Invitation to the April 28 Collaboration Expedition Workshop, no fee, please RSVP

This session sounds tantalizing. I wish I could get the whole PF 
working group there for training.

If you're not sure how this matters for accessibility, you might
review the Technical Plenary session discussions on 

...RDF and content morphing
http://www.w3.org/2004/03/plenary-minutes#Session3

mixed markup documents
http://www.w3.org/2004/03/plenary-minutes#Session4

Al

-- invitation from Susan Turnbull

Greetings!


Please join us on Wednesday, April 28, for the next Collaboration
Expedition workshop.  The joint workshop agenda is below. We'll explore the
Potential and Realities of Multiple Taxonomies, in light of the President's
Management Agenda and the Federal Enterprise Architecture. Past workshop
presentations are at: ua-exp.gov.


If you or a colleague, would like to attend the workshop, please RSVP by
mailto:renee.hughes@gsa.gov to ensure building entry. The workshop begins
at 8:30 AM and adjourns at 4:30 PM.  For this workshop only, we will be
meeting in a new location at 4100 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 800, Ballston, VA.
This location is a brief walk from the Ballston Metro, near the
intersection with N. Randolph St.  Lunch tickets ($8.00/person) will be
available from Renee Hughes at the workshop sign-in table between
8:00-10:00 AM.

Susan B. Turnbull, Senior Program Advisor
Office of Intergovernmental Solutions, Office of Citizen Services and
Communications
US General Services Administration
Member and Task Lead, Emerging Technology Subcommittee, AIC
p 202.501.6214
susan.turnbull@gsa.gov
                                                 Agenda  - April 28, 2004
                     Collaboration Expedition Workshop #31
                     Joint Workshop on Multiple Taxonomies
               4100 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 800, Arlington, VA

Purpose: To explore the Potential and Realities of Multiple Taxonomies: How
Can Citizens, Business, and Public Servants Traverse the Repositories and
Workings of Government?

The President's Management Agenda (PMA) requires all federal agencies to
transform the roles and relationships among people, processes, and
technology in order to become a citizen-centered government.  The PMA
emphasizes bringing value and productivity results to citizens, businesses,
and public managers.

How can vast government holdings, together with the stewards of these
holdings, become better knowledge assets for both researchers and citizens?
How can the evolution toward open standards-based, interoperable
"discovery" tools multiply the value of these "intangible assets" to
researchers, businesses, and interested citizens?  How can we organize
around "multiple meanings" to accommodate a diversity of  perspectives,
over time, and across languages, while navigating "oceans of data and
information"?  How can the emerging technologies of the Semantic Web, Web
Services, and Grid Computing improve how we organize, learn and share
public "Knowledge Assets" throughout society?  How can the collective
understanding that emerges from this process contribute to the maturation
of the Federal Enterprise Architecture and other Knowledge Management
Strategies?

   8:30 AM     Coffee

   8:45 AM     Welcome
          Susan Turnbull, GSA, Emerging Technology Subcommittee and Brand
          Niemann, EPA, Emerging Technology Subcommittee, and Co-Chair,
          Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice, and Michel
          Biezunski, Coolheads Consulting.

 9:00 AM  Taxonomies: Creation and Usage, Renee Lewis, President, Pensare
          Group
          An overview of the development of well-formed taxonomies and the
          who, when, and how of their creation.  Discussion of taxonomies
          types, their uses as navigation tools, best practices and
          comparisons with other tools and search techniques.

 9:20 AM  Open Dialogue

 9:30 AM  Increased Knowledge Sharing and Mission Success: Implementing
          taxononomies for NASA , Jayne Dutra, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
          Web Publishing and Information Architecture

   9:50 AM     Open Dialogue

 10:00 AM Master and Relational Taxonomies, Kevin Hannon.  Overview of the
          advantages of multiple taxonomies, including how to use multiple
          taxonomies to search unstructured content in a manner similar to
          a database.

          Kevin works with large organizations to help them gain control
          over their content from content management through content
          retrieval. He has worked in many industries including power,
          telecom, publishing and pharmaceuticals, where he has discovered
          that the challenges surrounding information access are common to
          all industries.


   10:20 AM    Open Dialogue




  10:30 AM     Break




   10:45 AM    Clustering of Search Results With and Without Taxonomies,
          Raul Valdez-Perez Ph.D., Co-founder and President, Vivisimo, Inc.
          There are known practical challenges in building taxonomies and
          later indexing content into a taxonomy.  Except for Medline,
          almost everywhere, these stages are far from completed.  Should
          the goal of providing categorized government information be put
          on hold?  I will describe a dynamic clustering methodology that
          leverages indexed content at any stage of completion between 0%
          (e.g., FirstGov) and 99.9% (Medline) with demos on both.


    11:05 AM   Open Dialogue

   11:15 AM    Semantics, Ontologies, and the Semantic Web, Leo Obrst,
          Ph.D, The MITRE Corporation  Leo is a senior artificial
          intelligence scientist at the MITRE Center for Innovative
          Computing and Informatics in Northern Virginia (www.mitre.org)
          where he leads the Information Semantics team (semantics,
          ontological engineering, knowledge representation).

          An introduction to the evolving Semantic Web, its languages and
          how they are intended to operate together.  The talk discusses
          the components of the Semantic Web, i.e., the relationships among
          XML and XML Schema, Resource Description Framework/Schema
          (RDF/S), DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML)+Ontology Inference
          Layer (OIL) and the new Web Ontology Language OWL, derived from
          DAML+OIL.  The emphasis is on the higher, ontology languages,
          with an attempt to answer questions such as: What is RDF and how
          does OWL build on it? What are the three levels of OWL and what
          can you express at each language level?

11:35 AM  Open Dialogue

11:45 AM  How to Create Many Taxonomies that Integrate into a Single
          Enterprise-wide Taxonomy, Denise Bedford, Thesaurus Manager and
          Senior Information Officer, World Bank

12:05 PM  Open Dialogue

12:15 PM  Lunch

1:30 PM   Issues in Negotiating Multiple Semantic Models, LeeEllen
          Friedland, the MITRE Corporation.
          Though the vision of the Semantic Web and the technologies that
          will enable it is relatively new and still evolving, the semantic
          information models that will populate and fuel it have long been
          integral to the work of knowledge-based organizations.  This
          presentation will address key issues in understanding these
          semantic information models, how they are used in context, and
          strategies for negotiating environments where multiple
          heterogeneous models coexist.  Among the criteria examined will
          be the relationship between legacy and emergent models,
          enterprise and community semantics, cultural and technical
          concepts, implicitness and explicitness, and informal and formal
          expression.  Examples will be drawn from a large government
          agency.


1:50 PM   Open Dialogue



2:00 PM   Accessibility, Usability, and Preservation of Government
          Information, Eliot Christian, USGS and Chair, Categorization of
          Government Information Working Group (CGI WG) of the Interagency
          Committee on Government Information




          The CGI WG is developing recommendations to OMB on: the adoption
          of open standards to enable the organization and categorization
          of Government information in a way that is searchable
          electronically, including by searchable identifiers; and in ways
          that are interoperable across agencies.  The charter also
          includes provide a recommendation to OMB on the definition of
          which Government information should be classified under the
          standards; and determinations of priorities and implementation
          schedules for agencies.  The Interagency Committee on Government
          Information was created on June 17, 2003 by OMB per the
          E-Government Act, section 207, "Accessibility, Usability, And
          Preservation Of Government Information". The Act requires the
          Committee to consult with interested communities; conduct studies
          and submit recommendations to OMB and NARA; and to share
          effective practices for access to, dissemination of, and
          retention of Federal information. This presentation describes how
          the Committee has organized itself for this work and the
          schedules and other procedures under which the work is
          proceeding.


2:20 PM   Open Dialogue, led by Steven R. Newcomb as Provocateur.  Steve
          will summarize major issues presented during the day to stimulate
          the afternoon's discussion and possible next steps.  Steve is the
          Co-editor of ISO 13250 Topic Maps, Co-chair of Extreme Markup
          Languages and Consultant for Coolheads Consulting


4:30pm    Adjourn - Past workshop presentations are at: ua-exp.gov

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