1 Collaborative Expedition Workshop #41: Open Standards for Government Information Sharing: Timing the Transformations with the DRM June 28, 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: Agile business components in innovative settings not easily discovered by e-government managers, resulting in lost or delayed opportunities for all parties. Emerging Components Conference Series 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 –Conference #6, on June 13, held in conjunction with the First Data Reference Model (DRM) Public Forum.

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 – http//:et.gov –IT R& D Communities

7 Introduction FY05 Joint OMB/AIC Data Reference Model initiative established – led by Mike Daconta, DHS, AIC Representative, Susan Turnbull Data Reference Model Public Forum –June 13 – Quarterly DRM Public Forum and Emerging Components Conference –June 28 – Collaborative Expedition Workshop #41 –July 19 – Collaborative Expedition Workshop #42 –August 16 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #43 –September – Second Quarterly DRM Public Forum –September 23 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #42 –October 18 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #43

8 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

9 Introduction 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. Workshop Archives:

10 Agenda Some Key Questions for 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?

11 Agenda Some Key Questions for Today: 1. How can the divergent communities of information systems and information science work together to build a Data Reference Model that is both functional and flexible? 2. How can a common Data Reference Model facilitate compliance with the E-Gov Act of 2002 requirements for interoperable search, searchable identifiers and the categorization of government information? 3. How can a common Data Reference Model, using standards that are sometimes amorphous in their implementation, still lead the government forward toward the capacity to share and integrate data?

12 Agenda 8:30 a.m. - Check-in, Box Lunch Order ($7.00/person) and Coffee 8:45 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction –Susan Turnbull, GSA, Co-Chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Social Economic and Workforce Implications of IT Coordinating Group, NITRD. –Richard Huffine, Environmental Protection Agency 9:00am - Introductions: What are your interests in light of the workshop purpose? Who is missing from this dialogue? 9:30am - What’s the Congruence between Categorization of Government Information (E-government Act of 2002) and the Data Reference Model? - RichardHuffine, EPA

13 Agenda 10:30am - BREAK 10:45 am - The Evolution of the Data Reference Model: Moving from the Abstract to the Concrete - Michael Daconta, DHS, Metadata Program Manager, Meta Data Center of Excellence and Lead Agency, DRM WG and Andy Hoskinson, OMB FEA PMO Support Contractor 11:15 am - Open Dialogue and Small Group Discussion - Identification of Issues and Opportunities in light of Section 207d of the E-Gov Act of 2002 and the Data Reference Model 12:30pm - Lunch 1:30pm - Report-out to Large Group and Open Dialogue

14 Agenda 2:30pm - How to Build Readiness: Advancing Discernment and Value Through Implementation Profiles and Pilots – Brand Niemann, EPA, Chair, Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) FEA DRM Schema Specification (Draft Version 0.1): Analysis and Two Use Cases (Taxonomy and Interoperability), Web File Repurposed and Taxonomy Created, June 22, 2005 IRS Tax Map: Electronic Research Tool], David Brown, Internal Revenue Service, Media and Publications Division Terragram for Taxonomies at the World Bank, Denise Bedford, World Bank SVG Maps for Knowledge Management and Taxonomies, Richard Hammond, EPA Region 4 and Kiran Batchu, Geodecisions Classification and Taxonomies at the Library of Congress, Jan Herd, LOC (invited) Geospatial Ontologies for the Geospatial Profile, Professor Michael Piasecki, Drexel University Taxonomies and Metadata for the Intelligence Community, Roger Bradford, ContentAnalysts (invited) 4:30pm - ADJOURN