Update for the XML and Solution Architects Working Groups

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Update for the XML and Solution Architects
Working Groups

• Brand Niemann
• Chair, XML Web Services Working Group
• Email niemann.brand_at_epa.gov
• Web Site http//www.web-services.gov
• GSA ListServ cioc-web-services
• December 17, 2002

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Overview

• 1. First Meeting, November 12th
• 2. Second Meeting, December 10th, and XML 2002
  Conference, December 8-13th
• 3. Interviews
• 4. Initial Pilots
• 5. Proposed Pilots
• 6. Next Meeting, January 14th, 2003

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1. First Meeting, November 14th

• In conjunction with Universal Access
  Collaboration Expedition Workshop 19.
• 80 signed in more attended.
• Business Charter, Priorities, Initial Pilots,
  XML Conference 2002 Exhibit Participation, and
  Next Meetings.
• Presentations See next slide.
• Results Excellent attendance and support. Web
  site domain name (web-services.gov), ListServ
  (cioc-web-services), collaboration tools
  discussion, XML 2002 Conference Exhibit staffing,
  volunteers for new pilots, and suggestions for
  future meetings.
• Sample comment Congrats again on a fine job
  with the meeting.

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First Meeting, November 14th(continued)

• Education/Analysts-ZapThink
• XML and Web Services Unleashed (SAMS 2002), XML
  Standards Poster, and The Pros and Cons of Web
  Services, Ron Schmelzer and Jason Bloomberg,
  Senior Analysts.
• Organizations-MITRE
• XML/Web Services Cross MITRE (PIXIT) and
  Government, Dr. Joe Molitoris, Chair and Meeting
  Organizer.
• Vendors-Zope (given at end of Workshop and
  beginning this meeting)
• Secure Content Management in Public Health
  Informatics with ZOPE, Jim Fulton, CTO, ZOPE
  Corporation.
• Priorities/Pilots-XML Collaborator
• Component-based XML and XML Web Services Design
  with XML Collaborator, Kevin Williams, Chief
  Technology Officer, Blue Oxide Technologies.

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2. Second Meeting, December 10th, and XML 2002
Conference

• The CIO Councils XML Web Services Working Group
  invites all to attend their meeting, Tuesday,
  December 10th, 1-2 p.m., in Room 319, and their
  joint exhibit (638) with the XML Working Group,
  starting today at 1230 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall
  (far right aisle see page 25 in the Exhibitors
  Guide). (http//xml.gov and http//web-services.go
  v)
• Agenda (about 30 in attendance including Pat
  Daukantas of GC News)
• Introduction Brand Niemann, Chair (see next two
  slides).
• Presentation of Incubator Pilot Project The XML
  Collaborator (XML Design Collaboration and
  Registration) by Kevin Williams, Chief Technology
  Officer, Blue Oxide Technologies.
• Questions and Answers The Working Group and the
  XML Collaborator.
• Adjourn in time for the 2 p.m. Plenary, but will
  remain for questions and answers.
• Also see page 185 in the Conference Program
  (about 10 in attendance)
• Title - XML Design Collaboration and Registration
  with XML Collaborator
• Track Vendor Presentation H/T
• Day Friday, December 13
• Time 1145 p.m.
• Location Room 310
• Exhibit 10 staffed the exhibit and 41 attendees
  requested more information. Many conference
  attendees praised the exhibit for showing the
  work going on in the Federal government.

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2. Second Meeting, December 10th, and XML 2002
Conference

• 4 of the top 9 priorities of the new XML Web
  Services Working Group are to develop a registry
  and collaboration facility for Web Services in
  support of e-Gov
• 1. Provide direct support on implementing Web
  Services to 24 e-Gov initiatives (see next
  slide).
• 2. Maintain registry of WS-related projects or
  efforts, to avoid duplication and promote
  information sharing.
• 3. Implement a registry of available Web Services
  (a loose registry of human-researchable
  information at first, but later supporting
  automated services location).
• 9. Provide on-line collaboration facility for
  exchange of sample business cases, templates, and
  other info related to Web Services.

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Web Services and More Integrating Business
Processes and Information Across Agencies-David
Booth, W3C Fellow, FedWeb, October 29,2002
Representing Semantics

• Owners of Client and Service must agree on
  semantics
• Can be verbal or written (preferably)
• Can be human-oriented (e.g., English) or
  machine-processable (e.g., RDF)
• Ideally, Web Service Description should point to
  semantics
• E.g. "targetNamespace" URL
• My recommendation Web Service Description should
  reference its semantics

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2. Second Meeting, December 10th, and XML 2002
Conference (continued)

• E-Gov and XML Collaborator
• Blue Oxides XML Collaborator has been selected
  as one of the six incubator pilot projects of the
  Federal CIO Councils XML Web Services Working
  Group. Recently formed as part of the Leveraging
  Technology Subcommittee of the Federal CIO
  Councils Architecture and Infrastructure
  Committee, the goal of the XML Web Services
  Working Group is to accelerate the effective and
  appropriate implementation of XML Web services
  technology in the federal government.
• In pursuit of this goal, XML Collaborator is
  being used to define, register and publish
  federal XML Web service definitions and XML
  Schemas to provide support for various E-Gov
  initiatives and the other incubator pilot
  projects. Using XML Collaborator also allows
  government personnel to gain experience with the
  emerging publish, find, bind paradigm
  associated with the service-oriented architecture
  of XML Web services.

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2. Second Meeting, December 10th, and XML 2002
Conference (continued)
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2. Second Meeting, December 10th, and XML 2002
Conference (continued)

• XML Collaborator (see new datasheet)
• Designed to conform to ISO/IEC 11179, the ebXML
  registry standard, and UDDI and makes an
  integrated distributed registry possible.
• Provides component enumerations for conformance
  evaluations and reuse.
• Being applied to EPA-State XML Schema Review and
  Network Strategy Pilot.
• Provides support for the XML.Gov Registry and
  e-Gov Initiatives.
• See http//www.blueoxide.com for White Paper and
  forthcoming online version.

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2. Second Meeting, December 10th, and XML 2002
Conference (continued)

• XML Documents Registered (so far)
• USITC Web Service Description.
• EPA-State Network Schema and EDR (11179) Metadata
  Standards.
• OGC Schema.
• DTDs.
• Excel spreadsheets of data dictionaries, etc.
• Native XML Collaborator component design markup.
• Examples from http//xml.gov/registries.htm.

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3. Interviews(posted to Web Site)

• Government Computer News, What You Need to Know
  About Enterprise Architecture for 2003, Pat
  Daukantas, to appear January 2003.
• MBA Students, University of Maryland, GSA Office
  of Electronic Government (Lee Ellis), Questions
  Regarding ebXML and Web Services, December 2,
  2002 (to be posted on GSA Web Site).
• Federal Computer Week, Navy preps XML policy,
  December 9, 2002.
• http//www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1209/news-xml
  -12-09-02.asp

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4. Initial Pilots

• (1) Digital Talking Books on CD-ROM and the Web
  with VoiceXML Business Compliance One-Stop
  Content (Jim Van Wert, SBA, e-Gov Program
  Manager, and Janina Sajka, American Foundation
  for the Blind).
• (2) XML Collaborator See Second Meeting.
• (3) VoiceXML for e-Gov and Universal Access
  Operationalization by GSA/FTS (Chris Wren, CTO,
  Office of IT Solutions).
• (4) Geospatial One Stop Open GIS Consortium
  Participation (David Shell, President, and Jeff
  Harrison, Interoperability Program Director,
  OGC).
• (5) Distributed Content Authoring and Management
  State of the Environment Content (Brand Niemann,
  US EPA).
• (6) Military Systems Air Force EDS/MITRE (Paul
  Kim, Chief Technologist, MITRE, Bedford, MA).

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5. Proposed Pilots(in random order)

• State and Local Homeland Security Practices and
  Federal Working Group Coordination Database Web
  Service James Mackison, GSA Office of Citizen
  Services.
• Distributed Explorit Web Services Interface Abe
  Lederman, Deep Web Technologies.
• XML Web Services Training, John Clark, GSA Office
  of Citizen Services and Norm Klieman,
  IT-Dynamics.
• Navy Medicine OnLine John Weiland, Naval
  Medical Information Management Center.
• Business Case Support for Pilots to Become e-Gov
  Initiatives Jim Evdemon, Booz Allen Hamilton,
  and Constance Ramirez, National Park Service.
• XML Data Exchange Across Multiple Levels of
  Government Using Native XML Databases Joel
  Patterson and J.P. Morgenthal, SoftwareAG
  (Tamino).

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5. Proposed Pilots(continued in random order)

• XDocs and XForms Web Services Susie Adams,
  Microsoft, and Micah Dubinko, Cardiff
• EPA Facility Data as a Homeland Security
  Application ("Accuracy Assessment and Improvement
  of EPA Facility Registry Data and Emergency
  Notification and Data Collection with VoiceXML)
  Muhannad Kanaan, DynCorp, and Dan Buan,
  RealSoft.
• Co-Sourcing the Business Compliance One-Stop and
  other e-Gov Pilots Michael Kochanik, CollabNet.
• Department of Homeland Security Application of
  the Metadata Object Facility (MOF) and the XML
  Collaborator to Enterprise Integration Michael
  Lang, MetaMatrix, and Kevin Williams, Blue Oxide.

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6. Next Meeting, January 14th, 2003

• In conjunction with Universal Access
  Collaboration Expedition Workshop 21
• Robert Haycock, Manager for the Office of
  Management and Budget's Federal Enterprise
  Architecture Initiative, The Federal Enterprise
  Architecture (FEA) - An Overview of Vision and
  Progress
• XML Web Services Working Group Meeting 3 (as of
  12/16/02)
• Introductions
• CIOC/AIC updates and XML 2002 Conference
  Recognitions-The Chair.
• Business Web Site, ListServ, Collaboration
  Place, Initial and Proposed Pilots and
  Priorities, and Draft IAC/SAWG White Paper.
• Presentations
• XML 2002 Conference Video Highlights-Antoinette
  Purdon, Instant Index.
• Collaboration Place-Karl Hebenstreit, GSA,
  QuickPlace Setup.
• Education/Analysts-Uttam Narsu, Giga Information
  Group, e-Gov Secure Transactions Scenario.
• Organizations-Michael Kochanik, CollabNet,
  Co-sourcing for Pilots. In Workshop 21 agenda.
• Vendors-Jeff Harrison, OpenGIS Consortium OWS 1.2
  Demonstration.
• Priorities/Pilots-John Weiland, Navy Medicine
  On-line and Kevin William, XML Collaborator
  Demonstrations.