1 Collaborative Expedition Workshop #39: Toward a National Unified Geospatial Enterprise Architecture: Seeing the Way Forward Together March 15, 2005 National Science Foundation Room 555, Stafford II Ballston, VA

2 Welcome! Opportunity to learn from individuals and policy- makers from all sectors Practice intergovernmental collaboration to advance President's Management Agenda toward citizen-centric government Accelerate multi-sector partnerships around IT capabilities to help government work better

3 Introduction Organize around common purpose, larger than any institution, to appreciated potentials and realities Improve quality of dialogue and collaborative prototyping at intergovernmental crossroads Participants, representing many forms of expertise, return to their settings with a larger perspective of the “whole”

4 Introduction Create conducive conditions for “breakthrough” innovations –Authoritative Communities of Practice around Common Business Lines –Agile Framework for Building Intergovernmental Services –Emergence of Open Standards, Semantic Technology “In design, we either hobble or support people’s natural ability to express forms of expertise.” Prof. David D. Woods

5 Introduction Key FY03 Finding: Many agile business components surfacing in innovative settings, but not easily discovered by e-government managers, resulting in lost or delayed opportunities for all parties. To address this potential, a quarterly Emerging Components Conference Series was established in FY04 –Five national dialogue conferences have been held: two at the White House Conference Center, one at the Washington DC Convention Center and two at MITRE –Next conference on June 13, for info:

6 Introduction Key FY04 Finding: Growing Opportunity to apply Emerging Technologies (web services, grid computing, and semantic web) to tune up Innovation Pipeline with better linkages among: –Business incubators (state economic development programs) –Innovation diffusion networks (SBIR, angel investors, etc.) and –Business intelligence centers with quality information about e- government and e-commerce gaps. –Semantic Interoperability CoP, Best Practices Committee –XML CoP, Architecture & Infrastructure Committee –IT R& D Communities

7 Introduction Workshop Sponsors: –GSA's Office of Intergovernmental Solutions. –Architecture and Infrastructure and Best Practices Committees of the Federal CIO Council. –National Coordination Office of the Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology R & D (NITRD) and Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development (SEW) Coordinating Group, NITRD Workshop Value: –“Frontier Outpost" to open up quality conversations, augmented by information technology, to leverage collaborative capacity of united, but diverse sectors of society, seeking to discover, frame, and act on national potentials. Past Workshop Archives:

8 Introduction FY05 Themes and Upcoming Events –Joint OMB/AIC Data Reference Model initiative – led by Mike Daconta, DHS Data Reference Model Public Forum –April Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS) Conference, April 7-8, Crystal City –April 15 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #40 –May 17 – Collaborative Expedition Workshop #41 –June 13 – Quarterly DRM and Emerging Components Conference

9 Agenda Some Key Questions for today and FY05: How can multiple Communities of Practice discover and organize around common mission needs to build shared understanding? How can shared understanding around several select, urgent cross- boundary scenarios be accelerated? What is the role of collaborative prototyping around emerging technology potential, in light of the FEA's Data Reference Model? How can the FEA Data Reference Model evolve to provide the common frame of reference needed to support diverse communities tuning up around their information sharing capacities?

10 Agenda 8:30 a.m. - Check-in, Box Lunch Order ($8.00/person) and Coffee 9:00 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction – Networking of the Communities of Practice: –Susan Turnbull, GSA, Co-Chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Social Economic and Workforce Implications of IT Coordinating Group, NITRD. –Brand Niemann, EPA, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Semantic Interoperability CoP –Mike Daconta, DHS, Meta-Data Program Manager, Center of Excellence and Lead, DRM Working Group –John McManus, NASA, Co-Chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and CTO, NASA –Owen Ambur, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Government XML CoP, Emerging Technology Life-Cycle Management Process.

11 Agenda 9:00 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction (continued): –Ira Grossman, Chair, Chief Architects' Forum, (AIC) and Chief Enterprise Architect, NOAA –Peter Yim, Ontolog Forum –Andy Reamer, Coordinator, National Infrastructure for Community Statistics Community of Practice –Kathy Covert, Project Manager, Geospatial Digital Rights Management Policy Forum and member, Federal Geospatial Data Consortium 9:00 a.m. – Introduction to FEA Data Reference Model (DRM) Success Strategy and DRM Public Forum, Michael Daconta, DHS, Lead, DRM WG 9:30 a.m. What is Geospatial Enterprise Architecture, Doug Nebert, USGS 10:00 a.m. – Architecture Principles for Geospatial Interoperability, Eliot Christian, USGS

12 Agenda 10:30 a.m. – Break 10:45 a.m. – The Geospatial Semantic Web Interoperability Experiment, Joshua Lieberman, Traverse Technologies 11:15 a.m. - City of Charlotte EA: Developing the Geospatial Data Architecture for Citizen Service, Regional Strategy, State Integration and Federal Alignment, Twyla McDermott, City of Charlotte, NC 11:45 a.m. – State of Kentucky: Reducing Costs and Related Barriers to the Creation of Spatial Communities Using Open Approaches, Susan Lambert, Geographer and Principal Investigator, Governor’s Office of Technology, State of Kentucky and Ben Lewis, Advancing Spatial Information Technologies (ATS) 12:15 p.m. – LUNCH

13 Agenda 1:15 p.m. – Perspective from the Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI), Daniel Feinberg, Chief Architect, DISDI 1:45 p.m. – Perspective from the National Center for Geospatial Intelligence, Karl Koklauner, Depty. Director 2:15 p.m. - BREAK 2:30 p.m. – An Architectural Process Overview, Stuart Doescher, USGS 3:00 p.m. – An Industry Perspective on Geospatial Enterprise Architecture, Stephen Marley, Certified Enterprise Architect 3:30 p.m. – Who is Here? Who is Missing? What’s New from Communities of Practice (CoPs)? – Reflections from workshop presenters and participants 4:15 p.m. - ADJOURN