Project Status

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Project Status

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• NASAs Use of the
• DoD XML Registry
• A Status Report

• Bruce Altner
• Vicky Niblett
• NASA HQ/SAIC

August 18, 2004
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Status Summary

• Small, simple projects are simple to register in
  their entirety
• Larger, more complex projects present additional
  challenges
• A few issues have been identified with the
  Registry software (and are being addressed)
• NASA remains committed to working with DISA to
  enhance and use the Registry
• Perspective on future upgrades to the Registry

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Progress

• A few (4) NASA XML projects have been entered
  into the DoD XML Registry to date, with only
  minor difficulties
• Auto-generation of the package manifest file
  works (albeit not perfectly)
• No special handling of the project artifacts is
  required
• We have completed work on a draft Registry
  Requirements document
• We have many projects waiting to be submitted

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Progress (continued)

• XML projects involving multiple complex,
  interdependent schema do require special handling
• There are constructs that are not handled well by
  the automatic manifest generating mechanism
• There are constructs in the project schema that
  are not supported by the Registry schema
• We apply an 80/20 rule, identifying the key
  concepts in the project and making sure these get
  entered.
• The Registry contractor is committed to fixing
  present problems as well as those that we
  encounter in the future

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Future Plans for the Registry

• Schedule is for two releases per year
• Version 4.1 (4Q 2004)
• Users will be able to submit/view new
  requirements for the registry
• Adding a new gallery for sharing ontologies
  written using a DoD-specific version of OWL, for
  search and discovery.

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Future Plans continued

• Version 5.0 (next year)
• Will be built as a portal using the BEA Portal
  server
• Will use clusters to increase uptime and
  reliability
• Will be 508 compliant
• Will be ebXML RIM compliant
• Will use JAXR (Java API for XML Registries)
• Improved user security
• Will use Network Centric Enterprise Services
  (NCES) to deploy Web Services extensively
• Will have specialized searches and improved
  recovery, discovery, searching, retrieval etc.
• User customization to allow branding