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= Collaborative Expedition Workshop #38, February 22, 2005 at NSF {nid 8XT} =

== Semantic Conflict, Mapping, and Enablement: Making Commitments Together {nid 8RO} ==

== DRAFT AGENDA (as of January 3, 2005) {nid 8RP} ==

== Purpose/ Description {nid 8XU} ==

In the realm of semantic technologies, conflict and context is the crux of everything. In light of this reality what is the potential for creating Public Information Environments that Strengthen Citizen-Government Relationships? The reason why semantic technologies exist at all is because of the unavoidable fact of semantic conflict. Software engineers cannot escape it; business leaders pay a helfy price because of it. The only way semantic conflict can be dealt with successfully is by fully understanding the context in which the conflict exists. In fact, context is crucial regardless of whether software engineers program a solution in a popular programming language or model the solution in a scalable data representation modeling language. So, whether Java is used or OWL is used, the engineer and analysts will always have to understand the business context that created a given data conflict.
Source: [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471488542.html Chapter 5. Semantic Conflict Solution Patterns in "Adaptive Information – Improving Business Through Semantic Interoperability, Grid Computing & Enterprise Integration,"] Wiley-Interscience by Pollack and Hodgson. {nid 8RQ}

== /AdditionalContextualBackground - from the Network of Communities of Practice {nid 8XV} ==

== /VenueLogistics_2005_02_22 {nid 8Y4} ==

== Attendees {nid 8Y5} ==

* see: /WorkshopAttendees_2005_02_22 {nid 8Y6}

== 1. Agenda {nid 8Y7} ==

''8:30 a.m.'' - '''Check-in, Lunch Order ($8.00/person) and Coffee''' {nid 8Y8}

''8:45 a.m.'' - '''Welcome and Introduction''' {nid 8Y9}

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** SusanTurnbull, GSA, Co-Chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, Social Economic and Workforce Implications of IT Coordinating Group, NITRD {nid 8YB}
** BrandNiemann, EPA, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, [http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP Semantic Interoperability CoP] {nid 8YC}
** JohnMcManus, NASA, Co-Chair, Emerging Technology Subcomittee (AIC) and CTO, NASA {nid 8YD}
** OwenAmbur, Emerging Technology Subcommittee (AIC) and Co-Chair, [http://xml.gov Government XML CoP], [http://xml.gov/documents/completed/etsc1/index.htm Emerging Technology Life-Cycle Management Process] {nid 8YE}
** IraGrossman, Chair, [http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ChiefArchtitectsForum Chief Architects' Forum], (AIC) and Chief Enterprise Architect, NOAA {nid 8YF}
** PeterYim, [http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/ Ontolog Forum] {nid 8YG}
** AndyReamer, [http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NationalInfrastructureforCommunityStatistics National Infrastructure for Community Statistics Community of Practice] {nid 8YH}

''9:00 a.m.'' - '''Networking the Communities of Practice:''' {nid 8YI}

* Featuring brief report on NASA's nearly 300 CoPs mentioned at the December 9th Workshop (INVITED) {nid 8RS}

''9:30 a.m.''- '''Collaborative Approach to Ontology Design''' {nid 8YJ}

Collaborative ontology design promotes ontological commitments and provides a mechanism whereby multiple individuals' viewpoints about the domain are considered, possibly coupled with an initial ontology as an anchor (c.f. [http://sine.cim3.net/file/work/code/Ontology%20Oriented/p42-holsapple.pdf A Collaborative Approach to Ontology Design], Clyde W. Holsapple and Joshi, K.D., Communications of the ACM, February 2002, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 42 - 47.) {nid 8YK}

:'''COVE - Collaborative Ontology Visualization and Evolution, TopQuadrant (Allemang, Polikoff, and Hodgson) and NASA Ames Research Center (Keller, Duley, and Chang)''' (INVITED) Large aerospace efforts have intense requirements for semantic collaboration, in order to enhance project communication and reduce mission risk. The key element in this approach is the Ontology - a strucutured set of concepts and relationships between them that allow data from different souces to interact, in predictable and consistent ways. The first generation of COVE addresses design and reuse of ontologies and has produced promising case studies. The next generation of COVE will build on the first phase to provide comprehensive support throughout the engineering and mission support lifecycle. {nid 8RW}

* Some key questions for discussion: {nid 8RX}
** Can the five approaches to ontology design (inspirational, induction, eduction, synthesis, and collaboration) be used in the government context to gain ontological committments (social contracts) to begin the ontological engineering process in support of enterprise architecture? {nid 8S2}
** Can workflow move from document creation to model creation? {nid 8S3}
** Can a model-based approach to sharing meaningful information between knowledge workers be implemented? {nid 8S5}

''10:15 a.m.'' - '''BREAK''' {nid 8YL}

''10:30 a.m.''- '''Community Perspectives:''' {nid 8YM}

<nowiki>PolicyNet</nowiki>, is a content management and delivery system designed for the SSA's 70,000 front-line employees, that has moved to a pilot status for online disability cases using an ontology of SSA knowledge along with an RDF metadata engine that seaches an XML database. About 250,000 pages of manuals and documents were broken down into a more granular form and tagged with XML by about six subject matter experts and field employees familiar with disability filings to help case workers find bits of information for common scenarios that case workers encounter. {nid 8SF}

* [http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2004/slides/degler&hynes/Policy%20Content%20at%20SSA%20Using%20XML%20and%20Semantic%20Metadata.pdf Policy Content at SSA: Using XML and Semantic Metadata] Terry Haines, <nowiki>PolicyNet</nowiki>, Program Manager, Social Security Administration, and Duane Degler, Strategic Designer, <nowiki>Lockhead Martin/IPGems</nowiki> (INVITED) {nid 8SK}
* [http://protege.stanford.edu/ontologies/ontologies.html The Protege Ontologies Library] contains [http://loki.cae.drexel.edu/~wbs/ontology/iso-19115.htm an Ontology for Geographic Information - Metadata ( ISO 19115:2003 )] along with a [http://loki.cae.drexel.edu/~wbs/ontology/list.htm List of OWL Ontologies based on Norms] Like ISO developed by a team at Drexel University and PCI Geomatics headed by [http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~asi22/ Akm Saiful Islam] The latest version of the ontology is found at [http://loki.cae.drexel.edu/~wbs/ontology/2004/09/bug/iso-19115/index.htm Version 2.0 (August 27, 2004)] {nid 8SU}
* This work is very relevant to the refinement of the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Data Reference Model (DRM) to include geospatial data, semantic profiles, etc. being piloted under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security (Mike Daconta, Metadata Program Manager). Some key questions for discussion: {nid 8T0}
** Is the cost of re-purposing the content worth the benefit in increased usability of the information? {nid 8T2}
** How do these geospatial ontologies support the need for semantic profiles in the FEA DRM? {nid 8T4}

''11:30 a.m.'' - '''Who is Here? Who is Missing? What's the News from CoPs?''' {nid 8YN}

* International Standard for Interoperable Enterprise Content Management(IECM) - [http://xml.gov/documents/completed/aiim3/IECMCoP.pdf CoP formed] Paul Fontaine, FAA, and Ed Chase, Adobe, and Betsy Fanning, AIIM (INVITED) {nid 8T9}
* Proposed e-Componentry Open Source Syndicate (eCOSS) CoP Carl Mattocks, CheckMi.com {nid 8TB}
* DAMAL: Winter 2004 Winter PI Meeting (Mike Dean, BBN - (INVITED) {nid 8TC}
* [http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/ Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group], Tom Adams, Tucana Technologies INVITED (Also see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/Tutorials) {nid 8TE}
* DAML and SICoP: Semantic Web for National Security Applications (SWANS) Conference, April 7-8, 2005 Registration and Agenda Web Site {nid 8TG}
* [http://web-services.gov/NICS01062005.ppt SICoP's Semantic Community of Practice Enablement (SCOPE)] Efforts in Support of SICoP Modules 2(Business Case Examples) and 3 (Implementation) and the Upcoming SWANS Conference. {nid 8TK}
* [http://ontolog.cim3.net/ Ontolog Forum]: {nid 8TL}
** [http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/wiki.pl?NhinRfi Response to Request for Information by the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Development and Adoption of a National Health Information Network, November 15, 2004] {nid 8TP}
** Update on Semantic Harmonization (EDIX) {nid 8TQ}
** [http://www.ontologyportal.org/ Posted updates to SUMO and all the domain ontologies (12/17/2004)] {nid 8TS}
* [http://web-services.gov/XML2004f.ppt Semantic Integration Using Topic Maps - Tutorial at the XML 2004 Conference] by Michel Biezunski and Steve Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting (INVITED) (Note: Topic Maps Are Simple Ontologies) {nid 8TW}
* Proposed Environmental Health Science Cross-Domain Ontology Research (EHS-CORE), Professor Jane Greenburg, School of Information and LIbrary Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill {nid 8TZ}
* [http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2004/07/14/onto.html Ontology Tools Survey, Revisited], MichaelDenny, xml.com {nid 8U1}
* [http://semwebcentral.org/ SemWebCentral] is an Open Source development web site for the Semantic Web. One purpose of SemWebCentral is to support the Semantic Web community by providing a free, centralized place for Open Source developers to manage Semantic Web software and content development. The other purpose is to provide resources for developers or other interested parties to learn about the Semantic Web and how to begin developing Semantic Web content and software. {nid 8U8}
* Federal Web Content Managers Forum-Weblogs, RSS Feeds, etc. - John Gladstone, NAL/USDA (INVITED) {nid 8UA}
* [http://www.syndic8.com Syndic8.com], Syndicated News Feed Directory - the world's largest directory of reviewed RSS and Atom news feeds in continuous operations since 2001 - the hub of a large community of content producers and comnsumers, offering free membership to all those interested with an interest in the topic. Bill Kearney (INVITED) {nid 8ZR}
* [http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition7/process_arch.asp Process Recombination: An Ontology Based Approach for Business Process Re-Design], By Abraham Bernstein (INVITED), Department of Information Technology, University of Zürich. See Malone, T.W., Crowston, K., and Herman, G.A.(eds.) Organizing Business Knowledge: [http://ccs.mit.edu/phintro.htm The MIT Process Handbook]. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. {nid 8UL}

''12:00-1:00 PM'' - '''Networking Lunch (video optional)''' {nid 8YO}

:[http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/236/ Tim Berners-Lee Semantic Web 101 Talk] at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference, September 29, 2004 {nid 8UO}

''1:00 p.m.'' - '''Perspectives from Individual Innovators at the Workshop''' {nid 8YP}

* To be selected from items listed in section 4 above, {nid 8ZS}

''1:45 p.m.'' - '''Keynote Presentation - [http://sine.cim3.net/file/work/SISiG/project/i-case/NetcentricSemanticLinkingMTRRev1.doc Netcentric Semantic Linking (Mapping): An Approach for Enterprise Semantic Interoperability], Mary Pulvermacher, MITRE (INVITED)''' {nid 8UV}

:Synthesized information must get to the Warfighter faster through machine-to-machine (M2M) environments. M2M interoperability requires standard semantic specification. Semantic linking (mapping) could be a solution to semantic interoperability across domains. Key to this vision (and that of the Semantic Web) is the ability to capture semantic in ontologies across multiple domains and link (map) these ontologies to interconnected related concepts. The study goal was to explore Netcentric Semantic Linking (Mapping) as a potential solution for integration across the Command and Control (C2) enterprise. The one staff-year research effort accomplished three goals: (1) investigate semantic linking (mapping) ontologies across muilitary domains using OWL (Web Ontology Language), (2) develop a semantic linking (mapping) test case that addressed an existing mission problem, and (3) assess the value of using standard upper ontologies in a military environment. {nid 8V9}

* Some key questions for discussion: {nid 8VA}
** John Sowa, author of [http://www.jfsowa.com/krbook/index.htm Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations, 2000] has defined [http://users.bestweb.net/~sowa/ontology/gloss.htm "semantic distance" (see under "prototype-based ontology"] to compute the dissimilarity between two entities. Does this apply to the semantic linking (mapping) problem? {nid 8VG}
** [http://theses.mit.edu/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/0018.mit.theses/1997-17 Cheng Hian Goh's Dissertation at MIT entitled "Representing and Reasoning About Semantic Conflicts in Heterogeneous Information Systems, 1997] provides a framework for categorizing and solving semantic conflicts. Does this framework help the semantic linking (mapping) problem? {nid 8VM}

''2:45 p.m.'' - '''Break''' {nid 8YT}

''3:00 p.m.'' – '''Demonstrations of New Open Standards and Technologies in Support of Ontology Engineering''' {nid 8YU}

* To be selected from items listed in section 4 above {nid 8YV}

''4:00 p.m.'' - '''Reflections from workshop presenters and participants''' {nid 8YW}

''4:15 p.m.'' - '''ADJOURN''' {nid 8YX}

== 2. Collaborative Expedition Workshop Series Background {nid 8YY} ==

The Collaborative Expedition workshops serve individuals and policy-makers from all sectors: government, business, and non-government organizations to practice an emerging societal form that advances realization of the citizen-centric government goal of the President’s Management Agenda. Each workshop organizes participation around a common purpose, larger than any institution, including government. By learning how to appreciate multiple perspectives around the potentials and realities of this larger “purpose”, subsequent actions of individuals representing many forms of expertise, can be expressed more effectively in their respective settings. Workshop sponsors, including, GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions, the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the Federal CIO Council and 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) value this “frontier outpost” to open up quality conversations, augmented by information technology, that leverage the collaborative capacity of united and diverse Americans seeking to discover, frame, and act on national potentials. {nid 8YZ}

A key finding of the past year, is the need to apply emerging technologies (web services, grid computing, and semantic web) to tune up the 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. Many of the agile business components surfacing in the small business innovation world are not easily discovered by e-government managers, resulting in lost or delayed opportunities for both parties. {nid 8Z0}

== 3. Past Workshop Archives, Collaborative Pilots, and Related Resources {nid 8Z1} ==

* http://colab.cim3.net {nid 8Z2}
* SICoP {nid 8Z5}
* ChiefArchitectsForum {nid 8Z6}
* http://componenttechnology.org {nid 8Z7}
* http://web-services.gov {nid 8Z4}
* http://www.gsa.gov/intergov {nid 8Z8}
* http://www.itrd.gov {nid 8Z9}
* http://ua-exp.gov {nid 8Z3}

: '''Brief Tour of Highlights from Three Sites (click on ''View Now'' to launch control panel''' for pause, resume page progression, speed-up; please disable your pop-up blocker on your browser) {nid 8ZA}

* http://www.adaptiveavenue.com/gallery/componenttechnology/ {nid 8ZB}
* http://www.adaptiveavenue.com/gallery/intergov/ {nid 8ZC}
* http://www.adaptiveavenue.com/gallery/itrd/ {nid 8ZD}

== 4. Upcoming Events {nid 8ZE} ==

* March 2005, Sixth Emerging Technology Components Conference. See [http://componenttechnology.org Componenttechnology.Org] for details. {nid 8ZF}
* April 7-8, 2005, Semantic Web Applications for National Security {nid 8ZG}
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