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

Would they be interested in a session exploring  the relationship
between that an accessibility?

All the best
Lisa Seeman
 
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> [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Al Gilman
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:38 PM
> To: wai-xtech@w3.org
> Subject: 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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