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XML Web ServicesVoiceXML and Phone Directories
  • Brand Niemann
  • XML Web Services Evangelist
  • US EPA Office of Environmental Information
  • April 16-18, 2002

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Overview
  • 1. XML and XML Web Services
  • 2. EPAs Where You Live
  • 3. Multi-channel Dissemination of the LEPC
    Database
  • 4. XML Content Network and VoiceXML Presentations
    and Recognitions
  • 5. Phone Directories as XML Web Services
  • 6. Contact Information

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1. XML and XML Web Services
  • XML is a standard for preserving and
    communicating information encoding, tagging,
    and internationalizing that will be everywhere.
  • Web Services provide communication between
    applications running on different Web servers
    that will bring the Internet to its new level.
  • XML Web Services are applications running on
    different devices that communicate XML data using
    XML messages.
  • Interoperable XML Web Services
  • http//www.ws-i.org/Community.aspx

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2. EPAs Where You Live
  • Enter your zip code to retrieve environmental
    information about your community
  • Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPCs)
    provide a forum for emergency management
    agencies, responders, industry and the public to
    work together to understand chemical hazards in
    the community, develop emergency plans in case of
    an accidental release, and always look for ways
    to prevent chemical accidents. Local industries
    must provide information to LEPCs about chemical
    hazards, LEPCs are required by law to make this
    information available to any citizen who requests
    it. You can make a difference by attending an
    LEPC meeting or joining your LEPC.
  • Please Note Currently we have over 3000 listings
    in our LEPC Database. It is our goal to provide
    the most current and accurate information. We
    look to the LEPC community to help us
    successfully meet this goal. Please forward any
    changes or corrections to Dana Robinson. These
    changes will be incorporated and updated monthly.

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3. Multi-channel Dissemination of the LEPC
Database
  • 3.1 Field Names
  • 3.2 Web
  • 3.3 Print
  • 3.4 CD/DVD
  • 3.5 XML Web Service
  • 3.6 Telephone
  • 3.7 Digital Talking Books

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3.1 Field Names
  • LEPC Name
  • Street
  • Address2 (e.g. P.O. Box)
  • City
  • State
  • Postal Code
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Phone
  • Email
  • LEPC ID
  • Edit Date
  • Idmarplot (geo-reference from the LandView
    MarPlot Mapping System)

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3.2 The Webhttp//www.epa.gov/ceppo/lepclist.htm
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3.3 Print(on demand)
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3.4 CD/DVDhttp//landview.census.gov/
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3.5 XML Web Service FileMaker Prohttp//www.file
maker.com/xml/overview.html
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3.5 XML Web Service XML Query Output
http//130.11.53.73/lepc/FMPro?-dbLEPC.FP5-forma
t-fmp_xmlzip_lepczip_code22181-find
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3.6 Telephone A Voice Browser http//www.voicexml
.org/, http//www.w3.org/Voice/
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3.6 Telephone Tellme VoiceXMLhttp//www.tellme.c
om
  • The fastest way to get any U.S. forecast
  • 1-800-555-TELL.
  • Say Weather, then a city and state, or enter the
    zip code, to interrupt say stop, and for extended
    forecast for your city, say Tellme More.
  • National Directory Assistance
  • 1-800-555-1212.
  • Utah Department of Transportation 511
  • Automated real-time information on traffic, road
    conditions, and public transportation (December
    2001).
  • Added event schedules, driving directions, and
    up-to-the-minute news and announcements for the
    2002 Olympics.

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3.6 Telephone Tellme Studio VoiceXML
http//studio.tellme.com/
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3.6 Telephone VoiceXML Web Servicehttp//130.11.
53.73/brand.vxml
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3.6 Telephone VoiceXML Web Service1-866-745-7735
  • Welcome to the E. P. A. Local Emergency Planning
    Committee finder.
  • Please speak or touch-tone your 5 digit Zipcode.
  • 84040
  • Here are results for the Zipcode 84040.
  • The L. E. P. C. nearest to you is listed in the
    E. P. A. database as follows. Davis County. At
    Davis County Sheriffs Department located in the
    city of Farmington.
  • Thank You for calling, goodbye.

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3.7 Digital Talking Books http//www.loc.gov/nis/
niso, http//www.daisy.org
  • Also called DAISY or NISO Books for the DAISY
    (Digital Audio-based Information SYstem)
    Consortium and National Information Standards
    Organization.
  • Well-organized collections of computer files
    produced according to specifications published by
    DIASY and NISO
  • Medium-independent information access based on
    open standards (W3Cs XML and SMIL)
  • Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language.
  • Three Principal Types of Players
  • Computers, personal digital assists (e.g.
    BrailleNote), and specialized stand-alone
    hardware players (Victor by VisuAide and Plextalk
    by Plextor). Also Victor Trekker A GPS for the
    blind.
  • American Foundation for the Blind, AccessWorld
    (see next slide)
  • Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and
    Development Governmental Relations Group.

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3.7 Digital Talking Bookshttp//www.afb.org/aw/AW
0203toc.asp
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3.7 Digital Talking Bookshttp//www.visuaide.com/
victorpro.html
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4. XML Content Network and VoiceXML Presentations
and Recognitions
  • 4.1 Content Network of XML Web Services
  • 4.2 Universal Access Collaboration Expedition
    Workshop, February 19th
  • 4.3 GSA Senior Management, March 6th
  • 4.4 2002 Federal CIO Council Showcase of
    Excellence Award
  • 4.5 FedWeb 2002 Tutorial

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4.1 Content Network of XML Web Services
  • Building Peer-to-Peer XML Content Networks of
    Web Services for Federal Scientific and
    Statistical Data and Information FedStats.Net
    and Beyond
  • The recent GSA Office of Intergovernmental
    Solution Newsletter, Issue 11 XML Applications
    in Government
  • http//www.gsa.gov/Portal/content/pubs_content.jsp
    ? content OID120147contentType1008PMGZ1
  • http//www.gsa.gov/attachments/GSA_PUBLICATIONS/ex
    tpub/11-BLNiemann-EPA_7.htm
  • NXT 3 P2P Platform from NextPage, Inc. provides
    not only XML Web Services and an XML Registry and
    Repository, but high-level data coordination and
    collaboration across distributed content.
  • NextPage is unique in the content management
    market in its distributed approach. NXT 3
    virtually connects the distributed information
    sources and makes them appear integrated to the
    user.
  • Esther Dysons Monthly Report, Volume 20, No. 1,
    22 January 2002
  • http//www.eventure.com

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4.1 Content Network of XML Web Serviceshttp//fed
gov.nextpage.com
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4.1 Content Network of XML Web Services
http//www.nextpage.com
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4.2 Universal Access Collaboration Expedition
Workshop, February 19th http//ioa-qpnet-co.gsa.g
ov/UA-Exp
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4.2 Universal Access Collaboration Expedition
Workshop, February 19thhttp//people.internet2.ed
u/ghb/coexp/
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4.3 GSA Senior Management, March 6th
  • GSA Senior Management, March 6th
  • Excellent demonstration of emerging technologies.
  • Suggest pursuing with Blue Pages and Geospatial
    One Stop so the Blue Pages could become spatially
    enabled which will help to voice enable them.
    Also pursue with Recreation.Gov.
  • See Section 5.

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4.4 2002 Federal CIO Council Showcase of
Excellence Award
  • Finalist at FOSE, March 19-21, Washington, DC
    Convention Center
  • http//www.fose.com/Events/showcase.html
  • Special Award for Innovation from Mark Forman and
    the Quad Council
  • http//gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18224-1.html
  • Federal Computer Week, March 18th
  • Six Emerging Technologies That Could Change the
    Way Government Works
  • A voice from the near future
  • http//www.fcw.com/articles/2002/0318/cov-tech2-03
    -18-02.asp

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4.4 2002 Federal CIO Council Showcase of
Excellence Award
  • This project was an interagency and
    government-private industry partnership team
    effort under the auspices of the Federal CIO XML
    Working Group (http//xml.gov) and the GSAs
    Universal Access Collaboration Expedition
    Workshops Program as follows
  • Peter Gattuso (202-564-7993), Chemical Emergency
    Preparedness and Prevention Office (CEPPO), U.S.
    Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), LEPC Web
    Development.
  • Greg OConnell (301-941-1853), Jim Stilwell
    (760-723-8253), Art Clarke (415-378-4554), David
    Weiden (650-930-9000), TellMe Networks, Inc.,
    TellMe Network Services.
  • Jerry McFaul (703-648-7126), US Geological
    Survey, FileMaker Web Server.
  • Bruce Law, Mark Fredrickson, Jonathan Jarvis,
    Craig Brown, and Simon Chung (801-768-7500),
    NextPage, Inc., NXT 3 P2P Platform Software and
    Services.
  • Brand Niemann (202-260-2510), Office of
    Environmental Information, U.S. Environmental
    Protection Agency (EPA), FedGov Content Network
    Development and Management and XML Web Services
    Training.
  • Janina Sajka (202-408-8175), Director Technology
    Research and Development Governmental Relations
    Group, American Foundation for the Blind, Project
    Advisor.
  • Susan Turnbull (202-501-6214), Office of
    Governmentwide Policy, US General Services
    Administration, Project Advisor.
  • Owen Ambur (703-358-2138), Co-Chair, Federal CIO
    XML Working Group, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife
    Service, Project Advisor.

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4.5 FedWeb 2002 Tutorial
  • Web Content Authoring and Management Tools with
    XML
  • May 20, 2002, 9 a.m. 12 noon, Natcher Center,
    NIH, Bethesda, MD.
  • http//www.fedweb.org/2002preconftutorials.htm
  • Attendees have the opportunity to provide content
    for XML-ization prior to the tutorial to be used
    in the tutorial as time permits.
  • http//130.11.44.140 (XML Web Services Training
    and Pilots)
  • In coordination with the Federal Web Content
    Managers Forum.
  • http//www.hud.gov/library/bookshelf15/webcontentm
    gr.cfm

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5. Phone Directories as XML Web Services
  • 5.1 U.S. Blue Pages
  • 5.2 Visionary Goals for the Blue Pages
  • 5.3 Coordination with the E-Gov
  • 5.4 Blue Pages XML Web Services Pilot Project
  • 5.4.1 Las Vegas Blue Pages Listing
  • 5.4.2 Strategy
  • 5.4.3 NXT 3 Query for XML
  • 5.4.4 Tellme Demo
  • 5.4.5 Acknowledgments

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5.1 U.S. Blue Pageshttp//bp.fed.gov/
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5.1 U.S. Blue Pages(print)
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5.2 Visionary Goals for the Blue Pages
  • Owen Ambur
  • Use agency databases, gather and maintain with
    e-forms, geo-reference, provide access by Web and
    telephone, and include Frequently Asked Questions
    and Documents
  • 1-800 Say-The-Word The X.500 Blue Pages Key to
    Stockholder/Customer-Accessible Government
    (12/13/97)
  • http//users.erols.com/ambur/BluePage.html
  • Additional Requirements for the Blue Pages Data
    Collection Maintenance System (11/2/98)
  • http//users.erols.com/ambur/bluepgs.html
  • Susan Turnbull
  • Extending Digital Dividends Public Goods and
    Services that Work for All, September 2001, GSA
    Office of Governmentwide Policy, 36 pp.

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5.2 Free Access to Health and Human Services
Information (211)http//www.211.org/interactive2
0map.asp
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5.3 Coordination with the E-Govhttp//www.fgdc.go
v/geo-one-stop/index.html
  • Recreation One Stop (Recreation.Gov)
  • In discussions with Charles Nethaway, Director,
    Special Services and Web Development, National
    Business Center, US Department of the Interior.
  • Geospatial Information One Stop
  • Blue Pages Team met on April 4th with John
    Moeller, Federal Geographic Data Committee Staff
    Director
  • Encouraged to go forward with effort using FGDC
    metadata standards and become part of the
    Geospatial One Stop Portal.
  • Suggested GSA become a member of FGDC with the
    lead for Locator Services and participate in the
    Open GIS Consortium

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5.4.1 Las Vegas Blue Pages Listing
  • Fields 7
  • Functional Listing
  • Organization
  • Sort Order
  • Indent Level
  • Listing
  • Area Code
  • Phone Number
  • Records 1129

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5.4.1 Las Vegas Blue Pages Listing
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5.4.2 Strategy
  • Formed Blue Pages XML Pilot Team from members of
    the VoiceXML Team.
  • Met with GSA Staff and Contractor (SAIC) to
    discuss pilot goals and data needs.
  • Decided on three-pronged approach
  • VoiceXML for ideal Blue Pages database.
  • VoiceXML for current best possible Blue Pages
    database.
  • XML from current sample BluePages database.

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5.4.2 Strategy
  • CIO Councils Strategic Plan
  • Goal - Interoperable and innovative
    Governmentwide IT initatives.
  • Objective Establish the use of open,
    standards-based architectures.
  • SCOTS Standards-based commercial off-the-shelf
    softwares (XML and XML Web Services).
  • Use XML and VoiceXML for virtual integration and
    updating across the contributing agencies and
    multi-channel distribution (Web, CD-ROM, print,
    telephone, and accessible devices).

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5.4.2 Strategy
  • A National (INCITS) Standard for directory and
    contact information that supports multi-channel
    dissemination?
  • Phases
  • XML-ization of content (Syndication automatic
    reuse of content on Web sites).
  • Muti-channel dissemination of content.
  • Updating by Web and telephone.
  • Approaches
  • RDBMS to XML direct.
  • Modify/repurpose RDBMS for more optimal XML uses.
  • Define new Markup Language and collect new
    database.

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5.4.2 Strategy
  • US EPA Pilot Node (Owen Amburs vision)
  • Agency databases e.g. LEPC.
  • Geo-reference e.g. LEPC.
  • Gather and maintain with e-forms e.g. LEPC.
  • Provide access by Web and telephone e.g. LEPC.
  • Include Frequently Asked Questions and Documents
    e.g. Environmental Node on the FedGov Content
    Network.
  • Print XML to PDF - Use new XML Formatting Objects
    (FO) Standard.

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5.4.2 Strategy
  • Architecture
  • Integrator Node (NXT 3)
  • Agency Nodes (NXT 3)
  • Directory (RDBMS-to-XML Content Adapter)
  • Frequently Asked Questions (Web pages XML
    Index)
  • Frequently Requested Documents (Native file
    formats like PDF, etc. XML Index)
  • State, NGO, etc. Nodes (NXT 3)
  • Same as above.

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5.4.3 NXT 3 Query for XML
  • Any or all of the fields can be filled in the
    query form.  NXT 3 will take the query, run it,
    and return an XML output to the browser /
    application.  A sample output is attached, but
    you should use the interface (sample_702.xml). 
  • All queries will result in a phone number.  The
    corollary to that is that entries without a phone
    number will not currently appear. 
  • Web site entries associated with agencies
    currently will not be available to the user. 
  • Currently, the number of entries returned is 10. 
    This can be adjusted easily via the form. 
  • As the queries forms are now developed, any
    other blue book database can be added easily, and
    can be queried on multiple servers resulting in a
    single XML return output similar to the one
    returned from the above URL.

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5.4.3 NXT 3 Query for XMLhttp//198.60.24.176/NXT
/gateway.dll?ftemplatesfndefault.htmvidbluepa
gesallNPUSERNAMEblue_user
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5.4.3 NXT 3 Query for XML
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5.4.3 NXT 3 Query for XML
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5.4.4 Tellme Demo
Familiar Web Architecture
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5.4.4 Tellme Demo
Back-end Integration and VoiceXML
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5.4.4 Tellme Demo
  • 877-728-8355
  • S Welcome to the US Government Blue Pages
    Directory Your one stop directory for
    government services in your local area.
  • S Please say the city and state you'd like
    information for, or hang on, while I get
    information for Washington, DC.
  • U Las Vegas, Nevada
  • S OK, Las Vegas, Nevada. Here are your choices.
    When you hear the one you want, just say it.
  • S Agriculture, Commerce, Courts, Defense,
    Education, Emergency Services, Energy,
    Environment, Immigration Customs, Law
    Enforcement, Parks Recreation, Health
  • U Health
  • S Here's a list of choices in Health. When you
    hear the one you want, just say it.
  • S AIDS hotline, Adoption, Cancer Treatments,
    Child Safety, Drug Alcohol Treatment
  • U AIDS hotline
  • S The phone number for the national AIDS
    hotline is 800 342 2437. Once again, the
    phone number is 800 342 2437.

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5.4.4 Tellme Demo
  • 877-728-8355
  • S Would you like to get another number in the
    Health category?
  • U Yes
  • S Here's a list of choices in Health. When you
    hear the one you want, just say it.
  • S AIDS hotline, Adoption, Cancer Treatments,
    Child Safety, Drug Alcohol Treatment, Food and
    Drug Administration, Hepatitis Hotline,
    Immunization, Medicare
  • U Medicare
  • S Alright, Medicare. For general information
    about Medicare, say general information. To
    find out if you're eligible, say eligibility.
    To replace a lost Medicare card, say, lost
    card. To get information about available
    Medicare plans, say available plans. Or to
    report Medicare fraud, say report fraud.
  • U general information
  • S The phone number for Medicare general
    information is 800 633 4227. Once again, the
    number is 800 633 4227.
  • END CALL

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5.4.5 Acknowledgments
  • Owen Ambur, Co-Chair, CIO XML Working Group.
  • Keith Thurston, Acting Deputy Associate
    Administrator, GSA Office of Information
    Technology.
  • John Moeller, Staff Director, Federal Geographic
    Data Committee.
  • Janina Sajka, Director, Technology Research and
    Development, American Foundation for the Blind.
  • Susan Turnbull, GSA Office of Governmentwide
    Policy.
  • Bonnie Seybold, GSA Federal Technology Service
    Office of Service Delivery.
  • Fred Zupka, GSA Federal Technology Service Office
    of Service Delivery.
  • Tadgh Smith, Program Manager, Blue Pages, .GOV,
    and FSTU, SAIC.
  • Simon Chung and Craig Brown, NextPage, Inc.
  • Greg OConnell, Art Clarke, Jim Stillwell
    Eugene Koh, Tellme Networks, Inc.
  • Brand Niemann, US EPA Office of Environmental
    Information.

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6. Contact Information
  • Brand Niemann. Ph.D.
  • USEPA Headquarters, EPA West, Room 6143D
  • Office of Environmental Information, MC 2822T
  • 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
    20460
  • 202-566-1657
  • niemann.brand_at_epa.gov
  • EPA http//161.80.70.167
  • Outside EPA http//130.11.44.140
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