XBRL Seminar: The New Data Reference Model

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XBRL SeminarThe New Data Reference Model

• Brand Niemann (US EPA), Chair,
• Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice
  (SICoP)
• Best Practices Committee (BPC), Federal CIO
  Council
• International Consortium on Government Financial
  Management, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
• February 1, 2006

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The New Data Reference Model 2.0
Source Expanding E-Government, Improved Service
Delivery for the American People Using
Information Technology, December 2005, pages
2-3. http//www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budintegration/
expanding_egov_2005.pdf
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Overview

• I am going to use an Information Model to explain
  a new Information Model the Data Reference
  Model 2.0
• Context Why I was invited to speak.
• Description A real world example of why we
  need the new Government Information Model.
• Sharing What I want to share with you about the
  using the DRM in a pilot.

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Context

• Owen Ambur, Co-Chair of the Federal XML Community
  of Practice (CoP), was asked to participate to
  assure that XBRL meets all of the DRM and E-Gov
  Mandates.
• He is not here due to a death in the family.
• I Chair the Semantic Interoperability CoP that
  uses more powerful forms of XML (RDF and OWL) and
  pilots them
• E.g. Digital Harbors Investigative Case
  Management for Anti-Money Laundering at the our
  upcoming 4th Semantic Interoperability for
  E-Government Conference, February 9-10th.
• I lead the DRM 2.0 Implementation Through
  Iteration and Testing Team.
• Mills Davis, SICoP White Paper 2 Lead (who is
  here today) and I are in discussions with Allyson
  Ugartes and the FDIC (Jon Wisnieski) about a DRM
  2.0 Pilot with XBRL!
• See my recent interview with Government Computer
  News
• http//appserv.gcn.com/forum/qna_forum/37914-2.htm
  l

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Description

• Does someone have four quarters for a U.S. dollar
  so I can feed my parking meter?
• Hopefully a semantically clear data request
  message.
• Thank you, and these quarters are like your XBRL
  documents they dont really do anything unless
  they are reused in an information management
  system.
• I put the quarters (interoperable data) in the
  parking meter and it sends a message to the dial
  to display 60 minutes more time.
• The Meter Person sees my meter and (hopefully
  sends a message to their brain, cant write a
  parking ticket here, yet (but I will back in 65
  minutes and if that same car is here I will write
  a ticket!).

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Description(continued)

• And if I get a parking ticket, that paper
  document is not very interoperable data I have
  to re-key the ticket number and my credit card
  number into a Web site and pay the ticket online
  or generate even more paperwork by going to
  traffic court.
• But all of this is changing There will be one
  meter per block where you register your parking
  space and credit card numbers, and if the meter
  person sees a violation, then your credit card
  will be debited for the fine as well!
• SO THE QUESTION IS Can I do everything I and
  others need to do with these XBRL documents going
  forward?

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Sharing

• Domain specific XML Vocabularies like XBRL are
  part of Data Architecture which in turn is part
  of Enterprise Architecture which is turn is
  usually done with Service Oriented Architecture
  so I suggest you think about
• XBRL Ontologies (taxonomies with stronger
  semantics and agility) and Services and
• A DRM 2.0 Pilot which Mills Davis, et al. are
  scoping out as we speak.

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Sharing(continued)

• DRM 2.0 Essentials
• Three Types of Data Integrated
• Unstructured, Semi-structured, and Structured
• Structured and Searchable by Taxonomy Nodes
• View Data Assets Categorized by Taxonomy (Topics)
  
• Data Access and Exchange Web Services in
  Interoperable Formats
• View Part or All of Data Tables (e.g. screen
  scrape in XML to Excel) and Retrieve XML File
  with Metadata Embedded.
• This Data Architecture Provides the Three Ss
  Structure, Searchability, and Semantics.

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Sharing

• XBRL Pilot Considerations Excerpts
• Scope
• Select a clear business need and provide a
  compelling user experience (e.g. dashboard).
• Performance
• Demonstrate fast time-to-solution XBRL/DRM based
  approach within 30 days at low risk.
• Conditions
• Appropriate agreement between all parties to the
  pilot ensuring cooperation and commitment of
  resources.
• Participants
• Treasury, FDIC, XBRL-US, SICoP, System
  Integrator, Composite Application Platform
  Provider, etc.
• Next Steps
• Develop a preliminary statement of work.

Source Mills Davis Email, February 2, 2006,
mdavis_at_project10x.com.
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Q A

• Contact Information
• Brand Niemann
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• MC 2833M, Washington, DC 20460
• niemann.brand_at_epa.gov
• 202-564-9491
• Web Sites and Wiki Pages
• http//web-services.gov/
• http//colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP
• http//colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DRMImplement
  ationThroughIterationandTestingPilotProjects