1 Collaborative Expedition Workshop #53: Open Collaboration: Networking Semantic Interoperability Across Distributed Organizations and Their Ontologies August 15, 2006 National Science Foundation Ballston, VA

2 Welcome On behalf of the organizers: –Susan Turnbull – Co-chair Emerging Technology Subcommittee: Working on Fall Workshops: –September 19 th Workshop on XBRL, etc. –Brand Niemann – SICoP Co-Chair –John Yanosy – Chair, NCOIC-SII WG –Marc Wine – GSA and HITOP, Lead –Mills Davis – SICoP Co-Chair

3 Welcome Special Welcome: –Konstantinos Tarabanis (CERTH) and Vassilios Peristeras (CERTH), Representing CERTH/ITI, which is the SemanticGov project coordinator: The Consortium in charge of the SemanticGov Project Providing Integrated Public Services to Citizens at the National and Pan-European level with the use of Emerging Semantic Web Technologies – FP IST –University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

4 Agenda 1. Purpose / Description 2. Logistics 3. Agenda 4. Upcoming Events 5. OWL Semantics and Architecture 6. Introductions: What are your interests in light of the workshop purpose? 7. Hands-on Experience and Discussion of Next Steps

5 1. Purpose / Description Participants will explore opportunities for multi- disciplinary and community-based collaboration around national (international) challenges. By drawing on strategic leadership and "best practices" underway, participants will learn how to conduct open collaboration in their own settings. Presentations will illustrate exemplary collaboration that is transforming semantic interoperability through use of ontologies today.

6 1. Purpose / Description Growing Communities of Practice will benefit from knowledge-sharing including: –COLAB: Collaborative Work Environment Community Wiki –open standards development –web-based collaboration environments –ontologies for efficient information-sharing, semantic interoperability, and IPV6 –Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model V2.0 and the SICoP Knowledge Reference Model Implementation in Wikis and Semantic Wikis –Convergence of the DRM 2.0 and the Security and Privacy Profile 2.0 –Community to national scale needs and applications

7 1. Purpose / Description Welcome to the COLAB Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) supporting groups of people working together in Communities of Practice (also called Communities of Interest). This open CWE includes a wiki, discussion forum and message archive, shared file workspace, full text search, and portal. Wiki comes from the Hawaiian word for fast and is “a web site where community members create/edit a web page” that supports quick, collaborative writing and easy hypertext linking. The structure is not pre-determined, but invented and evolved by community in neither a top down or bottom up manner. Continued on Next Slide.

8 1. Purpose / Description The COLAB CWE is supported by the GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions for the purpose of Networking Among Communities of Practice, and is hosted by the CIM3.NET infrastructure. COLAB has been used principally to support the Interagency Collaborative Expedition Workshops. Another member- only CWE called COSINE was used to support development of the Federal Enterprise Architecture's Data Reference Model 2.0. The open COLAB CWE and the member-only, SINE CWE provide limited "incubator" space for open and member-only communities seeking to better understand web-based community collaboration approaches.

9 1. Purpose / Description Contents: –How to Get Started –What's New –Upcoming Events –Past Events –Communities of Practice in Support of: Architecture and Infrastructure Committee Best Practices Committee Other –Discussion Forum / Mailing Lists Archives –File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository –Additional Background and Resources –Intellectual Property Rights Policy –Credits and Acknowledgements

10 1. Purpose / Description Dick Burk at recent ArchitecturePlus Seminar on the Federal Transition Framework: –39 Lines of Business in FEA – only being worked on and danger of becoming silos so work on Common Solution Services with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the FTF. –The Federal Transition Framework (FTF) is a single information source for cross-agency information technology (IT) initiatives using a simple, familiar and organized structure. It contains government-wide IT policy objectives and cross-agency initiatives including: OMB-sponsored initiatives, e.g., E-Gov and LoB initiatives, and Government-wide initiatives, e.g., Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6), Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12). Content related to these initiatives is provided in one place – the FTF Catalog. The FTF Catalog is organized into sections. Each section describes a single cross-agency initiative. Information describing each initiative is organized using a standard series of layers mapped to the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Reference Models.

11 1. Purpose / Description SICoP led the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model 2.0 Implementation Team: –Evolved to the SICoP/SWIM Working Group and a Knowledge Reference Model Implemented in Wikis and Semantic Wikis. June nd Workshop, Convergence of DRM 2.0 and Geospatial Profile 1.1: –Evolving to the Geospatial Ontology CoP in support of the Geospatial Line of Business and Federal Transition Framework Catalog. (Doing Ontology of Workshop Content and Working with Geospatial Ontologies in a Semantic Wiki!) July 18 th Workshop, Convergence of Records Management Profile 1.0 and DRM 2.0: –Evolving record, document, and information sharing for agencies with cross-agency missions (e.g. GPO, GSA, OMB, and NARA). August 15 th Workshop, Convergence of Security and Privacy Profile 2.0 and DRM 2.0: –Net-Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), CERTH/ITI, UDEF, and Others for the 5 th Semantic Interoperability for E- Government Conference, October 10-11, 2006.

12 1. Purpose / Description Basic FeaturesSemantic Templates Semantic Agents Edit and PrintFormsRead TablesOntologiesWrite TemplatesModelingSelect (Q&A) VisualizationsReport WebDAVApplicationsExecute VNC/ChatOther? Administrative Setup Operational System Categories of Wiki Functionality

13 1. Purpose / Description Common Solutions – Shared Services for Communities of Practice: –Mandate from on high: Karen Evans Memo creating the DRM 2.0 CoP –Constructive suggestion: Geospatial CoP –Community request: NICS CoP, OGETA, Shenandoah Valley- Mid-Atlantic Region –Industry/Academia request: Geospatial Ontology CoP –AIC Governance SC Project: SOA CoP –BPC Proposal: Enterprise Process Improvement CoP –GPO Request: July 18 th Workshop –Open Group Request: April 27 th Conference and Today’s Workshop

14 1. Purpose / Description Questions: –Are ontologies part of your semantic interoperability strategy? If so, what role do/will they play? –What are the essential elements of an ontology or ontologies for your organization? –Do you have a set of guidelines for building and using ontologies? –Based on your experience with ontologies, what are the problems to avoid? –What are your concerns about ontologies? –Are there aspects of current ontology building and networking technology that you find inadequate for meeting your needs?

15 2. Logistics See Collaboration Wiki: –RSVP for badge waiting to: –Check in and badges: Main NSF Stafford I, 4201 Wilson Blvd. –Laptop Scan: Room 357 –Conference Room 555 Stafford II, 4121 Wilson Blvd. Please Note: We may be using Federal Relay Caption Conference Service: –Please use the microphone and speak clearly so those using the service and our workshop transcript will be clear. Lunch: –On your own for lots of eating places in area – food can be eaten in meeting rooms.

16 3. Agenda Welcome and Overview: –8:40 am – Workshop Organizers –9:00 am - Introductions: What are your interests in light of the workshop purpose? Keynote: The Net-Centric Operations Industry Consortium Semantic Services and Information Interoperability Working Group –9:30 am - John Yanosy, Chair, NCOIC-SII WG BREAK: 10:15 am

17 3. Agenda Presentation: Integrated, Interoperable and Collaborative Systems: Architecture and Engineering Paradigm –10:30 am – Matthew K. Hettinger, CEO and Chief Architect, Mathet Consulting, Inc. Presentation: Semantic interoperability for the DoD computerized medical record system using various standard medical ontologies which are proprietary. –11:15 am - Mike Cummens, MD, Consultant to Northrup Grumman NETWORKING LUNCH: 12 noon – 1 pm (on your own, but preferably in groups)

18 3. Agenda What's New: The Consortium in charge of the SemanticGov Project Providing Integrated Public Services to Citizens at the National and Pan- European level with the use of Emerging Semantic Web Technologies – FP IST – See Next Slide –1 pm Konstantinos Tarabanis (CERTH) and Vassilios Peristeras (CERTH), Representing CERTH/ITI, which is the SemanticGov project coordinator. Presentation: Common Upper Ontology for Cross-COI Interoperability –1:25 pm - Jim Schoening (confirmed-remote), US Army and Lead, SICoP Common Upper Ontology WG

19 3. Agenda Confirmed, then due to the current travel conditions and travel advisories issued for Europe they had to cancel travel - to be presented at October 10-11th Conference - time slot to be filled: What's New: Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) –1 pm Donald F. (Rick) McMullen, Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University. –Relates to Three New Pilots in Next Slide.

20 Workshop Followup Three New Pilots Using the Semantic Wiki: –1. Net-Ready Sensors: Create Ontologies for: The Workshop Content, The Standards, and The Data Models: August 2-3, 2006, Net-Ready Sensors: The Way Forward Workshop August 10, 2006, Initial Organization of Workshop Content September 12, 2006, Presentation at the NIST Net-Ready Standards Harmonization Meeting –2. Terrorist Watch List Person Exchange Standard (TWPDES): August 9, 2006, Meeting Documents & Minutes (password for government only required) September 13, 2006, Next Meeting –3. Agile Financial Data Services CoP (in process): February 10, 2006, Digital Harbor Composite Financial Applications June 27, 2006, XBRL Event at the FDIC Conference Center, Increasing the Value and Timeliness of Business Information Using XBRL DRM 2.0 Composite Applications October 11, 2006, Session at the 5th Semantic Interoperability for E- Government Conference

21 3. Agenda Presentation: Representation of UDEF in RDF/OWL –1:45 pm - Ron Schuldt, Chair, The Open Group UDEF Forum Presentation: The Role of Upper Ontology in Semantic Interoperability –2:15 pm - John Sowa, VivoMind Intelligence, Inc. –BREAK: 3 - 3:15 pm

22 3. Agenda Presentation: Working with Your Ontologies With A Full Ontology Packaging and Change Management System - The VK Semantic Wiki –3:15 pm – Mills Davis, SICoP Co-Chair and Conor Shankey, CEO, VisualKnowledge –4 pm - Discussion of Next Steps ADJOURN and NETWORKING: 4: pm

23 4. Upcoming Events August 21, 2006, Best Practices Committee Meeting September 13, 2006, KM WG Special Session on Networking EA and KM at the Enterprise Architecture 2006 Conference, September September 18, 2006 Best Practices Committee Meeting September 19, Open Collaboration: Networking Financial Management Communities October 10-11, 2006, Fifth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference at MITRE, McLean, Virginia October 12, 2006, Chief Architects Forum October 16, 2006 Best Practices Committee Meeting October 30-31, 2006, Second Service Oriented Architecture for E-government Conference at MITRE, McLean, Virginia

24 4. OWL Semantics ConstructDescriptionRelated Concepts Class Represents a group or set of individual objects with similar characteristics. Object class (OOP) and tables (RDBMS) Property Associates attribute/value pairs with individuals or restricts classes. Accessor methods (OOP) and table columns/fields (RDBMS) Individual Represents a specific object instance of a class. Objects/class instances (OOP) and table rows/ records (RDBMS) Source: Lee Lacy, OWL – Representing Information Using the Web Ontology Language, Trafford, 2005, page 40.

25 5. OWL Architecture Source: Lee Lacy, OWL – Representing Information Using the Web Ontology Language, Trafford, 2005, page 144. Standard namespaces: XMLS Datatype OWL Specification RDFS Specification RDF Specification Ontologies on Web Servers Ontology Steward’s Web Server Information Publisher’s Web Server RDF Instance Data OWL Imports Ontology Ontology- specific Datatypes OWL Imports compliant with Ontologies being Used/Extended namespace references

26 6. Introductions: What are your interests in light of the workshop purpose? Since we have a large group lets see: –How many are here for the first time? –How many consider themselves: Ontologists or Knowledge Representation Experts? Knowledge managers or architects? Librarians or Information scientists? Enterprise architects? Wiki users and providers? Press and journalists? Other? What? –How many have never seen or used a Wiki? A little demo with your name to try after the Workshop. –Navigate to Wiki Workshop Participants Page, Log-in, Edit Your Name, Save, Navigate to Your New Wiki Page, and Add Your Information. –Everyone could / should have a Wiki Page for Personal KM – KM Retention (records management), Citizen Services you provide, CoPs you participate in, data management (Semantic Wiki), etc.

27 7. Hands-on Experience and Discussion of Next Steps Historical Perspective: –The Leading Applications Start with a Blank Slate: WordPerfect (now Word), Lotus (no Excel), Freelance (now PowerPoint),.. –You still have to provide the content and its structure. The Wiki is the same: –A “web site where community members create/edit a web page” that supports quick, collaborative writing and easy hypertext linking. –The structure is not pre-determined, but invented and evolved by community in neither a top down or bottom up manner.

28 7. Hands-on Experience and Discussion of Next Steps Process: –Just get it into the Wiki page quickly to support (not interfere with) the flow of ideas. –Then add some structure or use (reuse) a template. –Refine the structure and associative links over time. –Work on a taxonomy or ontology to improve content organization and searching. –Extract community-level ontologies from Wiki and Web pages. See Peter Mika, Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics. – Questions: Recall Slide 14.