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SICoP Special Conference 2: Building Knowledgebases for Cross-

Domain Semantic InteroperabilityMills Davis and Brand Niemann,

SICoP Co-chairsApril 25, 2007

Oracle, Reston, VAGoogle: SICoP April 25, 2007

DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0

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Welcome and Overview

• Welcome to those in person and on the Web Conference:– Especially those that are part of the NIST Ontology

Summit 2007 (some comments on this later).

• Thanks to our host Oracle for these wonderful facilities and the break refreshments.– Tim Taylor will provide the Oracle Welcome and

logistics.

• Our program today consists of six parts.– Some presentations in the afternoon will be made

remotely due to travel restrictions.

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Agenda

• 1. Summarizing the February 6th Conference and Outlining What Should Come Next.

• 2. Federal Government: Enterprise Data Modeling (SOA in Semantic Wikis).

• 3. State Government - Featured Keynote: Texas Health Center Taps Semantic Web.

• 4. Organizations: Government and Non-Government.• 5. Database Vendor Implementations Using Semantic

Technologies and Web Standards.• 6. Closing Remarks and Preview of the 2007 Semantic

Technology Conference.

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Background and Purposes• Follow on to the February 6th SICoP Special Conference 1: Building

DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 for Managing Context Across Multiple Documents and Organizations:– Google: DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0

• Prepare for May 20-24, 2007, Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, CA.– http://www.semantic-conference.com/

• Support the January 17, 2007, CIOC Strategic Plan FY 2007-2009:– Goal 2: Information securely, rapidly, and reliably delivered to or

stakeholders. Provide updates to the FEA Data Reference Model (DRM) and establish DRM implementation strategies, best practices, and success stories.

• Follow the Best Practices Committee Suggested "Best Practices" Process.– Google: Best Practices Committee, March 19, 2007

• Coordinated with the NIST interoperability Week Ontology Summit 2007, April 23-24, 2007:– http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007

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Semantic Wikis: The Role of Techno-Social Collaboration in Building DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 for Managing Context Across Multiple Documents and Organizations, SICOP Special Conference, February 6, 2007, Mills Davis, Project10X.

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A Web 2.0 Approach to the Ontology Summit 2007

• Refers to a perceived second-generation of Web based communities and hosted services — such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

• Earlier users of the phrase "Web 2.0" employed it as a synonym for "Semantic Web," and indeed, the two concepts complement each other. The combination of social-networking systems such as FOAF and XFN with the development of tag-based folksonomies, delivered through blogs and wikis, sets up a basis for a semantic web environment.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2

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Calvin Andrus: Wiki Knowledge Management: What Are We Thinking?

• Technology Can Enable Complex Adaptive Behavior in Human Knowledge Workers:– Capabilities Wikis Bring:

• Because Wikis are real-time, self-authored, hyperlinked bodies of knowledge that are open to everyone on the system, they can adapt as fast as a person can enter information.

• Wikis also provide a space for knowledge evolve as the world changes, without knowledge reengineering.

– Together, Google and the Wikipedia manage more knowledge better and faster and cheaper than any other framework we have yet invented.

Dr. Calvin Andrus, CIA. Closing Keynote, Knowledge Management 2007 Conference, April 3-5.http://events.fcw.com/events/2007/KM/downloads/KM07_Keynote_Andrus_V1.pdf

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Ontology Summit 2007

• “The challenge, this year, put before the various constituencies and communities involved, is to clarify what everyone means when they use the term "ontology" or when they refer to these semantic structures. Our objective is to define and agree to a systematic means of categorizing the many kinds of things that fall broadly within the "ontology" spectrum. By doing so, the research, development and Internet communities would have a better way of comparing, combining and mapping ontologies to one another (apples to apples). The range of what people call "ontologies" covers folksonomies, taxonomies, thesauri, conceptual models, and formal logic-based models to name just a few flavors.”

Source: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007

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Simplified Definitions & Purpose

• Defintions:– 1. Folksonomy:

• Individual meaning and language.– 2. Taxonomy:

• Group meaning and language.– 3. Ontology:

• Computer-processable meaning and language.

• Purpose:– Need to get 1 and 2 into 3 for scalable integration

applications. So start trying to reuse the inventory of 1-3 from the Ontology Summit 2007 and see which are most sharable and reusable. Then fill out the matrix!

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“Populating the Matrix with Sharable - Reusable Artifacts”

Category

Scale

Folks-onomies

Taxonomy Data Models

Ontology

Individual Book-marks

Community Country

Codes

DoD

Global Upper Ontologies

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Two Success Stories

• Outreach: The National Academy’s Transportation Research Board asked for a tutorial on ontologies using their content and decided to have a session at next year’s meeting on building knowledgebases (with ontologies).

• Semantic Wiki: The DoD recently provided SICoP with their most comprehensive data model in Excel and it was imported into the Knoodl.com Semantic Wiki and it is now possible to search across it and the many other artifacts for “commonality and variability” in semantics and apply tools like MatchIT!

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Recommendations• Lead with Web 2.0, not Ontology:

– The editors of Ken Baclawski’s book “Ontologies for Bioinformatics” changed the title of the second printing to just “Bioinformatics”!

• Focus on sharing and reuse, not classification of knowledge classifications:– What really matters is that one can convert it from its

original form to a standard (Web) ontology language in a collaboration tool so that is can be used with many other artifacts by many users for many applications.

• SICoP calls these Knowledgebases:– See April 25th Special Conference on “Building

Knowledgebases for Cross-Domain Semantic Interoperability.”

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Semantic Interoperability Across the Enterprise

• Jim Schoening’s Paper (1) and its review suggested a theme of “Semantic Interoperability Across the Enterprise” for our next special conference.

• The following are some examples of attempts at Enterprise Data Interoperability for their domains.

• In preparation for the next conference, we need more examples, an assessment of their readiness, and suggestions for maturing them.

“Data Interoperability Across the Enterprise – Why Current TechnologyCan’t Achieve It. See http://www.visualknowledge.com/wiki/CDSI

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Some Examples

Standard Technology Leader Domain

XML UBL 2.0 Jon Bozak 23 Electronic Procurement Documents

UDEF Universal Naming

Ron Schuldt

Electronic Health Records Pilot

RDF/OWL Semantic Wiki

Mike Lang CBRN Data Model (Excel)

ISO 15926 Data Model Matthew West

Shell’s Downsteam Business

MORE TO BE ADDED See Next Slide for Sources

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Sources

• UBL:– http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/#meeting

• Open Group UDEF:– http://www.opengroup.org/udef/

• CBRN Data Model:– http://www.knoodl.com/ui/groups/VMWG/

vocab/JPM_IS_CBRN

• ISO 15926– http://www.matthew-west.org.uk

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Enterprise Data Modeling / SOA in a Semantic Wiki Knoodl.comSpecial SICoP Conference, April 25, 2007,

at Oracle Corporation, Reston, VA.

Special RecognitionMichael Lang,

Revelytix

Federal CIO Council’s Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)

Produced in Collaboration With

By SICoP Co-Chairs, Mills Davis, Project 10x, & Brand Niemann, U.S. EPA

Best Practices Committee of the Federal Chief Information Officers Council

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Semantic Technologies and Vocabulary Management in the Context of An Overall Enterprise Data Architecture

Special SICoP Conference, April 25, 2007, at Oracle Corporation, Reston, VA.

Special RecognitionMarguerite Ardito, Information Exchange, and Kevin Lynch, CIA

Federal CIO Council’s Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)

Produced in Collaboration With

By SICoP Co-Chairs, Mills Davis, Project 10x, & Brand Niemann, U.S. EPA

Best Practices Committee of the Federal Chief Information Officers Council

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Texas Health Center Taps Semantic WebSpecial SICoP Conference, April 25, 2007,

at Oracle Corporation, Reston, VA.

Special RecognitionParsa Mirhaji, MD

Federal CIO Council’s Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)

Produced in Collaboration With

By SICoP Co-Chairs, Mills Davis, Project 10x, and Brand Niemann, U.S. EPA

Best Practices Committee of the Federal Chief Information Officers Council

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What’s Next?!

• Review SICoP White Paper 3 and Provide Feedback:– Thursday, May 24, Semantic Technology Conference Session,

8:30a - 9:30a, Advanced Intelligence Community R&D Meets the Semantic Web? Lucian Russell, Expert Reasoning & Decisions LLC, and Brand Niemann, EPA.

• Participate in Planning SICoP Special Conference 3:– Jim Schoening, Rick Murphy, etc.

• SICoP at the The 22nd Semi-Annual Spring Government CIO Summit, Government by Wiki: New Tools for Collaboration, Information-Sharing, and Decision-Making, May 6-8, 2007, Ft. Myers, FL.

• SICoP at May 29-31, Shared Services Event, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University School's Leadership for a Networked World Program, and June 13-15, 2007, Gartner Enterprise Architecture Conference.