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The FEA Data and Information Reference Model (DRM): Information Sharing

The FEA Data and Information Reference Model (DRM): Information Sharing. Brand Niemann Co-Chair Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) Best Practices Committee (BPC), CIO Council, and Enterprise Architecture Team, Office of Environmental Information

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The FEA Data and Information Reference Model (DRM): Information Sharing

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  1. The FEA Data and Information Reference Model (DRM): Information Sharing Brand Niemann Co-Chair Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) Best Practices Committee (BPC), CIO Council, and Enterprise Architecture Team, Office of Environmental Information U.S. Environmental Protection Agency November 10, 2004

  2. Overview • 1. FEA DRM Committee • 2. Early DRM Pilots • 3. Early Implementations • 4. SICoP Pilots

  3. 1. FEA DRM Committee • As Chair, CIOC’s XML Web Services Working Group: • January 22, 2003, Suggestions for the FEA DRM to the Chief Architect. • March 19, 2003, Suggestions for Strengthening the FEA DRM to the Chief Architect. • May 19, 2003, Suggestions for Strengthening the DRM to the Chief Architect’s Special Offsite Meeting: • Extending to Support the Joint Government Data & Information Reference Model (GDIRM), the Business Compliance One Stop E-Gov Initiative, ITIPS-II, Component Technology Activities, and the Geospatial Interoperability Reference Model (GIRM). • As Member of the CIOC’s Architecture & Infrastructure Committee: • April, 2003, Asked by the Chief Architect to Lead and Pilot the Joint Government Data & Information Reference Model (GDIRM) Task in the AIC Governance Subcommittee Work Plan. • November 17, 2003, Asked to Co-Lead the Federal Data Management Strategy for the DRM – Business Driver 4: Resolve Data Semantic Issues That Impede Community of Practice Work. • February 6, 2004, Asked by the Chief Architect to Provide Comments at the FEA Discussion Forum on the DRM V1.0 Draft, White House Conference Center: • Emulate the IC MWG and see the plan outlined at the Web-Enabled Government Conference that week for creating Volume 2-4 examples with Semantic Web technologies and standards.

  4. FEA DRM Committee(Continued) • As Co-Chair of the CIOC’s Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP): • March 2004, Chartered under the Best Practices Committee to promote information management/information technology best practices for semantic interoperability with semantic technologies. • June 2004, Partnered with the Ontolog Open International Forum on Business Ontology and initiated a series of pilot projects in support of the FEA DRM and a Best Practices Repository (http://web-services.gov) • August 30 and September 8, 2004, Announcement of the Semantic Interoperability White Paper Series and Release of Module 1 (The Semantic Primer) Executive Summary at the Army Knowledge Management Conference and the Second Annual Conference on Semantic Technologies for eGovernment. • November 4, 2004, Participation in the AIC’s Semantic Interoperability Study Group (SISiG) and announcement of the Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS) Conference, February 8-9, 2005, where vendors will present DRM pilot projects in Trade Show using RDF and OWL.

  5. 2. Early DRM Pilots • January 31, 2003, Cognitive Topic Map Web Services for the FEA-DRM: • Aggregating Information Across Individual Agencies and E-Gov Initiatives. • March 17-19, 2003, Open Standards/Open Source for Federal and State eGovernment Programs Conference: • Formal Pilots of the XML Web Services Working Group (e.g. IAC MetaMatrix –XML Collaborator for DHS Integration). • February 24, 2004, DRM Pilot of the Statistical Abstract of the US Prepared for the March 4-5, 2004, Symposium: America's Scorecard: The Census in an Ever-Changing Nation, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC. • April 10, 2004, Semantic Interoperability (Web Services) Community of Practice SICoP Chartered by the Best Practices Committee: • DRM Pilot for Harmonizing Semantics Across the Federal Government. • April 23, 2004, Global Justice Information-Sharing Initiative DRM Pilot Initiated. • May 4, 2004, Universal Business Language (UBL) 1.0 DRM Pilot Initiated. • June 4, 2004, National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) CoP Launched at Brookings Institution Meeting: • Relates to the FEA-eGov Act 2002 DRM Pilots and the original Data and Statistics Line of Business. • August 13, 2004, Two DRM Ontology Pilots Presented to EPA Senior Management (ImageMatters and Unicorn). • October 6, 2004, DON XML Naming & Design Rules (NDR) DRM Pilot Initiated.

  6. 3. Early Implementations • October 19, 2004, Collaborative Expedition-Emerging Technology Workshop #36 at the NSF: • Evolving a Multi-Stakeholder Best Practices Process for Implementing An FEA DRM XML Profile: • Mike Daconta, Metadata Program Manager, US Department of Homeland Security and Executive Order 13356 Task 5 Lead (Data Interoperability) (See slide 7). • DRM for Info-Sharing, Comments on Draft DRM, and suggested use case scenario for implementation in the Protege Knowledgebase and Ontology Editor by Holger Knublauch, representative OntologForum / Stanford (SMI) Protege Project and developer of the OWL plug-in for Protégé (See slide 8). • Agency Perspectives: • Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group (IC MWG) – See slide 9. • DOJ – Already implementing with CoPs (see September 16, 2004, IAC Meeting). • DOI – Already implementing (big payback from eliminating redundancies). • OASIS – Have some suggested refinements for December 9th Workshop. • TopQuadrant – Toward An FEA DRM Ontology (like work for NASA with TopBraid-Web-based multi-user environment for the distributed authoring of ontologies) (See slide 10). • Note: October 20, 2004, Data Reference Model (DRM) Volume 1.0 Released - Just a Day After!

  7. Context Service Context Security Context Subject Context Subject Area Security Class Service Class Subject Class Input/Output Association Association Association Who When What Why Where Sharing Information Exchange Information Access Exchange Class Unique Identifiers Exchange Payload Query Class Association Association Description Data Element Description Resource Description Structured Data Class Semi-Structured Resource Class Data Property Unstructured Association Association Revised DRM Structure Source: Designing the FEA DRM for Information Sharing, October 9, 2004, Michael C. Daconta, Metadata Program Manager, US Department of Homeland Security.

  8. Protégé Visualization - ezOWL Source: The Protégé System, Holger Knublauch, Stanford Medical Informatics, Collaborative Expedition Workshop, NSF, October 19, 2004.

  9. 3. Early Implementations • Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group (IC MWG): • Standards being implemented in support of the IC and the new Executive Order 13356 (Lead Tasks 3A and 3B): • IC Core, IC ISM, TWPDES: • See http://www.xml.saic.com/icml/. • Tearline specification: • not available on an unclassified web site. • XML Multi-Domain Document: • Not available. The documentation is under development. Should be available in a week or so. • DDMS: • See the DoD Metadata Registry site at http://metadata.dod.mil. (Go to the bottom right side of the home page.) • Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM): • http://it.ojp.gov/jxdm/

  10. Source: Toward an FEA DRM Ontology, Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant, Collaborative Expedition Workshop, NSF, October 19, 2004.

  11. 4. SICoP Pilots • Federal Region 4 Semantic Interoperability Pilot Project: Community of Practice and Plans, Semantic Interoperability SiG Study Group (SISiG), Architecture and Infrastructure Committee (AIC), CIO Council, October 28 and November 4, 2004: • Dynamic Knowledge Repository (Best Practices) • Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP). • Emerging Technology – XML CoP / SICoP Pilots at the XML 2004 Conference, November 15-19th, and at the Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS) Conference, February 8-9, 2005: • RDF/RSS feeds on emerging technology components. • RDF/OWL relationships from the semantic interoperability vendors and their pilots. Note: A Best Practice Model is FOAF-a-matic at http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic.html

  12. Dynamic Knowledge Repository (Best Practices) Note: This addresses Network Steering Board Lessons Learned 3: The Essential Role of Network Publishing. See http://web-services.gov, Best Practices Repository Enterprise Ontology and Web Services Registry Dynamic Resources Semantic Web Services Web Services Static Resources WWW Semantic Web Source: Derived in part from two separate presentations at the Web Services One Conference 2002 by Dieter Fensel and Dragan Sretenovic. Interoperable Syntax Interoperable Semantics

  13. Dynamic Knowledge Repository (Best Practices) *”Content gives us the semantics (taxonomy/ontology) & the interoperability”, Adam Pease, SICoP Meeting at MITRE, May 19, 2004. **”Structure comes from the content itself”, The Large Document Problem, Lucian Russell, Categorization of Government Information WG Meeting, 5/10/04.

  14. Dynamic Knowledge Repository (Best Practices) See http://web-services.gov, Dynamic Knowledge Repositories, Best Practices

  15. OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets OASIS Web Services for Remote Portals Web Site: http://oasis-open.org/committees/wsrp

  16. Syndication of Feeds Source: Bill Kearney, Syndic8, November 5, 2004.

  17. Decentralize, But Connectable Architecture BrowseQueryAnalyzeApp RSS feed RSS News Reader RDF Data Server (e.g. Tucana Knowledge Server RSS News Syndication Crawler Ontology-based Web Forms RSS/RDF Thing File RSS/RDF Thing File RSS/RDF Thing File RSS/RDF Thing File Source: Demo for SWANS Conference February 2005, Brownell Chalstrom, November 5, 2004.

  18. W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group • David Wood, Co-Chair, Member of SICoP, and CTO, Tucana Technologies. • The weblog includes a list of Applications and Demos, for the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment working group Applications and Demos taskforce: • http://esw.w3.org/mt/esw/archives/cat_applications_and_demos.html • Tim Berners-Lee, What the Semantic Web Can Represent, September 1998: • The Semantic Web is what we will get if we perform the same globalization process to knowledge Representation that the Web initially did to hypertext. • We remove the centralized concepts of absolute truth, total knowledge, and total provability, and see what we can do with limited knowledge. • http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html

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