My Two Cats Are a Community of Interest. Dr. Scott Renner

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1 My Two Cats Are a Community of Interest Dr. Scott Renner sar@mitre.org

2 Outline History Current situation Proposed direction

3 History of COIs DoD Data Admin program, Data Interoperability Rapid Improvement Team, 2000 AF SAB Database Migration study, 2001 DoD Data Broad Area Review, 2002 Net-Centric Data Strategy, 2003 AF Information and Data Management Strategy, 2004 IT Portfolio Management, 2004 OSD(NII) COI Pilots, 2005 C2 Space Situational Awareness Blue Force Tracking Maritime Domain Awareness

4 Three Correct Meanings of COI Vocabulary COI People who have a common vocabulary for their domain Deliberate vocabulary creation/teaching effort Data standards consortia Sharing COI People who are actually sharing data with each other Real producers, real consumers Proponent COI People who want a new/improved sharing capability Not the people who develop or know the vocabulary Not the people who actually produce or consume data People with authority and money

5 Useful Common Elements COIs solve a data-sharing problem COIs per se don t do anything; their members do

6 Proposed Definition Within the context of the NCDS, a community of interest is defined as a group of people who cooperate to solve a problem in net-centric data sharing To solve their problem, the members may Form and promulgate a common vocabulary For discovery metadata For machine-to-machine data exchange For architecture descriptions Actually exchange information with each other Develop new capabilities for new/improved info sharing COIs do not overtly control resources or direct activities They act entirely through the cooperation of their members and their respective organizations

7 Who Cooperates? If COIs act through the cooperation of their members then who does the cooperating? C2 SSA COI Structure C2 FCB C2 SSA COI Forum (FO/GO) (Lt Gen Frank G. Klotz AFSPC/CV chair) C2 SSA COI Board (O-6) (Maj Gen Shackelford, AFSPC/DR chair) Support DoD CIO Service CIOs Service Service CIO Service CIO CIO Data Mgmt Working Group (AFSPC/LCO Chair) Pilot Working Group (ESC CC2SG Chair) Implementation Working Group (AFSPC & USSTRATCOM Co-Chair) Services Working Group (USSTRATCOM Chair) Additional Working Groups (as required) Existing Planned 7

8 Roles of the Cooperators Information owners Shared information space controllers Semantic communities

9 AF Information & Data Mgt. Strategy: The Triangle Foundation Shared Information Spaces Information Owners / Data Producers Community Vocabularies Implementation and Infrastructure

10 Shared Information Spaces Shared Information Space Consumers and the information they need Validated info needs, driven by CONOPS and TTP Designated authoritative sources meeting requirements Access control (users, roles, permissions) Priority and Quality of Service Controlling authority

11 Information Owners Information Owners / Data Producers Shared Information Space Consumers and the info they need Organizations with authority and responsibility for producing information Identify subordinate owners, ensure they: Supply discovery metadata Establish, effect data access plan Satisfy records mgt requirements, etc.

12 The Enterprise: Subordinates and Partners You can t just say all information is owned by the enterprise UK US Australia Justice EPA DoD State Treasury Army Air Force Navy AETC AMC ACC AFMC AFSOC

13 Data Service Agreements Are Required Shared Information Space Consumers and the info they need Information Owners / Data Producers Organizations with authority and responsibility for producing information Agreements between producers and infospace controllers: Availability Access control

14 Community Vocabularies Shared Information Space Consumers and the info they need Information Owners / Data Producers Organizations with authority and responsibility for producing information Community Vocabularies Hierarchy of subject-area vocabularies Community understanding of data models for runtime data exchange, architectures, discovery metadata, information owner descriptions

15 Implementation Infrastructure Shared Information Space Consumers and the info they need Community Vocabularies Subject-area vocabularies Data models for data exchange, architectures, discovery metadata Information Owners / Data Producers Organizations with authority and responsibility for producing information Implementation and Infrastructure Data access implementation (warehouse, pub/sub, web service, portal, etc.) Physically located at producers, consumers, or someplace in between. Core services for identity, authentication, etc.

16 COIs Operate at the Intersection Infospace COI Producers Vocabulary

17 A Simple Enterprise Video Store Infospace Employees, Customers, etc. Store #1 Data Producer Store #2 Data Producer Common Vocabulary Movies, Customers, Fines One enterprise, effective central control When effective centralized, top-down control is feasible, no need to separate producer, infospace, vocabulary concerns

18 A More Complex Enterprise Flight Planner infospace Consumers and the information they need Army Personnel Data Personnel Producer Air Data Force Producer COI Flight Operations Vocabulary Navy Personnel Data Personnel Producer USMC Data Producer Including roles and training requirements

19 Still More Complex PACOM Flight Planner infospace several infospheres Consumers and the information they need Personnel Data Producer Personnel Data Producer Personnel Data Producer Personnel Data Producer Flight Operations Vocabulary Including roles and training requirements

20 Expanding To The Enterprise Infospace The infospace will include information from other producers, following other vocabularies Your COI Producers will post to other infospaces, using other community vocabularies Producers Vocabulary Other producers and other infospaces will use the community vocabulary

21 Even More Complex: Producer View Internal Revenue Service infospace US Force Planning infospace PACOM Flight Planner infospace post data to multiple infospheres Flight Operations vocabulary post data in multiple vocabularies Global Force Management vocabulary Personnel Data Producer US Tax Code vocabulary

22 Even More Complex: Producer View AUS Force Planning infospace Australian Taxation Office infospace PACOM Flight Planner infospace Flight Operations vocabulary Personnel Data Producer AUS Force Management vocabulary Australian Tax vocabulary

23 Even More Complex: Infospace View consume data from multiple producers PACOM infospace Consumers and the information they need consume data following multiple vocabularies Weather data producers Flight Operations vocabulary ISR data producers Imagery vocabulary Personnel data producers Weather vocabulary

24 Even More Complex: Vocabulary View Other Government infospaces Other National Imagery data producers Commercial infospaces Commercial Imagery data producers US Imagery data producers PACOM Flight Planner infospace vocabulary used by multiple producers Imagery Vocabulary Pictures, their sources, representation, quality, etc. vocabulary used in multiple infospheres

25 Summary Too many meanings of COI Common elements in the useful definitions Solve a net-centric data sharing problem Work through cooperation of COI members Elements of an information management architecture Information owners Infospace controllers Semantic communities Future direction: governance and management of those three elements