XML Web Services Working Group March 4, 2003

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XML Web Services Working GroupMarch 4, 2003

• Brand Niemann, Chair
• National Science Foundation, Stafford II
  Building, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555
• Ballston, Virginia
• 2 p.m. 5 p.m.

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Agenda

• 1. Introduction
• Updates and Announcements.
• Some Coming Attractions.
• 2. Business
• Distributed Components, Metadata Models, and
  Registries, ListServ Discussion Summary, Joe
  Chiusano, Booz Allen Hamilton.
• "Eforms for E-Gov Pilot", Rick Rogers, Fenestra,
  Team Lead, Charter.
• Topic Maps for the FEA, Michel Biezunski,
  Coolheads Consulting, Proposed Pilot, Cognitive
  Topic Map Web Sites (CTW) Aggregating
  Information Across Individual Agencies and E-Gov
  Initiatives.
• 3. Presentations
• Organizations - IRS Topic Map Pilot, David Brown,
  IRS, and IRS Integrated Navigation System, Michel
  Biezunski, Coolheads Consulting.
• Education/Analysts - The Business Case for XML
  Web Services - Scott Christiansen, Seattle
  Pacific University and Boeing Company (via
  telephone).
• "Eforms for E-Gov" Pilot Team, The eGrants SF 424
  XML Schema in the XML Collaborator, Kevin
  Williams, Blue Oxide Technologies.
• Pilots/Priorities XML Data Exchange Across
  Multiple Levels of Government Using Native XML
  Databases (Tamino 4.1 with UDDI and WebDAV
  Server), Joel Patterson, SoftwareAG.

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1. Introductions

• Updates
• Federal Enterprise Architecture
• TRM and SRM Released for Agency Review (due March
  7th)
• http//cio.gov/documents/memo_bob_haycock_feapmo_j
  an_31_2003.html
• Data and Information Reference Model (DRM) In
  Process
• All-day Offsite January 22nd. See Presentation
  and Update. Demonstrations of Pilots (see slide
  9) at the next Offsite.
• CIO Council
• Architecture and Infrastructure Committee
• Briefing on changes approved by the CIO Council
  Executive Committee on January 15th at the
  January 16th Meeting. Meeting February 26th.
  Participated in both the Governance and
  Components Subcommittees meetings on February
  13th, 20th, and 27th. Components will request
  (procure) and Emerging Technologies will suggest
  (pilot).
• Emerging Technology Subcommittee
• First meeting on January 31st with Dawn
  Meyerriecks, CTO, DISA, and Mark Day, EPA, DCIO.
  Provided metrics on February 14th (slide 4) and
  highlights on February 28th (slides 5 and 6).

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1. Introductions

• Metrics provided to the Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee
• Meetings Regular monthly meetings of the WG
  (three so far), participation in professional
  conferences (E.g. XML 2002, Open Standards for
  Federal and State eGovernment Programs, etc.),
  and in standards organizations (W3C, OASIS,
  etc.).
• Pilots Six initial pilots underway and 10 more
  proposed. Several pilots are near or at
  operationalization (VoiceXML, XML Collaborator,
  Topic Maps, XForms, etc.).
• Collaboration/Cooperation Regular meetings with
  the Universal Access Activity, XML WG and its
  Registry/Repository Team, Solution Architects
  Working Group (SAWG), Industry Advisory Council
  EA SIG and WS SIG, and the AIC and its Governance
  and Components Subcommittees.

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1. Introductions

• Highlights provided to the Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee
• The Eforms for E-Gov Pilot Team produced the SF
  424 XML Schema for the eGrants Program using the
  XML Collaborator Pilot (see slides 14-16) and is
  starting to meet with the major eforms and E-Gov
  projects in the Federal Government and with the
  major vendors (Adobe, Microsoft, etc.) to
  implement these XML standards in their eforms
  projects and new product releases, respectively.
  The Eforms and XML Collaborator Pilots are
  considered to be significant reusable components
  in the work of the Components Subcommittee.
• The six military pilots projects proposed by
  the MITRE XML Web Services Special Interest Group
  have been reviewed and resourced by Co-Chair Dawn
  Meyerriecks, approved by MITRE senior management,
  and presented to AIC management to begin work
  (see slides 7 and 8).

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1. Introductions

• Highlights provided to the Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee (continued)
• The key pilots have been aligned as Joint
  Governance, Components Emerging Technology
  Subcommittees Pilot Projects (see slide 9) and
  the Topic Map Repositories for FEA Governance and
  Components Prototype has been produced and
  demonstrated (see slides 10-11).
• The March 17-19, 2003, Open Standards for Federal
  and State eGovernment Programs Conference, Track
  Enterprise Architecture Driven E-Government with
  XML Web Services Open Collaboration with Open
  Standards, features 13 presentations on
  successes and pilots organized jointly by the
  Universal Access and XML Web Services Working
  Group Chairs (see slides 20-21).
• The XML Web Services Working Group Chair
  presented an invited tutorial XML Web Services
  Working Group and Examples Documents, Databases,
  and Registries on February 10, 2003, "The 5th
  Anniversary of XML", at the Web-Enabled
  Government Conference.

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1. Introductions

• MITRE Military Pilot Project Proposals
• Title Concept of Operations for Federated
  Metadata Registries
• Lead Investigator Terry Alford (MITRE Lead
  Information Systems Engineer)
• Description This initiative will develop a
  draft Federated Metadata Registries Concept of
  Operations (CONOPS) document.
• Title Enterprise Data Warehouse Web Services
• Lead Investigator Dave Becker
• Description As part of the new concept of
  Network Centric Warfare (NCW), and the
  accompanying AF C2 Enterprise Architecture
  (C2ERA), one of the key architecture assumptions
  is as follows Application interfaces that cross
  C2 Node boundaries must have, at a minimum, a
  least-common-denominator implementation using web
  service protocols (e.g., XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI).
• Title Cross DOD Tactical XML Web Services
• Lead investigator Dr. Joe Molitoris
• Description XML Web Services is being rolled out
  in DoD at the grass roots level. For example,
  both the Army ABCS (Battle Command System) and
  the USAF TBMCS/TACP (Battle Command System/
  Tactical Air Control Party) are planning to
  potentially support XML future interfaces as well
  as the traditional messaging. What is needed is
  a pilot project that from scratch will get beyond
  the easy wrapping of legacy applications to the
  more difficult native use of XML Web Services for
  Future Combat Systems.

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1. Introductions

• MITRE Military Pilot Project Proposals
  (continued)
• Title An Agent Based Web Service
• Lead Investigator Mary K. Pulvermacher
• Proposal Working in collaboration with two
  MITRE research projects, we will connect an
  intelligent agent to a web services based
  enterprise information environment. The
  intelligent agent will use the knowledge
  contained in an ontology and its artifacts, along
  with rules that represent user heuristics, to
  determine which of a set of imagery repositories
  to search for a desired product.
• Title A Web-enabled Geospatial Information
  Service (GIS)
• Lead investigator Rich Laramee
• Description We propose to take an existing
  Geospatial Information System (GIS) application
  that runs on a windows platform and make it
  available over the internet via a URL and a
  browser.
• Title Bio-Terrorist Attack Detection Grid
• Lead Investigator Robert D. Cherinka, Ph.D.,
  Robert W. Miller, Ph.D.
• Proposal This initiative will investigate,
  prototype and experimentally deploy a
  bio-information grid across a geographical
  locality to provide a means for the rapid
  detection, analysis and notification of a
  potential bio-terrorist attack.

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Joint Governance, Components Emerging
Technology Subcommittees Pilot Projects
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Topic Map Repositories for FEA Governance and
Components Prototype
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Topic Map Repositories for FEA Governance and
Components Prototype
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1. Introductions

• Updates
• Industry Advisory Council
• Enterprise Architecture SIG (Aligned with AIC
  Subcommittees)
• Last White Paper Workshop on February 4th.
• http//www.ichnet.org/IAC_EA.htm.
• Web Services SIG
• Second Meeting January 31st with about 40
  participants.
• White Paper Summary and Meeting with BCOS/SBA.
• White Paper on Pilot Project Considerations and
  Examples.
• E-Gov Initiatives
• December 20th Initiatives At-A-Glance (see next
  slide)
• http//web-services.gov/2002_12_20_E-Gov_Initiativ
  es_at_a_Glance.pdf
• Electronic Standards Work Group (eGrants)
• First meeting January 29th.
• http//www.iaegc.gov/IAEGCstuff/Meetings/ESWGmeeti
  ngs/eswgagenda012903.htm.

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1. Introductions

• E-Gov Initiatives Being Supported
• G2C
• Recreation One Stop (DOI)
• Gov Benefits (DOL)
• USA Services (GSA)
• G2B
• Online Rulemaking Management (EPA) (this
  mornings agenda)
• One-Stop Business Compliance (SBA)
• Consolidate Heath Informatics (HHS)
• G2G
• Geospatial Information One-Stop (DOI-OGC)
• eGrants (HHS) Early Success Story (see next
  slides)
• IEE
• eRecords Management (NARA)
• Other
• Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA-PMO)
• XML Registry (GSA)

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E-Grants

• HHS has identified data standards it will use for
  grants forms governmentwide.
• This was one of the hardest pieces. There has
  been an effort to reach consensus on these
  standards for a long time. We tried to come up
  with something people are familiar with so we
  wouldnt have to slog through policy or standards
  battles. Charles Havekost, HHS, October 7, 2002.
• HHS and its partner agencies agreed to use SF
  424, a form used by about 100 grant programs, and
  to form the Electronic Standards Work Group to
  bring XML standards and technology to this
  effort.
• Preliminary architecting with XML Web Services
  (see bold items added to the next slide).

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E-Grants Single System Solution (1/29/03)
XForms Web Browser Interface
Applicant 3
Applicant 2
Applicant 1
..
Applicant N
Valid XML
XML Collaborator Design Collaboration And
Registration Support
E-Grants Trusted Broker
XML Repository Web Services
Valid XML
XML Repository Web Services
Agency N
Agency 1
Agency 2
Agency 3
..
Trusted Broker Embodies Standards, Benefits
Applicants and Agencies Facilitates
System-to-System Interfaces Builds applicant
knowledge of "core" data Helps identify
commonalities among agency-specific data
Annotations by WG Chair
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Eforms for E-Gov Pilot

• Early Success Story
• Pilot launched on February 6th.
• Fenestra demoed GIDS (XML-based Eforms for the
  2002 Economic Census) and Blue Oxide Technologies
  demoed the XML Collaborator (distributed design
  collaboration and registration platform) with the
  eGrants Data Dictionary (Transaction Set 194).
• eGrants requested (February 6th and 14th)
• SF424 DUNS be part of the pilot under
  Intergovernmental Submissions category. Agreed.
• The XML Collaborator XML Schema and The Business
  of XML An XML Primer for E-Grants Stakeholders.
  Delivered on February 27th.
• Work with the BAH Data Analysis and Modeling
  Contract to develop official XML Schema for
  E-Grants. Agreed.
• Meetings with Adobe, Microsoft InfoPath (XDocs)
  Team, etc.
• One goal is to help the E-Grants Unified Grant
  Application Mechanism be deployed by October 2003
  and to demonstrate a successful Eforms for
  E-Gov XML-standards based form for an E-Gov
  Initiative.
• GovBenefits and E-Rulemaking have asked for the
  same help!

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1. Introductions

• Some Coming Attractions
• March 12, 2003, OASIS E-Government Technical
  Committee Meeting in Washington, DC (confirmed -
  agenda to be announced).
• March 13, 2003, Bringing XML Web Services to
  Your Agency The CIO Council's XML Web Services
  Working Group and Some Examples, Workshop for the
  USDA Economic Research Service, 12-230 p.m.
• March 18, 2003, no meetings because of other
  event. See next.
• March 17-19, 2003, Open Standards for National
  and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and
  EU, Washington, DC, http//www.egovos.org/ (see
  slides 18-19).
• March 19, 2003, Report to the XML Working Groups
  Registry/Repository Team (see slide 19).

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1. Introductions

• Some Coming Attractions (continued)
• April 15, 2003, in conjunction with the Universal
  Access Collaboration Workshop 23 at the National
  Science Foundation (Ballston, VA Orange Line
  Metro Station). Agenda in process. Digital
  Talking Books focus.
• May 5-7, 2003, FedWeb Spring 03, Tutorial Using
  the Generalized Instrument Design System
  (GIDS-XML Standards-based Forms), the XML
  Collaborator, and the MetaMatrix System to Build
  E-Gov Projects and Session "Eforms for E-Gov"
  Pilot Project.
• May 20, 2003, in conjunction with the Universal
  Access Collaboration Workshop 24 at the National
  Science Foundation (Ballston, VA Orange Line
  Metro Station). Agenda in process.

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March19, 2003, XML Working Group Registry and
Repository Team Meeting

• Report on work with multi-purpose, integrated,
  distributed registries and repositories linked to
  tools and models (namespaces, reference models,
  metadata models, taxonomies, XML artifacts,
  etc.)
• The "Eforms for E-Gov Pilot Project.
• The Electronic Standards Work Group (ESWG) in
  support of the E-Grants Portal Phase II.
• The DOJ/Global Justice Information Network -
  Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Object
  Oriented Data Model Project.
• The MetaMatrix System in support of the FEA Data
  and Information Reference Model (DRM) Pilot
  Project.
• The "Military Pilots" from the MITRE XML Web
  Services Conference.
• A Web Services Collaboration Design Platform for
  Agencies and E-Gov Initiatives to Federate with
  the GSA-NIST XML Registry.

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March 17-19, 2003, Open Standards for National
Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. EU,
Washington, DC

• Monday 17th
• 1. 830 a.m. Susan Turnbull, GSA, and Brand
  Niemann, EPA Introductions and Overview.
• 2. 900 a.m. Robert Haycock, Office of Management
  and Budget's Federal Enterprise Architecture
  Program Management Office The Federal Enterprise
  Architecture (FEA) - An Overview of Vision and
  Progress.
• 3. 945 a.m. John Rehberger, USDA, Managing EAMS
  As An Open Source Project.
• 4. 1030 a.m. Farrukh Najmi, SUN Microsystems,
  and Joseph Potvin, Public Works And Government
  Services Canada, An Open Source ebXML Registry
  For eGov.
• 1115-1145 a.m. Break
• 5. 1145 a.m. Joseph Chiusano, Booz Allen
  Hamilton Web Services Security and More The
  Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA).
• 1230-200 p.m. Lunch
• 6. 200 p.m. Tod Jackson and Steve Wheat,
  Enterprise Architects for Administrative IT at
  the University of Illinois and Co-Founders of the
  OpenEAI Software Foundation The OpenEAI Project
  - Open Source Enterprise Application Integration
  Software and Methodology.

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March 17-19, 2003, Open Standards for National
Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. EU,
Washington, DC

• Monday 17th (continued)
• 7. 245 p.m. Rick Rogers, Fenestra E-Forms for
  e-Gov The Use of XML Standards-based
  Applications.
• 330-400 p.m. Break
• 8. 400 p.m. Kevin William, Blue Oxide
  Technologies The XML Collaborator-Industry
  Standards Interoperability and Applicability to
  E-Gov Initiatives.
• 9. 445 p.m. Michael Lang and Ed Falkner,
  MetaMatrix The MetaMatrix System for
  Model-driven Integration with Enterprise
  Metadata.
• 10. 530 p.m. Michel Biezunski, Coolheads
  Consulting Cognitive Topic Map Web
  Sites-Aggregating Information Across Individual
  Agencies and E-Gov Initiatives.
• March 18th
• 11. 900 a.m. Jeff Harrison, Open GIS Consortium
  Open Web Services Demonstration and Geospatial
  One-Stop Portal E-Gov Initiative.
• 12. 945 a.m. Sam Hunting, eTopicality, Inc.
  Goose 1.0 The Open Source, RESTful Topic Map
  Server.
• 13. 530 p.m. Brian Behlendorf and Michael
  Kochanik, CollabNet, Collaboration and
  CoSourcing Designing Intergovernmental Services
  and Sharable Components.

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1. Introductions

• Participants
• Need two volunteers for minutes.
• Acknowledge John Evdemon and Ken Sall.
• Who you are
• Your name.
• Your affiliation.
• Your interests in XML Web Services.

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2. Business

• Distributed Components, Metadata Models, and
  Registries, ListServ Discussion Summary, Joe
  Chiusano, Booz Allen Hamilton.
• Eforms for E-Gov Pilot, Rick Rogers, Fenestra,
  Team Lead
• Proposed Charter and Follow up from February 6th
  Meeting Launch.
• Topic Maps for the FEA, Michel Biezunski,
  Coolheads Consulting, Proposed Pilot, Cognitive
  Topic Map Web Sites (CTW) Aggregating
  Information Across Individual Agencies and E-Gov
  Initiatives.

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3. Presentations

• Organizations - IRS Topic Map Pilot, David Brown,
  IRS, and IRS Integrated Navigation System, Michel
  Biezunski, Coolheads Consulting.
• Education/Analysts - The Business Case for XML
  Web Services - Scott Christiansen, Seattle
  Pacific University and Boeing Company (via
  telephone).
• "Eforms for E-Gov" Pilot Team, The eGrants SF 424
  XML Schema in the XML Collaborator, Kevin
  Williams, Blue Oxide Technologies.
• Pilots/Priorities XML Data Exchange Across
  Multiple Levels of Government Using Native XML
  Databases (Tamino 4.1 with UDDI and WebDAV
  Server), Joel Patterson, SoftwareAG.