1 Collaborative Expedition Workshop #52: Open Collaboration: Networking Wiki Information Technology for Information Sharing and Knowledge Management July 18, 2006 National Science Foundation Ballston, VA

2 Welcome On behalf of the organizers: –Susan Turnbull – Co-chair Emerging Technology Subcommittee –Brand Niemann – SICoP Co-Chair –Mills Davis – SICoP Co-Chair –TC Evans – GPO –Etc.

3 Welcome Welcome Back Susan! –Workshops praised by Dick Burk at recent ArchitecturePlus Seminar: ‘Susan has done an outstanding job of getting people together over 50 times now to discuss a relevant topic in detail and I commend her for that and these workshops to you.’ –Featured Best Practice at yesterday’s Best Practice Committee Meeting. –Working on September 19 th Workshop on XBRL, etc.

4 Agenda 1. Purpose / Description 2. Logistics 3. Agenda 4. Upcoming Events

5 1. Purpose / Description Participants will explore opportunities for multi- disciplinary and community-based collaboration around national challenges. By drawing on strategic leadership and "best practices" underway in the wiki technology area, participants will learn how to conduct open collaboration in their own settings. Presentations will illustrate exemplary collaboration that is transforming Wiki information technology today.

6 1. Purpose / Description Growing Communities of Practice will benefit from knowledge-sharing including: –COLAB: Collaborative Work Environment Community Wiki –Open standards development –Web-based collaboration environments –Ontologies for efficient information-sharing and semantic interoperability –Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model V2.0 and the SICoP Knowledge Reference Model Implementation in Wikis and Semantic Wikis –Community to national scale needs and applications

7 1. Purpose / Description Welcome to the COLAB Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) supporting groups of people working together in Communities of Practice (also called Communities of Interest). This open CWE includes a wiki, discussion forum and message archive, shared file workspace, full text search, and portal. Wiki comes from the Hawaiian word for fast and is “a web site where community members create/edit a web page” that supports quick, collaborative writing and easy hypertext linking. The structure is not pre-determined, but invented and evolved by community in neither a top down or bottom up manner. Continued on Next Slide.

8 1. Purpose / Description The COLAB CWE is supported by the GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions for the purpose of Networking Among Communities of Practice, and is hosted by the CIM3.NET infrastructure. COLAB has been used principally to support the Interagency Collaborative Expedition Workshops. Another member- only CWE called COSINE was used to support development of the Federal Enterprise Architecture's Data Reference Model 2.0. The open COLAB CWE and the member-only, SINE CWE provide limited "incubator" space for open and member-only communities seeking to better understand web-based community collaboration approaches.

9 1. Purpose / Description Contents: –How to Get Started –What's New –Upcoming Events –Past Events –Communities of Practice in Support of: Architecture and Infrastructure Committee Best Practices Committee Other –Discussion Forum / Mailing Lists Archives –File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository –Additional Background and Resources –Intellectual Property Rights Policy –Credits and Acknowledgements

10 1. Purpose / Description Dick Burk at recent ArchitecturePlus Seminar on the Federal Transition Framework: –39 Lines of Business in FEA – only being worked on and danger of becoming silos so work on Common Solution Services with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the FTF. –The Federal Transition Framework (FTF) is a single information source for cross-agency information technology (IT) initiatives using a simple, familiar and organized structure. It contains government-wide IT policy objectives and cross-agency initiatives including: OMB-sponsored initiatives, e.g., E-Gov and LoB initiatives, and Government-wide initiatives, e.g., Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6), Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12). Content related to these initiatives is provided in one place – the FTF Catalog. The FTF Catalog is organized into sections. Each section describes a single cross-agency initiative. Information describing each initiative is organized using a standard series of layers mapped to the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Reference Models.

11 1. Purpose / Description SICoP led the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model 2.0 Implementation Team: –Evolved to the SICoP/SWIM Working Group and a Knowledge Reference Model Implemented in Wikis and Semantic Wikis. June nd Workshop, Convergence of DRM 2.0 and Geospatial Profile 1.1: –Evolving to the Geospatial Ontology CoP in support of the Geospatial Line of Business and Federal Transition Framework Catalog. (Doing Ontology of Workshop Content and Working with Geospatial Ontologies in a Semantic Wiki!) July 18 th Workshop, Convergence of Records Management Profile 1.0 and DRM 2.0: –Evolving record, document, and information sharing for agencies with cross-agency missions (e.g. GPO, GSA, OMB, and NARA). August 15 th Workshop, Convergence of Security and Privacy Profile (update soon) and DRM 2.0: –Net-Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) and Others for the 5 th Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference, October , 2006.

12 1. Purpose / Description Basic FeaturesSemantic Templates Semantic Agents Edit and PrintFormsRead TablesOntologiesWrite TemplatesModelingSelect (Q&A) VisualizationsReport WebDAVApplicationsExecute VNC/ChatOther? Administrative Setup Operational System Categories of Wiki Functionality

13 1. Purpose / Description Common Solutions – Shared Services for Communities of Practice: –Mandate from on high: Karen Evans Memo creating the DRM 2.0 CoP –Constructive suggestion: Geospatial CoP –Community request: NICS CoP, OGETA –Industry/Academia request: Geospatial Ontology CoP –AIC Governance SC Project: SOA CoP –BPC Proposal: Enterprise Process Improvement CoP –GPO Request: Today’s Workshop

14 2. Logistics See Collaboration Wiki: –Check in and badges: Main NSF Stafford I, 4201 Wilson Blvd. –Laptop Scan: Room 357 –Conference Room 555 Stafford II, 4121 Wilson Blvd. Please Note: We are using Federal Relay Caption Conference Service: –Please use the microphone and speak clearly so those using the service and our workshop transcript will be clear. Lunch: –On your own for lots of eating places in area – food can be eaten in meeting rooms.

15 3. Agenda Welcome and Overview: –8:40 am – Workshop Organizers –9:00 am - Introductions: What are your interests in light of the workshop purpose? Keynote: Wikis Changing Agency Culture for Information Sharing –9:30 am - D. Calvin Andrus, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Center for Mission Innovation, CIA BREAK: 10:15 -10:30 am

16 3. Agenda Panel: Agencies are starting to ask for Wikis and even advertise formal requirements for them (see next slide) –10:30 am - Agencies want or use a Wiki GPO, TC Evans, Moderator DoD DTA, Bruce Peat (eProcessSolutions) NIH, Olga Brazhnik NARA, John Kane GSA, Susan Turnbull NIST, Clarence Johnson Keynote: The Wiki - A grassroots approach to providing KM solutions –11:15 am - Niall Sinclair (confirmed-remote), Director, KM Public Domain Initiatives, Institute for Knowledge and Innovation, George Washington University, and Author NETWORKING LUNCH (on your own, but hopefully in groups): 12 noon – 1 pm

17 3. Agenda Questions: –Is your Wiki part of your content development and management strategy? If so, what role does it play? –What do you see as the essential elements of a good charter for a Government Wiki? –What are the key components of a quality set of guidelines for community participation? –Based on your experience in planning and operating a Wiki, what are the problems to avoid? –What are your concerns about Wikis? –Are there aspects of current Wiki technology that you find inadequate for meeting your needs?

18 3. Agenda Featured Presentations and Questions: –1:00-1:20 pm Mills Davis, Project10X SICOP/SWIM Vision for Semantic Wikis and Information Management –1:20-1:40 pm Mark Kurtz and Aaron Fulkerson, MindTouch Next generation Open Source collaborative wikis with semantics and enterprise network appliances. –1:40-2:00 pm Conor Shankey, Visual Knowledge Semantic wikis for information management, knowledge delivery, and semantic agent-based applications. –2:00-2:20 pm Chuck Rehberg, Semantic Insights Automating the read, write, and reporting functions of semantic wikis to leverage knowledge worker productivity. –2:20-3:00 pm Questions & Answers and Wrapup BREAK: 3 - 3:15 pm Hands-on Experience and Discussion of Next Steps 3: pm ADJOURN and NETWORKING: pm

19 4. Upcoming Events August 15, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Semantic Interoperability October 10-11, 2006, Fifth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference at MITRE October 30-31, 2006, Second Service Oriented Architecture for E-government Conference at MITRE Also July 26 th and September 13 th – Special Sessions on Networking EA and KM at FCW Conferences.

20 Introductions: What are your interests in light of the workshop purpose? Since we have a large group lets see: –How many are here for the first time? –How many consider themselves: Knowledge managers or architects? Librarians or Information scientists? Enterprise architects? Wiki users and providers? Press and journalists? Other? What? –How many have never seen or used a Wiki? A little demo with your name to try after the Workshop. –Navigate to Wiki Workshop Participants Page, Log-in, Edit Your Name, Save, Navigate to Your New Wiki Page, and Add Your Information. –Everyone could / should have a Wiki Page for Personal KM – KM Retention (records management), Citizen Services you provide, CoPs you participate in, data management (Semantic Wiki), etc.

21 Hands-on Experience and Discussion of Next Steps Historical Perspective: –The Leading Applications Start with a Blank Slate: WordPerfect (now Word), Lotus (no Excel), Freelance (now PowerPoint),.. –You still have to provide the content and its structure. The Wiki is the same: –A “web site where community members create/edit a web page” that supports quick, collaborative writing and easy hypertext linking. –The structure is not pre-determined, but invented and evolved by community in neither a top down or bottom up manner.

22 Hands-on Experience and Discussion of Next Steps Process: –Just get it into the Wiki page quickly to support (not interfere with) the flow of ideas. –Then add some structure or use (reuse) a template. –Refine the structure and associative links over time. –Work on a taxonomy or ontology to improve content organization and searching. –Extract community-level ontologies from Wiki and Web pages. See Peter Mika, Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics. –