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Gov 2.0 for EPA:Pollution Prevention and Toxics
In Support of the June 9-13, 2008 National Dialogue on How toEnhance Access to Environmental Information: Just Do It!
Brand Niemann,Senior Enterprise Architect
US EPA EA TeamJune 9, 2008
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Overview
• 1. Way Out Risk Taking:– Lessons from Recent Meetings.
• 2. Information Sharing with a Web 2.0 Wiki:– Tutorial.
• 3. “Begin with the end in mind” (Steven Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”):– Semantification of emails, documents, spreadsheets,
PowerPoints, etc. for federated integration and search.
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1. Way Out Risk Taking
• Innovation and Collaboration:– June 1-3, 2008, Government Leadership
Summit. Change Leadership 2.0: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies in Government:
• Intellipedia: Wikipedia for the Intelligence Community:
– Calvin Andrus (thought he was nuts 5 years ago – now revered by the community as the change agent!).
– Still a “slog” (battle) to get people to do it and being out on the frontier can be dangerous and lonely.
– Trying to eliminate email and PowerPoint, level the hierarchy, get people to connect the dots, etc.
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1. Way Out Risk Taking
• June 4-5, 2008, EPA MISD Retreat on Improving Communication:– Reward risk-taking instead of punishing mistakes and failures.
• Mistakes are ruling out what does not work and failures are not trying again.
– Formed MISD Tools and Processes Work Group.• Foster good ideas to improve business workflow processes and
communication protocols.
• June 5, 2008, Georgetown Law Center Event on The Future of E-Government: How Can E-Government Better Serve the Public?:
• Quantifying success from four different viewpoints (Academia, OMB, EPA E-Rulemaking Program, and Public Interest Groups).
• Technology projects could be viewed as inherently unsuccessful because they alone do not improve participation in them.
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2. Information Sharing with a Web 2.0 Wiki: Tutorial
• This Gov 2.0 web-services platform pilot with a Wiki interface is for the EPA OPPT Information Management Division and their broader community of practice (OPPTS).
• This work is part of the Ontology for Segment Data Architecture in the EPA Enterprise Architecture Program.
• An ontology is the categories of interest in a domain and the relationships among them.
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MindTouch Deki Features
• Content Creation:– An editing experience similar to what you would expect from
modern word processor applications. • Content Management:
– Hierarchical page organization: Organize content in an intuitive hierarchical manner
• Search:– Advanced search: User can view all results or only specific
subsets of the result set• Attachments:
– Users can attach any file or image to any page.• Versioning and Reversion:
– Page versioning: Every page retains a complete history of changes.
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MindTouch Deki Features
• Access Control:– Restrict page editing, Restrict page viewing, Restrict
hierarchies
• Alerts and Notifications:– Watch list Feeds: Every user can create a list of
pages to watch.
• Application Administration:– Site administration: Quickly and easily manage
multiple users and users' status
• Miscellaneous:– Adherence to standards: All content is stored in XML.
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Steps• 1: Decide on Name• 2: Register Name• 3: Login• 4: Set Preferences• 5: Control Panel• 6: Design Home Page• 7: Create Subtopics• 8: Repurpose Web Content Into Wiki• 9: Attach Files• 10: Insert Images and Links• 11: Create Web Log (Blog)• 12: Set Security• 13: Monitor Users• 14: Revise/Reorganize
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Step 1: Decide on Name
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Step 2: Register Name
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Step 3: Login
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Step 4: Set Preferences
Change Time Zone
Change Password
http://epagov2oppt.wik.is/Special:Preferences
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Step 5: Control Panel
http://epagov2oppt.wik.is/Admin:Settings
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Step 6: Design Home Page
http://epagov2oppt.wik.is/
Background and Purpose
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Step 6: Design Home Page
http://epagov2oppt.wik.is/
Structure and Interface
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Step 7: Create Subtopics
http://epagov2oppt.wik.is/Organizational_Structure_of_the_Office_of_Pollution_Prevention_and_Toxics
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Step 8: Repurpose Web Content Into Wiki
http://epagov2oppt.wik.is/Accomplishments_Report_2005-2006
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Step 9: Attach Files
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Step 10: Insert Images and Links
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Step 10: Insert Images and Links
http://epagov2oppt.wik.is/Accomplishments_Report_2005-2006
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Step 11: Create Web Log (Blog)
http://epagov2oppt.wik.is/Blog
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Step 12: Set Security
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Step 12: Set Security
• Public: everybody can view and edit.• Semi-Public: everybody can view, but only
selected users can edit.• Private: only selected users can view and edit
this page.• Note: Deki Wiki has one of the most advanced
permission systems available. Deki Wiki administrators can make wikis public or private, anonymous or not. There is user groups support. Users can permission entire hierarchies to create private or non-editable workspaces or permission single pages.
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Step 13: Monitor Users
http://epagov2oppt.wik.is/Special:Recentchanges
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Step 14: Revise/Reorganize
• To soon for this new Wiki, but for another EPA Web 2.0 Wiki Project I did the following quickly:– Moved content from Wiki to another Wiki.– Implemented a set of topics and subtopics.– Created a new user interface.– Updated the Tutorial slides and uploaded them.
Note: This shows how agile and flexible the Web 2.0 Wiki environment is to respond to requests that would be more difficult (or impossible) and time consuming with Web 1.0 collaboration technology.
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3. “Begin with the end in mind”
• Semantification of emails, documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoints, etc. for federated integration and search.– May 18-22, 2008, Semantic Technology Conference.
• See May 8, 2008, How Semantics Can Revolutionize Spreadsheets. Semantic Web.Com.
– May 30, 2008, Conference Call with Semantic Community (Brand Niemann), Semantic Exchange (Mills Davis) and Cambridge Semantics (Sean Martin and Lee Feigenbaum).
– June 6, 2008, Draft Status Report.– Email History in Wiki Blog.
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May 18-22, 2008, Semantic Technology Conference
http://semanticommunity.wik.is/People/Brand_Niemann/2008_Semantic_Technology_Conference
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May 30, 2008, Conference Call with Semantic Community, Semantic Exchange,
and Cambridge Semantics
http://semanticommunity.net/
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May 30, 2008, Conference Call with Semantic Community, Semantic Exchange,
and Cambridge Semantics
http://semanticexchange.com/
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May 30, 2008, Conference Call with Semantic Community, Semantic Exchange,
and Cambridge Semantics
http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/
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June 6, 2008, Draft Status Report
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Email History in Wiki Blog
http://epagov2oppt.wik.is/Blog
