1. 1 Collaborative Expedition Workshop #37: Toward Coherence in Knowledge Through All Things Ontological: Making Sense Together December 9, 2004 National Science Foundation Room 375, Stafford I Ballston, VA

2. 2 Introduction to Collaborative Expedition Workshop Series Learning opportunities for individuals and policy- makers from all sectors: government, business, and non-government organizations Practice Intergovernmental Collaboration to advance Citizen-Centric Government Goal of President's Management Agenda Accelerate multi-sector partnerships around IT capabilities to help government work better on behalf of all citizens

3. 3 Introduction Organize participation around common purpose, larger than any institution, including government. Learn to appreciate multiple perspectives around potentials and realities of a larger “purpose” Improve quality of dialogue and collaborations at crossroads of Intergovernmental Initiatives, Communities of Practice, Federal IT research, State and Local government Subsequent actions of participants, representing many forms of expertise, expressed more effectively in their respective settings

4. 4 Introduction Create conducive conditions for “breakthrough” innovations in government and community services such as emergency preparedness, environmental monitoring, healthcare and law enforcement: –Authoritative Communities of Practice around Common Business Lines –Agile Framework for Building Intergovernmental Services –Emergence of Open Standards, Semantic Technology “to distill” context-aware data and services needed by people and machines to solve problems within complex, adaptive systems “In design we either hobble or support people’s natural ability to express forms of expertise.” Prof. David D. Woods

5. 5 Introduction Key FY03 Finding: –Many agile business components surfacing in innovative settings –Not easily discovered by e-government managers, resulting in lost or delayed opportunities for all parties. To address this potential, a quarterly Emerging Components Conference Series was established in FY04 –Four national dialogue conferences have been held: two at the White House Conference Center, one at the Washington DC Convention Center and one at MITRE. –Next conference on Oct. 25, for more information see: http://componenttechnology.org.

6. 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

7. 7 Introduction Workshop Sponsors: –General Services Administration's Office of Intergovernmental Solutions. –Architecture and Infrastructure and Best Practices Committees of the Federal CIO Council. –National Coordination Office of the Interagency Committee on IT R&D (Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development (SEW) Coordinating Group). 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.

8. 8 Introduction Past Workshop Archives, Collaborative Pilots, and Related Resources: –http://ua-exp.gov –http://colab.cim3.net –http://web-services.gov –http://componenttechnology.org* –http://www.gsa.gov/intergov* –http://www.itrd.gov* See Brief Tour of Highlights*: –http://colab.cim3.net/cgi- bin/wiki.pl?BestPracticeProcessforImplementingFEA_Data_Reference_ Model_XMLProfile_2004_10_19#nid3ZX

9. 9 Introduction Upcoming Events: –Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS) Conference, February 8-9, 2005, Washington, DC Area. –February, 2005, Collaborative Expedition- Emerging Technology Workshop #38 at the NSF. –Sixth Emerging Technology Components Conference, March 2005: See Componenttechnology.Org for details.

10. 10 Introduction To help our Enterprise Architecture, Emerging Technology, and Federal Networking and Information Technology Research & Development (NITRD) communities explore an expanded context for advancing intergovernmental mechanisms in light of convergence challenges relevant to e-Government. Exploration will include how to evolve multi-stakeholder best practice processes for implementing a Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model XML Profile. In addition we'll have hands-on introduction to Semantic Technology tools and demonstrations of new Open Standards Web Applications.

11. 11 Agenda 8:30 a.m. - Check-in, Box Lunch Order ($8.00/person) and Coffee 9:00 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction – Networking of the Communities of Practice: –Susan Turnbull, GSA, Co-Chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Social Economic and Workforce Implications of IT Coordinating Group, NITRD. –John McManus, NASA, Co-Chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and CTO, NASA. –Brand Niemann, EPA, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Semantic Interoperability CoP. –Pat Cassidy, Common Upper Ontology WG and The MITRE Corporation. –Owen Ambur, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Government XML CoP, Emerging Technology Life- Cycle Management Process.

12. 12 Agenda 9:00 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction (continued): –Ira Grossman, Chair, Chief Architects' Forum, (AIC) and Chief Enterprise Architect, NOAA. 15 Minute Introduction to the Chief Architects' Forum. –Peter Yim, Ontolog Forum. –Kathy Covert, Project Manager, Geospatial Digital Rights Management Policy Forum and member, Federal Geospatial Data Consortium. –Andy Reamer, Coordinator, National Infrastructure for Community Statistics Community of Practice.

13. 13 Agenda 9:30 a.m. - Summary Briefing from the Semantic Interoperability Study Group of the AIC – Susan Turnbull, Lead, Brand Niemann, Owen Ambur and other team members (to be determined): –Some Key Questions: 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 tune up together around their information sharing capacities? –Implementation Demonstration: The FEA Reference Model Ontology, Rick Murphy, GSA Office of the CIO.

14. 14 Agenda 9:30 a.m. (continued): –Audience Survey - First Vote Only Yes or No, Then Discuss, and Finally Vote Again: Do you agree with this statement?: –Dr. Tom Gruber: "Every Ontology is a treaty - a social agreement among people with some common motive in sharing." Do you agree on which communities need to be involved and how?: –Dr. Tom Gruber - "If the ontologies are to enable software interoperability of reasonably complex programs, I would say that it requires highly technical people - trained in architecture and systems thinking - to be involved...At the same time, "non- technical" people must also be involved in an ontology design process, if they hold the vision about what these interoperating programs are going to do for us." 10:15 A.M. BREAK

15. 15 Agenda 10:30 a.m.- Community Perspectives: Potentials and Realities for Building our Knowledge Sharing Capacity with Standard Vocabularies and Ontologies in Health Care and Defense: –Standard Vocabularies in Health Care, Kathy Lesh, RN, EdM, MS, Technical Manager, Clinical Informatics, Kevric. –Upper Ontologies, Patrick Cassidy, The MITRE Corporation and the Common Upper Ontology Working Group. 11:30 a.m. - Who is Here? Who is Missing? What's the News from CoPs? –DAML PI Conference (November 30-December 2) Report. –Swans Conference Preview (Planning Committee). –Ontolog Forum report on the EIDX "Semantic Harmonization" panel and discussion session (Dec. 1, 2004, Menlo Park, CA). –Request for Information by the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Development and Adoption of a National Health Information Network, November 15, 2004.

16. 16 Agenda 12:00-1:00 PM - Networking Lunch 1:00 p.m. - Perspectives from Individual Innovators at the Workshop: –Some Key Questions: How can Open Standards Tools Advance Information Sharing and Strategic Access to Disparate Information Assets? How can we Achieve Coherency in Shared Knowledge through Smarter Data Flows that Include Machine Inferencing Around Similarity/ Difference Relationships? –Implementation Demonstration: The Tucana Knowledge Server and Ontology Designer, Jim Rogers and Tom Adams, Tucana Technologies.

17. 17 Agenda 1:45 p.m. - Keynote Presentation: Building ontologies from the ground up - When users set out to model their professional activity: –Mark Musen, Head of Stanford Medical Informatics (SMI) and Founder of the Protégé Project. –Note: This will be a joint virtual session with the members of the Ontolog Forum. 2:45 p.m. - BREAK 3:00 p.m. - Demonstrations of New Open Standards Technologies with Health Care Use Case: –Carl Mattocks, CEO, CHECKMi Semantically Smart Compendiums, Co-Chair OASIS (ISO/TS 15000) ebXML Registry Semantic Content SC and Co-Chair OASIS Business Centric Methodology TC: Ontology Pragmatics: BCM & eBusiness Registry/Repository.

18. 18 Agenda 3:00 p.m. - Demonstrations of New Open Standards Technologies with Health Care Use Case (continued): –Professor Asuman Dogac, Director, Software R&D Center, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Artemis Project: A Semantic Web Service-based P2P Infrastructure for the Interoperability of Medical Information Systems. 4:00 p.m. - Reflections from workshop presenters and participants. –Audience Survey Again: Vote Only Yes or No. 4:15 p.m. - ADJOURN