National Association of Regional Councils: SICoP DRM 2.0 Pilot

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1 National Association of Regional Councils: SICoP DRM 2.0 Pilot Brand Niemann (US EPA), Chair, Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) Best Practices Committee (BPC), Federal CIO Council Policy Development Committee (Working Group)--Environment 2006 Washington Policy Conference, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC February 5,

2 Overview 1. The New Data Reference Model Pilot Project: State of the Regions 3. LandView 6 4. Emergency Response 5. Some Next Steps 6. Q & A 2

3 1. The New Data Reference Model 2.0 The FEA framework and its five supporting reference models (Performance, Business, Service, Technical and Data) are now used by departments and agencies in developing their budgets and setting strategic goals. With the recent release of the Data Reference Model (DRM), the FEA will be the common language for diverse agencies to use while communicating with each other and with state and local governments seeking to collaborate on common solutions and sharing information for improved services. Source: Expanding E-Government, Improved Service Delivery for the American People Using Information Technology, December 2005, pages

4 1. The New Data Reference Model 2.0 The following chart illustrates the potential uses of the newly released DRM Version 2.0: The FEA mechanism for identifying what data the Federal government has and how it can be shared in response to a business/mission requirement. The frame of reference to facilitate Communities of Interest (which will be aligned with the Lines of Business) toward common ground and common language to facilitate improved information sharing. Guidance for implementing repeatable processes for sharing data Government-wide. Source: Expanding E-Government, Improved Service Delivery for the American People Using Information Technology, December 2005, pages

5 1. The New Data Reference Model 2.0 Source: Expanding E-Government, Improved Service Delivery for the American People Using Information Technology, December 2005, pages

6 1. The New Data Reference Model 2.0 Metamodel: Precise definitions of constructs and rules needed for abstraction, generalization, and semantic models. Model: Relationships between the data and its metadata. Metadata: Data about the data. Data: Facts or figures from which conclusions can be inferred. Relationships and associations Source: Professor Andreas Tolk, August 16, 2005 The purpose of this schematic is to show that we need to describe information model relationships and associations in a way that can be accessed and searched. 6

7 1. The New Data Reference Model 2.0 The point of this graph is that Increasing Metadata (from glossaries to ontologies) is highly correlated with Increasing Search Capability (from discovery to reasoning). 7

8 2. Pilot Project: State of the Regions 41 tables in PDF (21 figures) Metadata (multiple levels and types) For tables (and figures) Sources of data Data stories Definitions see footnote 1 Repurpose this excellent content and model and map it to the DRM

9 2. Pilot Project: State of the Regions DRM 2.0 Pilot Essentials: Three Types of Data Integrated: Unstructured, Semi-structured, and Structured Structured and Searchable by Taxonomy Nodes: Economic Vitality, Social Equity, Livability / Growth, and Governance Indicators and XML Web Services Software Platform. Data Access and Exchange Web Services in Interoperable Formats: View Part or All of Data Tables (e.g. screen scrape in XML to Excel) and Retrieve XML File with Metadata Embedded. This Data Architecture Provides the Three S s: Structure, Searchability, and Semantics. 9

10 2. Pilot Project: State of the Regions See and Dynamic Knowledge Repositories, EPA Region 4 10

11 2. Pilot Project: State of the Regions Federated Search of All EPA Region 4 Taxonomy Nodes Query of State of the Regions Taxonomy Nodes 11 See next slide for explanation.

12 2. Pilot Project: State of the Regions Query of State of the Region 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 ( poverty ), 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 EPA Region 4 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 EPA Region 4 Node) and a different query ( water quality ) and number of words about the highlighted search terms that are desired (five) are used in the (2) right pane. 12

13 2. Pilot Project: State of the Regions Recall Slide 6 Data Story Metamodel Model Metadata Data Note: Can Highlight Table and Copy and Paste to Spreadsheet Because of XML Markup. 13

14 2. Pilot Project: State of the Regions Separation of the Data Presentation from the Data & Metadata. Data & Metadata (see next slide) Data Presentation/ Visualization 14

15 2. Pilot Project: State of the Regions The Data & Metadata Travel Together in XML Format! Data & Metadata in XML 15

16 3. LandView 6 LandView 6 is integration of: Census 2000; EPA EnviroFacts; USGS Geographic Names Information (GNIS) features; and FGDC Standard Metadata. LandView is publishing with: Interagency collaboration at very low cost; Public domain software that is easy to use; Database and software component reuse by design; and Geo-processing (e.g. population estimation) and Web-services out of the box (FileMaker Pro) (see next slide). 16

17 3. LandView 6 LandView Home Screen Population Estimator 17

18 3. LandView

19 3. LandView 6 LandView 6 EnviroQUEST Tutorials (1, 2, and 3- With Audio)

20 4. Emergency Response GeoResponse.Com Features: Report an Event Geocode the Event Define the Call List Customize your Message Make the Call Track and Map Responses Trigger another Process Award-winning VoiceXML Web Service from Broadstrokes at GeoResponse.com to be featured at the SWANS Conference Trade Show, April 7-8, Recently integrated with WSRP/CAP in cooperation with Starbourne/Oracle Team. Implementing the Norfolk Southern Graniteville Derailment Scenario for the new Emergency Response Architecture! 20

21 4. Emergency Response EPA Region 4 Emergency Operations Database Norfolk Southern Graniteville Derailment Thursday, January 6,

22 4. Emergency Response 22

23 4. Emergency Response Semantic Interoperability at Work - Improving Rapid First Response: RedHat (RedHat Enterprise Linux Operating System) Oracle Corp (Database, Application Server, WSRP Portal) Humanmarkup.org, Inc. (Public Service Preparedness Portal) Starbourne Communications Design (Portal Design Development) Broadstrokes, Inc. (Reverse 911 Service) Targus Information Corporation, Inc. (Geographically encoded consolidated national E-911 database) MyStateUSA (NIMS-ICS Simulated Network) WarningSystems, Inc. (Web-based Activation of EAS, Sirens, Radios) MCI (Internet Network Backbone) Sandia National Laboratories (Sensor Network Simulation) NuParadigm (Alerting Framework Network Services) Unicorn Solutions, Inc. (Ontology/Data Model Workbench) 23

24 4. Emergency Response Composite Application Solution with Semantic Technologies: Train Derailment Example: 6 January 2005, 3:50 A.M. Graniteville, SC. Chlorine Tank Car Toxic Release. Matching ResponseType with EventType. Using Open Public Standards. Getting the Right Information to the Right People at the Right Time. Source: Putting Context to Work: Semantic Keys to Improve Rapid First Response, Semantic Web Applications for National Security Conference, April 8, 2005, Trade Show, Broadstrokes, ImageMatters, MyStateUSA, Starbourne, and TargusInfo. 24

25 4. Emergency Response Event Type Ontology in Context: Application in Unicorn Workbench: http// Source: Putting Context to Work: Semantic Keys to Improve Rapid First Response, Semantic Web Applications for National Security Conference, April 8, 2005, Trade Show, Broadstrokes, ImageMatters, MyStateUSA, Starbourne, and TargusInfo. 25

26 5. Some Next Steps EPA Region 4 Pilot: Visual Document Management Tool for Data Collection, Tracking and Display: Richard Hammond, Team Leader: U.S. EPA Region 4, hammond.richard@epa.gov Kiran Batchu, XML/SVG Specialist: Private Consultant, kbatchu@aol.com DRM 2.0 Information Sharing Tool Kit Pilot, August 16, 2005, Designing the DRM for Data Visibility, DRM 2.0 Collaborative Workshop: See instructions at DataVisibility_2005_07_19#nid2TTQ 26

27 EPA Knowledge Management Application Data Preparation EPAKM App flow diagram 02/28/2005 VB6 application Propriety GIS maps Updated SVG document map 2. Convert FFACTR report to SVG map 1. Export to SVG format Basicsvg.txt FFACTR report (ffactr.xls) SVG database (svg.mdb) Epakm.xml 27

28 EPA Knowledge Management Application Functionality EPAKM App flow diagram 02/28/ Number and type of document status information is updated based on userselected OU EPAKM main user interface Semantic query (OU) 4. A user can hear pre-defined categories of information Epakm.xml Zoomed view of selected OU Attribute data Epakm.xsl 5. Attribute information is displayed in a pop-up html window Pop-up window shows the U238 tables extracted from3 different documents Standard Word reports are stored as XML documents 6. Extracts and assimilates information from various documents and displays a synthetic document as popup html window 28 Site specific pdf document is dis2828played in a window.

29 6. Q & A You Are Invited To (all free): February 9-10, 2006, Fourth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference, MITRE, McLean, Virginia. February 21, 2006, Collaborative Expedition Workshop, Networking the Geospatial and DRM Communities, NSF, Ballston, Virginia. March 7-9, 2006, DRM 2.0 and Metadata at FOSE 2006, DC Convention Center, Washington, DC. March 28, 2006, National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS), Community of Practice Meeting, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. 29

30 6. Q & A Contact Information: Brand Niemann U.S. Environmental Protection Agency MC: 2833M, Washington, DC Web Sites and Wiki Pages: estingpilotprojects 30