Semantic Interoperability (XML Web Services) Community of Practice (SICoP)

Acknowledgments: Web Server Courtesy of USGS Geology Division CIO's Office) (http://web-services.gov/).

Background on CIO Council's XML Web Services Working Group (August 2002-September 2003): Brainstorming Session and Charter.

Activities Reports: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and Emerging Technology Subcommittee: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and CIO Council Reports 1). New Activities Reports: 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (S1), 9 (S2), 10 (S3), 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 , 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44.

Announcements:

December 18, 2006, SICoP/SOA CoP at the ArchitecturePlus Seminar, December 19, 2006, in Preparation for the 3^rd SOA for E-Government Conference (Spring 2007).

December 15, 2006. SICoP Prepares Track for 2007 Semantic Technology Conference. San Jose, California.

December 13, 2006, Shared Services Paper for the AIC Services Subcommittee Meeting and Wiki Pilot for the Practical Guide to Federal SOA Implementation.

December 6, 2006, XBRL 14th International Conference & Exhibition: Regulators Track. Invited Presentation and Demonstration on the Agile Financial Data Services CoP.

December 4, 2006, SICoP's Vocabularly Management (VM) WG Launched with the Revelytix Semantic Wiki (Knoodl).

December 4, 2006, SICoP/SOA CoP at OMG SOA Information Day.

November 30, 2006,  SICoP Invited to Present at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University School's Leadership for a Networked World Program, "Cross-Boundary Governance Through Agreements and Standards: Assuring Compliance and Results", March 21-22, 2007.

November 28, 2006, Net-Ready Sensor Standards Harmonization Meeting at NIST Using the VK Test Semantic Wiki. Presentation.

November 27 – 1 December 2006, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium November Plenary & Working Group Sessions Agenda. SICoP Semantic Wikis.

November 16, 2006, SICoP and SOA CoP Provide Initial Semantic SOA (Ontology) Pilot Roadmap for the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and Global Justice Programs.

November 13, 2006, SICoP's Cross-Domain Semantic Interoperability (CDSI) WG Begins Testing of the Visual Knowledge Semantic Wiki and SICoP's Vocabularly Management (VM) WG Prepares for Launch with the Revelytix Semantic Wiki (Knoodl).

November 9, 2006, SICoP's Health Information Technology Ontology Project (HITOP) Briefs the Office of the National Coordinator for Health HIT on Its Series of Pilots Projects in Support of the National Health Information Network (NHIN). SICoP Co-chairs provide a "State of SICoP" at the NCOR 2nd Plenary Session in Connection with the Formal Ontology in Information System Conference.

November 1, 2006, The LandView Agency Partners (Census, NOAA, USGA, and EPA) Agree on a Five-Year Plan to Produce LandView 7 That Will Include the American Community Survey Data, Mapserver (the great free open source tool that works like ArcServer), and SVG-Based Tools (like EPA Region 4 has developed) to Upload, Display and Analyze Local Data Sources for for the Shenandoah Valley - Mid-Atlantic Region Project. This Together with Our Semantic Wikis Should Provide the Standards-Based Infrastructure That Will Connect National and Local Data Networks.

November 1, 2006, The 2nd SOA for E-Government Conference Planning Committee Expresses Appreciation to All Who Contributed to the Success of This Conference: The Presentors, The Exhibitors, The Tutorials, and The Attendees, and Congratulates Those Who Received Special Recognitions. Articles on Conference, Review of White Papers, Pilots for FM/HR, NIEM/Global, and State and Local Governments Continue in Preparation for the 3rd Conference.

October 30-31, 2006, Special Recognitions Announced at the 2nd SOA for E-Government Conference for:
(1) Best Presentation: David Linthicum (The Linthicum Group);
(2) Best Agency SOA Application: Bob Brown (US Patent & Trademark Office);
(3) Best Organization SOA Application: Alan Harbitter (Nortel Government Solutions) and David Webber (AR Technologies);
(4) Best Exhibit: SOA CoP Demo Team;
(5) Best Breakout Session Presentations: Miko Matsumura (Infravio) and Steve Hufford (US EPA) and Phil Magrogan (Lockheed Martin); and
(6) Outstanding Contributions to the SICoP and the SOA CoP: Arun Majumdar (Cutter Consortium/VivioMind Intelligence)

October 13, 2006, The 5th Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference Planning Committee Expresses Appreciation to All Who Contributed to the Success of This Conference: The Presentors, The Exhibitors, The Tutorials, and The Attendees, and Congratulates Those Who Received Special Recognitions. The New CoPs That Formed Or Are Forming From This Conference (Spatial Ontology, National Information Sharing Standards, Agile Financial Data Services, and Cross-Domain Vocabulary) Will Be Using the New Tools and Infrastructure (Semantic Wikis), Based on W3C Standards and Featured at This Conference, to Prepare for the Upcoming Conferences in the Spring (e.g., Semantic Web Education & Outreach Interest Group, Semantic Technology 2007).

October 10-11, 2006, Special Recognitions Announced at the 5th Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference for:
(1) Best Presentation: Chris Welty (IBM) for Interoperable Knowledge Representation for Intelligence Support (IKRIS);
(2) Best Agency Semantic Interoperability Application: Con Kenney (FAA) and Irene Polikoff (TopQuadrant) or Ontology for Enterprise Architecture;
(3) Best Organization Semantic Interoperability Application: Denise Bedford (World Bank) for Semantic Interoperability at the World Bank: Combining Enterprise Architecture and Knowledge Management;
(4) Best Exhibit: Tom Beckman (Beckman Associates) and Ron Reck (RRecktek) for Issues in Knowledge Representation and Semantic Interoperability;
(5) Best Breakout Session Presentation: Linn Marks Collins, et al, (Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library) for Facilitating Semantic Data Integration and Interoperability between Collaboration Tools and Digital Object Repositories; and
(6) Outstanding Contributions to the CoP: Jim Disbrow (US EIA) and Kyle Recsky (Visual Knowledge) for Testing the Visual Knowledge Semantic Wiki

October 11, 2006, SICoP Fosters the Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) at the 5th Interoperability for E-Government Conference for Proposed Adoption by the Best Practices Committee on October 16, 2006.

October 11, 2006, SICoP’s Agile Financial Data Services Community of Practice (AFDS CoP) Focuses on Bridging Across the XBRL, SSOA, and Semantic Web Communities to Bring the Semantic Web to Financial Data.

September 30, 2006, SICoP Supports the Three CIO Council Committees (Architecture & Infrastructure, Best Practices, and IT Work Force) in Using the COLAB Wiki and VK Test Semantic Wiki in Capturing the ‘Best Practices” Concepts and Expertise at the 2006 Federal IT Summit, October 4, 2006.

September 14, 2006, SICoP Begins Regular Use of the VK Test Semantic Wiki in Support of the Spatial Ontology CoP, and Other Pilot Projects for Net-Ready Sensor Standards Harmonization and Terrorist Watch List Person Ontologies.

September 9, 2006, SICoP Fosters the Agile Financial Data Services Community of Practice (AFDS CoP) for the September 19th Collaborative Expedition Workshop and the October 10-11th Fifth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference.

August 28, 2006, SICoP and the Net-Centric Operations Industry Consortia - Semantic Interoperability Work Group Enter Into Cooperative Agreement to Collaborate on White Papers and Educational Presentations Using Semantic Wikis.

August 24, 2006, SICoP's SOA CoP Project is Presented at the IAC SOA Committee Meeting and Will Be Presented at 2006 Enterprise Architecture Conference (September 12th) and the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services Conference (October 17th).

August 7, 2006, Registration Opens for October 10-11th Fifth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference and the October 30-31st Second SOA for E-Government Conference, both at MITRE, McLean, Virginia.

August 1, 2006, Progress Reported on Water Data Interoperability and Environmental Health Data Networking for DRM 2.0 Pilots.

July 31st, FOAF/Semantic Network Analysis Pilot in Semantic Wiki Begins in Preparations for August 15, 2006, Collaborative Expedition Workshop #53 at NSF, Open Collaboration: Networking Semantic Interoperability Across Distributed Organizations and Their Ontologies and Ocober 10-11, 2006, Fifth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference, at MITRE.

July 29, 2006,  Invited Presentation to the OGETA Forum to be Made Available on DVD and EPA Region 4 Data for DRM 2.0 Meeting Results in Wiki.

July 27, 2006, Federal Transition Framework Documents (HTML and PDF) Repurposed in the Dynamic Knowledge Repository (Structured XML).

July 26, 2006, Special Meeting the KM WG on Networking EA and KM for September 13, 2006, to Feature Six Reasons Why.

July 21, 2006, FHA/NHIN Review and Suggested Pilot for HITOP Based on Participation in the First NHIN Forum and Testimony to the NCVHS Committee on the NHIN.

July 14, SICoP Supports Proposed Geospatial Ontology CoP to Converge Data Reference Model 2.0 and Geospatial Profile 1.1 with Common Solution Services Under the new  Federal Transition Framework.

July 12, 2006, SICoP to Participate in the Semantic Interoperability Workshop, August 1st, at the NCOIC Plenary, Reston, VA, and the Net-Ready Sensors Workshop, August 2-3, 2006, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. See Invited Presentation on SICoP.

June, 30, 2006, Collaborative Expedition Workshop #52 at NSF, July 18, 2006, on Open Collaboration: Networking Wiki Information Technology for Information Sharing and Knowledge Management, Features Semantic Wikis to Converge Data Reference Model 2.0 and Records Management Profile 1.0 with Common Solution-Shared Services Under the new Federal Transition Framework.

June 29, 2006, NICS CoP Workshop at The Bookings Institution. Community Data Stories: Making Data Meaningful SICoP Pilot.

June 23, 2006, IBM Developer Works Provides Synopsis of How to "Achieve Semantic Interoperability in a SOA" with a Reference Recognizing the Work of SICoP.

June 14, 2006, SICoP and the European SemanticGov Project Consortium Sign Agreement to Cooperate on Promoting Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services Knowledge, Models, Architectures, Technologies, and Best Practices in the Area of E-Government. First Events to be August 15, 2006, Collaborative Expedition Workshop #53 at NSF, late September Workshop in Helsinki, Finland, and Fifth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference, October 10-11, 2006, MITRE, McLean, VA.

June 5, 2006, KM WG Board Plans Two Public Meetings to Network EA and KM on July 26th and September 13th.

June 3, 2006, Summer Collaborative Expedition Workshop Schedule Posted for June 20-22nd, July 18th, and August 15th.

May 25, 2006, The SOA for E-Government Conference Planning Committee Expresses To All Who Contributed to the Success of This Conference: The Presenters, Exhibitors, Tutorials, and Attendees, and Congratulates Those Who Received Special Recognitions. We Hope to See You at the Second Conference, October 30-31st. Also See IAC SOA Readiness Survey Beta and Dynamic Knowledge Repository.

May 15, 2006, Mills Davis Appointed SICoP Co-Chair by Brand Niemann SICoP Chair, With Approval of the New KM WG Board Co-Chairs.

May 5, 2006, Briefing for the Architecture & Infrastructure and Best Practices Committees on the SOA CoP and SOA for E-Government Conference, May 23-24, 2006. Also SICoP Module 2 White Paper "Semantic Wave 2006: Executive Guide to the Business Value of Semantic Technologies" to be Delivered.

May 2, 2006, Proceedings of the "Convergence of Semantic Naming and Identification Technologies?" Joint Conference Available. Discussions of the "Semantic Technology Electronic Health Record" for the FHA/NHIN Pilot Begins within the SICoP/HITOP WG.

April 27-28, 2006, SICoP Special Recognitions to Conor Shankey, CEO, Visual Knowledge, for “Tooling to Implement the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model and a Knowledge Reference Model” in a “Semantic Wiki” in Support of the SICoP Semantic Wiki and Information Management (SWIM) WG and to Professor Ken Baclawski, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University for masterful tutorials on the Semantic and Bayesian Web, both at the Joint Open Group, Federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP), and Federal Metadata Management Consortium Conference, April 27-28, 2006, Hilton Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. See slides 11 and 12.

April 26, 2006, Invited Presentation on the SOA in Government and the SOA CoP at the Developments in SOA: The Open Group's SOA Working Group Conference.

April 25, 2006, Discussion at the Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable Meeting about coordination with the Shenandoah Valley and Mid-Atlantic Region Pilot and a Semantic Wiki of their indicators report for CEQ and the KNII.

April 20, 2006, Presentation on KM Business Case Successes and Potential Way Ahead for a KM Line of Business "Business Case" at the Knowledge Management Conference Using a Knowledge Reference Model, Semantic Wikis, and Collaboration with the AIC's Data Architecture Subcommittee and the Special KM WG Meeting at the KM Conference.

April 14, 2006, SICoP SWIM (Semantic Wikis and Information Management) WG Becomes a Major Focus for Advancing DRM 2.0  Implementation and Will Use the SICoP Forum.

April 13, SICoP Supports New KM WG Board with Proposed Knowledge Management Community of Practice Architecture, Process, and Reference Model in Support of the New OMB/FEA Federal Transition Framework at April 20th Public Meeting. SICoP DRM 2.0 Pilot of the New OMB/FEA Federal Transition Framework Metamodel Begins.

March 31, 2006, GSA Newsletter on Disaster Management,  Includes SICoP Pilots on page 18 for "Public-Private Collaboration for Semantic Interoperability in Emergency Management Information Sharing," and page 32 for "Disaster Response Pilot Demonstrates Web Services and Semantic Naming Technology".

March 31, 2006, SICoP Invited to Collaborate with the European Union Program on Semantic Technologies and E-Government and to Participate in a Conference of the National Knowledge Commission of India in Southern California, June 1-3, 2006.

March 20, 2006, SICoP Assists the USGS Scientific Information Management Workshop and Shenandoah Valley-VA-WV-Mid-Atlantic Region Pilot Projects with DRM 2.0 Implementation That Includes the EPA Data Architecture, NICS and NARC CoPs.

March 8, 2006, DRM Version 2 and Metadata at FOSE 2006: Opportunities for Agencies and Vendors and Semantic Wikis for Information Management and Sharing Features GPO - SICoP/DRM 2.0 Pilot of Trusted Reference Knowledge: CIA Fact Book That Treats All Five FEA Reference Models and Three FEA Profiles! See slide 30.

March 7, 2006, SICoP Chair Named as Member of the New CIO Council's Knowledge Management WG Board for 2006.

March 6, 2006, SOA CoP Provides SOA-Forum Mailing List in Support of the AIC Where SOA is Already a Common Thread Across the Three (soon to be four) AIC Subcommittees and Because Communities of Practice are Becoming Quite Influential in Government Circles as the Way Diverse Interests Come Together and Break Down the Barriers Between Them.

March 2, 2006, The Open Group and SICoP Agree to Produce Joint Free Conference on Convergence of Semantic Naming and Identification Technologies?, April 27, 2006, Hilton Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. Agenda and Registration to be Announced Open Soon.

February 23, 2006, SICoP Proposes to GPO and Other Agencies with Cross-Agency Missions: Community-Based Information Interoperability (CBII), Semantic Wikis for Effective Collaborative Implementation of the Federal Enterprise Architecture’s Data Reference Model (FEA DRM) by Communities of Interest, and DRM 2.0 and Metadata for GPO Pilots. See SWIM Wiki.

February 23, 2006, SICoP/DRM 2.0 Composite Application Pilot Begins for Financial Management Line of Business in Cooperation with the XBRL and FDIC. See February 1, 2006 Announcement and June 27, 2006 Upcoming Meeting.

February 22, 2006, SOA for E-Government CoP Begins and EPA Data Architecture for DRM 2.0 CoP Begins.

February 15, 2006, SICoP Provides Keynotes and Presentations at the Lockheed Martin 11th Annual Information Technology Trends Conference and Gives Special Recognition to Ron Schuldt, Lockheed Martin and Chair of The Open Group UDEF Forum, for the "Disaster Response Pilot Demonstrating Semantic Naming Technology for Web Services". Lockheed Announces New Semantic Technologies Integrated Program Environment (IPE).

February 11, 2006, The Fourth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference Conference Planning Committee Expresses Appreciation to All Who Contributed to the Success of This Conference: The Presentors, The Exhibitors, The Tutorials, and The Attendees, and Congratulates Those Who Received Special Recognitions. We Hope to See You in Another Year at the 5th! Special Recognitions (see slides 22-27): Outstanding Contributions as a Member of the Planning Committee: Rick Tucker, MITRE; Best Co-Papers: Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper, Sam Chance, US Navy, and Michael Seebold, Concurrent Technologies Corporation; Best Semantic Harmonization Tool Application, Chuck Mosher, MetaMatrix Corporation; Best Exhibit - Siderean; Best Breakout Session Presentations: Gregory Fairnak, Consultant to Northrop Grumman and Ray Piasecki, BAE Systems.

February 3, 2006, SICoP Begins DRM 2.0 Pilot for the DNI and IC DMB Using the CIA Fact Book to Demonstrate SOA Data Sharing Services Types. See DRM 2.0 and Metadata for GPO Pilots.

February 3, 2006, Fourth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference, MITRE, McLean, Virginia, Promises to Be An Outstanding Event with Large Registration and Full Breakout and Exhibit Sessions. Registration Open and Required By February 6th, Noon EST.

February 1, 2006, SICoP Introduces DRM 2.0 Pilot at the XBRL Seminar Sponsored by the International Consortium on Government Financial Management.

January 26, 2006, SICoP Helps Foster New SOA for E-Government CoP and Conference at MITRE, May 23-24, 2006.

January 24, 2006, NCOR Newsletters Published on Internal Wiki.

January 21, 2006, SICoP Receives Certificate of Appreciation for Substantive and Sustained Commitment to Knowledge Management from the Federal CIO Council's KM Working Group and Launches New Group on Semantic Wiki and Information Management in Support of the Knowledge Reference Model (KRM) (see SWIM Wiki).

January 16, 2006, SICoP Welcomes the HIT CoP and its HITOP - Health IT Ontology Project Work Group Led by Marc Wine.

January 11, 2006, Government Computer News Online Chat on DRM 2.0 and Answers to Questions Beforehand.

January 6, 2006, SICoP Module 2 White Paper "Semantic Wave 2006: Executive Guide to the Business Value of Semantic Technologies" Available for Review. See Presentation and Panel at Fourth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference, February 9, 2006.

January 5, 2006, DRM Implementation Through Iteration and Testing Team Resumes Work on DRM 2.0 Implementation Pilots and Networking Within and Cross Communities of Practice.

January 3, 2006, SICoP Invited to Participate in the IT Performance Measurement CoP Development of a Performance Reference Model (PRM) for Government-Wide Lines of Business and IT Initiatives.

December 28, 2005, SICoP Invited to Participate in the National Association of Regional Council's (NARC) Washington Policy Conference, February 5, 2006, with the DRM 2.0 Water Data and Indicator Harmonization Pilot.

December 27, 2005, Call for Proposals for the Fourth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference, February 9-10, 2006, MITRE, McLean, Virginia, Due January 13th.

December 23, 2005, Fourth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference, February 9-10, 2006, MITRE, McLean, Virginia, Registration Open and Required By February 6th, Noon EST.

December 12, 2005, SICoP Pilots to Appear in GSA Newsletter: Public-Private Collaboration for Semantic Interoperability in Emergency Management Sharing and Disaster Response Pilot Demonstrates Web Services and Semantic Naming Technology. These Pilots Show the Application of Something Better Than Just ISO/IEC 11179, XML Naming and Design Rules and Guidelines, and UBL for Semantic Interoperability.

December 9, 2005, SICoP DRM Pilot of FHA 0.5 Started in Support of the New FHA Data Architecture Working Group to Model (Ontology) the Documents for the Dynamic Knowledge Repository.

December 6, 2005, Collaboration Workshop on Advancing Information Sharing and Data Architecture Provides Guidance on Performing DRM Implementation Through Iteration and Testing.

December 5, 2005, SICoP Invited to Keynote at the February 14-16, 2006, Lockheed Martin Information Technology Trends Conference in Orlando, Florida. The Business Case for Semantic Technologies to also be presented.

December 1, 2005, DRM Implementation Through Iteration and Testing Meeting Features Beta PubMed Semantic Search Using "Core Starter Ontology" from SemanTx Life Sciences and Semantic DNS - UDEF Disaster Response Pilot That Will Be Referenced in the IPV6 Summit Keynote Presentation.

November 22, 2005, Translation of SICoP White Paper to Japanese Completed and Posted.

November 18, 2005, XML 2005 Conference Features Many Semantic Standards, Technology and Web Applications Presentations and Announcement of Call for Government Participation in the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, November 5-9, 2006, Athens, Georgia.

November 10, 2005, SICoP Public Meeting Features "UDEF Semantic DNS With ISO/IEC 11179" Disaster Response Pilot Use Case and Its Relation to a Business Case for IPV6, SICoP/Ontolog Forum Discussion Features International/National Coordination for the Year of the Ontology 2006, and Net-Centric Data Management: Exploiting the Business Value of Semantic Technologies Presentation to OSD NII Features SICoP and DRM Implementation Through Iteration and Testing Work: Making It Real.

November 5, 2005, Best Practice Disaster Management Event Ontology Provided Recently in SICoP SIA/DRM Pilot for the GeoSpatial Profile Draft (see DKR) Use Case and Scenario (Appendix D).

November 2, 2005, "Meet the Local VCs and Angels" Features SBIR Program Managers and Word of New SBIR's from Air Force, Navy, NIST, NGA, and SOCO Related to Semantic Technologies. Contact Mills Davis for More Information.

October 29, 2005, Inaugural Event of the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) Features Call for Ontology Science, Use of Principles and Relations for Building Biomedical Ontologies, and Provides New Book on Ontologies for Bioinformatics that Shows The Semantic Web for Bioinfomatics - Called the Bayesian Web! SICoP Supports NCOR as a Public-Private-Academic Partnership.

October 20, 2005, Special Recognition for "Outstanding Collaboration" in "Semantic Interoperability at Work: Improving Rapid First Response, Under the Leadership of Rex Brooks Presented to Team of 14 Vendors at the SICoP Public Meeting.

October 18, 2005, Three DRM 2.0 Virtual Workshops, October 26, and November 1 & 3, 2005, 10 a.m - 12 noon.

October 17, 2005, DRM 2.0 Implementation Through Iteration and Testing Paper, Presentation, Preliminary Implementation Strategy, and Education Pilot Prepared for the DRM Work Group Meeting and Future Cross-COI and CIO Council and Architecture & Infrastructure and Best Practices Committee Meetings.

October 10, 2005, Declaring October as Ontology Month! Presentation at the GCN Storage to Knowledge: The Lifecycle Management Conference, October 11th, 10:30-11:15 a.m.

October 4, 2005, Special Free SICoP Public Meeting for SIA/DRM Pilot Presentations at the DON CIO-XML COI / Federal XML CoP Conference, October 20, 2005, 10 a.m.-12 noon, AT&T, 1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA.

October 3, 2005, Special Free SICoP Public Meeting, October 12th, 2-3:30 p.m. at the GCN Storage to Knowledge: The Lifecycle Management Conference.

October 1, 2005, National Center for Ontological Research, October 28, 2005, Workshop on Bio-Ontologies.

September 29, 2005, European Commission IDABC Semantic Interoperability Workshop, Paper (See DKR), and Proceedings. Also see IDABC Site Map.

September 28, 2005, First Meeting of the Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group for October 5, 2005. RSVP to Pat Cassidy, MITRE, Lead Required for Admittance (pcassidy@mitre.org). Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model Taxonomies and Ontologies.

September 26, 2005, DRM Implementation Through Iteration and Testing: Status Report and Implementation Plan, Prepared for the DRM Executive Committee. See October 17, 2005, Announcement for Updates.

September 23, 2005, Statistical Metadata in the Data Reference Model, Draft for Review Prepared for the NICS CoP Meeting: Metadata and NICS: Joys, Sorrows, and Payoffs, November 2, 2005. Part of Implementing the Semantic Web Part 1. Semantic Technology Profile for the Data Reference Model: Use Case 4-NICS.

September 21, 2005, Enterprise Architecture Joint CoP Wiki Page and "Executable Enterprise Models (The FEA Reference Model Ontology)" by Irene Polikoff and Robert Coyne Published in the Premier Issue of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture. Also Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, The Semantic Web - ISWC 2005, Galway, Ireland, November 6-10, 2005, Proccedings.

September 19, 2005, DRM Implementation Through Iteration and Testing Team Wiki Page Produced for Synthesis and Summary Work Over the New Few Months.

September 16, 2005, SICoP Community Wiki Reorganized and Master Calendar Added to Integrate Meetings and Activities Across the Collaborative Expedition Workshops, SIA and DRM Implementation Pilots, Ontolog Forum, Health IT, etc. Fourth Semantic Technologies for E-Government Conference Announced for March 23-24, 2005, With Call for Participation in the Planning Committee.

September 14, Special Recognitions Given to Mills Davis, Roy Roebuck, Rohit Agarwal, Peter Yim and Mark Musen at the SICoP Public Meeting. See Updated Welcome and Introduction (slides 23-26 for specifics).

September 13, First Meeting of the Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group (ONTACWG) Announced for October 5th at MITRE, McLean, Virginia. Details to Follow.

September 8, 2005, A SICoP Public Meeting (Welcome and Introduction) has been scheduled for September 14, 2005, MITRE, McLean, VA, in lieu of the traditional Third Semantic Technologies for E-Government Conference to provide an update on the Module 2 and 3 White Papers in preparation for submission to the Federal CIO Council and to feature some of the SICoP Pilots in support of the Semantic Interoperability Architecture (SIA) and the Data Reference Model that were already scheduled for the September 14th Second DRM Public Form in the afternoon. IMPORTANT NOTICE 1: The DRM Executive Committee has delayed the Second DRM Public Forum to allow more time for preparation of version 1.5 for the public forum. IMPORTANT NOTICE 2: You must RVSP with name and organization to sbrock@mitre.org by Monday, September 11th NOON to be cleared by security to be admitted to this secure facility. Attendance limited to the first 250 individuals to register. Remote access will be provided.

September 2, 2005, Implementing the Semantic Web Part 1. Semantic Technology Profile for the Data Reference Model: Use Case 3-FEA (see DKR for FEA and the Budget FY2007: Semantic Mapping and Modeling) Prepared for the Second Quarterly DRM Public Forum, September 14th, 2005. Registration now open. Also for Joint CoP Meeting, September 21st - see below.

August 26, 2005, Registration Information for Joint CoP Meeting, September 21, Noon- 2 p.m.: Chief Architect Forum, Federal IT Performance Management, and SICoP – What Do These Three CoPs Have In Common?

August 25, 2005, Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projects Panel Discussion, SICoP Contribution.

August 22, 2005, Implementing the Semantic Web Part 1. Semantic Technology Profile for the Data Reference Model: Use Case 1-Geospatial Data DRAFT Prepared for the DRM Working Group. Also Digital Harbor Pilot Presentation and Use Case 2: U.S. EPA.

August 18, 2005, Semantic Technology Profile for Section 207 (d) RDF Exercise Files Posted for Ongoing Work: ICGI Metadata Definitions-Draft and Interagency Committee on Government Information - See Metadata Definitions in Contents. Also see August 1st and 15th Tutorials below and W3C RDF Primer.

August 15, 2005, DOAP: Description of a Project Tutorial Based on the Work of Edd Dumbill, Editor of XML.Com, Home Page, in Preparation for Implementing the Semantic Web, Part 1. Semantic Technology Profile for the Data Reference Model: Use Case 1 - Geospatial Data for the August 16th Workshop. See Four Steps for this Workshop and Beyond Including the Security & Privacy (DKR) and Records Management Profiles (DKR) (in process).

August 1, 2005, The Semantic Interoperability Information Sharing Tool Pilot Part 2,  Featuring the Oracle RDF Network Data Model (see slide 18) and the Oracle 10gR2 RDF Network Data Model Examples in Preparation for August 16th Workshop with Tutorial, Hands-On Exercises and Application Demonstrations.

July 27, 2005, The Business Value for Semantic Technologies - Brief Overview, Presented to the New IAC Emerging Technology (ET) SIG, Information Sharing & Collaboration Committee.

July 27, 2005, LandView: A Decade of Excellence, 1995-2005, Special Recognition presented by the LandView Team with gratitude to Paul T. Manka, Census Bureau, for his leadership in developing the Federal Government's Foremost Geospatial Data Product.

July 25, 2005, The Data Reference Model: At Least a Taxonomy Now and Hopefully An Interoperable Data Architecture in the Future – Ten Talking Points for Your CIO Prepared for the DRM Working Group.

July 21, 2005, Continuity Communications Working Group Status Report Presented to the Architecture & Infrastructure Committee and the Chief Architect Forum by Roy Roebuck, Chief Architect, Continuity Communications Enterprise Architecture Program Office, Based on the GSA Model-Driven Architecture Approach and the FEA Reference Model Ontology.

July 18, 2005, DRM Information Sharing Tool Kit and Applications: Part 1 to be Presented at the July 19, 2005, Collaborative Expedition Workshop #43 at NSF, Designing the DRM for Data Visibility: Building Sustainable Stewardship Practices Together. Also see Markle Foundation's "Creating a Trusted Network for Homeland Security" and DRM Vignette in the Dynamic Knowledge Repository. Tool Kit Version 1 (Browse Only) and 2 (Enter Your Own Data). First Download and Install the SVG Viewer and Note: Scroll down and choose the language and operating system (usually English and Win 98–XP). Download and Install the MS XML Parser and Note: Scroll down and choose the msxml.msi.

July 11, 2005, Dynamic SVG Interface (Browse Only) to the DRM Schema Specification Prepared by EPA Region 4/GeoDecisions Pilot for the July 19, 2005, Collaborative Expedition Workshop #43 at NSF: FEA DRM Schema Specification (Draft Version 0.1): Analysis and Two Use Cases (Taxonomy and Interoperability). Also HTML Interfaces (FEA, BRM2PRM, Performance Reference Model, Business Reference Model, Service Component Reference Model, Technical Reference Model, Merged Ontology) to the FEA-Reference Model Ontology Using Protege Release 3.1.

July 8, 2005, Executable Integration of the FEA Reference Models in Composite Applications Fact Sheet and Demos: Intelligence Community (TerrorismDemo.htm), Voting/Census Data (CampaignFinance.htm), Water Resources (in process), and FEA Management (in process). Also see updated FEA Reference Model Ontology in SWOOP (download and run SWOOP and then open the 7 "Browse FEA-RMO" URLs in SWOOP).

July 7, 2005, The Semantic Web - An Interview with Tim Berners-Lee by Andrew Updegrove, Consortium Standards Bulletin, Volume 4, No. 6. See Section III. Critics (page 5) for responses to criticisms of the Semantic Web: "Now I use RDF and its all so simple – but if I hadn’t have had three years of XML hell, I wouldn’t ever have understood" and "A critical part, perhaps not obvious from the (SW) specs, is the way different communities of practice develop independently, bottom up, and then can connect link by link, like patches sewn together at the edges."

June 29, 2005, IRS TaxMap Tax Products CD-ROM Demonstrated at the June 28th Workshop as Use of XML Topic Maps to Organize and Search DRM XML Schema Instances.

June 27, 2005, FEA DRM Schema Specification (Draft Version 0.1): Analysis and Two Use Cases (Taxonomy and Interoperability) Prepared for DRM WG Meeting and June 28, 2005, Collaborative Expedition Workshop #42 at NSF - Open Standards for Government Information Sharing: Timing the Transformations Needed for Sustained Progress By Combining the Expertise of Multiple Communities. See Web File Repurposed and Taxonomy Created, June 22, 2005, and See PDF Files Repurposed and Initial Ontology for Interoperability of Water Data Created, June 20, 2005.

June 19, 2005, Web Service Ontology (WSMO), W3C Member Submission 3 June 2005, and Ontology Management for Federal Agencies, DMReview, June 17, 2005.

June 13, 2005, Special Recognition (see slide 50) for “Putting Context to Work: Semantic Keys to Improve Rapid First Response" by the Broadstokes Group – Broadstrokes, Inc.: Adam Hocek; MyStateUSA: Claudia Bitner; Image Matters: Mike Alexander; Starbourne: Rex Brooks; and Targus Info: David Win. A Composite – Infrastructure Application with An Event Ontology First Shown at the SWANS Conference, April 7-8, 2005, as “an end-to-end Semantic Web Application.”

June 8, 2005, SICoP Participation in the  First Quarterly Data Reference Model (DRM) Public Forum, June 13th, Features the "State of SICoP" and Six Semantic Interoperability Architecture (SIA) Pilot Descriptions and Demonstrations. FAST, ONTAC WG, Ontolog Forum, Oracle, Digital Harbor, and Broadstrokes Group.

June 6, 2005, Ontolog Forum Provides Review of the Final Draft of "Enabling the Implementation of Formal Ontologies Through the Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF)" (password required from The Open Group) at the Request of SICoP.

June 4, 2005, Status Report on Exploring the Business Value of Semantic Technology - SICoP Module 2 Provided by Mills Davis, Team Lead.

May 25, 2005, Suggested Roadmap from the FEA to SOA/SIA at Management of Change Conference in Preparations for the SOA Leaders Event (June 9th) and the SecurE-Biz CxO Summit (June 29-30) Sessions.

May 18, 2005, ONTAC WG "Weekly Notes" From Team Lead, Pat Cassidy, and Translation of SICoP Module 1 White Paper to Japanese by Noboru Shimizu, Keio Research Institute at SFC, Japan, Begin.

May 16, 2005, Suggested Reading for Building and Using Ontologies in Support of the Semantic Interoperability Architecture (SIA). OWL: Representing Information Using the Web Ontology Language (Lee Lacy), Practical RDF (Shelly Powers), and Six W3C Documents in the DKR.

May 12, 2005, Call for Semantic Interoperability Architecture (SIA) Pilots Announced at the High Performance Government - SOA-led Organizational Transformation, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center Rotunda, Washington, DC, and at the Forthcoming Management of Change Conference: Workshop - Realizing the Promise of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Panel, May 25th, Philadelphia, PA. Vendors Are Encouraged to Use the FEA Reference Model Ontology and/or the Public Domain Database for Semantic Searching and Ontology Building in Repositories and Composite Applications and to Participate in the New Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating (ONTAC) Working Group (Pat Cassidy, MITRE, Lead: pcassidy@mitre.org) in Preparation for the First Quarterly Data Reference Model Conference, June 13th at MITRE, and the Third Semantic Technologies for E-Government Conference in the Fall.

May 9, 2005, "State of SICoP" Prepared for Upcoming Status Reports/Presentations to the Chief Architects Forum (May 11th), DRM Working Group (May 16th), Collaborative Expedition Workshop (May 17th), CIO Council, Best Practices Committee, Architecture & Infrastructure Committee (May 19th), Taxonomy Tuesday (May 24th), and Management of Change Conference: Workshop - Realizing the Promise of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Panel (May 25th).

May 3, 2005, Documentation for the FEA Reference Model Ontology Now Available in the Dynamic Knowledge Repository.

April 26, 2005, New SICoP Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating WG Established and Charter Posted in Collaboration Wiki. Email Discussion Forums for General Discussion and Ontology and Tools Development Established (Contact pcassidy@mitre.org).

April 25, 2005, SWANS Conference Proceedings Available at the DAML Conference Web Site and the Dynamic Knowledge Repository.

April 18, 2005, Semantic Technology and Web Standards Being Applied to Linking the FEA PRM (OWL), OMB PART (Excel), and OMB A-300 (XSD) and to Demonstrating the Value of EA Through "Line of Sight" in Ontology-Driven Information Systems and Linkage to Agency Strategic Plans (see EPA Region 4 Pilot) as Called for in the FEA PMO Action Plan 2005-2006. See Dynamic Knowledge Repository Version and Presentation for the Architecture & Infrastructure Committee, April 21st.

April 13, 2005, General Call for Participation in the Planning Committee for the Third Annual Semantic Technologies for E-Government Conference (Two Days in the September-October time period). Also General Alert to Vendors That the Trade Show Will Feature Use of a Public Domain Database to Demonstrate "Semantic Searching and Ontology Building" That Will be Provided to All Soon. Please Use the SICoP Forum to Indicate Your Interest in Participating.

April 10, 2005, OASIS Symposium on "The Future of XML Vocabularies" Features Features Session on Semantic and Ontologies.

April 11, 2005, KM.Gov All Hands Meeting and Networking Reception (free), April 21st, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, D.C., Atrium Ballroom B, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. SICoP Presentation and Fact Sheet at 10:45 a.m.

April 9, 2005, SWANS Conference an Outstanding Success! Special Recognitions Given to Outgoing Co-Chair Rick Morris (For the "Outstanding Leadership" as Co-Chair of the SICoP During Its Formation and First Year) and to Ken Fromm (For the "Outstanding Editorial Leadership" in the Completion of the SICoP White Paper "Introducing Semantic Web Technologies: Harnessing the Power of Information Semantics"). Conference Proceedings Available at SWANS Conference Web Site. Thanks to All Who Produced the Conference and Participated.

April 6, 2005, FEA-RMO Exercise in Internet Business Logic (view, change and run it using a browser). Also see W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability, April 27-28, 2005, Washington, DC.

April 6, 2005, Opening Remarks for the SICoP at the SWANS Conference, April 7-8, 2005. See FEA Reference Model Ontology in SWOOP (download and run and then open the 7 "Browse FEA-RMO" URLs in SWOOP).

April 5, 2005, XML 2005 Conference: from Syntax to Semantics, Call for Papers Due May 13th. This year the XML Planning Committee is asking for papers in suggested topic areas of Collaboration, Core Technologies, Large-Scale Architectures, Knowledge Management, Metadata and Semantics, and many more. Please help build a Semantic Web and Technologies Track like last year! (Also note that the XML 2005 Conference Web site is Drupal-based supporting RSS feeds and Blogs and personalized sites for the Planning Committee, Exhibitors, Speakers, etc.)

April 5, 2005, "Wiki means fast: Online collaborative sites open to everyone enable the sharing of ideas by Aliya Sternstein, April 4, 2005, Federal Computer Week and USA Today.

April 4, 2005, Building an Ontology of the National Health Information Network (NHIN): Status Report, and Proposed SICoP Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Work Group (ONTAC) for the SWANS Conference Pilot Panel, April 7th (in process).

March 28, 2005, Instructions for How to Submit Comments on the FEA Reference Model Ontology Provided at the Wiki.

March 15, 2005, FEA Reference Model Ontology (OWL and Protege) Released Under Open Source License with Documentation (TopQuadrant), "FEA Browser", and Proposed Incremental Implementation Strategy. GSA Project Plan. Also see TopQuadrant Enterprise Architecture, Ontology Engineering and Training. Also see "GSA gets semantic with architecture reference models", Government Computer News, 02/07/05; Vol. 24 No. 3.

March 11, 2005, Geospatial Ontologies Available from Drexel University for Use With Protege 3.0 (Basic and Full).

March 7, 2005, Data Reference Model: Update on Status, prepared for DRM WG Meeting.

March 2, 2005, Co-Chair Rick Morris Retires from Army to Become Director of KM Programs for Triple I in Kansas City, KS, with Plans to Continue Participation in SICoP. Please congratulate Rick at the SWANS Conference, April 7-8th!

February 28, 2005, SICoP Module 1 White Paper Introducing Semantic Technologies and the Vision of the Semantic Web (DKR Version) ("DRM of the Future") Formally Delivered to the CIO Council's Best Practices Committee (rescheduled to March 21st due to snowstorm).

February 22, 2005, Topic Maps - Part 5: Reference Model Standard Released.

February 17, 2005, Developing Medical Informatics Ontologies Using Protege, by Natasha Noy and Samson Tu, Presented at NIST  Information Technology Laboratory Seminar.

February 16, 2005, SICoP Module1 White Paper Introducing Semantic Technologies and the Vision of the Semantic Web (DKR Version) ("DRM of the Future") Finalized for Submission to the CIO Council's Architecture & Infrastructure and Best Practices Committees.

February 14, 2005, SICoP Module 2 Production Begins-All Invited to Participate, Weekly Conference Calls Start February 17th (Thursday) 10 a.m. Through March 31st. Please Contact Module 2 Team Lead, Mills Davis for Conference Call Information.

February 14, 2005, Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SCOPE) - DRM Semantic Technology Profile Pilot for the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) and National Health Information Network (NHIN). Participation in NHIN RFI Review Begins (DKR).

February 11, 2005, Winter 2004 DAML PI Meeting Presentations Now Available. DKR Version Along with SICoP Report in Process. Recent DAML Program Presentation.

February 9, 2005, Protege 3.0 Released (Basic and Full): The First Major Redesign of the User Interface Based on User Studies and Feedback with Significant Performance Improvements Described in On-Line Documentation. Also see Protege Wiki.

February 8, 2005, SWANS Conference, April 7-8, 2005, Registration and Agenda Web Site Now Available!

February 4, 2005, Towards a National Model for the Electronic Health Record (Video), Dr. David Brailer, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Also see April 22, The Role of Ontologies in the Electronic Health Record, Professor Mark Musen.

February 3, 2005, Bill Gates on "Building Software That Is Interoperable By Design".

February 2, SICoP Members Produce Papers: "Formal Taxonomies for the U.S. Government"(Michael Daconta),"Achieving Semantic Interoperability" (Jeff Pollock), "COVE – Collaborative Ontology Visualization and Evolution" (TopQuadrant and NASA), and "Netcentric Semantic Linking: An Approach for Enterprise Semantic Interoperability", Mary Pulvermacher) (also see in DKR for Data Reference Model Registry & Repository). See February 22, 2005, Semantic Conflict, Mapping, and Enablement: Making Commitments Together, Collaborative Expedition Workshop #38, at NSF.

January 18, 2005, Ontology Forum Submits RFI for the National Health Information Network with SICoP Participation.

January 18, 2005, Richard Murphy, GSA Enterprise Architect Recognized for "Breakthrough Performance" at the ArchitecturePlus Seminar: Semantic Interoperability, Ontology and Their Potential for Federal Information Sharing, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Building, Washington, DC.

January 14, 2005, Try putting PurpleNumbers on existing web pages with PurpleSlurple at: http://ps1.cim3.net/ps.php (Important: be fully aware, though, that the persistence of purple numbers thus created are dependent on the persistence of the source web page.) Example: Jan. 10, 2005 issue of Federal Computer Week.

January 10, 2005, Communities of Practice: A New Tool for Government Managers, The Center for the Business of Government.

December 28, 2004, SWANS Conference Dates Changed (February 8-9 to April 7-8) Due to Availability of An Adequate Venue in the Washington, DC Area. More Than 30 Trade Show Submissions!

December 13-15, 2004, Workshop on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Informatics (Eco-Informatics & Decision Making: Input to a NSF-Digital Government Research Solicitation), The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. Initial Ontology for Knowledge Representation. This Will Be The First Semantic Community of Practice Enablement (SCOPE) Effort in Support of SICoP Modules 2 (Business Case Examples) and 3 (Implementation) and the Upcoming SWANS Conference.

December 8, 2004, SICoP Presentation to the Semantic Interoperability Study Interest Group (SISIG) of the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee Leadership: Talking Points, PowerPoint, Introducing Semantic Technologies and the Vision of the Semantic Web (DKR Version) ("DRM of the Future"), Collaborative Expedition-Emerging Technology Workshop #37 at the NSF - Toward Coherence in Knowledge Through All Things Ontological: Making Sense Together, and COVE - Collaborative Ontology Visualization and Evolution.

December 8, 2004, XML 2004 Conference Summary Includes Federal Government Community of Practice Town Hall.

November 29, 2004, Connecting the Dots: CAP-WSRP Presented at the XML 2004 Conference as Part of the OASIS Interoperability Demos That Showed the Integration of Web Services for Remote Portlets with the Common Access Protocol and Including GeoResponse for Use in the Federal Region 4 Semantic Interoperability Pilot (see November 1st Announcement).

November 22, 2004, Introducing Semantic Technologies and the Vision of the Semantic Web (DKR Version) ("DRM of the Future") Released by SICoP to the CIO Council's Architecture & Infrastructure and Best Practices Committees for Review and Suggestions Provided to the Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI) for a Multi-Layer DRM Architecture and to the EPA for an Agency DRM. Collaboration Wiki now RSS-Enabled! (Password required for SWANS Conference Planning Committee.) Also see "Semantic Integration Using Topic Maps" Tutorial at the XML 2004 Conference. Also see Semantic Web Primer Book Web Site.

November 5 and 10, 2004, SICoP RDF/OWL Pilot Project Being Prepared for the XML Conference 2004 Joint XML CoP/SICoP Exhibit and SWANS Conference (see November 4th Announcement) and Briefing on The FEA Data and Information Reference Model (DRM): Information Sharing.

November 4, 2004, Call for proposals for participation in a Trade Show of products showcasing concepts and capabilities related to the Semantic Web which will be a key part of the upcoming Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS) meeting February 8-9, 2005 in the Washington, DC area. The purpose of the meeting is to raise awareness and enhance the ability of Military and Government technology decision-makers to capitalize on the emergence of the Semantic Web.  One of the key objectives of this meeting is to foster additional pilot and implementation projects using OWL and RDF technologies.

November 1, 2004, Federal Region 4 Semantic Interoperability Pilot Project: Community of Practice and Plans, Prepared for the Semantic Interoperability Study Group (SISiG), Architecture and Infrastructure Committee, CIO Council. Pilot Project Cites New Book "Adaptive Information – Improving Business Through Semantic Interoperability, Grid Computing & Enterprise Integration," Wiley-Interscience by Pollack and Hodgson.

October 26, 2004, Review of Forthcoming Book: "Understanding SOA with Web Services," Eric Newcomer and Greg Lomow, Addison-Wesley Professional - E-Government needs a comprehensive guide to SOA with Web Services standards and best practices for implementation to get from the current "as is" to the future "to be" architecture. This book meets that need superbly. (The FEA Security and Privacy Profile-SPP needs to address confidentiality-see eGov Act 2002-and include the IC MWG security architecture and SOA with Web Services for the "to be" architecture.)

October 25, 2004, Portals from Nodes, Portlets and Distributed Content Networks Prepared for the Semantic Interoperability Study Group (SISiG), Architecture and Infrastructure Committee, CIO Council, Along with Module 1 Draft White Paper in Best Practices Repository and Proceedings Web Site for Second Semantic Technologies for E-Government Conference, September 8-9, 2004. Also Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS - formerly Semantic Web for Military Users) Two-Day Conference Being Planned with SICoP for February 8-9, 2005.

October 25, 2004, Two "CT Awards" for “Break Through” Performance Presented at the Fifth Quarterly Emerging Technology Components Conference, October 25, 2004, MITRE, McLean, VA, to The Starbourne Communications Design/Oracle Team and The Noblestar/LogicLibrary Team.  See Componenttechnology.Org.

October 20, 2004, Data Reference Model (DRM) Volume 1.0 Released Which Was the Subject of Recent Collaborative Expedition Workshop, October 19, 2004. See Workshop Reflections.

October 18, 2004, Seize The Feed (RSS/RDF) and Taxonomy Video Presentations Available from Library of Congress FLICC/FEDLINK.

October 12, 2004, Wiki Page for SICoP Conference Call on Module 1 Now Available for October 13, 1-3 p.m. See Module 1 Draft White Paper in Best Practices Repository.

October 10, 2004, Proceedings Web Site for Second Semantic Technologies for E-Government Conference, September 8-9, 2004, Now Available.

October 9, 2004, Town Hall at the XML 2004 Conference "Networking of U.S. Federal Government Communities of Practice Using XML" Planned for Early Evening (7-9 p.m.) of November 17th with Six XML-Based CoPs Participating.

October 8, 2004, LandView 6 EnviroQUEST Tutorials (1, 2, and 3) (used at the recent State Data Center/Business and Industry Data Center Annual National Training Conference, September 21-23, 2004) and Terrain Viewer (a set of 3D software and map/image files that let you fly over a representation of real areas in the United States, and in doing so, to view the location of EPA-regulated sites, as well as population statistics for any radius) Now Available.

October 7, 2004, Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS - formerly Semantic Web for Military Users) Two-Day Conference Being Planned with SICoP for February 8-9, 2005. Details to Follow.

October 6, 2004, Training Opportunities: TopQuadrant jointly with Jim Hendler is offering a continuing program of "Briefings and Workshops on Semantic Technologies and the Semantic Web", October 18-21st (Web Site) , and GSA/LMI is offering "Connecting  the Federal Government - Implementing FEA in XML", October 25-28th (Contact: Ms. Shiva Mostafaei).

October 5, 2004, XML 2004 Conference Paper "The Federal CIO Council's Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)" Authored in Microsoft Word Was Converted to the OASIS DocBoc Standard (Conference Schema is a customized subset) Using Template.Doc and the SchemaSoft Web Service (Note: Any modern Web Browser on any platform can be used to upload the input and download the output, since the submission is done using regular HTML forms).

October 4, 2004, SICoP Monthly Meeting to be Held at Conclusion of the Collaborative Expedition Workshop #36 on October 19th At NSF Jointly with the new XML CoP. RSVP required: Please respond to renee.hughes@gsa.gov or 202-501-0291 to register for a badge, if you plan to attend. Special SICoP Meeting on White Paper Modules 1-3 to be Held October 13th. Details to Follow.

September 29, Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Endorses Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) As the Architectural  Framework of Choice and Grantee Guideline Language That Requires Use of the Global Justice Data Model.

September 27, 2004, Upcoming Collaborative Expedition Workshop #36 on October 19th and Componenttechnology.Org Fifth Quarterly Meeting  on October 25th Take the FEA Reference Models (BRM/TRM/SRM mapped to the SOA and an XML Profile for the DRM) and Enterprise Architecture (Innovation and Value-Driven) to the Next Levels. This is Being Piloted for EPA Region 4 Using the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets Standard. See EPA Science Forum 2004: Healthy Communities and Ecosystems and EPA Region 4 Business and Technology Infrastructure Baseline Assessment in Best Practices Repository. Also see Oracle Web Sites and Tutorial on Portals and WSRP.

September 16, 2004, Federated Repositories Pilot Briefing Updated (Background) and Nobelstar FEA Pilot Site and Logidex Demonstration Site with Nearly 200 High-Quality Components (follows more a "push model" than the "pull model" of Core.Gov). Also Metadata Registries and Repositories: Lessons Learned Provided to the SAIC/DHS Metadata Center of Excellence. Also Presentations on "Data Management and Interoperability (and the FEA DRM)" at the IAC EA SIG Third Quarterly Meeting by Jim Feagans (DOJ), Mike Daconta (DHS), Eliot Christian (USGS & ICGI), and Tim West (IC MWG).

September 10, 2004, Best Paper Award to Brad Bebee, Mike Personick, Bryan Thompson, Bijan Parsia, and Curt Soechtig, and Special Recognitions to Jie-hong Chen Morrison for Outstanding Leadership of the SICoP Module 1 White Paper and to Irene Polikoff for Outstanding Contributions As a Member of the Planning Committee (see slides 15-16) Given at the Close of the Very Successful Second Semantic Technologies for E-Government Conference, September 8-9, 2004. Proceedings Web Site and Efforts to Make MITRE Video Tape on DVD Available (in process). This year's event was twice the size of last year's. Over 300 individuals registered. More than 40 Defense and civilian agencies sent personnel. Also, more than 50 major contractor organizations were represented.

September 8-9, 2004, Second Semantic Technologies for E-Government Conference, at The MITRE Corporation Conference Center. Handout Materials Available: Agenda, Opening Presentation, Abstracts and Short Bios (Document), SICoP Announcement and White Paper Module 1: Introducing Semantic Web Technologies: Harnessing the Power of Information Semantics (“Semantic Primer”), Semantic Technology Briefing, The Business Value of Semantic Technologies, Accelerating Adoption of Semantic Technologies, and MITRE The Edge: Information Interoperability Issue (Summer 2004) (The Semantic Web). IMPORTANT NOTE: This two-day event is free, but advanced registration is mandatory for admittance due to security measures! REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED SINCE WE HAVE REACHED THE CAPACITY OF 285. REMOTE ACCESS IS AVAILABLE. Follow signs to the East and West Parking or Garages and use Conference Center Entrance (not the Main Lobby). September 8th Presentations: Maybury, Hodgson, Hendler, Allemang, Miller (ppt), and Davis. September 9th Presentations: Petroski, Niemann, Morrison, Pollock, Schreiber, Ray, Bebee and Personick, Roberts, Obrst, Sood, Peterson, Morgan, George, and Garimalla, and Hendler.

August 30, 2004, SICoP announces White paper series at Army Knowledge Symposium, September 2nd, 2 p.m. in the Track 8 Conference Room. DOIM/AKM Conference: Securing the Information Enterprise for Battle Command.

August 17, 2004, Agenda Available for the Second Semantic Technologies for eGovernment Conference, September 8-9, at MITRE, McLean, VA, That Includes Tutorials and Executive Briefing (September 8th) and Full Day Conference (September 9th). IdeaAlliance (XML 2004 Conference) Becomes a Partner in the Conference!

August 12, 2004, Suggestions to "Semantify" the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) and Its Interoperability Provided to the FHA Interoperability WG by the SICoP/Ontolog Forum (e.g. SNOWMED in OWL and UML to OWL, etc.). The FHA is One of the Five OMB Lines of Business (LoB)!

August 10, 2004, Demonstrations of Pilot Projects for EPA Managers Scheduled for August 16th. Background Materials: GeoResponse (Broadstrokes: Public Demo and IDSIGIS Assistance to the Maryland Department of the Environment), Semantic Mapping Tools and Situation Awareness Portal (ImageMatters), Federated Repositories (Noblestar and LogicLibrary: Public Demo), and Semantic Information Management (Unicorn).

August 6, 2004, Discussions of the State of the Future 2004 Report Pilot and the State of the Future Index (SOFI) System from the Millennium Project Meeting.

August 4, 2004, Pilot on Interoperability Across and Federation Of Best Practices Repositories (XML.Gov, CORE.Gov, CAFE, etc.) See Methods for Service Taxonomies in Building Communities of Practice, Help Desk Taxonomy from Taxonomy CoP Meeting, Federal Times article, and Session 3-5: Best Practices for Adopting Service-Oriented Architectures: Service Taxonomy, Federated Repository, and Semantic Interoperability (Ontology).

July 29, 2004, Best Practices Repository, Added to Semantic Interoperability CoP Web Site Re-Design, Includes Services Component-Based Architectures (AIC White Paper), Building Communities of Practice: Creating Value Through Knowledge Communities (Practitioners Guide),  FY 2006 OMB 300 Schema Version 2.95 Data Dictionary, etc.

July 26, 2004, Registration Web Site Available for the Second Semantic Technologies for eGovernment Conference, September 8-9, at MITRE, McLean, Virginia. W3C Leadership, Semantic Web Browser Developers, Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group, etc. Expected to Participate!

July 9, 2004, Call for Papers for the Second Semantic Technologies for eGovernment Conference, September 8-9, at MITRE, McLean, Virginia. (Recall that the first conference, September 8, 2003, was held at the White House Conference Center, which was too small for the number requesting attendance and does not provide the remote participation that the MITRE facility does for the September 8-9, 2004, event). See SICoP Meeting Agenda for details (especially slides 18-19).

July 8, Best Practices for Adopting Service-Oriented Architectures: Dynamic Knowledge Repositories (DKR), Best Practices in Categorizing Government Information Forum, Federal Interagency Committee on Government Information, U.S. EPA Headquarters, East Building, Room 1153, 1201 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Also for AIC Meeting, July 15th, Collaboration Expedition Workshop, August 17th, and EA Conference, September 21st.

July 7, Two CT Awards Given at the "Swing for the Fences-Seed Investing for Entrepreneurs" Seminar to Maurice Swinton, former SBA Assistant Administrator, Office of Technology (SBIR/STTR), currently Senator Enzi’s Office Staff for the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Dan Loague, Executive Director of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds. See Componenttechnology.Org

June 30, 2004, University - Industry Collaboration, George Mason University, Professor Arun Sood, Professor and Chair, Computer Science Department, The Use of Ontology Filters to Increase the Relevance of Web Searches.

June 19, Componenttechnology.Org Presented to "From Lab to IPO: The Hi-Tech Start-Up, The George Washington University, Virginia Campus. Angel Investor Conference Planned for May 17/18, 2005.

June 9, 2004, Enterprise Architecture Best Practices Repository - Knowledge Management Collaboration Environment Workshop Announced for August 17, 2004, at NSF. Organized by Rick Murphy (Blueprint Technologies and IAC) and Jay Peltz (Km.Gov WG and FederalConnections.Org) (details to follow including Service Taxonomy-Driven Approach to Structuring Both the Repository and the Community of Practice-See Slides 30 and 36).

June 9, 2004, Fifth Emerging Technology Components Conference Scheduled for October 25th at MITRE. Details to follow at Componenttechnology.org.

June 4, 2004, Community Knowledge Network Community of Practice (CKN CoP) (renamed National Infrastructure for Community Statistics CoP) Launched at Brookings Institution Meeting on May 27th with Charter and Vision Paper (Visioning a Nationwide Infrastructure for Community Statistics). July 1st Meeting to Discuss Draft Charter and Proposed Tasks for the Next 12-18 Months (by invitation only). This Relates to the FEA-eGov Act 2002 DRM Pilots and Data and Statistics Line of Business (see