Defense Department Data Strategy Metadata Registration

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Defense Department Data StrategyMetadata
Registration

• Open Forum 2003
• Metadata Registries
• 23 January 2003

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Agenda

• Defense Transformation Perspective
• Move to Net-Centricity
• Metadata is the Key!
• Ongoing DoD Registry Efforts and Plans
• Build-Time DoD Data Emporium/XML Registry
• Run-Time Net-Centric Enterprise Services
• Defense Track Speakers and Topics
• DoDs XML Registry
• Metadata Management through COIs
• Run-Time Metadata Registration
• USAF Perspectives on Metadata Management
• OGCs Metadata Approach
• Intelligence Communitys Metadata Initiatives

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Deployment Information Exchanges
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DoD Transformation in progress - Net-Centric
Paradigm

• Context Global Information Grid (GIG)
• Massively Networked Environment
• gt1/2 Million light-weight clients (at least!)
• Users are BOTH producers consumers of data
• Numerous complex interconnections
• Thousands of frequently changing data resources
• Dynamic capabilities asynchronously deployed
• Both Developers and Operational Users on-line

Flexible and Responsive Management is Crucial!
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Net-Centric Vision
Task - Post - Process - Use
TPPU Actions Parallel v. Sequential

• Net-Centricity Payoffs
• Faster Decision Making/TPPU cycles
• Smarter Decisions based on . . .
• Access to more quality information
• Better Collaboration based on . . .
• Shared Battlespace Awareness
• Rapid Community of Interest formation

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ASD C3I Transformation Guidance . . . Doing
Data for Net-Centric Warfare

• Publish Data as early and as widely as possible
• Empower Users to pull whatever Data they want
• Clearly identify Data maintenance authorities
• Decompose Data Management
• Communities of Interest (COIs)
• Build-Time and Run-Time
• Exploit Information Market Forces
• Visibility (Allows data producers and consumers
  to find each other)
• Supply and Demand (Incentivizes timely, high
  quality production)
• Market Metrics (Allows adjustments for investment
  to follow value)
• Frequent information trading partners (Variable
  in scope, focus, composition and longevity)

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Electronic Marketplaces Information Market
Services

• Pub-Sub
• Management
• Mediation
• Discovery
• Security
• Messaging
• Storage
• Collaboration
• Edge User Support
• Advertising available services/needs
• Collaborative business processes
• Easy access to pull information
• Data Mining

Virtual place where data Producers and
Consumers find each other and trade
information Commodities
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From Data Dictionaries to Run Time Markets

• Paper Data Dictionaries
• Build-Time Markets
• Communities of system builders
• Commodities Data Engineering Software
  Components
• Run-Time Markets
• Communities of on-line info trading partners
• Commodities Information Products Services

Both require robust metadata registration!
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Net-Centric Enterprise Services The GIG
Electronic Market Vision
Users
Community-of-Interest (COI) Capabilities
Comms Backbone
Core Enterprise Services (CES)
Mediation
ESM
Collaboration
Messaging
User Asst
Security/IA
Discovery
App
Storage
NCES is continually being built and continually
being operated
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From Build-Time to Run-TimeMetadata Repositories
in NCES
Build-Time
Run-Time
Data Emporium
Vocabulary Management
Discovery Mediation
Discovery Catalog
Transformation Service
Plug-in Metadata
On-Line Development Environment
Data/Metadata Components
Transaction Metadata
Development
Versioned Capability
Custom Components From Builders
GLOBAL INFORMATION GRID
COTS Components From Vendors
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Net-Centric Metadata Management Federated
Registries, Directories Catalogs
Publisher
Net-Centric Discovery Metadata
Advertises
Resource Metadata i.e., Who, What, Where, etc.
Provides Product
Requests Product
Content Metadata i.e.,Categories, Key
words, etc.
Subscriber
Information Metadata i.e., Ontologies, Taxonomies
, etc.
Access Metadata i.e., Required Technologies, APIs
, etc.
(White Pages)
(Yellow Pages)
(Brown Pages)
(Green Pages)
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DoD Data EmporiumBuild Time Market for
Developers
http//xml.dod.mil

• One Stop Publish Subscribe for
• Build Time Metadata Registration
• Pulling Re-usable Data Components
• Information Community Management
• Now Vending
• Database Segments
• Reference Sets
• Transformations
• XML
• Data/Metadata Tools
• More Products soon (e.g., ontologies,
  translations)

Web-based!
Purpose visibility and re-use, not
standardization through mandate!
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DoD XML Registration Piloting Metadata
Management

• Global Net Access
• Pub-Sub Registry
• Business Rules
• Organizations

http//xml.dod.mil
IOC 19 May 1999 - Current Version 3.1
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Defense Track Objectives

• Describe the application of metadata registries
  within Defense communities that require
  information exchange
• Focus on the contribution of metadata
  registration to facilitate these exchanges

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Defense Track Speakers

• DOD XML Registry - Glenda Hayes (MITRE/DISA)
• Technical and programmatic Infrastructure that
  DoD, based on the Market-driven Data Strategy, is
  using to manage XML resources
• Data Element Registries and DOD Communities of
  Interest (COIs) Formation - Jacqueline Knudson
  (USA)
• How COIs are formed to manage registered metadata
  components
• Run Time Metadata Registration Rob Walker
  (DISA)
• Approach to increase visibility to under-utilized
  information products
• USAF Perspectives Scott Renner (MITRE/ESC)
• Air Force views on metadata management
• OGC Metadata approach Chuck Heazel (OGC)
• Defense, IC, and industry partners objectives,
  approach, and status
• Intelligence Community Plan Mark Kelly (DIA)
• The ICs metadata initiative organizations,
  approach etc.

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Questions?