Collaborative Expedition Workshop #48 Networking: Geospatial & DRM Communities

1. Collaborative Expedition Workshop #48Networking the GeoSpatial and DRM Communities: Piloting Profiles, Metadata Harmonization and Semantic Interoperability February 21, 2006 National Science Foundation Room 1235, Stafford I Ballston, VA

2. Welcome! • Opportunity to learn from individuals and policy-makers from all sectors • Practice intergovernmental collaboration to advance President's Management Agenda toward citizen-centric government • Accelerate multi-sector partnerships around IT capabilities to help government work better

3. Introduction • Organize around common purpose, larger than any institution, to appreciate potentials and realities • Improve quality of dialogue and collaborative prototyping at intergovernmental crossroads • Participants, representing many forms of expertise, return to their settings with a larger perspective of the “whole”

4. Introduction • Create conducive conditions for “breakthrough” innovations • Authoritative Communities of Interest/ Practice around Common Business Lines • Agile Framework for Building Intergovernmental Services – FEA Reference Models • Emergence of Open Standards, Open Collaborative Development, and Semantic Technology • “In design, we either hobble or support people’s natural ability to express forms of expertise.” Prof. David D. Woods

5. Introduction and Key Findings • FY03 - Agile business components in innovative settings not easily discovered by e-government managers, resulting in lost or delayed opportunities for all parties. • FY04 - Growing Opportunity to apply Emerging Technologies (web services, grid computing, and semantic web) to tune up Innovation Pipeline with better linkages. • FY05 - Collaborative Work Environment expands effective networking across intergovernmental communities and complements monthly Collaborative Expedition Workshops; validated efficacy with DRM WG, Semantic Interoperability CoP, and GeoSpatial CoP

6. Introduction • Sponsors of Collaborative Expedition Workshops and Collaborative Work Environment: (http://www.gsa.gov/collaborate) • GSA's Office of Intergovernmental Solutions. • Architecture and Infrastructure and Best Practices Committees of the Federal CIO Council. • National Coordination Office of the Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology R & D (NITRD) and Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development (SEW) Coordinating Group, NITRD

8. 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. • Results: Multiplicative Returns – in 10 months • 11 Expedition workshops, 1006 participants • 11 Communities of Practice, 805 participants • Data Reference Model WG: 30 agencies represented, 125 participants, DRM v2.0 issued by OMB in Dec. 2005 • Alignment: Networking among Communities of Practice • Planning upcoming workshops together • Building common understanding of fundamental concepts needed for communities representing diverse forms of expertise, to work together to leverage toward improved public service delivery at lower cost.

9. Agenda Some Key Questions for FY06: • 1. How can the capacities of trust, agility, and accountability be achieved through federated stewardship among communities, still building common ground and understanding? • 2. What can we learn about agility and high-performance from 21st century, emergent communities serving "frontline" global health and safety purposes across boundaries? (i.e. tsunami wiki and flu wiki) • 3. How are flexible notation frameworks contributing to the demand for real-time, emergent “design” that supports visibility of the “whole picture” by balancing the expressive strengths of people and their information technology?

10. How Can We Overcome Unstable Conventions of Meaning that Thwart Information Sharing?

11. Self-organizing for Information Sharing in the first hours after the Tsunami – blog, wiki, flickr

12. How can we Create Conducive Conditions to be Informed (not Overwhelmed) by the Combined Complexity of our Multiple Forms of Expertise?

13. Vasa – 1628

15. Next Expedition Workshop • March 14 in conjunction with NIST Interoperability Week • Leveraging Open Standards and Open Collaboration: Pioneering Mechanisms for Agility Across Open, Intergovernmental Communities • Details at http://www.gsa.gov/collaborate • Click on “Expedition workshops” • Workshop RSVP by March 6 • Invitation to March 3 CWE Orientation • Teleconference from 10:30 – noon

20. Agenda Some Key Questions for Today: • 1. Do the FEA GeoSpatial Profile v1.1 and the FEA DRM v2.0 provide a unified framework to build the capacity needed for information-sharing in emergency response and disaster management? To what extent do these two FEA constructs reinforce one another and advance real-time readiness and visibility of the "whole picture" in an unfolding scenario? • 2. How can the GeoSpatial and DRM Communities define their identities, roles, and governance relationships in a manner that reinforces their individual and collective capacities? • 3. What governance mechanisms are critical to achieving the agility needed by all parties in uncertain situations? Have these governance mechanisms been addressed?

21. Agenda • 8:30am - Check-in and Coffee • 8:45am - Welcome and Overview - Susan Turnbull, GSA and Brand Niemann, EPA • 9:00am - Introductions: What are your interests in light of the workshop purpose? • 9:30am –The New FEA Geospatial Line of Business, Geospatial Profile Release Document, and Proposed GEOSS Wiki - Brenda Smith, GIO, U.S. EPA • 10:00am – Evaluating the Geospatial Profile: Pilot Efforts, Doug Nebert, Technical Lead, Federal Geospatial Data Consortium (FGDC)10:15am - BREAK • 10:30 – Geosemantic Web Services: Resport from the OGC Geospatial Semantic Web Interoperability Experiment (GSA.IE), Joshua Lieberman, Traverse Technologies • 11:15am – Best Practice Disaster Management Event Ontology Provided Recently in DRM 2.0 SICoP SIA Pilot for the GeoSpatial Profile Use Case and Scenarion, Rex Brooks, Pilot Team Lead, Starbourne Communications and Barbara Allen

22. Agenda • 12:00 Noon – Networking Lunch (on your own) • 1:00pm – KnowledgeSmarts – Geospatial Semantic Technology, Yaser Bishr, Henry Chen, and Timothy Eveleigh, Image Matters, LLC • 1:45pm – Knowledge Base Prototype at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Danielle Forsyth, Thetus2:30pm – Geospatial Working Group Metadata Focus Group (GWG MFG), Geospatial Metadata Harmonization Activities, Shawn Silkensen, Lockheed Martin • 3:15pm – USGS Metadata Community of Practice-Addressing Metadata Beyond Geospatial Referenced Data, Sharon Shin, FGDC, Metadata Coordinator, US Geological Survey • 3:30pm – National Association of Regional Councils – Collaboration with DRM 2.0 Information Sharing Took Kit and EPA Region 4 Visual Doument Mangement Tool for Data Collection, Tracking, and Display, Tom Christoffel, AICP, Senior Planner Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission4:00pm – OPEN DISCUSSION • 4:30pm - ADJOURN