TopQuadrant Semantic Web and FEA © Copyright , TopQuadrant Inc. The information in this presentation is proprietary to TopQuadrant and should not be duplicated, used or disclosed without permission. The Semantic Web and the Federal Enterprise Architecture

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 1 For Humans:  Who is using what business systems to do what?  Who is using what technologies and products to do what?  Where components are being re-used or could be re-used?  Who can we partner with at our agency and other agencies?  How is our agency architecture aligned with the FEA?  How new technologies (ie; XML, Web, Security) are being taken up at our agency and at other agencies? Are they mature enough for e-government?  What systems and business processes will be affected if we upgrade a software package?  … For applications:  Using an SOA, it can provide “An Active Enterprise Architecture”, that is “Consultable”  “Executable” What is Enterprise Architecture for? Answering questions

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 2 Semantic Enterprise Architecture Environments: Lifting the “lid on the enterprise” Enterprise Architecture is a “System of Systems”

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 3 A Problem Statement  Over 150 executive agencies are supporting information initiatives:  some for internal use,  some for direct service to citizens.  Many of them are doing very similar things, but calling it by different names.  How can we get the whole government to work as if it were a coordinated unit, rather than 450 different approaches?

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 4 Federal Enterprise Architecture – Reference Model What is a “Reference Model”?  A basic model for something (system, architecture, whatever)  When someone builds their own (system, architecture, whatever) they extend the reference model

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 5 Reference Models we know and love  OSI – Open Systems Interconnection (networking)  RM-ODP – Open Distributed Processing  OAIS – Open Archival Information Systems  CIDOC – Cultural Heritage (Museums)  DERM – “Digital Earth” – geospatial information  OGC – Geospatial information

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 6 FEA high level view Business Reference Model (BRM) Lines of Business Agencies, Customers, Partners Service Component Reference Model (SRM) Service Layers, Service Types Components, Access and Delivery Channels Technical Reference Model (TRM) Service Component Interfaces, Interoperability Technologies, Recommendations Data Reference Model (DRM) Business-focused data standardization Cross-Agency Information exchanges Performance Reference Model (PRM) Government-wide Performance Measures & Outcomes Line of Business-Specific Performance Measures & Outcomes Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Business-Driven Approach (Citizen-Centered Focus) Component-Based Architectures

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 7  English (describe the model and how to extend it)  Diagrams  XML (DTD, XSD, etc.)  RDF/S  OWL How are reference models expressed?

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 8 Why use RDF for an Reference Model?  Flexible, expressive models  Extensible in many different ways  Compatible with well-known modeling paradigms (e.g., OO)  Declarative expression of models for re-use  General graph modeling  Graph merging is a primitive operation  RDFS provides frame structure  OWL Description Logic RM Requirements RDF Features

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 9 FEA Reference Models – at a glance PRM

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 10 FEA Reference Models – at a glance BRM

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 11 FEA Reference Models – at a glance SRM

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 12 FEA Reference Models – at a glance TRM

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 13 FEA is More Than a Set of Simple Taxonomies From FEA SRM v.1.0 – Use case, page 28

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 14 Our FEA RMO (Reference Model Ontologies) Work  A modular framework:  FEA Core  FEA BRM  FEA PRM  FEA SRM  FEA TRM  FEA DRM  BRM – PRM Bridge  Agency extensions:  Agency template  DoD extensions (connections to DODAF)  FAA extensions

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 15 Competency Questions for FEA RM O  What are the Measurement Areas for the PRM?  What are the Business Areas for the BRM?  What are the Service Domains for the SRM?  What are the Service Areas for the TRM?  For a given Measurement Areas, what are the Measurement Categories?  …  For a given Line of Business, what Business Area is it in? …

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 16 Competency Questions for FEA RMO  This isn’t as easy as it sounds...  From the PRM: [in the context of the Mission and Business Results Measurement Area] More specifically, the PRM’s Measurement Categories are the same as the BRM’s Business Areas and Lines of Business. The Generic Measurement Indicators of the PRM are the same as the Sub-functions of the BRM

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 17 Competency Questions for FEA RMO Questions about technology initiatives, components, products, etc.  What Measurement Area measures the performance of some technology product?  In what Service Standard or Specification is a product classified in?  What Service Specifications are in a particular Service Category? …  What components support this business area?  What Access Channels are used by this component?  What are other similar components? (defined by the OMB directions as components that belong in the same SRM category, support the same business subfunctions, use the same technology, use the same generic measurement indicators, etc)

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 18 Competency Questions become Modeling Requirements  Entities in the model (business areas, service specifications, etc.) are sometimes used:  as classes  “which access channel is used for this component?” – there is a set of service specifications that are access channels – Web service, Blackberry, Internet Explorer, etc.  and sometimes as instances  “access channels is one of service categories”  Parts of one model (namely, BRM) are re-used in another model (PRM)

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 19 Modeling Requirements become Model Constructs (in OWL)  Parts of one model (namely, BRM) are re-used in another model (PRM) [in the context of the Mission and Business Results Measurement Area] More specifically, the PRM’s Measurement Categories are the same as the BRM’s Business Areas and Lines of Business. The Generic Measurement Indicators of the PRM are the same as the Sub-functions of the BRM

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 20 Modeling Requirements become Model Constructs (in OWL) More specifically, the PRM’s Measurement Categories are the same as the BRM’s Lines of Business. subClassOf rdf:type ?? brm:ManagementOfGovernmentResources brm:LineOfBusiness brm:ServiceForCitizens brm:SupportDeliveryOfServices brm:LineOfBusinessMeasurementCategory prm:MeasurementCategory subClassOf HumanResourceMgmt IncomeSecurity RevenueCollection rdf:type HumanResourceMgmt IncomeSecurity RevenueCollection subClassOf SupplyChainMgmt

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 21 Modeling Requirements become Model Constructs (in OWL) Entities in the model are sometimes used as classes and sometimes as instances prm:MeasurementArea prm:MeasurementCategory prm:CustomerResultsMsmtCat CustomerResults ServiceCoverage ServiceQuality ServiceAccessibility CustomerBenefit rdf:type Timeliness rdf:type rdfs:subClassOf

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 22 Modeling Requirements become Model Constructs (in OWL) Entities in the model are sometimes used as classes and sometimes as instances prm:MeasurementArea prm:MeasurementCategory CustomerResults ServiceCoverage ServiceQuality ServiceAccessibility CustomerBenefit rdf:type Timeliness rdf:type rdfs:subClassOf NOT OWL-DL COMPLIANT Solution 1: combine instance and class as a single entity.

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 23 Modeling Requirements become Model Constructs (in OWL) Entities in the model are sometimes used as classes and sometimes as instances prm:MeasurementArea prm:MeasurementCategory prm:CustomerResultsMsmtCat CustomerResults ServiceCoverage ServiceQuality ServiceAccessibility CustomerBenefit rdf:type Timeliness rdf:type rdfs:subClassOf Solution 2. Link class and instance together with a Restriction  comprises comprises

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 24 Modeling Patterns  Why all this work?  Can’t we just put all the entities into a tree?

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 25 The Whole Model – Tree of Instances, Organized in Parallel Classes CustomerResults ServiceCoverage ServiceQuality ServiceAccessibility CustomerBenefit Timeliness comprises Quality Reliability Info and Data Financial Efficiency DeliveryTime ResponseTime Access Automation Integration Availability ITComposition Functionality Compliance rdf:type prm:MeasurementArea prm:MeasurementCategory prm:CustomerResultsMsmtCat rdf:type rdfs:subClassOf prm:TechnologyMsmtCat rdf:type prm:MeasurementIndicator prm:Timeliness ServiceAccessibility rdf:type ServiceAccessibility rdf:type

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 26 FEA Ontologies in SWOOP

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 27 FEA-RMO Lessons  Good natural language Reference Models help ontology development  Modeling Principles and Patterns are key – often evolve iteratively  Modular Architecture benefits concurrent lifecycle management  OWL works and reasoning pays off in generic code  Semantic Applications can be built quickly

TopQuadrant Semantic Web and FEA © Copyright , TopQuadrant Inc. The information in this presentation is proprietary to TopQuadrant and should not be duplicated, used or disclosed without permission. TopQuadrant FEA REGISTRY - A SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATION

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 29 FEA Registry – semantic application

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 30 Ontology-Based EA Registry: TopSCAPE-EA FEA and DOD extensions Select either FEA Ontology or Agency- Specific Ontologies Service specifications with links to more details Search over all models for concepts Demonstration at

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 31 TopSCAPE-EA: Search Example – “Quality” Search results show FEA path Demonstration at

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 32 TopSCAPE-EA Example of DOD extensions to FEA Agency-specific extensions shown “green” Hot links to TRM areas

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 33 TopSCAPE-EA Example of DOD extensions to FEA (cont.) Replacements as well as additions are shown

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 34 EA Analyst – Extension Report

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 35 EA Analyst – Comparing two extensions One agency makes a replacement where another agency does not Two agencies make different replacements

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 36 Mapping Components to the FEA Models - 1 Available elements from merged reference models

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 37 EA Analyst – Initiatives Report

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 38 Federal Enterprise Architecture – now and future  EA reference expressed in prose  Additions/replace ments made as documents  Electronic access follows prose presentation (human intervention)  EA reference expressed as model  Additions/replacem ents made in model  Both electronic and prose follows model

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 39 Beyond Enterprise Architecture Reference models have been around for a while (OSI, RM-ODP, etc.) Networking Distributed Processing Geospatial data Cultural heritage Archiving Workflow eLearning Supply chain operations

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 40 Example of Exporting OWL: FAA - - CRU- X Air Traffic CRU-X System …

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TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 42 Semantic FEA Solutions: OMB and Agency Budget Proposal System Proposed Business Case Scope Validate Assess FEA Reference Models feedback re. quality feedback re. use feedback re. relevance for strategic planning, capital planning, & risk management Metrics Recommendations for improvement and partnering Ontology- Based Budget Proposal Repository Validate Value Proposition C. Potential for reuse of Technologies and Components A. Business Area and LOB supported? B. Number of proposals with same capabilities? Budget Proposal Assessment FEA Ontology-Based Import D. Synergies for partnering Adapted from: Dr. Michael J. Kurtz, “The Role of Electronic Records Management in Implementing eGovernment: Electronic Records and the Federal Enterprise Architecture”, NARA, 4/15/04 Assessment down from 3 months to 7 weeks Re-submit period up from 1 week to 6 weeks - allowing time for collaborations to be negotiated

TopQuadrant © Copyright TopQuadrant Inc., “TopMIND Training - Getting Ready for the Semantic Web”, slide 43 Semantic EA Solutions: IT Governance TopSCAPE-ITG Web-Services Web Services Active Models CC FEA, BEA Models Government Agencies Analytics Engine Web Web-Services Business Cases Partnerships and Projects OWL Analytics Broker CC Rules and Policies Capabilities and Components Component Registries Forms and Documents OWL IT Governance Dashboard CC Decision Support Advisor Dynamic Forms Broker CC Business Case Constructor CC