Hi Brand --

It was good to read your report, below.

You mentioned "a forthcoming government public domain database"... When and where should we look for this please?

BTW, we have an online demo of reasoning over a sample of the Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Model Ontology.

You can view, run and change it by going to www.reengineeringllc.com , clicking on Internet Business Logic, then logging in to the "demo" ID, and selecting FeaReferenceModelOntology1 .

Best regards, Adrian

(Adrian Walker, CTO, Reengineering)

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Brand Niemann wrote: [1. The SWANS Conference was a great success! See the registration database attached to be used for further collaboration, not mass mailing marketing, please! Our next conference, The Third Semantic Technologies for E-Government Conference in the fall, is in the early planning stages and will feature the Module 2 Business Case for Semantic Technologies. Please contact Mills Davis if your would like to participate in the planning of this conference and the completion of the White Paper (mdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). 2. Rick Morris was honored at the SWANS Conference and has retired from government. The open co-chair has been offered to a prominent government member of our CoP and we are awaiting the support of their organization. 3. I prepared a "State of SICoP" for the CIO Council and its two Committees that I participate in (Architecture & Infrastructure and Best Practices). See http://web-services.gov/scope05162005.ppt. This also begins to show how our pilots need to map to the FEA Data Reference Model work and support Module 3 Implementation of the Semantic Web. 4. I attended the first day of the W3C's Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability, April 27th, and would refer you to the excellent agenda and over 80 position papers at http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/cfp. It looks like a future rules standard will treat rules like data and reside on the same level, and be coupled to OWL, in the W3C Semantic Web Architecture stack. 5. The XML 2005 Conference submission deadline has past and I have submitted a overview for SICoP, including the Module 1 White Paper since Ken Fromm is unable to participate, and Jim Hendler has been announced as a keynote speaker. See http://2005.xmlconference.org. The theme is Syntax to Semantics and I am on the Planning Committee again this year to develop one or more Semantic Tracks and Town Hall Meetings with your help. 6. The Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating WG of SICoP has been fomally launched under Pat Cassidy's direction (pcassidy@xxxxxxxxx) with separate em ail discussion forums for: Tools Development, Ontology Development, and General Discussion). See http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP/OntologyTaxonomyCoordinatingWG. Please support Pat by letting him know of your interest and by providing URLs to your ontologies and taxonomies and related tools. 7. The Business Case for Semantic Technologies White Paper (Module 2) continues to move forward under the leadership of Mills Davis through a series of interviews and presentations. For example, we had a meeting with the Navy CIO's staff last week. The Navy CIO is David Wennergren, who chairs the CIO Council's Best Practices Committee, to which SICoP reports through the KM.Gov WG. 8. Semantic technologies are generally in transition from pilots to implementation and the business case is key. We are suggesting the vendors pilot the implementation of the FEA Reference Model Ontology (http://web-services.gov/fea-rmo.html) in repositories and composite applications and/or use a forthcoming government public domain database (Sir Tim Berners-Lee's suggestion at the SWANS Conference) to demonstrate semantic searching and ontology building. All of this will support SICoP's strategy of providing a solutions architecture that I am starting to call Semantic Interoperability Architecture (SIA) instead of SOA in which they seem to be just starting to think about the semantic interoperability of all the data information that is being integrated. I liken this to being analagous to the "E-Forms for E-Gov Pilot" in 2003 which we got 13 vendors to implement Web Services using a common E-Grants XSD to increase their application interoperability with one another to both their benefit and the government's. Now we have a common ontology (FEA-RMO) and public domain database to use for this purpose. Many thanks for your great support of the SWANS Conference. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. Brand Niemann Chair, SICoP http://web-services.gov

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