1 Briefing for EPA and OEI Communications Coordinators and Press Officers Brand Niemann US EPA Senior Enterprise Architect and Federal CoP Leader January 17, 2008
2 Overview RolesResponsibilitiesRecent Press Examples (7) Federal CIO Council/OMB August July 2007 (1) FCW Power Player (4) Federal CoP Leader August 2002 – Present (2) ExecBiz Spotlight (5) EPA Senior Enterprise Architect January Present (3) The Semantic Report (6) See next slide for footnotes.
3 Footnotes (1) Web Services WG Chair, Data Reference Model 2.0 Team Lead, SICoP Co-chair, SOA CoP Co-chair, and Best Practices Committee Secretariat. (2) SICoP Co-chair, and SOA CoP Co-chair (Web 2.0/3.0). (3) Online Book: A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. EPA and the Federal Government, and Senior Advisor to the EPA Web 2.0 WG: – (4) Brand Niemann champions collaboration: EPA’s data architect does the groundwork to facilitate electronic data exchanges: – (5) Executive Spotlight with Dr. Brand Niemann: – (6) Support for the Semantic Web and Semantic Technology in the U.S. Government: – 4&Itemid=1&ed=3http:// 4&Itemid=1&ed=3 (7) Wiki/Blog of all press coverage: –
4 Recent Press December 10, 2007, Government Computer News: –The Future of IT: 25 Years and Counting: –Social networking and the Medici Effect - Future of IT: Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 will make social sites look quaint: January 7, 2008: SOA CoP Conference Call: –Wiki Page: –Government Computer News Blog: Speaking the same language: –GridToday Breaking News on NCOIC Explores Utility Computing, Grid, Virtualization
5 Potential Press January 9-10, 2008, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners Meeting: The Changing Climate: Making Earth Science Relevant Again in Light of Global Warming, Washington, DC. –Conference Wiki Page: –A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government Part 10: Web 2.0 for Earth Science Collaboration for Information Access: Paper: – dochttp://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/EPADRM3.0/BNiemann doc Slides: – Wiki Page: – Senior EPA Staff in Attendance: Gary Foley, Steve Young, Ed Washburn, and Brand Niemann.
6 Potential Press January 15, 2008, National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Session Facilitator: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Leveraging Your Research Information for Web Publishing, 10:15am-12:00 p.m., Hilton, Monroe West. –Conference Web Page: –Facilitator Slides: 15/SICoPTRB ppthttp://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/ /SICoPTRB ppt –A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government - Part 9: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Also for the Metadata Subcommittee Meeting, 12:15-1:15 p.m. Hilton, Chevy Chase. Paper: – dochttp://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/EPADRM3.0/BNiemann doc Slides: –
7 Potential Press January 15, 2008, Net-Ready Sensor Standards Harmonization WG Meeting at NIST: –A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government - Part 8: Emergency Management and Sensors: Paper: – Slides: – –New collaboration with the Semantic Sensor Web, Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, Wright State University: See Sensor Data Management: –Short: » ppthttp://knoesis.wright.edu/projects/savig/sensornetworks_summary_ ppt –Long: »
8 Potential Press January 16, 2008, Health Information Technology Definitions Project First Public Forum at National Rehabilitation Hospital: –A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government - Part 7: Environmental Health Data: Web Site: Wiki Pages: bin/wiki.pl?EPAEnvironmentHealthDataforDRM2 and bin/wiki.pl?HealthInformationTechnologyCommunityofPracticehttp://colab.cim3.net/cgi- bin/wiki.pl?EPAEnvironmentHealthDataforDRM2 bin/wiki.pl?HealthInformationTechnologyCommunityofPractice Paper and Slides: Being updated. Most Recent Events: –November 5-6, 2007, 2007 State Level Health Information Exchange Consensus Conference. –November 14, 2007, Biosurveillance: A Canada-U.S. Perspective on Emergency Preparedness and Planning. ACT/IAC Healthcare Committee. –January 10, 2008, Semantic Interoperability in Health Informatics: Lessons Learned. Ontolog Forum.
9 Potential Press January 29, 2008, Taxonomy Tuesday at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress: –Wiki Page: –A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government - Part 9: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Slides: – Paper: – dochttp://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/EPADRM3.0/BNiemann doc The 2007 Statistical Abstract: The National Data Book Taxonomy: – services.gov/lpBin22/lpext.dll/Folder21/Infobase17/1?fn=main- j.htm&f=templates&2.0http://web- services.gov/lpBin22/lpext.dll/Folder21/Infobase17/1?fn=main- j.htm&f=templates&2.0
10 Potential Press February 5, 2008, SICoP Special Conference: Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration: – March 17-19, 2008, IDGA’s 6th Annual DoD Architectures, Blueprints of Today, Architectures of Tomorrow, Keynote: Getting to SOA and Semantic Interoperability for DoD Architectures: – April 30-May 1, 2008, 5th SOA for E-Government Conference: Our Space - Connecting Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, SOA, and the Semantic Web for Government 2.0 (Making It Easier to Do!): – May 12-14, 2008, 3rd Annual Web Services Security & SOA Conference & Expo, Baltimore Convention Center. Invited Keynote: – May 18-22, 2008, SemTech 2008: The Semantic Technology Conference, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California. Program Advisory Board and Three Presentations: –
11 Recognition by Organizations OMB/CIOC (2005) Federal Computer Week Power Player (2006) Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2007) Gartner (2007) Brainstorm Group (2007) Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) Metatopia/Data Management Association (DAMA) (2007) W3C (2007) Semantic Universe (2007) Government Computer News (2007)