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Semanticommunity.net: Community Infrastructure Sandbox for 2008

Knowledgebases for the Government Domain:	Collaborations:
1. January 2008: Semanticommunity.net: Community Infrastructure Sandbox for 2008 Water Budgets: Foundations for Effective Water-Resources and Environmental Management Knowledgebase Pilot for the Water Cycle - Drought Ontology (being incorporated into the SWEET Ontology) with the Noesis - a smart semantic search tool, and High-Resolution Drought Forecasting System. Puget Sound Mashup of the EPA National Environmental Information Symposium Knowledgebase	January 7, 2008, SOA CoP Demo 5 Conference Call January 9-10, 2008, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners Meeting: The Changing Climate: Making Earth Science Relevant Again in Light of Global Warming, Washington, DC. A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government Part 10: Web 2.0 for Earth Science Collaboration for Information Access Paper and Slides. Also see Water Cycle Ontology for Water Cluster Breakout Session January 15, 2008, Net-Ready Sensor Standards Harmonization WG Meeting at NIST. A New Enterprise Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government - Part 8: Emergency Management and Sensors Paper and Slides. New collaboration with the Semantic Sensor Web, Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, Wright State University. See Sensor Data Management: Short and Long. January 15, 2008, National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Session Facilitator: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Leveraging Your Research Information for Web Publishing, 10:15am-12:00 p.m., Hilton, Monroe West. A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government - Part 9: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Paper and Slides. Also for the Metadata Subcommittee Meeting, 12:15-1:15 p.m. Hilton, Chevy Chase. See Session File Repository. January 29, 2008, Taxonomy Tuesday at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government - Part 9: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Paper, Slides and, The 2007 Statistical Abstract: The National Data Book Taxonomy
2. February 2008 Semanticommunity.net: Community Infrastructure Sandbox for 2008 (ongoing Wiki content migration/refresh)	February 4, 2008, SOA CoP Demo 5 Conference Call February 5, 2008, SICoP Special Conference: Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Shairing and Integration
3. March 2008 DoDAF 2.0 Knowledgebase (in process)	March 3, 2008, SOA CoP Demo 5 Conference Call March 17-19, 2008, IDGA’s 6th Annual DoD Architectures, Blueprints of Today, Architectures of Tomorrow, Keynote: Getting to SOA and Semantic Interoperability for DoD Architectures (see Presentation for NCIOC December 2007 Conference) and Part 11: Getting to SOA and Semantic Interoperbility for Data Sharing in Net-Centric DoD and Beyond in A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government (in process).
4. April 2008 Service Oriented Architecture Community of Practice (SOA CoP) Knowledgebase	April 7, 2008, SOA CoP Demo 5 Conference Call April 30-May 1, 2008, 5th SOA for E-Government Conference: Our Space - Connecting Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, SOA, and the Semantic Web for Government 2.0 (Making It Easier to Do!).
5. May 2008 SemTech 2008 Knowledgebase (in process)	May 12-14, 2008, 3rd Annual Web Services Security & SOA Conference & Expo, Baltimore Convention Center May 18-22, 2008, SemTech 2008: The Semantic Technology Conference, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California. Program Advisory Board.
6. June 2008	June 25-26, 2008, Business Process Management Conference, Service Oriented Architecture Conference and/or Business Architecture Conference, Brainstorm Group, Washington, DC. Invited Presentation.
1. January 2007: The National Academies Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting. Tutorial on Building Ontologies and Implementing DRM 2.0. Demonstrations 1 and 2.	January 25-26, 2007, Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable. Integration of Environmental Information and Indicators. Sustainable Development Indicators.
2. February 2007: NIST Sensor Standards Harmonization Working Group. Harmonization of Sensor Standards in Semantic Wikis. Demonstrations 1 and 2.	February 6, 2007, SICoP Special Conference 1: Building DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 by Managing Context Across Multiple Documents and Organizations. SICoP White Paper 3.
3. March 2007: NIST Sensor Standards Harmonization Working Group CBRN Data Model in a Semantic Wiki (March 2007) and Modular Approach to SSHWG Ontology (June 2007). Demonstration.	March 7, 2007, SICoP Suggestions to the Intelligence Community Data Management Committee Meeting Spatial Ontology Community of Practice and Open Geospatial Consortium
4. April 2007: TWPDES Person and NIEM	April 25, 2007, SICoP Special Conference 2: Building Knowledgebases NCOR, NIST-MISD, and Ontolog Forum
5. May 2007: Conferences Proceedings	Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, California. May 22 and 24, 2007, 2007 Semantic Technology Conference: (1) Community of Practice Session: U.S. Federal Government (Open to All); (2) Conference Session (Panel of 3), Spectrum of Reasoning and Applications; (3) Conference Session (Team of 2): Advanced Intelligence Community R&D Meets the Semantic Web!. Also see SICoP White Paper 3 for Public Review and CoP Meeting During Conference.; and (4) Keynote (Panel of 7): Accelerating the Deployment of Semantic Technology.
6. June 2007: Nanoiformatics 2007 Pilot	June 12-13, 2007, Workshop on Nanoinformatics, Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel, Alexandria, VA. Sponsored by the National Nanotechnology Initiative and National Nanomanufacturing Network Through a Grant from NSF. Nanoinformatics: Locate, Collaborate, and Integrate Presentation and COLAB Wiki and Semantic Wiki Pilots
7. July 2007: NCOIC Systems, Capabilities, Operations, Programs, and Enterprises (SCOPE) Model for Interoperability Assessment. Semantic Wiki Community.	EPA Data Architecture for DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 Building DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 Knowledgebases: Where Do the Semantics Come From?. July 19, 2007, First Semantic Interoperability Mashup with NCOIC Semantic Interoperability WG, Spatial Ontology CoP, and SICoP, Features Snoogle Demonstration by BBN. Snoogle is a graphical, SWRL-based ontology mapper to assist in the task of OWL ontology alignment. It allows users to visualize ontologies and then draw mappings from one to another on a graphical canvas. Users draw mappings as they see them in their head, and then Snoggle turns these mappings into SWRL/RDF or SWRL/XML for use in a knowledge base. Also see Semantic Web Tools.
8. August 2007: U.S. EPA Service System: EPA Strategic Plan: Charting Our Course (2006-2011) U.S. EPA Enterprise Architecture 2007 EPA's FY2006 Performance and Accountability EPA's 2007 Report on the Environment (ROE)	August 9, 2007, SICOP Special Briefing. August 15-17, 2007, Improving Citizen Services from the Bottom-Up: Open Communities, Information Sharing, and Technology, Federal Executive Forum (Note: Invited, prepared draft, but schedule conflict so not presented). Also see September 12, 2007, Case Study: The Federal SOA Community of Practice, and September 18, 2007, Organizing Future Expeditions: Improving Citizen Services from the Bottom-Up: Open Communities, Information Sharing, and Technology.
9. September 2007: Systems, Capabilities, Operations, Programs, and Enterprises (SCOPE) Model for Interoperability Assessment. Semantic Wiki Community Information Sharing Environment (in process)	September 11-12, 2007, SOAInstitute.org’s Service Oriented Architecture Conference, Washington, DC. Invited Presentation on Case Study: The Federal SOA Community of Practice. Included A New Enterprise Data Management Strategy for the US EPA: Part 1 and Part 2. September 18-21, 2007, NCOIC Plenary and Working Group Meetings. SICoP: NCOIC Semantic Interoperability Framework. Semantic Interoperability: The What, Why, Who, and How. Also  SICoP Special Conference 3 as part of the NCIOC SIF WG Meeting. Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment
10. October 2007: SOA CoP Conferences and Papers Shenandoah Valley Science Knowledgebase Sensor Standard Harmonization	October 1-2, 2007, 4th SOA for E-Government Conference. Semantics for SOA Panel. SOA CoP October 15-16 2007, Shenandoah Valley Natural Systems Symposium, Shenandoah Valley Science Collaborative. See Part 4: Spatial Data in A New Enterprise Data Management Strategy for the US EPA. October 16, 2007, Net-Ready Sensor Standards Harmonization Meeting at NIST Using the VK Test Semantic Wiki. Modular Approach to SSHWG Ontology and Proposed Demonstrations. October 25-26, 2007, W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases. A New Enterprise Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government: Support for the Semantic Web. Position Paper (Part 3: Integration of Data Tables in A New Enterprise Data Management Strategy for the US EPA).
11. November 2007: Federal Enterprise Architecture 2007: Web 2.0 for Government 2.0 Ontology for the Twenty First Century: An Introduction with Recommendations Health, United States, 2005 Integration of Environmental Information and Indicators Water Budgets: Foundations for Effective Water-Resources and Environmental Management Knowledgebase Pilot for the Water Cycle - Drought Ontology	November 1, 2007, Web 2.0 for Business Featuring a Special Government Track. Invited Presentation on Web 2.0 and Government: Current Web 2.0 Initiatives within Government Agencies - Word and PowerPoint. Executive Spotlight for Conference and Blog. See Part 6: Support for E-Discovery in A New Enterprise Data Management Strategy for the US EPA. November 5, 2007, SOA CoP Demo 5 Conference Call November 5-7, 2007, Metatopia, Washington, DC, USA. November 6th, Semantic Applications with the Federal Government, Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0, and A New Enterprise Data Management Strategy for the US EPA: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and PowerPoint (to be rescheduled in 2008). November 5-6, 2007, 2007 State Level Health Information Exchange Consensus Conference. Suggestions Provided - See Part 7: Environmental Health Data in A New Enterprise Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government (in process). November 9, 2007, Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Roundtable November 15-16, 2007, Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable of the Whitehouse Council on Environmental Quality. Supporting the Puget Sound Mashup of the EPA National Environmental Information Symposium: Use a Wiki to build a knowledgebase for a community of practice on environmental indicators.
12. December 2007: The 2007 Statistical Abstract: The National Data Book	December 4-6, 2007, NCOIC General Plenary Sessions and Technical Team Meetings, St. Petersburg (Tampa), FL. SICoP Invited to Participate in SCOPE, SIF, and Stakeholder Outreach Sessions. Also see Improving Rapid Emergency Response Systems (Rex Brooks and the Emergency Response Systems Consortium). December 3, 2007, SOA CoP Demo 5 Conference Call December 10, 2007, A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government - Part 9: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, for the Department of State Data Management Team. December 12, 2007, AFEI Architecture Training Town Hall in preparation for March 17-19, 2008, IDGA’s 6th Annual DoD Architectures, Blueprints of Today, Architectures of Tomorrow, Keynote: Getting to SOA and Semantic Interoperability for DoD Architectures.

● History:
• Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) (October 2003-December 2006)
• CIO Council's XML Web Services Working Group (August 2002-September 2003)
• Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) (January 2007-Present)
• Brand Niemann Wiki Page (April 2004-Present)
• Monthly Reports