1 NSF Accounting Ontology: A Tutorial Brand Niemann Senior Enterprise Architect US EPA May 13,

2 Preface Web 2.0 Crucial to New Information Workplace, CIO Magazine, November 29, 2007, C.G. Lynch, CIO:November 29, 2007 –Forrester reports that from blogs to wikis to virtual worlds, the modern information worker wants a seamless user experience and more and more, IT will be forced to deliver. –The Seven Tenets of the Information Workplace: Contextual, Individualized, Seamless, Visual, Multimodal, Social, and Quick.

3 Preface Ontological Specification of Interoperability Semantics for Financial Information and Business Reporting Systems: –A Workshop Funded by the National Science Foundation (in cooperation with the American Accounting Association and the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Michigan State University) May 12-13, 2007, Westin Gateway, Ballston, Virginia (near the National Science Foundation).

4 Preface The organizers of the workshop are: –William E McCarthy Department of Accounting and Information Systems Michigan State University –Roger Debreceny Shidler College of Business University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

5 Step 1: Decide on Name

6 Step 2: Register Name

7 Step 3: Login

8 Step 3: Login Private

9 Step 4: Set Preferences

10 Step 4: Set Preferences Change Time Zone Change Password

11 Step 5: Control Panel

12 Step 5: Control Panel

13 Step 6: Design Home Page Background and Purpose

14 Step 6: Design Home Page Structure and Interface

15 Step 7: Create Subtopics Links

16 Step 8: Repurpose Web Content Into Wiki

17 Step 9: Attach Files

18 Step 9: Attach Files File Descriptions

19 Step 9: Attach Files

20 Step 10: Insert Images and Links

21 Step 10: Insert Images and Links

22 Step 11: Create Web Log (Blog)

23 Step 12: Set Security

24 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.

25 Step 13: Monitor Users & Changes

26 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.