The FEA Data and Information Reference Model DRM: Information Sharing

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The FEA Data and Information Reference Model
(DRM) Information Sharing

• Brand Niemann
• Co-Chair Semantic Interoperability Community of
  Practice (SICoP)
• Best Practices Committee (BPC), CIO Council, and
• Enterprise Architecture Team, Office of
  Environmental Information
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• November 10, 2004

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Overview

• 1. FEA DRM Committee
• 2. Early DRM Pilots
• 3. Early DRM Implementations
• 4. SICoP DRM Pilots

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1. FEA DRM Committee

• As Chair, CIOCs XML Web Services Working Group
• January 22, 2003, Suggestions for the FEA DRM to
  the Chief Architect.
• March 19, 2003, Suggestions for Strengthening the
  FEA DRM to the Chief Architect.
• May 19, 2003, Suggestions for Strengthening the
  DRM to the Chief Architects Special Offsite
  Meeting
• Extending to Support the Joint Government Data
  Information Reference Model (GDIRM), the Business
  Compliance One Stop E-Gov Initiative, ITIPS-II,
  Component Technology Activities, and the
  Geospatial Interoperability Reference Model
  (GIRM).
• As Member of the CIOCs Architecture
  Infrastructure Committee
• April, 2003, Asked by the Chief Architect to Lead
  and Pilot the Joint Government Data Information
  Reference Model (GDIRM) Task in the AIC
  Governance Subcommittee Work Plan.
• November 17, 2003, Asked to Co-Lead the Federal
  Data Management Strategy for the DRM Business
  Driver 4 Resolve Data Semantic Issues That
  Impede Community of Practice Work.
• February 6, 2004, Asked by the Chief Architect to
  Provide Comments at the FEA Discussion Forum on
  the DRM V1.0 Draft, White House Conference
  Center
• Emulate the IC MWG and see the plan outlined at
  the Web-Enabled Government Conference that week
  for creating Volume 2-4 examples with Semantic
  Web technologies and standards.

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FEA DRM Committee(Continued)

• As Co-Chair of the CIOCs Semantic
  Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)
• March 2004, Chartered under the Best Practices
  Committee to promote information
  management/information technology best practices
  for semantic interoperability with semantic
  technologies.
• June 2004, Partnered with the Ontolog Open
  International Forum on Business Ontology and
  initiated a series of pilot projects in support
  of the FEA DRM and a Best Practices Repository
  (http//web-services.gov)
• August 30 and September 8, 2004, Announcement of
  the Semantic Interoperability White Paper Series
  and Release of Module 1 (The Semantic Primer)
  Executive Summary at the Army Knowledge
  Management Conference and the Second Annual
  Conference on Semantic Technologies for
  eGovernment.
• November 4, 2004, Participation in the AICs
  Semantic Interoperability Study Group (SISiG) and
  announcement of the Semantic Web Applications for
  National Security (SWANS) Conference, February
  8-9, 2005, where vendors will present DRM pilot
  projects in Trade Show using RDF and OWL.

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2. Early DRM Pilots

• January 31, 2003, Cognitive Topic Map Web
  Services for the FEA-DRM
• Aggregating Information Across Individual
  Agencies and E-Gov Initiatives.
• March 17-19, 2003, Open Standards/Open Source for
  Federal and State eGovernment Programs
  Conference
• Formal Pilots of the XML Web Services Working
  Group (e.g. IAC MetaMatrix XML Collaborator for
  DHS Integration).
• February 24, 2004, DRM Pilot of the Statistical
  Abstract of the US Prepared for the March 4-5,
  2004, Symposium America's Scorecard The Census
  in an Ever-Changing Nation, Woodrow Wilson
  International Center for Scholars, Ronald Reagan
  Building, Washington, DC.
• April 10, 2004, Semantic Interoperability (Web
  Services) Community of Practice SICoP Chartered
  by the Best Practices Committee
• DRM Pilot for Harmonizing Semantics Across the
  Federal Government.
• April 23, 2004, Global Justice Information-Sharing
  Initiative DRM Pilot Initiated.
• May 4, 2004, Universal Business Language (UBL)
  1.0 DRM Pilot Initiated.
• June 4, 2004, National Infrastructure for
  Community Statistics (NICS) CoP Launched at
  Brookings Institution Meeting
• Relates to the FEA-eGov Act 2002 DRM Pilots and
  the original Data and Statistics Line of
  Business.
• August 13, 2004, Two DRM Ontology Pilots
  Presented to EPA Senior Management (ImageMatters
  and Unicorn).
• October 6, 2004, DON XML Naming Design Rules
  (NDR) DRM Pilot Initiated.

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3. Early DRM Implementations

• October 19, 2004, Collaborative
  Expedition-Emerging Technology Workshop 36 at
  the NSF
• Evolving a Multi-Stakeholder Best Practices
  Process for Implementing An FEA DRM XML Profile
• Mike Daconta, Metadata Program Manager, US
  Department of Homeland Security and Executive
  Order 13356 Task 5 Lead (Data Interoperability)
  (See slide 7).
• DRM for Info-Sharing, Comments on Draft DRM, and
  suggested use case scenario for implementation in
  the Protege Knowledgebase and Ontology Editor by
  Holger Knublauch, representative OntologForum /
  Stanford (SMI) Protege Project and developer of
  the OWL plug-in for Protégé (See slide 8).
• Agency Perspectives
• Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group (IC
  MWG) See slide 9.
• DOJ Already implementing with CoPs (see
  September 16, 2004, IAC Meeting).
• DOI Already implementing (big payback from
  eliminating redundancies).
• OASIS Have some suggested refinements for
  December 9th Workshop.
• TopQuadrant Toward An FEA DRM Ontology (like
  work for NASA with TopBraid-Web-based multi-user
  environment for the distributed authoring of
  ontologies) (See slide 10).
• Note October 20, 2004, Data Reference Model
  (DRM) Volume 1.0 Released - Just a Day After!

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Revised DRM Structure
Source Designing the FEA DRM for Information
Sharing, October 9, 2004, Michael C. Daconta,
Metadata Program Manager, US Department of
Homeland Security.
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Protégé Visualization - ezOWL
Source The Protégé System, Holger Knublauch,
Stanford Medical Informatics, Collaborative
Expedition Workshop, NSF, October 19, 2004.
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3. Early DRM Implementations

• Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group (IC
  MWG)
• Standards being implemented in support of the IC
  and the new Executive Order 13356 (Lead Tasks 3A
  and 3B)
• IC Core, IC ISM, TWPDES
• See http//www.xml.saic.com/icml/.
• Tearline specification
• not available on an unclassified web site.
• XML Multi-Domain Document
• Not available. The documentation is under
  development. Should be available in a week or so.
• DDMS
• See the DoD Metadata Registry site at
  http//metadata.dod.mil. (Go to the bottom right
  side of the home page.)
• Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM)
• http//it.ojp.gov/jxdm/

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Source Toward an FEA DRM Ontology, Ralph
Hodgson, TopQuadrant, Collaborative Expedition
Workshop, NSF, October 19, 2004.
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4. SICoP DRM Pilots

• Federal Region 4 Semantic Interoperability Pilot
  Project Community of Practice and Plans,
  Semantic Interoperability SiG Study Group
  (SISiG), Architecture and Infrastructure
  Committee (AIC), CIO Council, October 28 and
  November 4, 2004
• Dynamic Knowledge Repository (Best Practices)
• Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP).
• Emerging Technology XML CoP / SICoP Pilots at
  the XML 2004 Conference, November 15-19th, and at
  the Semantic Web Applications for National
  Security (SWANS) Conference, February 8-9, 2005
• RDF/RSS feeds on emerging technology components.
• RDF/OWL relationships from the semantic
  interoperability vendors and their pilots.

Note A Best Practice Model is FOAF-a-matic at
http//www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic.html
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Dynamic Knowledge Repository (Best Practices)
Note This addresses Network Steering Board
Lessons Learned 3 The Essential Role of Network
Publishing. See http//web-services.gov, Best
Practices Repository
Enterprise Ontology and Web Services Registry
Dynamic Resources
Semantic Web Services
Web Services
Static Resources
WWW
Semantic Web
Source Derived in part from two separate
presentations at the Web Services One Conference
2002 by Dieter Fensel and Dragan Sretenovic.
Interoperable Syntax
Interoperable Semantics
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Dynamic Knowledge Repository (Best Practices)
Content gives us the semantics
(taxonomy/ontology) the interoperability, Adam
Pease, SICoP Meeting at MITRE, May 19,
2004. Structure comes from the content
itself, The Large Document Problem, Lucian
Russell, Categorization of Government Information
WG Meeting, 5/10/04.
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Dynamic Knowledge Repository (Best Practices)
See http//web-services.gov, Dynamic Knowledge
Repositories, Best Practices
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OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets
OASIS Web Services for Remote Portals Web Site
http//oasis-open.org/committees/wsrp
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Syndication of Feeds
Source Bill Kearney, Syndic8, November 5, 2004.
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Decentralize, But Connectable Architecture
BrowseQueryAnalyzeApp RSS feed
RSS News Reader
RDF Data Server (e.g. Tucana Knowledge Server
RSS News Syndication
Crawler
Ontology-based Web Forms
RSS/RDF Thing File
RSS/RDF Thing File
RSS/RDF Thing File
RSS/RDF Thing File
Source Demo for SWANS Conference February 2005,
Brownell Chalstrom, November 5, 2004.
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W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
Working Group

• David Wood, Co-Chair, Member of SICoP, and CTO,
  Tucana Technologies.
• The weblog includes a list of Applications and
  Demos, for the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices
  and Deployment working group Applications and
  Demos taskforce
• http//esw.w3.org/mt/esw/archives/cat_applications
  _and_demos.html
• Tim Berners-Lee, What the Semantic Web Can
  Represent, September 1998
• The Semantic Web is what we will get if we
  perform the same globalization process to
  knowledge Representation that the Web initially
  did to hypertext.
• We remove the centralized concepts of absolute
  truth, total knowledge, and total provability,
  and see what we can do with limited knowledge.
• http//www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html