9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 1 Semantic Interoperability at Work: Improving Rapid First Response What Does Semantic Interoperability Really Mean?

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 2 Semantic Interoperability at Work: Improving Rapid First Response First, Foremost, Interoperability Means Teamwork

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 3 What Does a Semantic Interoperability Architecture Look Like? This Pilot is a Practical Example  Emergency Management Centric  Participants Represent Spectrum Following Slide Shows Most of the Components  Collection of Participants Align Themselves through Semantically Ordered Registries or Out of Band Web Services Bindings  Shows Messaging Flows Perspective

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9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 5 Semantic Keys to Improving Rapid First Response Train Derailment Example:  6 January 2005, 3:50 A.M. Graniteville, SC  Chlorine Tank Car Toxic Release Matching ResponseType with EventType Using Open Public Standards Getting the Right Information to the Right People at the Right Time

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 6 Semantic Interoperability Simplified Analogies

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 7 Semantics Simplified Semantics Defines Meanings  Standardi zed Domain-Specific Terminologies/Vocabularies  Conflicting, Duplicated, Overlapping Teminologies can be mapped Interoperability Needs Semantic Roadmaps, Guides, Dictionaries, etc. for Translating Similar but Disparate Vocabularies Ontologies are Classification Systems We Use for Organi zing Vocabularies as well as Within Vocabularies

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 8 Semantic Interoperability in “Semantic Web” Foundation We Use Web Ontology Language (OWL)  Understanding Relationship of Terms to Domain-Specific Context Required  EDI For Instance  UBL, ebXML, etc Setting Standards for Business Context

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 9 How are we Showing Semantic Interoperability? We Use Standards from the Organi zation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) 1.0  1.1 Recently Approved as OASIS Standard, Pilot uses 1.0 Emergency Data Exchange Language Distribution Element (EDXL_DE) 1.0 Committee Specification  Simulated Event Type & Sender/Recipient Type Ontologies Drive Improved Routing  Simulated Event Type also Drives Lookup for Secondary Healthcare & Geospatial Services

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 10 Event Type Ontology Application: Protégé: http//

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 11 Event Type Ontology in Context Application: Unicorn Workbench: http//

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 12 Semantic Interoperability Summary Teamwork Through Semantically Ordered Web Services Registries Allow Related Companies/Entities to Locate Each Other Registries Allow Resources to be Located and Bound through Web Services Registries Add Layer of Role-Based Security Third Party Portals and Communities, such as Geospatial and Healthcare Can Aid Preparedness through Semantically Ordered, PreRegistered Web Services

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 13 Semantic Interoperability Examples

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 14 Semantic Interoperability Examples

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9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 18 Semantic Interoperability Examples

9, 10 February 2006 Semantic Interoperability Architecture Pilot Summary 19 Full Roster of Pilot Participants RedHat (RedHat Enterprise Linux Operating System) Oracle Corp (Database, Application Server, WSRP Portal) Humanmarkup.org, Inc. (Public Service Preparedness Portal) Starbourne Communications Design (Portal Design Development) Broadstrokes, Inc. (Reverse 911 Service) Targus Information Corporation, Inc. (Geographically encoded consolidated national Reverse-911 database) MyStateUSA (Simulated NIMS-ICS Network running as Web Services through MyStateUSA Interoperable Hub) WarningSystems, Inc. (Web-based Activation of EAS, Sirens, Radios) MCI (Internet Network Backbone) Sandia National Laboratories (Sensor Network Simulation) NuParadigm (Alerting Framework Network Services) Unicorn Solutions, Inc. (Ontology/Data Model Workbench)