Community Engagement Pilot Tutorial: Enhancing the Flagship Initiative and Data Quality Plan

1. Community Engagement Pilot Tutorial: Enhancing the Flagship Initiative and Data Quality Plan EPA Web Work Group, EPA Wiki and Blog Work Group, EPA Statistics Users Group, and EPA Open Government Directive Work Group Brand Niemann Senior Enterprise Architect U.S. EPA March 27, 2010 http://semanticommunity.net/

2. Overview • 1. Background • 1.1 Introduction • 1.2 Open Government Directive • 1.3 History • 2. EPA’s Community Engagement • 2.1 EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan for Internal and Public Review and Comment • 2.2 EPA’s Report on the Environment as a Data.gov/semantic Product • 2.3 Quantitative Data Quality Assessments and Business Intelligence Results • 3. Suggestions • 4. Questions and Answers

3. 1. Background • 1.1 Introduction: • The Administrator (through Jeffrey Levy) has directed that there will be a One EPA Web Site, Blog, and Wiki: • For the One Wiki, we have outlined the following: • All the active wikis will be rolled into the One Wiki and all the EPA staff will be represented in the One Wiki. • This means that each active wiki's structure will be given a space within the One Wiki and each EPA Staff will have their One Wiki page, if they would like. The EPA Staff wiki pages will use the unique names from the LOTUS Email directory. • So I recommended the following to enhance the Flagship Initiative and Data Quality Plan: • Put EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan into a state-of-the-art Wiki for Internal and Public Review and Comment. • Make EPA’s Report on the Environment a Data.gov/semantic product. • Apply state-of-the-art statistical techniques and tools to provide quantitative data quality assessments and business intelligence results.

4. 1. Background • 1.2 Open Government Directive, December 8, 2009: • Implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration set forth in the President’s Memorandum (January 21, 2009): • 1. Publish Government Information Online: • Publish online in an open format at least three high-value data sets*. • Create an Open Government Webpage*. • 2. Improve the Quality of Government Information: • Make certain that the information conforms to OMB guidance on information quality*. • 3. Create and Institutionalize a Culture of Open Government: • Develop and publish on its Open Government Webpage an Open Government Plan*. • Flagship Initiative: Each agency’s Open Government Plan should describe at least one specific, new transparency, participation, or collaboration initiative*. • 4. Create an Enabling Policy Framework for Open Government: • Help OMB identify impediments to open government and to the use of new technologies**. * Done by the pilot as of March 13, 2010. ** Done by this pilot as of March 19, 2010.

5. OMB Guidance onHigh-value Information • Information that can be used to increase agency accountability and responsiveness; improve public knowledge of the agency and its operations; further the core mission of the agency; create economic opportunity; or respond to need and demand as identified through public consultation.

6. OMB Guidance on Information Quality • The Federal Government has defined quality and objectivity: • Quality is “…the encompassing term, of which ‘utility,’ ‘objectivity,’ and ‘integrity’ are the constituents. • ‘Objectivity’ focuses on whether the disseminated information is being presented in an accurate, clear, complete, and unbiased manner, and as a matter of substance, is accurate, reliable, and unbiased. Source: “Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies” (67 FR 8452).

7. 1. Background • 1.3 History: • October 28, 2009: • Federal IT Summit Cloud Computing Panel: EPA work on "a cloud computing desktop" cited as a best practice by Peter Tseronis, Co-Chair, Cloud Computing Advisory Committee. • December 10, 2009: • Data Architecture Subcommittee Meeting with Donna Roy (NIEM) and Jim Hendler (Data-gov Semantic Wiki) and discussions of Data.gov CONOPS and its evolution to the Semantic Web. • December 15, 2009: • Semantic Web Meetup: Party Cloudy with a Chance of Semantics. (Put Your Desktop in the Cloud to Support the Open Government Directive and Data.gov/semantic!). • December 17, 2009: • Federal Cloud Computing Advisory Council Meeting (same as above). • December 24, 2009: • 2010 Office of Environmental Information National Symposium, May 11 – 13, 2010, Proposal for Presentation and Tutorial.

8. 1. Background • 1.3 History (continued): • January 11, 2010: • Open Government Directive Workshop and Government Desktop in the Cloud Breakout Session at the US Department of Transportation at the Direction of the Office of the EPA Administrator and the National Center for Innovation. • January 14-15, 2010: • Federal CIO Council Boot Camp Training, Partnership for Public Service SAGE Program, Washington, DC. My Suggested 2010 Plan for an Open Government Directive Roadmap Using Cloud Computing Desktop / Mobile Apps as a Member of the Federal CIO Council's Best Practice Committee. • January 19-21, 2010: • EPA Enterprise Architecture Strategic Planning Sessions • January 21, 2010: • Put Your Statistical Work in the Cloud in Support of the Open Government Directive and Data.gov/semantic (EPA Statistics Users Group). • January 28, 2010: • Tutorial for the EAWG: Solution Architecture for 2010.

9. 1. Background • 1.3 History (continued): • February 4, 2010: • Design Suggestions for EPA’s One Wiki in Support of the EPA OGD Work Group. • March 3, 2010: • Joint Services / Cloud Computing Session: Semantic Cloud Computing and Linked Open Data Discussion of Three Uses Cases. • March 3rd, 2010: • For Open Government, Technology Is The Least of Your Problems (Gartner Blog Comment). • March 4, 2010: • 2010 Annual Statistical Abstract of the United States: More than 1300 high-value data sets and graphs with standard metadata, and EPA Report on the Environment Indicators: More than 200 high-value data sets and graphs with standard metadata. • March 6, 2010: • Flagship Initiative Pilot Tutorial: EPA Report on the Environment, EPA Wiki and Blog Work Group. • March 13, 2010: • Data Quality Plan Pilot Tutorial: EPA Report on the Environment, Scientific Data Management Workshop Planning Group. • March 19, 2010: • Community Engagement Pilot Tutorial: One EPA: EPA Web Work Group, EPA Wiki and Blog Work Group, and EPA Open Government Directive Work Group

10. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.1 EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan for Internal and Public Review and Comment • Need interactive for comments and editing (PDF is not). • Need in two ways: • Read, edit, and print, and • Chunked for comments • Need with private and public access.

11. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.1 EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan for Internal and Public Review and Comment Intranet Home Page Open Government Plan

12. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.1 EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan for Internal and Public Review and Comment • Restriction Type: • Public: everybody can view and edit • Semi-Public: everybody can view, but only selected users can edit • Private: only selected users can view and edit this page Access Controls Internal and Public Review and Comment

13. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.1 EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan for Internal and Public Review and Comment Print & Save as PDF Way 1: Dynamic Table of Contents Way 1 and Way 2

14. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.1 EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan for Internal and Public Review and Comment Way 1: Edit Section Way 1: Edit Mode

15. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.1 EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan for Internal and Public Review and Comment Comments Way 2 Way 2

16. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.1 EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan for Internal and Public Review and Comment • EPA Intranet Home Page: • http://intranet.epa.gov • EPA Open Government Plan Draft: • http://intranet.epa.gov/agcyintr/pdf/ogdraftplan032410.pdf • EPA Open Government Plan Draft (First Way): • http://epa.wik.is/EPA_One_Wiki_Pilot/Headline/Draft_Open_Government_Plan • EPA Open Government Plan Draft (Second Way): • http://epa.wik.is/EPA_One_Wiki_Pilot/Headline/Draft_Open_Government_Plan/I._Introduction

17. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.2 EPA’s Report on the Environment as a Data.gov/semantic Product • EPA’s Report on the Environment is rendered using a database without self-describing URLs instead of with a Wiki to provide self-describing URLs. • A state-of-the-art Wiki can render the EPA Report on the Environment with a Glossary, Data Dictionary, Metadata Registry, Taxonomy, Reusable Component Services (every page in the Wiki!), and Ontology. • Data.gov has been referred to “as merely pointing to unconnected piles of data” while a Data.gov/semantic can provide connections between those data.

18. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.2 EPA’s Report on the Environment as a Data.gov/semantic Product EPA’s Report on the Environment EPA Ontology for the ROE

19. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.2 EPA’s Report on the Environment as a Data.gov/semantic Product Glossary Data Dictionary

20. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.2 EPA’s Report on the Environment as a Data.gov/semantic Product Metadata Registry Taxonomy

21. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.2 EPA’s Report on the Environment as a Data.gov/semantic Product • EPA’s Report on the Environment: • http://cfpub.epa.gov/eroe/index.cfm?fuseaction=list.listByQues&showall=1 • EPA Ontology for the ROE: • http://epaontology.wik.is/2_Air • Glossary: • http://epaontology.wik.is/Apendices/Appendix_A_Acronyms_and_Glossary/Glossary/A • Data Dictionary: • http://epaontology.wik.is/Data_Dictionary • Also in http://epaontology.wik.is/@api/deki/files/8/=ROE2008Air.xls, etc. • These are used in 2.3 Quantitative Data Quality Assessments and Business Intelligence Results • Metadata Registry: • http://epaontology.wik.is/Metadata_Registry • Taxonomy: • http://epaontology.wik.is/Special:Sitemap • Ontology: • http://epaontology.wik.is/

22. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.3 Quantitative Data Quality Assessments and Business Intelligence Results • EPA Statistics Training teaches one how to interpret environmental data and do Exploratory Data Analysis (e.g. S-PLUS). • State-of-the-art statistical tools have evolved from Exploratory Data Analysis to comprehensive Business Intelligence Assessments (e.g. Spotfire). • Data Quality is especially important to using the Data.gov/semantic for Linked Open Data.

23. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.3 Quantitative Data Quality Assessments and Business Intelligence Results EPA Statistics Users Group EPA Environmental Statistics Training

24. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.3 Quantitative Data Quality Assessments and Business Intelligence Results US Government Program Effectiveness Analysis

25. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.3 Quantitative Data Quality Assessments and Business Intelligence Results World Energy Survey Analysis

26. 2. EPA’s Community Engagement 2.3 Quantitative Data Quality Assessments and Business Intelligence Results • EPA Statistics Users Group: • http://epadata.wik.is/Statistics_Users_Group • EPA Environmental Statistics Training: • http://epadata.wik.is/Statistics_Users_Group/Interpretation_of_Environmental_Data • Exploratory Data Analysis: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis • US Government Program Effectiveness Analysis: • http://ondemand.spotfire.com/Public/ViewAnalysis.aspx?file=Public/PART%20Analysis%202008&waid=debda461ce3eba6849eb4-a20f • World Energy Survey Analysis: • http://ondemand.spotfire.com/Public/ViewAnalysis.aspx?file=/Public/World%20Energy&waid=d63635739204043aa70e6-a20f • Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010): • http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2010/

27. 3. Suggestions • EPA’s Community Engagement can be enhanced by providing: • EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan for Internal and Public Review and Comment • EPA’s Report on the Environment as a Data.gov/semantic Product • Quantitative Data Quality Assessments and Business Intelligence Results

28. 4. Questions and Answers