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The 2006 Event
The 2006 Interoperability
Week was a collection of independent working
group meetings held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
in March of 2006.
Participating organizations consisted of long-standing working groups focused on
interoperability issues and data integration standards. Each meeting proceeded
independently of the others, with the exception of one plenary session.
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2006 Plenary Session Speakers:
- Olwen Huxley
Staff member, U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Science; Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and
Standards
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Karla Norsworthy
Vice President of Software Standards for IBM Corporation
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Jim Turner
Chief Minority Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Science
2006 Meetings
Open ICT ecosystems: Open Standards for Manufacturing Engineering and
Health Care Informatics
Technical POC:
Sudarsan Rachuri, NIST, and
Eswaran Subrahmanian,
NIST
Long Term Knowledge Retention
Technical
POC: Josh Lubell, NIST and
Sudarsan Rachuri, NIST
In this age of the Internet and the networked economy, the rate at which
digital information is generated far exceeds the rate of consumption.
According to some reports, today it takes about 15 minutes for the world
to churn out new digital information equivalent to the entire collection
in US Library of Congress. This phenomenal proliferation of information
clearly underscores the ease with which we can produce digital data. But
our capability to make all this digital information accessible in 200 or
even 20 years remains highly questionable. This workshop will provide a
forum for information and archival specialists, domain knowledge experts
from manufacturing, product engineering and other stakeholders to discuss
issues such as knowledge representation and archival methods and policies,
as well as the use of data standards to promote long term knowledge
retention.
Link
to LTKR Presentations
Upper Ontology Summit
Technical
POC: Steve Ray, NIST
There are a number of extensive upper ontologies in existence today,
including SUMO, OpenCyc Upper Ontology, DOLCE, and many others emerging
from the OWL community and application areas such as biomedical research.
The goal of this summit is to get the "custodians" of the leading existing
upper ontologies to agree to a consistent means for knowledge exchange
among these foundational ontologies, that could serve as a core to support
interoperability among the future explosively growing population of
advanced information systems.
OAGIS UML
Technical
POC: Nenad Ivezic, NIST
Special meeting of the OAGIS consortium to develop UML representations of
OAGIS models.
Collaborative
Expedition
Workshop
Technical POC:
Susan Turnbull, GSA
Leveraging Open Standards and Open
Collaboration:
Pioneering Mechanisms for Agility Across Open, Intergovernmental
Communities
One of a monthly open workshop series to encourage collaboration among
government and community implementers of IT and to demonstrate promising
IT capabilities emerging from Federal research. The workshops draw
participants from Federal, state, and local government, nongovernmental
organizations, IT researchers and IT developers. The focus is on emerging
technologies for applications in such areas as emergency preparedness and
response, environmental protection, public health and health care systems,
government information services for citizens and agency projects under the
Administration's Federal Enterprise Architecture and e-Government
initiatives. The series is a collaborative effort of GSA, NSF, Federal CIOC, and Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research
and Development.
Sensor Standards Harmonization Workshop II
Technical POC: Kang Lee, NIST
Speedy delivery and access of critical sensor-based data and information
enable key people at various levels of government and industry to make
important and timely decisions and take appropriate actions to deal with
emergency situations. Sensor communications standards, data format, and
data access through Web services are being discussed, explored, and
developed at various government agencies such as DHS and DoD, industrial
consortia, and standards development organizations. This workshop provides
an open forum for exchanging ideas on the harmonization of various
industrial and federal CBRN sensor standards. The goal of the
harmonization effort is to help achieve sensor interoperability and
facilitate the effective exchange and sharing of sensor-derived data among
government agencies and relevant organizations.
XML Community of Practice
Technical
POC: KC Morris, NIST
The XML Community of Practice (xmlCoP) (http://xml.gov) is a committee of
the federal CIO Council and is composed of practitioners within the federal
government who are using XML within their organizations. The purpose of
the group is to share information amongst its members and formulate ways
of leveraging activities between organizations to the extent possible. The
group has recently produced a federal guideline describing rules for
specifying XML consistently for use in federal systems. NIST is working
with organizations represented in the group to provide tools to assist
with the use of XML in this context.
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