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Information SharingBegins With Me

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Enterprise Architect – Data Scientist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

AOL Government Bloggerhttp://gov.aol.com/bloggers/brand-niemann/

November 15, 2012http://semanticommunity.info/Collaboration_and_Transformation_SIG

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My Experience• Industry-to-Government-to-Industry:

– US EPA Contractor-to-US EPA-to-Semantic Community• Idealistic About Doing in Government What I Did in Industry – Not Realistic

Until “Plucked From Obscurity”:– Mark Forman, Kim Nelson, Mark Day, David Wennergren, George Strawn, and

Wyatt Kash• Change Government from the Inside and/or the Outside:

– US EPA Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist and Federal CIO Council Leadership Roles

• Collaboration & Data Publishing Before It Was Called Information Sharing:– Build My EPA Desktop in the Cloud with MindTouch and Spotfire

• Data Science, Data Journalism, Big Data Applications, and Workforce Training:– Empowered to Transform Content with Web Standards, Open Government

Initiative, and Digital Government/Advanced Mobile Strategies

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Some Principles• 90-9-1 Participation or 1% Rule (Internet Culture):

– Lurkers (90), Contributors (9), and Creators (1).• Pareto Principle:

– 20 percent of a group will produce 80 percent of the activity, however the activity may be defined.

• Gall's Law:– A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a

simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

• Medici Effect:– The most groundbreaking ideas are found at the intersections of diverse

fields, industries, disciplines, and cultures.

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Some Activities• Federal CIO Council Work:

– Best Practices Committee (executive secretary)– Federal SOA Community of Practice (founder and co-lead)– Federal Cloud Computing (co-founder and knowledge capture)

• Data Science/Data Journalism:– Open Government Initiative (in government)– Digital Government Strategy (outside government)– Federal Computer Week and AOL Government (outside government)

• ACT-IAC:– Management of Change Conference Planning Committee, Executive Leadership

Conference Planning Committee, and Congressional Education Working Group (volunteer)

– Cloud Computing, Emerging Technology (Agile, Big Data, and Semantic Web), and Enterprise Architecture (SOA) (contributor)

– Collaboration & Transformation (Information Sharing) (today)

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Some Results• Wanted to help ACT-IAC with something better for their Web Site (past and

present).– Enterprise Architect SIG:

• Federal SOA Community of Practice Knowledge Base• Federal Chief Architect Forum/ArchitecturePlus Knowledge Base

– Emerging Technology SIG:• Federal Web Services Working Group• Federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice

• Wanted to help the IC with something better for NIEM and their Web Sites (present)– Network Centric Industry Consortium:

• Voice of Industry for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency• Semantic Enhancements for DoD Standards, Repositories, and Enterprise Information Web

– Information Sharing Environment:• Open Data Exchange Will Help NIEM and the ISE-PM With Its Problems• ISE is in a State of Confusion• Imagine if the ISE Did Not Even Know How to Use the Web Effectively

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Knowledge Base

http://semanticommunity.info/Information_Sharing_Environment

My Three StoriesMy Spotfire DashboardA Slide PresentationPM-ISE NewsletterPM-ISE Web PagesMy Research NotesPM-ISE Report to Congress (PDF)

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ACT-IAC Collaboration & Transformation SIG

http://www.actgov.org/sigcom/SIGs/SIGs/CTSIG/pages/default.aspx?Paged=Prev&p_StartTimeUTC=20121219T220000Z&View=%7bD45EF374-EFF4-4C5A-8E18-6D1C790B2E9F%7d

MY NOTE: Not a Well-Defined URL

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ACT-IAC Collaboration & Transformation SIG Wiki

http://www.actgov.org/sigcom/SIGs/SIGs/CTSIG/Sample%20WIKI/Forms/AllPages.aspx

MY NOTE: Not a Wiki

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Knowledge Base

http://semanticommunity.info/Collaboration_and_Transformation_SIG

My StoryMy Research NotesYour Web PagesYour WikiYour Meeting AnnouncementYour Press ReleaseYour Recent Report (PDF)

HTML 5, Semantic Search and Linking, Full Page Search, Well-defined URLs, etc.

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My 5-Step Method

• So what I like to do to illustrate (data science) and explain (data journalism) ii the following (like a recipe):– Put the Best Content into a Knowledge Base (e.g. MindTouch)

• The 2012 Information Sharing Environment Report to Congress

– Put the Knowledge Base into a Spreadsheet (Excel)• Linked Data to Subparts of the Knowledge Base

– Put the Spreadsheet into a Dashboard (Spotfire)• Data Integration and Interoperability Interface

– Put the Dashboard into a Semantic Model (Excel)• Data Dictionaries and Models

– Put the Semantic Model into Dynamic Case Management (Be Informed)• Structured Process for Updating Data in the Dashboard

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http://semanticommunity.info/AOL_Government/AWS_Public_Sector_Summit_2012

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A Japan METI Open Data Dashboard

http://semanticommunity.info/A_Japan_METI_Open_Data_Dashboard

The Open Government Data/Linked Data Initiatives in the US (Data.gov) and elsewhere started with the wrong data. I recommended that Data.gov start with the best US government data from the Federal Statistical Agencies (e.g. US Census Bureau) and make it the standard practice of high quality data and metadata rendered in the new linked open data way. Experience has shown that to be the case with the statistical community calling Data.gov and similar efforts essentially ‘IT projects.’ The solution is to first render a countries high quality statistical data in the new way and then try to render the open data the same way as much as possible. I have done this for the US and Europe, and now for Japan.