agency websites.
• Next Steps
• Public launch Jan 2003 (Soft Launch in Dec
  2002).
• Begin planning to consolidate existing agency
  e-docket systems with system. This includes DOT,
  FDA, and DOL.
• Initiate Business Process Reengineering of
  rulemaking process.

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E-Rulemaking

• EPA Staff
• Oscar Morales, Program Manager
• John Moses
• Ron Medina
• Valerie Brecher-Kovacevic
• Kristin Tensuan
• Becki Smith, on detail from DOL
• Mick Grinstead, on detail from DOT
• Booz Allen Hamilton, support contractor
• Chris Zupko, Netstar-1
• Technology
• ColdFusion front end.
• Microsoft SQL Server database.
• 2,000 concurrent users and 16,000 users per hour.
• Cost less than 200,000 through September 2003.
• See http//www.gcn.com/22_3/news/21105-1.html

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Introduction

• Online rulemaking a Step toward E-governance,
  Robert D. Carlitz and  Rosemary W. Gunn,
  Information Renaissance.
• Section 206 of the E-government Act provides for
  phased installation of electronic dockets in all
  rulemaking agencies. How can we build a
  transparent online environment that encourages
  public input?  An important early milestone is
  http//www.regulations.gov.

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Dialogue

• Suggested Pilot Project
• Multiple Requests for Help Bob Haycock, Tad
  Anderson, Oscar Morales, John Moses, Bob Carlitz,
  etc.
• Phases All rules indexed, notifications,
  structured input forms (requested help with XML
  Schema), etc.
• Architectural Options
• Basic Three One system everywhere, all legacy
  systems hard-wired together, or interoperable
  front-end (e.g. eGrants).
• Transformation with WebDAV (Web Distributed
  Authoring and Versioning)(easier to pilot outside
  Federal agencies)
• Open Source Peter Gallagher, DevIS.
• Commercial Joel Patterson, SoftwareAG, Tamino
  4.1 Web DAV. Tamino Developer Community shared
  source model.
• Techno Democracy Project Thom Wysong, DevIS
• http//www.wysong.org/writings/tdpnotes/ToC.html

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Introduction

• How can We Build a Distributed Intelligence
  Infrastructure that Leverages Hidden Benefits of
  New Local Government Asset Accountability
  (Government Accounting Standards Board 34) in
  order to Advance National Response Capability?  
  Bruce Cahan, President, Urban Logic.
• GASB-34 requires a new level of condition
  assessment reporting for infrastructure owned and
  maintained by state and local governments much
  of it funded with federal dollars.  This is
  conducive to local infrastructure being built and
  rebuilt to withstand "all-risk" hazards and
  threats to cities and their residents.
• Integration of local spatial (GIS) data and
  financial data (GASB-34) correlated with federal
  mandates, using Federal Enterprise Architecture
  mapping, can enhance the clarity needed by
  intergovernmental collaborations to optimize
  overall risk resilience. Local and state
  government bond rating improvements, a strong,
  long-term driver in this scenario, may become a
  recognized measure of this more seamless
  e-government performance.

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Introduction

• The Promise of Ontology-based Knowledge
  Technologies for Enabling Citizens  An
  Exploration with Scenario-based "Capability
  Cases, Ralph Hodgson, Co-founder and Executive
  Partner, TopQuadrant, Inc.
• Presentation reflects current work with NASA
  Space engineering, General Motors etc. on
  knowledge-based systems with particular focus on
  applying web service ontologies to large systems
  and integrating new technologies into enterprise
  architectures.

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Agenda

• 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.