1 5 th Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference: Welcome and Conference Overview Mills Davis and Brand Niemann, Co-chairs Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) Best Practices Committee Federal CIO Council October 10-11, 2006 The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia bin/wiki.pl?FifthSemanticInteroperabilityforEGovernmentConference _2006_10_1011

2 By the Numbers and the People 1. Five Conferences 2. Based on Four Monthly Collaborative Expedition Workshops 3. Involving Lots of Participants 4. Covered by the Press 5. Announcing Two New Cooperative Agreements as Part of What’s New 6. Featuring a New Community of Practice

3 By the Numbers and the People (continued) 7. Offering Two World-Class Tutorials 8. And Networking and Breakout Sessions 9. And a Late Addition: Birds of a Feather Meeting on National Information Sharing Standards 10. An Opening Session and Panel: Operationalizing the Semantic Web 11. A Closing Session for the Day: Next Generation Techno-Socio Collaboration Environments 12. Acknowledgements and Logistics

4 1. Five Conferences September 8, 2003 (STEGOV1): –TopQuadrant helped at the beginning! September 8-9, 2004 (STEGOV2) April 7-8, 2005 (STEGOV3) September 14, 2005 (SICoP Public meeting) February 9-10, 2006 (STEGOV4) October 10-11, 2006 (STEGOV5): –TopQuadrant is again helping with this one!

5 2. Based on Four Monthly Collaborative Expedition Workshops* June 20-22, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Geospatial Information Technology for Interoperability and Spatial Ontology July 18, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Wiki Information Technology for Information Sharing and Knowledge Management August 15, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Semantic Interoperability Across Distributed Organizations and Their Ontologies September 19, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Financial Management Communities to Advance Information-Sharing and Best Practices for Business Performance Excellence Note that these are the four Topics of the Auditorium Sessions on Wednesday! * Special thanks to Susan Turnbull for the opportunity to lead the Summer Workshops Series (June-August).

6 3. Involving Lots of Participants “While monthly meetings of the Collaborative Expedition Workshop normally fill a pretty big room at the National Science Foundation’s Ballston, Va., headquarters, July’s attracted nearly double the usual attendance. It turned out folks from a wide swath of intelligence, defense and civilian agencies wanted to know how they could use an emerging form of online collaboration. The topic of the workshop? Wiki software.” –Government Computer News, The amazing Wikis: From the CIO Council to the CIA, the lightweight collaboration platform is taking hold—but it’s not a no- brainer, August 21, 2006.

7 4. Covered by the Press Federal Computer Week Survey: –What advice would you offer other government users interested in adopting collaboration tools? *Try conventional and Semantic Wikis before deciding on proprietary, expensive, thick client, hard to learn systems. –Any other thoughts on this subject? *How would you do data modeling on the Web without a Semantic Wiki? How would you provide every government employee a way to document their work, preserve their knowledge, and continue to contribute after retirement? Federal Computer Week, Tips for teamwork in an online world: Groups discover how collaboration software can boost productivity if used properly (see under 4. Give in to peer pressure), September 18, –*Responses by Brand Niemann, SICoP Co-Chair.

8 5. Announcing Two New Cooperative Agreements… John Yanosy, Chair, Semantic Interoperability WG, Net-Centric Operations Industry Consortia: –The key capability of the Semantic Wiki is its ability to capture and represent knowledge in an open web environment and at a granular level sufficient to enable customers to make queries about the full range of NCOIC derived concepts across multiple domains from its working groups. Key to this is the ability to relate the concepts and patterns created by the different WGs to each other. This is the ultimate goal of the NCOIC to be able to answer complex questions about solution and requirements at a level of detail that would be beneficial to experts in their respective domains. Source: John Yanosy, Cooperative Agreement with SICoP, September 15, 2006.

9 5. as Part of What’s New An EU Perspective: Providing Integrated Public Services to Citizens at the National and Pan-European level with the use of Emerging Semantic Web Technologies: –Konstantinos Tarabanis (CERTH) and Vassilios Peristeras (CERTH) Representing CERTH/ITI, SemanticGov project coordinator New Directions in Ontology and Rules: –Leo Obrst, MITRE, Co-Convenor of the Ontolog Forum - A SICoP Partner New Directions in Knowledge Languages and Knowledge Processing: –Chris Welty, IBM (confirmed- remote) Knowledge Structures Group, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corporation The National Health Information Network Semantic Interoperability Pilots: –Marc Wine, GSA, HITOP Chair A NCOIC Perspective - Semantic Interoperability for Net-Centric Operations: –John Yanosy, Chair, NCOIC-SII WG, The Net-Centric Operations Industry Consortium Semantic Services and Information Interoperability Working Group

10 6. Featuring a New Community of Practice Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) (Wednesday, 8:30-10 am, Auditorium): –Co-Chairs: Kevin Backe, US Army Corp of Engineers, and John Moeller, Northrop Grumman, and Todd Pehle, Northrop Grumman, Secretary. This is being coordinated with the FEA Geospatial Profile (Wendy Blake-Coleman), the Geospatial Line of Business (Leslie Armstrong), and the GWG Metadata Focus Group's (Norm Anderson) Taxonomy Working Group (Janet Johns). See June 20-22, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Geospatial Information Technology for Interoperability and Spatial Ontology and the VK Semantic Wiki: –

11 7. Offering Two World-Class Tutorials Tutorial #1, 8:30 AM - 12 NOON: –Ontology Modeling for OWL, SWRL, SPARQL using the TopBraid Composer Environment, Holger Knublauch and Irene Polikoff, TopQuadrant Tutorial #2, 1 - 4:15 PM: –Leveraging problem-centric models across user communities, Philip Pridmore-Brown and Danielle Forsyth, Thetus

12 8. And Networking and Breakout Sessions Today: –12 NOON - 2 PM, Networking Lunch (MITRE Cafeteria) and Posters/Exhibitors (Auditorium Foyer-Atrium) Tomorrow: –8:30 a.m. Session 1. Framing the Problem –10:00 a.m. BREAK –10:30 a.m. Session 2. Wikis and Repositories –12:00 LUNCH –1:00 p.m. Session 3. Knowledge Representation and Ontology –2:15 p.m. SHORT BREAK –2:30 p.m. Session 4. The Role of DRM 2.0 “Context” in the Development of National Standards for Information Sharing: Presentation and Panel (see next slide) –4: p.m. NETWORKING AND THEN MUST LEAVE THE FACILITY

13 9. And a Late Addition: Birds of a Feather Meeting on National Information Sharing Standards Tutorial #1, 8:30 AM - 12 NOON Session 4, 2:30 p.m. –Panelists: David Fado, Eric Monk, John Sowa, Tim Finin, and Joe Rockmore Coordinator: Brand K. Niemann, Jr. (Advanced Systems Concepts\SAIC) Co-Collaborators: Gary Berg-Cross, EM&I, Brian A. Haugh, Institute for Defense Analyses, David H. Fado, Advanced Systems Concepts\SAIC, Brand L. Niemann, Sr., Co-Chair SICoP

An Opening Session and Panel: Operationalizing the Semantic Web Eric Miller, Former Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web, and President, Kadomo: The Semantic Web Company –Operationalizing the Semantic Web: Moving from Standards Research to Practical Pilots and Production Deployment Mills Davis, Project10x and SICoP Co-Chair –Semantic Wave Update: The Landscape of Application Adoption 10: :00 AM, BREAK 11: NOON, Featured Presentation and Panel: –Facilitators: Eric Miller and Mills Davis –Featured Presentation: A Top-5 List of Applications That Should Be Addressed with Semantic Solutions (and why) and a List of Key Steps to Enable Acquisition –Panelists (all invited): Leo Obrst (confirmed), Richard Murphy, Con Kenney (confirmed), John Walker, Kevin Backe (confirmed), Steven Ray (confirmed), Rohit Agarwal (confirmed), Ray Piasecki, Mark Greaves, and John Moeller (confirmed)

A Closing Session for the Day: Next Generation Techno-Socio Collaboration Environments Closing Keynote, Demonstration, and Dialogue: –Conor Shankey, CEO VisualKnowledge Next Generation Techno-Socio Collaboration Environments: Semantic Environments for Collaboration, Content, Concepts, Capabilities, and Communication. –See Links to the VK Semantic Wiki and Published Paper: Semantic Wikis and Integration of Biological Data with Semantic Networks on the Conference Wiki Page.

Acknowledgements The MITRE Corporation for hosting: –Rick Tucker and the Conference Support Staff. The Architecture & Infrastructure and Best Practices Committees: –Especially Susan Turnbull and George Strawn for their support. SICoP Co-Chair Work Group Leads and Partners: –Mills Davis, Leo Obrst, Antoinette Arsic, Marc Wine, etc. Presentors, Panelists, Tutorials, and Exhibitors: –30, 6, 2, and 30, respectively! Breakout Session Chair and Networking Exhibit –Gary Berg-Cross and Loren Osborn Attendees: –For participating and sharing your valuable time and thoughts for the improvement of our CoP and its activities.

Logistics Restrooms: –Just outside both the front and back of the Auditorium. Audience Participation: –Please Use Microphone and Face the Video Camera. Telecon: –Please put your calls on Mute but not Hold because some systems introduce disruptive music. Shared Screen Support: –New Feature provided by MITRE. Security: –MITRE escort required outside the conference area. –You must turn in your badge when leaving the building. Breaks and Lunch: –Atrium and MITRE Cafeteria, respectively.

18 Special Recognitions To be announced for: –Best Paper –Best Semantic Technology Tool Application –Best Exhibit –Best Breakout Session Presentation –Outstanding Contributions to the CoP