1 Collaborative Expedition Workshop #38: Semantic Conflict Mapping and Enablement: Making Commitments Together February 22, 2005 National Science Foundation Room 375, Stafford I 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 –March 15 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #39 on Geo- spatial EA and Interoperability –April Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS) Conference, April 7-8, Crystal City

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 DRM Success Strategy and DRM Public Forum, Mike Daconta, DHS, Lead, DRM WG 9:30 a.m. Netcentric Semantic Linking: An Approach for Enterprise Semantic Interoperability, Mary Pulvermacher, MITRE 10:30 a.m. - BREAK

12 Agenda 10:45 a.m. - Collaborative Ontology Visualization and Evolution, Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant and T. Keller, NASA Ames Research Center 11:15 a.m. – Semantic Integration Using a Bottom-Up Approach, Michel Biezunski and Steve Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting 11:45 a.m.- Networking Lunch (video optional) –Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web 101, Talk given at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference, September 29, :45 p.m. – Policy Content at SSA: Using XML and Semantic Metadata, Terry Hynes, PolicyNet, Program Manager, Social Security Administration, and Duane Degler, Strategic Designer, Lockheed Martin/IPGems

13 Agenda 1:15 p.m. – Developing Semantic Technologies in a Collaborative Work Environment, Peter Yim 1:45 p.m. – Federal Web Content Managers’ Forum – Weblogs, RSS Feeds, etc. – John Gladstone, NAL/USDA 2:15 p.m. – Break 2:30 p.m. – Who is Here? Who is Missing? What’s the News from the CoPs? 3:45 p.m. – Reflections from workshop presenters and participants 4:15 p.m. - ADJOURN