1. SICoP Suggestions: NCOIC Semantic Interoperability Framework
Brand L. Niemann (US EPA), Co-Chair,
Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)
Best Practices Committee (BPC), Federal CIO Council
September 6, 2007

2. Chronology 1. August 1 and 15, 2006 2. October 10-11, 2006
3. November 27-December 1, 2006
4. March 30, 2007
5. April 17, 2007
6. May 15, 2007
7. June 5, 2007
8. June 28, 2007
9. July 5, 2007
10. July 12, 2007
11. July 19, 2007
12. August 9, 2007 CANCELLED
13. August 16, 2007
14. August 30, 2007
15. September 6, 2007
16. September 14, 2007
17. September 20, 2007
18.
19.
20.

3. 1. August 1 and 15, 2006
August 1, 2006, NCOIC Semantic Interoperability Workshop:
August 15, 2006, Expedition Workshop on Open Collaboration: Networking Semantic Interoperability Across Distributed Organizations and Their Ontologies:
NCOIC Semantic Services and Information Interoperability Working Group:

4. 2. October 10-11, 2006
Fifth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference:
Semantic Wiki Use in Summer Collaborative Expedition Workshops:
June 20-22, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Geospatial Information Technology
July 18, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Wiki Information Technology
August 15, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Semantic Interoperability
NCOIC Cooperative Agreement with SICoP:

5. 3. November 27-December 1, 2006
NCOIC November Plenary & Working Group Sessions:
Work with NCOIC Content in the VisualKnowledge Semantic Wiki for several months in preparation for the Meeting:
Demonstration available upon request.
SII and Data Strategy – Semantic Interoperability:
Presentations by SICoP Co-chair, Mills Davis and Conor Shankey, CEO, VisualKnowledge.

6. 4. March 30, 2007 Future of SOA and SOA Demos and Testbeds:
SOA CoP Status and Update:
Proceedings:
SII WG Session:
Followup April 7th with:
SICoP Charter and Mission:
SICoP White Papers:
Simple Example (Slides 15-18):
Recent and Upcoming Conferences:

7. Technology & Standards
5. April 17, 2007
SI Project Plan
SI Project
White
Paper
SI Overview
SIF
Framework SI
Technology & Standards
Map
Problems
Architectural
Patterns
Tenets
Application
Domains
Semantic
Pattern
Relationship
Model
SI Pattern
Ontology
Knowledge
Base

8. 5. April 17, 2007
Roadmap:
Q2-2007: Semantic Interoperability White Paper
Q2-2007: Semantic Interoperability Concept Paper
Q3-2007: Semantic Interoperability Framework Model and Ontology
Q4-2007: Net-Centric Tenet Patterns Integration with Semantic Interoperability Framework Model and Ontology
Q1-2008: Problem Specific Interoperability Patterns
Q2-2008: Problem Specific Interoperability Patterns
Q3-2008: Service Tenets - Problem Specific Interoperability Patterns

9. 6. May 15, 2007 SI Environmental Scan Map Semantic Adaptors
Networked COI/User/Machine Collaboration
Network
Context Knowledge
(Social, Goals, Capabilities, Intentions, Common Background)
Semantic Adaptors
World Modifying Semantic Enablers
Shared
Context
Multi
Agent
Systems
Work
Flows
Semantic Meta Knowledge Maps
Domain
Independent
Semantic
Enablers
Semantic
Discovery
(Meta/Facts)
Knowledge
Representation
Standards
Upper
Middle
Lower
Ontologies
Object
Ontology
Logic
Rules
Dynamic
Agent
Teams
Semantic
Web
SOA
Taxonomies, Lexicons, Dictionaries
Shared Domain Knowledge
Agent
Discovery
Service
Discovery
COI
Ontology
Person
Ontology
Organization
Ontology
Semantic
Service
Ontology
Domain
Dependent
Semantic
Enablers
Semantic
Agents
Semantic
Services
Mission
Ontology
Tactical Situation
Ontology
Command
& Control
Ontology
Domain
Taxonomies
Agent
Protocols
Service
Orchestration
Navigation
Ontology
Skills/Capability
Ontology
Logistics
Ontology
Training
Ontology
Partial
Semantics
Sharable Semantic Objects
Agent
Comm
Language
Service
Composition
Implicit
Semantic Data
Data w/o explicit semantics
SI Environmental Scan Map

10. 7. June 5, 2007 Asked about CBRN Data Model:
David Heaton - Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP):
Background: In the Sensor Standards Harmonization WG, we converted the CBRN Data Model spreadsheet to an ontology in one of our SICoP Semantic Wikis (Knoodl.com) for a demonstration to the SSHWG members that asked to see how we could work with it in a "Semantic Web way" because it was made available at the August 2006 Workshop in Oak Ridge and it represented a great example of a spreadsheet-to-ontology conversion. We have removed this because our intent all along was to harmonized the multiple standards and data models in support of the SSHWG so our result will not be the release of “the CBRN data model spreadsheet" but a new semantically harmonized and machine processible ontology.

11. 8. June 28, 2007 Proposed Pilot and Use Case: Open CYC – See Read File
The NCOIC SI WG help SICoP with building a modular ontology for net-ready sensors since Major General Reeves has announced that net-ready sensors will probably be incorporated in the netcentric enviornment by FY 2010 if not sooner.
Presentation to the Sensor Standards Harmonization WG Meeting, June 26th:
Open CYC – See Read File
Install and screen capture
2007 Semantic Technology Conference:
Avoiding Babel: Potential Pitfalls and Perils on the Road to Shared Understanding, Larry Lefkowitz, Cycorp, Inc.:

12. 8. June 28, 2007 Broader Context: Concept: Department of Defense
provides
Concept: Services
that require
Concept: Infrastructure
that includes the
Concept: Internet
using
Concept: Net-Centricity
that requires
Concept: Semantic Interoperability

13. 9. July 5, 2007 Work with SCOPE Document:
Would it possible in the process of extracting concepts from the SCOPE document to maintain an index or source reference of where the concept came from in the document (i.e. page, section, line number)?
Establish community in the VK Semantic Wiki:
If you wish to login to this community, you may login using your existing and password
Import SIF Ontology
Suggested Lucian Russell help since he wrote and presented (defended) the SICoP White Paper 3:

14. 9. July 5, 2007 Source: Mills Davis, SICoP Co-Chair:

15. 9. July 5, 2007 Princeton WordNet:
S: (adj) semantic (of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning) "semantic analysis“
S: (n) interoperability ((computer science) the ability to exchange and use information (usually in a large heterogeneous network made up of several local area networks))
Framework:
S: (n) model, theoretical account, framework (a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process) "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"
S: (n) framework, fabric (the underlying structure) "providing a factual framework for future research"; "it is part of the fabric of society"
S: (n) framework (a structure supporting or containing something)
Note: Links are URIs to specific locations for

16. 9. July 5, 2007 DRM 1.0 SICoP unify DRM 3.0
All Three
unify
DRM 3.0
Ontologies
Source: Expanding E-Government, Improved Service Delivery for the American People Using Information Technology, December 2005, pp. 2-3.

17. 9. July 5, 2007

18. 9. July 5, 2007

19. 9. July 5, 2007 DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 Functionalities: Metadata:
Full text of standards, meeting notes, etc.
Harmonization
Different ways in which the same words are used.
Enhanced Search:
Across all standards and showing context (e.g. words around the term or concepts)
Mashups:
A website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience (repurposing).

20. 9. July 5, 2007
Semantic Wikis: The Role of Techno-Social Collaboration in Building DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 for Managing Context Across Multiple Documents and Organizations, SICOP Special Conference, February 6, 2007, Mills Davis, Project10X.

21. 9. July 5, 2007 Extracting Semantic Relationships#
Semantic Relation
Abbr 1
POSSESSION
POS 2
KINSHIP
KIN 3
PROPERTY-ATTRIBUTE HOLDER
PAH 4
AGENT
AGT 5
TEMPORAL
TMP 6
DEPICTION
DPC 7
PART-WHOLE PW 8
HYPONYMY
ISA 9
ENTAIL
ENT 10
CAUSE
CAU 11
MAKE-PRODUCE
MAK 12
INSTRUMENT
INS 13
LOCATION-SPACE
LOC 14
PURPOSE
PRP 15
SOURCE-FROM
SRC 16
TOPIC
TPC 17
MANNER
MNR 18
MEANS
MNS 19
ACCOMPANIMENT-COMPANION
ACC 20
EXPERIENCER
EXP #
Semantic Relation
Abbr 21
RECIPIENT
REC 22
FREQUENCY
FRQ 23
INFLUENCE
IFL 24
ASSOCIATED-WITH / OTHER
OTH 25
MEASURE
MEA 26
SYNONYMY-NAME
SYN 27
ANTONYMY
ANT 28
PROBABILITY-OF-EXISTENCE
PRB 29
POSSIBILITY
PSB 30
CERTAINTY
CRT 31
THEME-PATIENT
THM 32
RESULT
RSL 33
STIMULUS
STI 34
EXTENT
EXT 35
PREDICATE
PRD 36
BELIEF
BLF 37
GOAL
GOL 38
MEANING
MNG 39
JUSTIFICATION
JST 40
EXPLANATION
EXN
Source: LCC Product Polaris Semantic Relations

22. 9. July 5, 2007 SCOPEOnt in TopBraid Composer

23. 9. July 5, 2007 OpenCYC

24. 9. July 5, 2007
John Yanosy, July 3, 2007:
Reg Ford and I have created an SI ontology based on the SCOPE SI dimensions, which is different than the SCOPE ontology. They have two different purposes. The SI ontology is to be able to relate SI concepts to each other and related standards and other artifacts. It provides a conceptual framework to discuss these relationships. The SCOPE ontology is for evaluating a system, organization, etc. to characterize various net centric aspects according to multiple dimensions.
Reg could you send the latest SI ontology to me for further discussion?
The SCOPE document has been updated according to review comments and will undergo a formal review and vote in the NCOIC in the next weeks.
We did have significant use case demonstrations with multiple NCOIC workgroups at different NCOIC Plenaries with Mills Davis and Connor Shankey support.
It would be useful to understand any improvements, but we should not spend time in this meeting on SCOPE in general, except for the SI dimensions, which have much conceptual detail and bear on our task.
It might be useful to be able to capture our metadata for organizations and topics so that we can populate Wiki topics content appropriately.

25. 10. July 12, 2007
Building DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 Knowledgebases: Where Do the Semantics Come From?.
Also see Collaboration on Knowledge Management – Semantic Web Course Materials.
Bob Marcus Paper on SOA Standards Categorized by Interoperability Use Cases re need for Semantics (RDF and OWL) in last page of Table 2. Summary of standards information.
Note: Just Two Page Summary available until about July 30th. Then expect release of full report.
Document: Data Interoperability across the Enterprise - Why
Current Technology Can’t Achieve It added to
Note: Produced by Jim Schoening, Army, and Chair of the Cross-Domain Semantic Interoperability Group of SICoP.
Access to NCOIC SI WG Web Site: Done.

26. 11. July 19, 2007
First Semantic Interoperability Mashup with NCOIC Semantic Interoperability WG, Spatial Ontology CoP, and SICoP, Features Snoogle Demonstration by BBN. Snoogle is a graphical, SWRL-based ontology mapper to assist in the task of OWL ontology alignment. It allows users to visualize ontologies and then draw mappings from one to another on a graphical canvas. Users draw mappings as they see them in their head, and then Snoggle turns these mappings into SWRL/RDF or SWRL/XML for use in a knowledge base. Also see Semantic Web Tools:

27. 12. August 9, 2007
Semantics: A Guide to the Jargon Added to Knowledgebase (see next slide).
SICoP Special Briefing (see slide 29):
NCOIC September Plenary meetings (17-21 in Crystal City, VA):
NCOIC has moved from development of interoperability tools to the application of our processes and guidance by stakeholders.  Come hear from customers who are benefiting from NCOIC analysis tools as they tell about mission support from NCOIC, and their recommendations for further utilization of NCOIC deliverables.  Among those speaking are leaders from FAA’s NextGen program, the global netcentric logistics community, and NATO. You won’t want to miss the discussion of NCOIC’s emerging role in cyber security.

28. 12. August 9, 2007

29. 12. August 9, 2007

30. 13. August 16 Brief SIF WG: Then SOCoP: August 23rd cancelled.
Liked August 9th Special Briefing Summary:
Then SOCoP:
See NGA survey of spatial ontologies and harmonization of sensor standards with OGC:
Suggest adding Open Source Geospatial Foundation:
August 23rd cancelled.

31. 14. August 30, 2007 Suggestions for Upcoming Meetings:
Net-Ready Sensor Use Case:
Include the Spatial Ontology CoP since they are working with geospatial ontologies for SI in the VK Semantic Wiki - see and minutes of their August 16th meeting.
Draw on the content and results from the SICoP Special Briefing for Mike Krieger that Todd participated in:
Draw on the content for the SICoP Special Conference 3 that we were planning for August-September before item 3 intervened:
A small pilot that uses NCIOC Public Web content and/or a previous SICoP or current NCOIC use case for emergency response:
(ComCare and Mike Daconta, DRM 2.0 Lead)
My title: Semantic Interoperability: The What, Why, Who, and How.

32. 15. September 6, 2007
Theme (Distributed Organization: Semantic Interoperability & Distributed Knowledge) and Agenda for September 20th SIF WG Meeting:
08:00-8:30 Semantic Interoperability Topic Map, John Yanosy
08:30-9:30 Topic; Semantic Web Assessment & Patterns, John Yanosy
09:30-10:30 Topic: Logic Overview & Interoperability, Todd Schneider
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Semantic Interoperability: The What, Why, Who, and How, Brand Niemann
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Semantic Social Computing, Mills Davis
2:00-3:00 Panel Discussion – Semantic Interoperability and Distributed Knowledge (All presenters)
Next meeting will be Friday, September 14th.

33. 16. September 14, 2007
Demo of the Knoodl Semantic Wiki this past week:
See “The Essential Role of Data Architecture in Business Architecture & SOA”, William Mancuso, President, Information Management Solutions Consultants and SOA Lead for Business Transformation Agency, at the BrainStorm DC Conference, September 10-13, Uses the Knoodl Semantic Wiki!
The BrainStorm DC Conference, September 10-13, 2007:
Sponsored by the BMPInstitute.Org and the SOAInstutute.Org and includes five conferences in one event:
Business Process Management Conference
Business Architecture Conference
Service-Oriented Architecture Conference
Business Rules Symposium
Organizational Performance Symposium
See list of books on next two slides.

34. 16. September 14, 2007
The Business Rule Revolution: Running the Business the Right Way, Editors: Barbara von Halle and Larry Goldberg, with Guest Contribution from John Zachman, 2006:
Business Process Management (with a Business Rules Approach): Implementing the Service Oriented Architecture, Tom Debevoise:

35. 16. September 14, 2007
The Decision Model: A Business Framework for SOA, Barbara von Halle and Larry Goldberg, 2007:
Process Mapping, Process Improvement, and Process Management: A Practical Guide to Enhancing Work and Information Flow, Dan Madison, 2005:

36. 16. September 14, 2007
NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency, Semantic Interoperability Executive Summary, Version 1.4, August 2007:
Focus on Mediation, Discovery, and Ontology Services.
Very similar to the SICoP HITOP (Health Information Technology Ontology Project) that is using semantic mediation between medical information systems (immediate solution) and ontology building (longer-term solution).
The NCOIC Problem (John Yanosy):
Semantically harmonize the context across the multiple documents of multiple NCOIC WGs that we have been hoping the Semantic Wikis would address and that I tried to address in my recent SCOPE document pilot.
Moresophy addresses this problem:
See