NICS Executive Committee Meeting: A DRM 2'0 Best Practice Example

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NICS Executive Committee Meeting A DRM 2.0 Best
Practice Example

• Brand Niemann (US EPA), Chair,
• Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice
  (SICoP)
• Best Practices Committee (BPC), CIO Council
• February 23, 2006, for March 16, 2006
• http//web-services.gov/ and
• http//colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP
• http//colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DRMImplement
  ationThroughIterationandTestingPilotProjects

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Overview

• The National Infrastructure for Community
  Statistics Americas Data Exchange
• NICS is an Internet-based nationwide marketplace
  for the exchange of community-level datasets and
  the tools with which to analyze these data.
• 344 regions, its 3,141 counties, its 14,310
  school districts, its 19,452 incorporated places,
  and its thousands on thousands of neighborhoods
  within these.
• An important tool in this large-scale increase in
  public capacity for local data analysis is the
  community information system, an electronic
  intermediary providing access to data for small
  areas (such as neighborhoods) on multiple topics
  from multiple sources.
• NICS has three defining elements distributed
  data system, sufficient metadata, and software
  tools and to guides for participating in NICS.

Source Andrew Reamer, February 2006, 11 pages.
See http//www.nicsweb.org
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CIA Fact Book and NICSWeb
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CIA Fact Book

• CIA Fact Book
• See http//www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
  index.html
• Updated periodically throughout the year.
• Lots of Metadata (Notes and Definitions and
  Appendices)
• Use of Multiple taxonomies
• 270 County Profiles by Alphabet Plus Worlds and
  Other
• Nine Categories Introduction, Geography, People,
  Government, Economy, Communications,
  Transportation, Military, and Transnational
  Issues
• Rank order statistics for 48 sub-categories in 6
  of 9 categories.
• See Bryan Aucoin, Service Oriented Architecture,
  Information Sharing and the FEA DRM, January 24,
  2006 (next slide).

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DRM 2.0 and Metadata

• I. Manage Structured Data
• II. Retrieval and Analysis
• III. Authoring
• IV. Document Management

Source Bryan Aucoin, Service Oriented
Architecture, Information Sharing and the FEA
DRM, January 24, 2006, slide 9.
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DRM 2.0 and Metadata
This Data Architecture Provides the Three Ss
Structure, Searchability, and Semantics.
See http//web-services.gov and Dynamic Knowledge
Repositories
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DRM 2.0 and Metadata
Federated Search of All DRM Taxonomy Nodes
See next slide for explanation.
Query of CIA Fact Book Taxonomy Nodes
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DRM 2.0 and Metadata

• Query of CIA Fact Book Taxonomy Nodes
• This is the Expert Search Form Interface in the
  Web Browser where the (1) left pane has the
  hierarchical table of contents structure in the
  left pane where the document (s) and their
  subsections are selected for search and the (2)
  right pane has the boxes for the actual search
  query terms (IHO 23-4th), number of words about
  the highlighted search terms that are desired
  (none), the search execution button, and the
  query syntax explanation.
• Federated Search of All DRM Taxonomy Nodes
• This is the same as item 2 above, except that a
  different set of boxes are checked in the (1)
  left pane (the entire DRM Node) and a different
  query (ontology) and number of words about the
  highlighted search terms that are desired (five)
  are used in the (2) right pane.

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DRM 2.0 and Metadata
Data Story
Metamodel
Model
Metadata
Data
Note Can Highlight Table and Copy and Paste to
Spreadsheet Because of XML Markup.
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Suggestions for NICS

• 1. Work with a Cross-section of Community
  Indicator Consortium Members to Pilot a CIA Fact
  Book Type NICSWeb Presence.
• 2. Begin to Standardize the Categories,
  Indicators, and Metadata Across the CIC in a
  Second Iteration of the Pilot.
• 3. Begin to Link to the Actual Data Sets in a
  Third Iteration of the Pilot.