1 Gov 2.0 for EPA: Pollution Prevention and Toxics In Support of the June 9-13, 2008 National Dialogue on How to Enhance Access to Environmental Information: Just Do It! Brand Niemann, Senior Enterprise Architect US EPA EA Team June 9, 2008

2 Overview 1. Way Out Risk Taking: –Lessons from Recent Meetings. 2. Information Sharing with a Web 2.0 Wiki: –Tutorial. 3. “Begin with the end in mind” (Steven Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”): –Semantification of s, documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoints, etc. for federated integration and search.

3 1. Way Out Risk Taking Innovation and Collaboration: –June 1-3, 2008, Government Leadership Summit. Change Leadership 2.0: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies in Government:Government Leadership Summit Intellipedia: Wikipedia for the Intelligence Community: –Calvin Andrus (thought he was nuts 5 years ago – now revered by the community as the change agent!). –Still a “slog” (battle) to get people to do it and being out on the frontier can be dangerous and lonely. –Trying to eliminate and PowerPoint, level the hierarchy, get people to connect the dots, etc.

4 1. Way Out Risk Taking June 4-5, 2008, EPA MISD Retreat on Improving Communication: –Reward risk-taking instead of punishing mistakes and failures. Mistakes are ruling out what does not work and failures are not trying again. –Formed MISD Tools and Processes Work Group. Foster good ideas to improve business workflow processes and communication protocols. June 5, 2008, Georgetown Law Center Event on The Future of E-Government: How Can E-Government Better Serve the Public?: Quantifying success from four different viewpoints (Academia, OMB, EPA E-Rulemaking Program, and Public Interest Groups). Technology projects could be viewed as inherently unsuccessful because they alone do not improve participation in them.

5 2. Information Sharing with a Web 2.0 Wiki: Tutorial This Gov 2.0 web-services platform pilot with a Wiki interface is for the EPA OPPT Information Management Division and their broader community of practice (OPPTS). This work is part of the Ontology for Segment Data Architecture in the EPA Enterprise Architecture Program. An ontology is the categories of interest in a domain and the relationships among them.

6 MindTouch Deki Features Content Creation: –An editing experience similar to what you would expect from modern word processor applications. Content Management: –Hierarchical page organization: Organize content in an intuitive hierarchical manner Search: –Advanced search: User can view all results or only specific subsets of the result set Attachments: –Users can attach any file or image to any page. Versioning and Reversion: –Page versioning: Every page retains a complete history of changes.

7 MindTouch Deki Features Access Control: –Restrict page editing, Restrict page viewing, Restrict hierarchies Alerts and Notifications: –Watch list Feeds: Every user can create a list of pages to watch. Application Administration: –Site administration: Quickly and easily manage multiple users and users' status Miscellaneous: –Adherence to standards: All content is stored in XML.

8 Steps 1: Decide on Name 2: Register Name 3: Login 4: Set Preferences 5: Control Panel 6: Design Home Page 7: Create Subtopics 8: Repurpose Web Content Into Wiki 9: Attach Files 10: Insert Images and Links 11: Create Web Log (Blog) 12: Set Security 13: Monitor Users 14: Revise/Reorganize

9 Step 1: Decide on Name

10 Step 2: Register Name

11 Step 3: Login

12 Step 4: Set Preferences

13 Step 4: Set Preferences Change Time Zone Change Password

14 Step 5: Control Panel

15 Step 5: Control Panel

16 Step 6: Design Home Page Background and Purpose

17 Step 6: Design Home Page Structure and Interface

18 Step 7: Create Subtopics

19 Step 8: Repurpose Web Content Into Wiki

20 Step 9: Attach Files

21 Step 9: Attach Files Descriptions

22 Step 9: Attach Files

23 Step 10: Insert Images and Links

24 Step 10: Insert Images and Links

25 Step 11: Create Web Log (Blog)

26 Step 12: Set Security

27 Step 12: Set Security 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. Note: Deki Wiki has one of the most advanced permission systems available. Deki Wiki administrators can make wikis public or private, anonymous or not. There is user groups support. Users can permission entire hierarchies to create private or non-editable workspaces or permission single pages.

28 Step 13: Monitor Users

29 Step 14: Revise/Reorganize To soon for this new Wiki, but for another EPA Web 2.0 Wiki Project I did the following quickly: –Moved content from Wiki to another Wiki. –Implemented a set of topics and subtopics. –Created a new user interface. –Updated the Tutorial slides and uploaded them. Note: This shows how agile and flexible the Web 2.0 Wiki environment is to respond to requests that would be more difficult (or impossible) and time consuming with Web 1.0 collaboration technology.

30 3. “Begin with the end in mind” Semantification of s, documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoints, etc. for federated integration and search. –May 18-22, 2008, Semantic Technology Conference. See May 8, 2008, How Semantics Can Revolutionize Spreadsheets. Semantic Web.Com.Semantic Web.Com –May 30, 2008, Conference Call with Semantic Community (Brand Niemann), Semantic Exchange (Mills Davis) and Cambridge Semantics (Sean Martin and Lee Feigenbaum). –June 6, 2008, Draft Status Report. – History in Wiki Blog.

31 May 18-22, 2008, Semantic Technology Conference

32 May 30, 2008, Conference Call with Semantic Community, Semantic Exchange, and Cambridge Semantics

33 May 30, 2008, Conference Call with Semantic Community, Semantic Exchange, and Cambridge Semantics

34 May 30, 2008, Conference Call with Semantic Community, Semantic Exchange, and Cambridge Semantics

35 June 6, 2008, Draft Status Report

36 History in Wiki Blog