Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice Enablement SCOPE for Meet the Local VCs and Angels

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Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice
Enablement (SCOPE) for Meet the Local VCs and
Angels

• George Washington University Club
• 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
• January 27, 2005

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Overview

• There is a 100 billion government technology
  market!
• Providing technology to the government is done
  best as a public-private partnership to
  accomplish not only faster, better, and
  cheaper, but especially interoperability with
  what the government already has.
• The public sector needs to communicate its
  business and technology needs clearly to the
  private sector for this partnership to begin.
• The private sector needs to communicate its
  emerging technology in pilots effectively to the
  public sector for this partnership to succeed.

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Overview

• A Recent Quote
• The three purposes of Enterprise Architecture
  are to
• Reduce redundant IT applications
• Increase interoperability and
• Facilitate business improvement.
• A Logical Question
• What is the government doing to foster improved
  communication about emerging technology adoption
  for enterprise interoperability?

Patrick Plunkett, Co-Chair, CIO Council Best
Practices Committees Community of Practice for
IT Performance Measurement, January 12, 2005.
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Enterprise Interoperability Model
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Organizational Interoperability
Open Collaboration with Open Standards
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Technical Interoperability
An Emerging Technology Components Marketplace
for eGovernment
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The Collaboration Zone
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Semantic Interoperability

• Community of Practice (SICoP) Chartered Under the
  CIO Councils Best Practices Committee
• White Papers, Pilots, and Workshops/Conferences
  for Implementation.
• White Paper Series
• Module 1 Introducing Semantic Technologies and
  the Vision of the Semantic Web
• See Collaboration Wiki at http//colab.cim3.net/cg
  i-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP.
• Pilots
• Featured at the Annual Semantic Technologies for
  E-Government Conferences
• September 8, 2003, and September 8-9, 2004
  (Public-Private Partnerships with TopQuadrant,
  MITRE, Unicorn, IDEAlliance, etc.).
• Being implemented by the US Department of
  Homeland Security, Metadata Center of Excellence
  and others.

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Semantic Web Applications for National Security
(SWANS) Conference

• April 7th
• DARPA Kickoff
• Keynotes
• Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
• John Gilligan, Air Force CIO
• Semantic Web Resources
• Luncheon Speaker
• Jim Hendler, U. MD
• Demonstrations
• Introductions
• Pilot Program Elements
• Pilot Experience Panel
• Demonstrations (Evening)
• Early Adopters

• April 8th
• DARPA Introduction
• Keynotes
• Steve Cooper, DHS CIO, and Mike Daconta, DHS
  Metadata Program Manager
• General Steve Boutelle, US Army CIO
• Business Use Case
• Mills Davis, TopQuadrant
• Remainder of the Day
• Trade Show (30 Vendors that use RDF/OWL!)
• Tutorials
• Pilot Program Advice

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Ontologies for Semantic Interoperability in
Enterprise Architecture

• Gartner identified taxonomies/ontologies as one
  of the leading IT technologies, ranking it third
  in its list of the top ten technologies forecast
  for 2005.
• Ontologies are being used by business and
  government to help define and implement
  enterprise-level architecture frameworks that can
  enable the coherent interplay of information
  systems within an enterprise environment.

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Ontologies for Semantic Interoperability in
Enterprise Architecture
Data Reference Model Data Evolution Timeline
GIGO/minis/micros
www / Netscape
Web services
OWL
Age of Programs
Age of Proprietary Data
Age of Semantic Models
Age of Open Data
Age of Open Metadata
Program-Data
Text, Office Docs Databases (proprietary schema)
HTML, XML (open schema)
Namespaces, Taxonomies, RDF
Ontologies Inference
1945 -1970
2000 - 2003
1994 - 2000
1970 - 1994
2003 -
Procedural Programming
Object-Oriented Programming
Model-Driven Programming
Data is less important than code
Data is as important as code
Data is more important than code
Michael Daconta, Creating Relevance and Reuse
with Targeted Semantics, XML 2004 Conference
Keynote, November 16, 2004.