report on the odissee workshop for the 2011 ontology summit
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Report on the ODISSEE Workshop for the 2011 Ontology Summit
Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Data Scientist
Semantic CommunityApril 14, 2011
http://semanticommunity.info
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Ontology Driven Implementation of Semantic Services for the Enterprise Environment (ODISSEE) Workshop
• Alion Science and Technology and the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR, University at Buffalo) hosted a two-day "Ontology Driven Implementation of Semantic Services for the Enterprise Environment (ODISSEE)" Workshop, April 13-24, 2011.
• ODISSEE aims to foster awareness of and collaboration between disparate information-sharing efforts across the US Government.
• The workshop will feature individual presentations on information-sharing development, as well as panel sessions on ontology and data vocabulary.
• This workshop supports the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) information sharing initiatives. Information sharing is at the heart of the transformation from the current state of the National Airspace System (NAS) to NextGen capabilities in 2025 in areas such as unmanned aircraft systems, integrated surveillance and weather.
http://ncor.buffalo.edu/ODISSEE/
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Ontology Driven Implementation of Semantic Services for the Enterprise Environment (ODISSEE) Workshop
• Conference Objectives:– Identify and catalogue the various semantic technology efforts across the Federal
government.– Identify, evaluate, and catalogue standard information-exchange models, such as
Universal Core (UCore) and National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and semantic models of common domains, including time, geography, and events.
– Explore the use of ontologies to enable information exchanges within a service-oriented architecture (SOA), improve discoverability of services, and align disparate data standards and message models.
– Coordinate ontology development across diverse Communities of Interest (COIs) to ensure extensibility, interoperability, and reusability.
• Who Should Attend?:– Ontologists– Data Vocabulary Specialists– Information Architects– Service Developers– Other Information Technology Practitioners
Source: http://www.jpdo.gov/eventsArticle.asp?id=22Agenda: http://www.jpdo.gov/library/20110323_ODISSEE_Agenda_v1.8.pdf
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Ontology Driven Implementation of Semantic Services for the Enterprise Environment (ODISSEE) Workshop
• Keynotes:– Barry Smith, National Center for Ontological Research
(University at Buffalo)• Coordinated Development of Ontologies Across Diverse
Communities of Interest.– Mark Maybury, US Air Force Chief Scientist
• Metadata Matters: Ontology and Autonomy.– Mr. Dennis Wisnosky, Chief Architect & Chief Technical
Officer, Business Mission Area, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, US Department of Defense• Technology, Engineering & Innovation in the U.S. Department of
Defense ? (SemTech 2011).
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ODISSEE Workshop in a Broader Context
http://semanticommunity.info/Build_TOGAF_in_the_Cloud
See Tweets and Emails!
Semantic Enterprise Architecture
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Knowledge Management:The Future is Yours
• Most of Us Will be Knowledge Workers• Using Knowledge-Centric Systems– Not IT-Centric Systems, But Systems the Know, Learn,
and Reason• Like Some Best Practice Examples:– Semantic Insights Reader Assistant (SIRA) and Be
Informed• Used by the Semantic Community Along with:– MindTouch Technical Communication Suite and TIBCO
Spotfire Self-Service Business Intelligence and AnalyticsKM 2011, Tysons Corner, Virginia. May 4th Tutorial. See Knowledge Management.
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The Semantic Community
• A Linked Data community of practice that meets the following criteria:– Has occasional face-to-face meetings as well as an
online presence.– Is practitioner-focused but connected to the
developer community.– Includes multiple applications areas, such as
libraries, government agencies, publishing, and knowledge-intensive businesses.
Source: Jean Graef, Montague Institute, April 8, 2011, Review Article in ProcessOf Our Linked Data Collaboration.
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Barry SmithNational Center for Ontological Research • Coordinated Development of Ontologies Across Diverse
Communities of Interest:– Too many ontologies have created “semantic silos”. We need to
reduce to one because we cannot afford more.– The attitudes of Tim Berners-Lee, which are in favour of freedom and
anarchy, and creativity, and all those nice things, mitigate against the coordination which is necessary to make good scientific ontology work - in a way good science works. See Where is the knowledge we have lost in data?
– The Gene Ontology Community is the principal contributor of data to the Semantic Web. See The OBO Foundary.
– Ralph Hodgson doing the most to create good linking ontologies. See next slide.
Source: Barry Smith
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Ralph HodgsonTopQuadrant
• Valuing the Role of Semantic Web Technologies – A Ten Year Personal Reflection:– Asked Many Questions (one example):
• What has to happen in an organization for semantic web technologies to be put to work effectively?
– History:• Since 2002 we have worked on the use of semantic technologies for NASA in
support of the Manned Space Missions.• In 2003, we created the Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Model
Ontologies for GSA.• In 2009 we used semantic technology approach to making XML Schemas
compliant with UN/CEFACT Core Component Technical Specifications the for the Netherlands Ministry of Justice.
• In 2010, I launched the oeGov.us project to ontologize the structure of the US Government. Data Independence Day!
http://www.topquadrant.com
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Lowell VizenorAlion Science and Technology
• Putting NextGen Ontologies to Work:– The Net-Centric Operations Division of the Joint Planning and Development
Office (JPDO) is using Ontology and Semantic Web Technology to enhance service discovery.
– The NextGen ontologies will be used to specify a precise and reusable terminology that facilitates information sharing through the precise description of the intended meaning of service.
• UCore-SL: An Overview and Some Suggested Improvements:– UCore is a central element of the U.S. National Information Sharing Strategy– The goal of UCore is to foster information sharing by means of an XML schema
based on consensus representations of who, what, when, and where.– UCore Semantic Layer is a project to create an ontology-based supporting layer
for UCore.– My Note: Ucore-SL is not an ontology!
• See http://semanticommunity.info/Universal_Core_Semantic_Layer
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Universal Core Semantic Layer
http://semanticommunity.info/Universal_Core_Semantic_Layerhttp://semanticommunity.info/National_Information_Exchange_Model
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Mark MayburyUS Air Force Chief Scientist
• Metadata Matters: Ontology and Autonomy:– Computational linguist that has contributed to 10 books and had 60
publications.– Blue Force Tracking:
• Only three metadata elements: Who, what, and where– DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy (2003):
• Visible, accessible, understandable, trusted, interoperable, and responsive.– Information Access Automation:
• Focus on analytic/operational impact– Multiple Levels of Collaboration:
• Awareness• Shared information• Coordination• Joint work• Shared intent
Biography
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Air Force OneSource
http://semanticommunity.info/Air_Force_OneSource
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Interoperability InterfacesGeneral Web Site Best Content -
CentralizedBest Content - Distributed
US Federal Government (1)
Community Sandbox (2)
Annual Statistical Abstract (3) and EPA Report on the Environment (4)
FedStats.net (5)
TOGAF (6) EA Principals, Inc. (7)
Training Materials (8)
Ecosystem of Frameworks (9)
SEMIC.EU (10) Web Site (11) EuroStats (12) and European Environment State and Outlook (13)
Global Data Catalog and Data Services (14)
Key: See next slide.
Source: http://semanticommunity.info/Build_SEMIC.EU_in_the_Cloud
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Interoperability Interfaces• Key:
1. http://usa.gov2. http://semanticommunity.net 3. http://semanticommunity.info/2010_Annual_Statistical_Abstract 4. http://semanticommunity.info/EPA/EPA_Ontology 5. No longer operational – see http://www.sdi.gov6. The Open Group Architecture Framework -
http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf9-doc/arch/index.html 7. http://eaprincipals.com/index.htm 8. http://semanticommunity.info/Build_TOGAF_in_the_Cloud 9. http://semanticommunity.info/Build_TOGAF_in_the_Cloud#Alternative_enterprise_architecture_fr
ameworks
10. Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe 11. http://www.semic.eu/12. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat 13. http://eea.europa.eu 14. http://semanticommunity.info/Data.gov/An_Open_Data_Public_Dataset_Catalogs_Faceted_Browse
r http://semanticommunity.info/Build_SEMIC.EU_in_the_Cloud
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FedStats.Net: Federated Content Network and Search
http://www.sdi.gov
Content nodes were on differentservers - federation and searchmade it appear as though on one. Search of content gave
highlighted text and tables.
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Global Data Catalog and Data Services
http://semanticommunity.info/Air_Force_OneSource
MindTouch and Spotfire provide multiple vocabularieswith well-defined URLs in a faceted search browser.
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Some Suggestions• From recent 11th SOA for E-Gov Conference:
– Captain Mike Ryan: SOA for the Coast Guard, First Fed 100 Winner for SOA, 80 services that are interoperable through ‘principled leadership’ and not coercion and mandates!
– To Sumeet Vij, Group Chief IT Engineer, Alion Science and Technology: I look forward to further discussions about getting to Semantic Interoperability.
– My Reply: I also look forward to cooperating and furthering the ideas of Semantic Interoperability.
• From this workshop:– From Mark Maybury: OneSource is currently being used by many COI's to do
their data analysis, before they put their final product into the DoD MDR.– My Reply: I would welcome the opportunity to do more work with AF and
DoD data sources and help foster competitions for innovations.
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