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Wikify Your Best Content in Support of the OGD and Data.gov/semantic:

Information Architecture TutorialEPA Web Work Group, EPA Wiki and Blog Work Group, EPA Open

Government Directive Work Group, EPA Report on the Environment Team, EPA Enterprise Architecture Work Group and Service Oriented Architecture

Community of Interest, and EPA Statistics Users GroupBrand Niemann

Senior Enterprise ArchitectU.S. EPA

April 2, 2010http://semanticommunity.net/

Note: This is also my 2010 Individual Development Plan.

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Overview• 1. Background

– 1.1 Requirements– 1.2 Suggestions– 1.3 History

• 2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content– 2.1 Overview– 2.2 Wikipedia– 2.3 EPA One Wiki– 2.4 EPA OGD Plan– 2.5 EPA’s Report on the Environment– 2.6 EPA’s Enterprise Architecture Work Group and Service Oriented

Architecture Community of Interest– 2.7 EPA’s Statistics Users Group

• 3. Suggestions• 4. Questions and Answers

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1. Background• 1.1 Requirements:

– EPA’s Director of Web Communications wants a New Face for EPA:• The EPA Web Work Group will need to do a major overhaul of about 500,000 pages

and hundreds of smaller sites which will take time.– EPA’s Wiki and Blog Work Group is developing an EPA One Wiki:

• This may include the EPA Intranet Web Site and be renamed the EPA@Work Wiki.– EPA’s Open Government Directive Work Group is soon to release

Our Open Government Plan by April 7, 2010, for how the Agency will improve transparency and integrate public participation and collaboration into its activities:

• EPA will conduct extensive public and employee engagement in developing, reviewing and updating our Open Government Plan.

– EPA’s Report on the Environment Team has recently update the 2008 Report:• They want a way to foster collaboration and input to revise two chapters of the 2008

report.– EPA’s Enterprise Architecture Work Group and Service Oriented Architecture

Community of Interest are planning their year’s activities:• They want to move towards cloud computing and reusable component services.

– EPA’s Statistics Users Group:• They provide Environmental Statistics Training like

Interpretation of Environmental Statistics.

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1. Background• 1.2 Suggestions:

– The New Face at EPA:• Why not use a state-of-the-art wiki like MindTouch for the entire EPA Web page? That

way every page could invite comments, be a web-service, serve real-data, have RSS, etc. feeds, be part of a Service Oriented Architecture, support iPhone use and apps, etc.

– EPA’s One Wiki:• An Enterprise Architecture = Information Architecture + Data Architecture (see next

slide).– EPA’s Open Government Directive Work Group:

• EPA’s Open Government Directive Plan in a state-of-the-art Wiki for Internal and Public Review and Comment.

– EPA’s Report on the Environment Team:• EPA’s Report on the Environment as a Data.gov/semantic Product.

– EPA’s Enterprise Architecture Work Group and Service Oriented Architecture Community of Interest:

• A platform that does both cloud computing and reusable component services.– EPA’s Statistics Users Group:

• Apply state-of-the-art statistical techniques and tools to provide quantitative data quality assessments and business intelligence results for Data.gov/semantic.

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Enterprise Architecture

• Enterprise Architecture = Information Architecture + Data Architecture– Information Architecture with a “Data Model”

• Information Architecture:– Topic, Subtopic, etc.

• Data Architecture:– Data Table and Data Elements (metadata)

• Notes:– Submitted Revisions for the Federal Data Reference Model that

include this.– EPA’s Office of Water (Vince Allen, Data Architect) appears to

be the farthest along with implementing this.– Reviewing David Hay’s new book drafts on a more sophisticated

view of data modeling (see next slide).

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David C. Hay• Manager, Information Strategy

and Architecture, Capgemini Financial Services, Houston, Texas:– A pioneer in the use of

standard data models for standard business situations, he is the author of three books:

• Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought (1995)

• Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture (2002)

• Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map (2006)

• Data Model Patterns: Conceptual Modeling? (2010)

– See figure to right

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Figure 2-5: An Orderly Data Model

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1. Background• 1.3 History:

– October 28, 2009:• Federal IT Summit Cloud Computing Panel: EPA work on "a cloud

computing desktop" cited as a best practice by Peter Tseronis, Co-Chair, Cloud Computing Advisory Committee.

– December 10, 2009:• Data Architecture Subcommittee Meeting with Donna Roy (NIEM) and Jim

Hendler (Data-gov Semantic Wiki) and discussions of Data.gov CONOPS and its evolution to the Semantic Web.

– December 15, 2009:• Semantic Web Meetup: Party Cloudy with a Chance of Semantics. (Put Your

Desktop in the Cloud to Support the Open Government Directive and Data.gov/semantic!).

– December 17, 2009:• Federal Cloud Computing Advisory Council Meeting (same as above).

– December 24, 2009:• 2010 Office of Environmental Information National Symposium, May 11 – 13,

2010, Proposal for Presentation and Tutorial.

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1. Background• 1.3 History (continued):

– January 11, 2010:• Open Government Directive Workshop and Government Desktop in the

Cloud Breakout Session at the US Department of Transportation at the Direction of the Office of the EPA Administrator and the National Center for Innovation.

– January 14-15, 2010:• Federal CIO Council Boot Camp Training, Partnership for Public Service

SAGE Program, Washington, DC. My Suggested 2010 Plan for an Open Government Directive Roadmap Using Cloud Computing Desktop / Mobile Apps as a Member of the Federal CIO Council's Best Practice Committee.

– January 19-21, 2010:• EPA Enterprise Architecture Strategic Planning Sessions

– January 21, 2010:• Put Your Statistical Work in the Cloud in Support of the Open Government

Directive and Data.gov/semantic (EPA Statistics Users Group).– January 28, 2010:

• Tutorial for the EAWG: Solution Architecture for 2010.– February 4, 2010:

• Design Suggestions for EPA’s One Wiki in Support of the EPA OGD Work Group.

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1. Background• 1.3 History (continued):

– March 3, 2010:• Joint Services / Cloud Computing Session: Semantic Cloud Computing and Linked

Open Data Discussion of Three Uses Cases.– March 3rd, 2010:

• For Open Government, Technology Is The Least of Your Problems (Gartner Blog Comment).

– March 4, 2010:• 2010 Annual Statistical Abstract of the United States: More than 1300 high-value data

sets and graphs with standard metadata, and EPA Report on the Environment Indicators: More than 200 high-value data sets and graphs with standard metadata.

– March 6, 2010:• Flagship Initiative Pilot Tutorial: EPA Report on the Environment, EPA Wiki and Blog

Work Group.– March 13, 2010:

• Data Quality Plan Pilot Tutorial: EPA Report on the Environment, Scientific Data Management Workshop Planning Group.

– March 19, 2010:• Community Engagement Pilot Tutorial: One EPA: EPA Web Work Group, EPA Wiki

and Blog Work Group, and EPA Open Government Directive Work Group– March 27, 2010:

• Community Engagement Pilot Tutorial: Enhancing the Flagship Initiative and Data Quality Plan

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content

• 2.1 Overview:– Appoint two senior editors (“wiki gardeners”):

• One for Wikipedia “environment content”:– Authority for postings/corrections and links to and from.

• One for One EPA Wiki “environment content”:– Authority for location of content for EPA Web Site and Internal

Sites (Intranet, Portal, Environmental Science Connector, QuickPlace, etc.).

– Task them with developing and implementing a coordinated site map for each source of content:

• Wikipedia:– E.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment

• One EPA Wiki:– E.g., http://epa.wik.is/Special:Sitemap

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content

• 2.1 Overview:– Each EPA Staff will have their One Wiki page (s), if

they would like, to document and share their work:• The EPA Staff wiki pages will use the unique names from the

LOTUS Email directory.

– The senior editors, and their designated representatives, will train EPA staff in the use of the One Wiki and harvest that content for inclusion in the site map:

• The senior editors will decide (in consultation with EPA senior management) which EPA staff wiki pages and content are made public.

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.2 Wikipedia

Wikipedia: Environment Links to Wikipedia: Environment

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.2 Wikipedia

• Wikipedia Environment:– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment

• Links to Wikipedia: Environment:– http://epa.wik.is/Information_Classifications/Wikipedia

• Intranet:– http://intranet.epa.gov

• Portal:– https://ssoprod.epa.gov/sso/jsp/oblogin.jsp

• Environmental Science Connector:– https://ssoprod.epa.gov/sso/jsp/obloginESCNew.jsp

• QuickPlace:– https://epaqpx.rtp.epa.gov/

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.3 EPA’s One Wiki

EPA’s One Wiki: MediaWiki EPA’s One Wiki: Web 2.0 Pilot

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.3 EPA’s One Wiki

• EPA’s One Wiki: MediaWiki:– https://kestrel.rtpnc.epa.gov/wiki/index.php?

title=Main_Page

• EPA’s One Wiki: Web 2.0 Pilot:– http://epa.wik.is/EPA_One_Wiki_Pilot

• See previous tutorial on DVD and YouTube.

• Video for Knowledge Management: My Experiences, March 20, 2010, in progress.

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.4 EPA’s OGD Plan

EPA’s Open Government Web Site EPA One Wiki Pilot Draft Open Government Plan

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.4 EPA’s OGD Plan

• EPA’s Open Government Web Site:– http://www.epa.gov/open/

• Note: Plan to be published by April 7th.

• EPA One Wiki Pilot Draft Open Government Plan:– http://epa.wik.is/EPA_One_Wiki_Pilot/

Headline/Draft_Open_Government_Plan

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.5 EPA’s Report on the Environment

EPA’s Report on the Environment Ontology Site Map

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.5 EPA’s Report on the Environment

• EPA’s Report on the Environment as a Data.gov/semantic Product:– EPA’s Report on the Environment is rendered using a

database without self-describing URLs instead of with a Wiki to provide self-describing URLs.

– A state-of-the-art Wiki can render the EPA Report on the Environment with a Glossary, Data Dictionary, Metadata Registry, Taxonomy, Reusable Component Services (every page in the Wiki!), and Ontology.

– Data.gov has been referred to “as merely pointing to unconnected piles of data” while a Data.gov/semantic can provide connections between those data.

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.5 EPA’s Report on the Environment

• EPA’s Report on the Environment Ontology:– http://epaontology.wik.is/

• EPA’s Report on the Environment Ontology Site Map:– http://epaontology.wik.is/Special:Sitemap

• Glossary: http://epaontology.wik.is/Apendices/Appendix_A_Acronyms_and_Glossary/Glossary

• Data Dictionary: http://epaontology.wik.is/Data_Dictionary (in progress)

• Metadata Registry: http://epaontology.wik.is/Metadata_Registry

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.6 EPA’s Enterprise Architecture Work Group and

Service Oriented Architecture Community of Interest

Deki Wiki Cloud Deki Wiki Platform

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.6 EPA’s Enterprise Architecture Work Group and

Service Oriented Architecture Community of Interest

EPA Enterprise Architecture Web 2.0 Wiki Pilot Federal SOA

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.6 EPA’s Enterprise Architecture Work Group and

Service Oriented Architecture Community of Interest

• Deki Wiki Cloud and Platform:– http://www.mindtouch.com/index.php?title=Technology&highlight

=technology• EPA Enterprise Architecture Web 2.0 Wiki Pilot:

– http://epaenterprisearchitecture.wik.is/ • Federal SOA

– http://federalsoa.wik.is/ • Federal Cloud Computing:

– http://federalcloudcomputing.wik.is • Note: Every page of the Deki Wiki is a Reusable

Component Service (RCS) in a Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) with a built-in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)!

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.7 EPA’s Statistics Users Group

EPA Statistics Users Group EPA Environmental Statistics Training

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.7 EPA’s Statistics Users Group

• EPA Statistics Training teaches one how to interpret environmental data and do Exploratory Data Analysis (e.g. S-PLUS).

• State-of-the-art statistical tools have evolved from Exploratory Data Analysis to comprehensive Business Intelligence Assessments (e.g. Spotfire).

• Data Quality is especially important to using the Data.gov/semantic for Linked Open Data.

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.7 EPA’s Statistics Users Group

Three Scenarios from Interpretation of Environmental Statistics Training

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.7 EPA’s Statistics Users Group

Spotfire Online Documentation: What is a Box Plot?

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.7 EPA’s Statistics Users Group

Air Indicator Statistical Data Story in Spotfire2008 ROE Air Indicators Spreadsheets

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2. Plan to Wikify the Best Content2.7 EPA’s Statistics Users Group

• EPA Statistics Users Group:– http://epadata.wik.is/Statistics_Users_Group

• EPA Environmental Statistics Training:– http://epadata.wik.is/Statistics_Users_Group/Interpretation_of_Environmental_Data

• Exploratory Data Analysis:– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis

• Spotfire Documentation: What is a Box Plot?:– http://stn.spotfire.com/stn/UserDoc.aspx?UserDoc=spotfire_client_help/box/box_what_is_a_

box_plot.htm&Article=/stn/Stints/VisualizationCreateBoxPlot.aspx• 2008 ROE Air Indicators Spreadsheets by Brand Niemann, September 12, 2008:

– http://epaontology.wik.is/@api/deki/files/8/=ROE2008Air.xls• 2008 ROE Ambient Concentrations of Ozone:

– http://epaontology.wik.is/2_Air/2.2_What_Are_the_Trends_in_Outdoor_Air_Quality_and_Their_Effects_on_Human_Health_and_the_Environment%3f/2.2.2_ROE_Indicators/2.2.2.8_Ambient_Concentrations_of_Ozone

• Spotfire Web Player:– http://spotfire.tibco.com/products/web-player/interactive-dashboards.aspx

• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010):– http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2010/

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3. Suggestions

• Continue to Wikify the Best Content in Support of the OGD and Data.gov/semantic for the seven activities listed as part of an Information Architecture and Individual Development Plan.

• Appoint the two senior editors, task them with developing and implementing a coordinated site map for Wikipedia and EPA’s One Wiki, and train EPA staff in the use of EPA’s One Wiki.

• Implement a plan for harvesting the best content from the EPA Web Site and Internal Sites (Intranet, Portal, Environmental Science Connector, QuickPlace, etc.).

• Complete the statistical data stories for the 2008 ROE Indicators and other high-value data sets.

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4. Questions and Answers