1. 1 Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration SICoP Special Conference 4 CSC Executive Briefing Center Falls Church, VA February 5, 2008

2. 2 Welcome Today is both “Super Tuesday” and … The Second Anniversary of our First SICoP Special at the CSC Executive Briefing Center! Introducing our host: –Paul Davis, VP for Federal Consulting Programs Thanks for the CSC staff behind the scenes that are supporting this conference and thanks to the Program Organizers: –CSC: Paul Davis, John Dodd, John Mazurkiewicz, Ralph Pacheco, Sandra Alexandra, and Brian Chalou. –Bryan Aucoin, Mills Davis, Michael Lang, Brand Niemann, and Lucian Russell.

3. 3 House Rules and Logistics Please wear your name badges at all times. Telephone booths are located along the length of the upper and lower level main halls of the EBC. Dial 9 to reach an outside line. Incoming messages can be left at 703.641.3105, fax: 703.645-2188. Restrooms are also located on the upper and lower level main halls. The entrance is marked for your convenience.

4. 4 Travel and Food Please join us for lunch today in the EBC Dining Room located on the upper level. Ground transportation to the airport can be arranged for you at the conclusion of your meeting. Please see Barbara Kling at the EBC reception desk, on the upper level, during one of your meeting breaks and she will schedule a taxi.

5. 5 Courtesy: You are on Camera! All presentations and comments are being recorded and a DVD will be produced. Microphones will be available for all. –We will repeat short questions for you. Please speak your name and affiliation and speak clearly – it is for the record. A reminder: please turn your cell phones off so they do not interrupt the proceedings.

6. 6 Theme Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration: –Welcome: CSC and SICoP –Part 1: Towards DRM 3.0 Semantic Interoperability –Part 2: Semantic Interoperability with Large Data Stores, Organizations, and Sensor Webs –Part 3: Special Recognitions and Panel Discussion –Part 4: Semantic Wave 2008 Preview –Part 5: Semantic Wiki, Semantic Desktop, and Semantic Spreadsheets Demonstrations –Part 6: NSF Support for Semantic Web Research Update –Closing: Remarks and Thank Yous

7. 7 Semanticommunity.net: Community Infrastructure Sandbox for 2008 The Semantic Communities have used various pieces of infrastructure to support their activities and now we have the opportunity to move forward to make these pieces more versatile and widely available to support the multiple piloting activities of 2008. Theme: Our Space - Connecting Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, SOA, & the Semantic Web for Government 2.0 (Making It Easier to Do!). –See GCN 25 th Anniversary Issue (December 10, 2007) Social networking and the Medici Effect: CSC (December 18, 2007) The SICoP ExperienceSocial networking and the Medici Effect The SICoP Experience –April 30-May 1, 2008, 5 th SOA for E-Government Conference, MITRE, McLean, VA.5 th SOA for E-Government Conference See: http://www.semanticcommunity.com/http://www.semanticcommunity.com/

8. 8 Semanticommunity.net: Community Infrastructure Sandbox for 2008 http://www.semanticcommunity.com/

9. 9 Agenda Please follow these four steps: –1. Log-on at http://semanticommunity.wik.is/A_Welcome http://semanticommunity.wik.is/A_Welcome –2. Click on People (left panel) and Click on New page (toolbar above) to create a Your Name page (see my example) (Add your name to the People page and link your name to Your Name page). –3. Click on Deki Wiki (left panel) and Click on New page (toolbar above) to create a Your Topic page (see my example) (Create a simple table of contents on Your Topic page and Click on New page (toolbar above) to create Subtopic pages for Your Topic page, etc.). –Email mail me with questions and requests for help at niemann.brand@epa.gov.

10. 10 Agenda http://semanticommunity.wik.is/Federal_Semantic_Interoperability_Community_of_Practice

11. 11 Agenda Part 1 (8:30 - 9:45 a.m.): Towards DRM 3.0 Semantic Interoperability BREAK (9:45 - 10:00 a.m.) Part 2 (10:00 – 11:30 a.m.): Semantic Interoperability with Large Data Stores, Organizations, and Sensor Webs Part 3 (11:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon): Special Recognitions and Panel Discussion LUNCH (12:00 noon - 1 p.m.) EBC Dining Room Part 4 (1:00 - 1:30 p.m.): Semantic Wave 2008 Preview Part 5 (1:30 - 3:00 p.m.): Semantic Wiki, Semantic Desktop, and Semantic Spreadsheets Demonstrations Part 6 (3:00 - 3:30 p.m.): NSF Support for Semantic Web Research Update Closing (3:30-3:35 p.m.): Remarks and Thank Yous

12. 12 Agenda Part 1 (8:30 - 9:45 a.m.): Towards DRM 3.0 Semantic Interoperability: –Lucian Russell : DRM overview of Semantic Interoperability (5 minutes). –Prof: Selmer Bringsjord: Using Sorted Logic to overcome schema mismatch (20 minutes). –Lucian Russell: The New Artifact – The Data Descriptor and the New Services of Database Schema Transformation, Query Relaxation and KB Integration (20 minutes). –Dr. Michael Witbrock (remote) – The Cyc Platform: A Representational Seed for a National Knowledge Infrastructure (5 minutes) -longer presentation (and video) was created for the February 6, 2007, meeting. –Bryan Aucoin: Building a Data Layer (20 minutes).

13. 13 Agenda BREAK (9:45 - 10:00 a.m.) Part 2 (10:00 – 11:30 a.m.): Semantic Interoperability with Large Data Stores, Organizations, and Sensor Webs –The Open Web, Billion Triples Challenge and BigData Bryan Thompson (SYSTAP) –Semantics, Interoperability, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium & SICoP Todd Schneider (Raytheon) (also Hans Polzer, Lockheed Martin, John Yanosy, Rockwell-Collins, and Steve Russell, L-3Com) –Semantic Sensor Web Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, Wright State University.

14. 14 Agenda Part 3 (11:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon): –Panel Discussion: Lucian Russell and Brand Niemann: Professor Selmer Bringsjord Bryan Aucoin Bryan Thompson Hans Polzer Steve Ray Frank Olken Special Guest: Edgar Sibley, Distinguished Professor at George Mason: The last 30 years - how semantics was banished from databases and them made its way back!

15. 15 Using Sorted Logic to overcome schema mismatch: By treating a database schema as an ontology, we can relate multiple databases. Rensselaer AI & Reasoning (RAIR) Laboratory, Department of Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Special Recognition Professor Selmer Bringsjord and Andrew Shilliday Federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) Produced in Collaboration With By SICoP Co-Chairs, Mills Davis, Project 10x, and Brand Niemann, U.S. EPA SICoP Special Conference 4 Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration February 5, 2008

16. 16 Flexible, Reliable, Affordable, Web Web-scale computing. “bigdata” is a scale-out storage and computing fabric supporting optional transactions, very high concurrency, and very high aggregate IO rates at SourceForge.Net Chief Scientist, SYSTAP, LLC Special Recognition Bryan Thompson Federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) Produced in Collaboration With By SICoP Co-Chairs, Mills Davis, Project 10x, and Brand Niemann, U.S. EPA SICoP Special Conference 4 Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration February 5, 2008

17. 17 Semantics, Interoperability, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium & SICoP Special Recognition John Yanosy, Rockwell-Collins, Hans Polzer, Lockheed Martin, and Todd Schneider, Raytheon Federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) Produced in Collaboration With By SICoP Co-Chairs, Mills Davis, Project 10x, and Brand Niemann, U.S. EPA SICoP Special Conference 4 Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration February 5, 2008

18. 18 Semantic Web takes big step forward. ComputerWorld, January 16, 2008. Chief Scientist, Cambridge Semantics Special Recognition Lee Feigenbaum, Chair, W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Data Access Working Group Responsible for SPARQL. Federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) Produced in Collaboration With By SICoP Co-Chairs, Mills Davis, Project 10x, and Brand Niemann, U.S. EPA SICoP Special Conference 4 Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration February 5, 2008

19. 19 Agenda LUNCH (12:00 noon - 1 p.m.) EBC Dining Room Part 4 (1:00 - 1:30 p.m.): Introduction by John Mazurkiewicz, CSC. Joint NEO Spiral Development Discussions, Dave Sweet, Boeing. –Semantic Wave 2008 Preview. Mills Davis (Project10x), SICoP Co-Chair (cancelled due to illness) Part 5 (1:30 - 3:00 p.m.): Semantic Wiki, Semantic Desktop, and Semantic Spreadsheets Demonstrations –Brand Niemann for Mills Davis (Project10x), SICoP Co-Chair, Organizer and Moderator. –Michael Lang (Revelytix), Knoodl Semantic Wiki Update –Dr. Marwan Sabbouh (MITRE), A Unifying Approach to COIs, Metadata, and SOA To be rescheduled: Nova Spivak (Radar Networks), Twine Beta. Mills Davis will do - see Video Demo and Mills Davis Review. –Lee Feigenbaum (Cambridge Semantics), Getting to Web Semantics for Spreadsheets in the U.S. Government.

20. 20 Agenda Part 6 (3:00 - 3:30 p.m.): NSF Support for Semantic Web Research Update –Frank Olken (NSF) Closing (3:30-3:35 p.m.): Remarks and Thank Yous –Brand Niemann for Mills Davis (Project10x), SICoP Co-chair Adjourn and Networking