Agenda, xmlCoP, November 17, 2004

Town Hall

XML Community of Practice

http://xml.gov

Owen Ambur, Co-Chair

owen_ambur@ios.doi.gov

XML Authoring/Editing Forum

Washington Area SGML/XML Users Group

http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/

Betty Harvey, Host

harvey@eccnet.com

Federal CIO Council’s

Architecture & Infrastructure Committee

Emerging Technology Subcommittee

http://www.cio.gov, Enterprise Architecture

http://colab.cim3.net, Expedition Workshops

Susan Turnbull, Co-Chair

susan.turnbull@gsa.gov

Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group (IC MWG) http://www.xml.saic.com/icml/

Tim West, Chair

timothy.west@dia.mil

Federal CIO Council’s

Best Practices Committee

Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)

http://www.cio.gov, Best Practices

http://web-services.gov

http://colab.cim3.net, SICoP

Rick Morris and Brand Niemann, Co-Chairs

rick.morris@us.army.mil

bniemann@cox.net

US Department of Homeland Security

Metadata Program Manager

Michael Daconta

michael.daconta@dhs.gov

Exhibit 100:

Pilot Projects for (1) Federation of RDF/RSS feeds on emerging technology components and categorization of government information; and (2) RDF/OWL relationships from the semantic interoperability vendors and their pilots.

(1) Bill Kearney, Syndic8.com:

An RSS interface to the ET.gov submissions, thereby helping to fill in the missing piece of the prototype that Betty Harvey and Ken Sall put together for the XML 2003 conference:

http://Syndic8.com

http://www.eccnet.com/ET-Register/

(2) Jim Rogers, Tucana Technologies:

The Tucana Knowledge Server to store and provide federated search and inference for the RSS/RDF/OWL artifacts.

http://www.tucanatech.com

(3) Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant (in the Incubator Area):

(a) TopBraid, a multi-user environment for entering instance information into Semantic Web ontologies.

(b) Semantic Quiz, an extensible application that provides an open learning environment based on RDF and OWL.

http://www.topquadrant.com