1. 1 Collaborative Expedition Workshop #51: Open Collaboration: Networking Geospatial Information Technology for Interoperability and Spatial Ontology June 20-22, 2006 National Science Foundation Ballston, VA

2. 2 Welcome On behalf of the organizers: –Susan Turnbull – on family medical leave to care for her mother in Michigan –Brand Niemann – SICoP Co-Chair –Mills Davis – SICoP Co-Chair (June 21 st ) –Gary Berg-Cross - Facilitator –Tom Christoffel - Senior Planner Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission –Todd Pehle – June 21-22 nd –Paul Conoval - Director and Chief Technology Officer, Northrup Grumman

3. 3 Agenda 1. Purpose / Description 2. Logistics 3. Agenda –3.a Tuesday, June 20, 2006 –3.b Wednesday, June 21, 2006 –3.c Thursday, June 22, 2006 4. Upcoming Events

4. 4 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 geospatial area, participants will learn how to conduct open collaboration in their own settings. Presentations will illustrate exemplary collaboration that is transforming geospatial information technology today. Growing Communities of Practice will benefit from knowledge-sharing including: –Open standards development –Web-based collaboration environments –Ontologies for efficient information-sharing and semantic interoperability –Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model V2.0 and Geospatial Profile 1.1 (and 2.0 in process) –Community to national scale needs and applications

5. 5 2. Logistics See Collaboration Wiki: –Check in and badges: Main NSF (Stafford I) 4201 Wilson Blvd. –Laptop Scan: Main NSF (Stafford I), Room 357 –Day 1: Stafford II, Room 555 4121 Wilson Blvd. –Days 2 & 3: Stafford I, Room 1235 (NSF Boardroom) 4201 Wilson Blvd. Retain Badge for Days 2 & 3. Lunch: –On your own for lots of eating places in area – food can be eaten in meeting rooms.

6. 6 3. Agenda 3.a Tuesday, June 20, 2006: –Welcome and Overview: 8:40 am – Workshop Organizers 9:00 am - Introductions: What are your interests in light of the workshop purpose? –Keynote: 9:30 am - Geospatial Line of Business and Task Force, Leslie Armstrong, FGDC Deputy Staff Director –What's New: 10:00 am - W3C Geo XG and Geospatial Semantic Web Interoperability Experiment (GSW IE) Report, Joshua Lieberman, Traverse Technologies 10:15 am - DHS Geospatial Data Model, David Li, Geospatial Liaison Department of Homeland Security, Geospatial Management Office Presentation

7. 7 3. Agenda 3.a Tuesday, June 20, 2006: –10:30 am - BREAK –Featured Demonstrations and Questions: 10:45 am - Geospatial and Problem Specific Semantics, Danielle Forsyth, CEO and Co- Founder, Thetus Corporation 11:30 am - Mashup Beyond Google Maps, Harry Chen's Semantic Geospatial Web Blog –12 noon - Networking Lunch (on your own)

8. 8 3. Agenda 3.a Tuesday, June 20, 2006: –Featured Presentations and Questions: 1 pm - Interoperability Among Geospatial Ontologies by Jerry Hobbs 1:45 pm - Semantic Wiki for Collaborative Development and Use of Geospatial Ontologies, Conor Shankey, CEO, Visual Knowledge 2:30 pm - Geospatial Units and Cyber-Infrastructure for the Shenandoah Valley - Mid-Atlantic Region Pilot Project, James Wilson, Old Dominion University, and Tom Christoffel, Senior Planner Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission –3 pm - BREAK 3:15 pm - Geospatial Ontologies Workshop, June 21-22, 2006, Overview, Todd Pehle, Northrup Grumman IT TASC 3:45 pm - Discussion of Next Steps, Gary Berg-Cross –4:30 pm - ADJOURN

9. 9 3. Agenda 3.b Wednesday, June 21, 2006: –Introduction to Day 2: 8:40-8:50 am - Introduce Problem Set –User/Agency Needs for Spatial Ontology: 8:50-9:10 am - Location-based Social Networking, Jeff Harrison, President and CEO, The Carbon Project 9:10 - 9:30 am - NOAA perspective: Danielle Forsyth 9:30 - 9:50 am - EPA perspective: Wendy-Blake Coleman 9:50 - 10:10 am - Ordnance Survey perspective: Cathy Dolbear 10:10 - 10:30 am - Spatial Databases, Xavier Lopez, Oracle –10:30 - 10:45 am - BREAK 10:45 - 11:10 am - NGA perspective, Dan Adams 11:10 - 11:30 am - US Army perspective, Kevin Mullane 11:30 am - 11:45 am - Overview of GEOSS, Stefan Falke 11:45 am - 12:00 noon - Questions –12:00 noon - 1:00 pm – Networking Lunch (on your own)

10. 10 3. Agenda 3.b Wednesday, June 21, 2006: –Survey of Existing Spatial Representations: 1:00 - 1:25 pm - Survey of Cycorp's Spatial KR, Karen Pittman 1:25 - 1:50 pm - Spatial KR: Modeling in Practice, Yaser Bishr, Image Matters 1:50 - 2:10 pm - NASA perspective, Rob Raskin –Survey of Research Interests & Issues: 2:10 - 3:00 pm - Researcher/Technologists Interests & Issues in Spatial Ontology: Pat Hayes (IHMC), Kathleen Hornsby (U. of Maine), Tony Cohn (U. of Leeds), Antony Galton (Exeter University), Werner Kuhn (U. of Munster), Danielle Forsyth (Thetus Corp.), Mike Smith (BBN Technologies), David Martin (SRI), Joshua Lieberman (Traverse Technologies), Eric Little (U. of Buffalo), Cathy Dolbear (Ordnance Survey), Richard Waldinger (SRI), Glen Hart (Ordnance Survey) & others (invited) 3:00 - 3:10 pm - BREAK 3:10 - 4:30 pm - Continue Researcher/Technologists Interests & Issues in Spatial Ontology: Pat Hayes, Kathleen Hornsby, Tony Cohn, Antony Galton, Werner Kuhn, Danielle Forsyth, Mike Smith, David Martin, Joshua Lieberman, Eric Little, Cathy Dolbear, Richard Waldinger, Glen Hart & others (invited)

11. 11 3. Agenda 3.c Thursday, June 22, 2006: –8:50 - 9:00 am - Introduction to Day 3 –9:00 - 9:45 am - Summary of Agency Needs for Spatial Ontology –9:45 - 10:30 am - Summary of Research/Technology Issues –10:30 - 10:45 am - BREAK –10:45 am - 12:00 noon - How to match user needs with research? –12:00 noon - 1:00 pm – Networking Lunch (on your own) –1:00 - ? - How to proceed forward & wrap-up discussions

12. 12 4. Upcoming Events July 18, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Wiki Information Technology 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.