1. U.S. General Services Administration Collaborative Expedition Workshop #75 August 19, 2008 The Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Scientific Knowledge: Emergence, Validation, and Peer Review Susan Turnbull, GSA

2. 2 Collaborative Expedition Workshops Purpose: Monthly open workshops to transcend insularity, encourage collaboration and demonstrate promising capabilities emerging from IT research and development 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”

3. 3 Collaborative Expedition Workshops Create conducive conditions for “Breakthrough” Innovations Need to Know -> Need to Share -> Build to Share To be Informed (not Overwhelmed) –by the Combined Complexity of our multiple forms of Expertise Communities of Practice Agile Framework for Building Intergovernmental Services Open Collaboration, Open Standards

4. 4 VASA – 1628 In design we either hobble or support people’s natural ability to express forms of expertise.

5. 5 Building Sustainable Stewardship Practices Across Communities Collaborative Expedition Workshops and Collaborative Work Environment (http://www.gsa.gov/collaborate) Co-sponsors: –1. GSA's Intergovernmental Solutions Office –2. Emerging Technology SC (ETSC), Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the Federal CIO Council – http://cio.gov –3. Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology R & D (NITRD) CGs: including Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development (SEW), Human-Computer Interaction-Information Management (HCI-IM) and High End Computing (HEC) – http://nitrd.gov

6. 6 Emerging Technology Subcommittee (ET SC), CIO Council Tuning ET Together From Stovepipes to Wind Chimes Purpose: “Incubator” organizing process to accelerate shared discovery, maturation, and validation of community-based capabilities. Common understanding of scenarios Greater foresight and discernment Improved collaboration Sustainable life-cycles

7. 7 Emerging Technology Subcommittee - ET SC Key FY08 Activities 1.Conduct Collaborative Expedition Workshops with GSA and Subcommittee on Networking for IT Research and Development 2.Conduct ET Life-cycle process – http://ET.gov (StratML)StratML ET SC Co-chairs Susan TurnbullRichard Spivack Susan.turnbull@gsa.govRichard.Spivack@nist.gov 202-501-6214301-975-5063

8. 8 Key FY08 Activities 1. Conduct Collaborative Expedition WorkshopsCollaborative Expedition Workshops Purpose: Monthly open workshops to encourage collaboration among government and community implementers of IT and to demonstrate promising capabilities emerging from IT research that aligns with FEA principles “Facilitate strategic dialogue among communities of interest. Through the Expedition Workshops, sponsored by AIC, interested participants experience and learn about new opportunities to adhere to sound architectural principles and implement shared, service- oriented solutions.” from CIOC Strategic Plan Leadership in virtual collaboration (i.e. Data Reference Model, Geospatial Profile) Key FY08 Activities/Deliverables 1.Organize around business scenarios from ET.gov & IT R&D communities that address CIOC Strategic Plan and Architecture Principles for the US Government.IT R&D communities 2.Organize around CIO requests. ET SC co-chairs SEW CG co-chairs Susan Turnbull, ET SC Susan.Turnbull@gsa.gov Susan Turnbull, SEW Susan.Turnbull@gsa.gov Richard Spivack, ET SC Richard.Spivak@nist.gov Suzi Iacono, SEW siacono@nsf.gov

9. 9 Key FY08 Activities 2. Conduct http://ET.govhttp://ET.gov Purpose: “Continue to develop more efficient and effective methods for sharing information on emerging technologies.” CIOC Strategic Plan ET.gov stages: 1. Identification: anyone registers ET component using XML schema 2. Subscription: community forms around high potential component 3. Stewardship: community recognized by ET SC (i.e. IPv6, StratML)StratML 4. Graduation: component recognized by Services SC for inclusion in CORE.gov Key FY08 Actions 1.Explore partnering with other federal settings involved in technology evaluation and transfer 2.Conduct Collaborative Expedition workshops to support networking among ET communities Contact Information Jim Disbrow, Program Mgr. http://ET.gov Susan Turnbull Susan.Turnbull@gsa.gov Jim.Disbrow@eia.doe.govRichard Spivack, Richard.Spivack@nist.gov 202-586-1868

10. 10 Lessons Learned Connecting the Cultural DOTs - Dialogue, Openness, Transparency 1. Create environment to appreciate the “whole picture” – transcend insularity 2. Practice plausible scenarios “on Purpose” –Monthly public workshops, no fee, supports remote participants (shared screen, chat room) and public archive, including audio files, discussion forum –Assume strategic leadership roles while “thinking out loud together” 3. Shared Purpose is the organizing force in public workshops –Purpose that is larger than any organization – including government; influences structure and participation more than lines of control

11. 11 Lessons Learned – Summary of Purpose Improved Ability to Appreciate the Whole Picture –overcome cultural differences in order to increase returns and decrease risk Improved Ability to Engage in Sustained Dialogue –low-cost, low risk opportunities to dialogue and exchange views on emerging issues, enabling trust and mutual sense of purpose to meet future challenges together Improved Resource Allocation Process for Achieving Results –find common ground and shared understanding across funding, implementation, and accountability processes, to eliminate delays, disincentives, and indecisiveness from non-aligned processes

12. 12 Lessons Learned – Organizing via Communities of Practice Collaborative Space Augments  Solid Past contributions and conversations always available Content never lost, wiki changes visible/ accountable by name High confidence level in 24/7 availability Hosted on high performance infrastructure Platform independent Any file format in shared repository fine-grained access – “virtual pointer on infinite whiteboard“ (persistent identifiers) People’s Natural Ability for Dialogue and Sharing Fluid Augments flow of purposeful conversations Sharing is paramount Context advances understanding Supports quality of dialogue, openness and transparency needed to build trust Supports CoP planning and development of events and documents Uses only everyday tools: phone and browser Open or closed communities Community sets the pace

13. 13 Key Findings Building Sustainable Stewardship Practices Across Communities FY03 - Agile business components not easily discovered by e- government managers resulting in lost opportunities FY04 - Emerging Technologies (web services, grid computing, and semantic web) to tune up Innovation Pipeline with better linkages. FY05 - Collaborative Work Environment (including wiki) expands effective networking across intergovernmental communities FY06-07 – Diverse Communities co-organizing the workshops FY08- Practicing alignment with “real” national scenarios and joint workshops with NITRD Subcommittee Coordinating Groups ( Networking for Multiplicative Returns) –Building shared understanding of fundamental concepts needed for communities representing diverse forms of expertise, to work together to leverage toward improved citizen service delivery at lower cost.

14. 14 Going Forward: From Stovepipes to Wind-Chimes "Frontier Outpost" to open up quality conversations, augmented by “light-weight” tools, to leverage collaborative capacity of united, but diverse sectors of society, seeking to discover, frame, and act on national potentials. 73 workshops since March, 2001 60-80 participants per workshop, many Communities of Practice Wiki, shared files, discussion forum, chat room, shared screen display FY06: 1.1 million visits to site, 3.88 million file downloads, FY07: 1.7 million visits to site, 5.62 million file downloads FY08 Alignment: Networking for Multiplicative Returns –Building shared understanding of fundamental concepts needed for communities representing diverse forms of expertise, to work together to leverage toward improved citizen service delivery at lower cost.

15. 15 Common Workshop Questions How can multiple Communities of Practice (CoP) organize around common mission needs to build shared understanding in a manner that encourages creativity, trust, agility, and greater value from assets? How can shared understanding around urgent cross-boundary scenarios be accelerated and what is the role of collaborative prototyping? How can maturing, light-weight (Web 2.0) tools support governance and transformational potential of inter-organizational communities and their host institutions? Workshop Questions 2008Workshop Questions 2008

16. 16 Today’s Workshop 8:30am - Check-in and Coffee 8:45am - Welcome and Introduction Susan Turnbull, GSA, Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee, AIC and Co-chair, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development Working Group, Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD SEW) Richard N. Spivack, Ph.D., Economist, Impact Analysis Office, Technology Innovation Program, NIST and Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee, AIC

17. 17 Today’s Workshop 9:00am - Introduction to NOAAWatch: How to Deploy a Light- weight Aggregator for Science News and Information Exchange Among Multiple Science Agencies, Ron Jones, Internet Projects Specialist, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 9:45am - Q&A and Discussion 10:00am - Break 10:15am – How to Create Multi-media Presentations for Multi- modality Access (Section 508 compliant), Ron Jones, Internet Projects Specialist, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

18. 18 Today’s Workshop 11:00am - Introduction to gRAVI: How to Deploy Light-weight "Virtual Interface" Services to Accommodate Rapid Access and Use of Diverse Tools Ravi K. Madduri, The Globus Alliance, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago and Brian Tieman, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory 11:45pm – Q&A and Discussion 12:00pm – Networking Lunch 1:00pm - How to Deploy a Light-weight, Context-Linked Event Notification System to Reduce Uncertainty in Time-sensitive, Cross-cultural, Scientific Collaborations, Cecilia R. Aragon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1:45pm - Q&A and Discussion

19. 19 Today’s Workshop 1:45pm - Q&A and Discussion 2:00pm - BREAK 2:30pm - Break-out Sessions 3:30pm - Report out from Break-out Sessions 4:15pm - ADJOURN

20. 20 Invitation to Upcoming Expedition Workshops Sept. 16 - Science of Science and Innovation Policy Oct. 7 - Exploring the Virtual Organization Landscape: Cyberinfrastructure Readiness for Emergency Response Nov. 3 - Potentials and Realities of Green IT Dec. 17 - Science of Science and Innovation Policy Contact Susan.Turnbull at gsa.gov 202-501-6214 Questions?? Discussion