1 Collaborative Expedition Workshop #43: Designing the Data Reference Model for Data Accessibility: Building Sustainable Stewardship Practices Together August 16, 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 appreciate 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 Interest/ 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, Susan Turnbull, AIC Representative and Sandra Brouard, FEAPMO Representative 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 #44 –October 18 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #45

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 multiple communities work together using relevant scenarios to build stewardship practices that support readiness and realization of a mission-driven, data sharing network, in light of the Data Reference Model? 2.How is the emerging maturity of notation systems generally, enabling multiple notation systems to reinforce and map to one another, while contributing to current demands for real-time readiness and visibility of the "whole picture"? 3. How can the capacities of trust, agility, and accountability be achieved through federated stewardship among communities still building common ground and understanding? 4. How can Communities of Interest/ Practice define their identities, roles, and relationships in a manner that reinforces their individual and collective capacities?

12 Agenda 8:30 am - Check-in and Coffee 8:45 am - 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. 9:00 am - Introductions: What are your interests in light of the workshop purpose? Who is missing from this dialogue? 9:30 am - The FEA Data Reference Model: Update and Vignette Walkthrough and Hands-on Exercises –Mike Daconta, DHS, Metadata Program Manager, Meta Data Center of Excellence –Brand Niemann, EPA, Chair, Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)

13 Agenda 10:30 am - BREAK 12:30 pm - Lunch 1:30 pm - Open Discussion 2:30 pm – How to Build Readiness – Advancing Discernment and Value through the prototype Information Sharing Tool Kit, Part 2 – Brand Niemann, EPA, Chair, Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)

14 Agenda 2:30pm – TOPOFF and P2P Semantic Querying for Information Sharing, David Kamien, Editor, The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Homeland Security - Oracle 10g R2 RDF Spatial Network Data Model Examples, Steven Wadsworth, Oracle, Reston, VA - Siderean's Seamark Navigation Server, Mike DeLascio and David LaVigna, Used in An RDF Data Model for the Semantic Web (5th Oracle Life Sciences User Group Meeting, May 16-17, - Model-Based Data Engineering for Web Services, CharlesTurnitsa Battle Lab Manager, Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center, Old Dominion University: Use of a common reference model (meta-model and mappings) to end the interoperability wars. - Pragati's Expose Tool Suite for Harmonization, MalaMehrotra, Pragati Synergetic Research, Inc. - Model-Driven Semantic Web - Emerging Technologies & Implementation Strategies, Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper. A Roadmap to OMG’s MDA and Ontology Definition Metamodel and XMDR 4:30pm - ADJOURN - next workshop is August 16; workshop archives at: