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Shift Happens!

Briefing for the EPA Enterprise Architecture TeamBrand Niemann

Senior Enterprise Architect, US EPA, andFederal Web 2.0/3.0 Community of Practice Leader

February 20, 2008

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Shift Happens!

• See YouTube Video shown at EPA Web Workgroup Conference, February 12-14, 2008.

• Enterprise Architecture is about the business of IT Systems.

• Data Architecture is about the information in those IT Systems.

• The EPA Web Workgroup has an approved Information Architecture and is implementing that in the agencies’ Electronic Content Management System (ECMS).

• The EPA Web Workgroup has a Web 2.0 Team that has delivered a Whitepaper that was praised by EPA Senior Management (DA and CIO) and is being implemented.

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Shift Happens!

• The Web 2.0 Team is doing a series of pilots, one of which shows how the Information Architecture can/should be integrated with the Data Architecture.

• The Web 2.0 Team is also doing a pilot to demonstrate the three keys to success based on my Federal CIOC experience, namely (1) scalability, (2) migration of significant content, and (3) focus on a CIO business need.

• The business need is for improved access to agency information using Web 2.0 that will also impact the Enterprise Architecture and Data Architecture of the IT Systems that provide that information.

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Shift Happens!

• Federal CIOC experience, namely:• (1) scalability

– Semanticommunity.net: Community Infrastructure Sandbox for 2008:

• http://semanticommunity.net/

• (2) migration of significant content, and– Same as (1) above and for TRI:

• http://epa.wik.is

• (3) focus on a CIO business needs• http://epa.wik.is/Business_Needs• http://epa.wik.is/Toxics_Release_Inventory

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Shift Happens!

• Some Federal Best Practice Examples:– The 22nd Semi-Annual Spring Government CIO

Summit, May 6-8, 2007– Web 2.0 Locate, Collaborate, and Integrate– SOA, Collaboration Technologies and the Web 2.0 at

the Chief Architects Forum Meeting, January 21, 2008– SICoP Special Conference 4: Building Semantic

Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration, February 5, 2008

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Shift Happens!

• Some EPA Best Practice Examples:– Web 2.0 Whitepaper– Matrix of Technologies– Blog– CIO’s Business Needs– Information Classifications

• Where Information Architecture and Data Architecture Meet!

– Toxics Release Inventory

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More Shift Happens!

• People start their Web searches at Google, not the EPA Web site.

• Wikipedia has a better information architecture and content organization for “environment” and portal than does EPA.

• The EPA Content Migration Team using the Electronic Content Management System (ECMS) is struggling with categorizing 900,000 Web pages that contain ROT (redundant, outdated, trivial) while work with Web 2.0 races ahead with EPA’s most current and interesting content.

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More Shift Happens!

• The EPA Web 2.0 Team has been the most productive by far in the 10+ year history of the EPA Web Workgroup.

• EPA Senior Leadership is behind the Web 2.0 for EPA movement while middle management is just starting to realize that ‘someone may have moved their cheese’.

• The National Academy of Public Administration is launching a Collaboration Technology Community of Practice this week in recognition of the Web 2.0 movement sweeping across the Federal government.