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NCOIC Semantic Knowledgebase-Cloud Computing Tools Pilot

Brand Niemann

NCOIC Guest

October 7, 2010. Updated October 29, 2010.

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Background

• Recommendations for a Pattern Repository: Requirements and Process Flow, ITS, October 7, 2010:– MKS Integrity 2009: Collaborative Lifecycle Management:

• The Challenge: Documents (16,101), Folders (1,697), Groups (147), and Email Messages (35,958) as of October 8, 2010!

– My Suggested Options:• High-end Software Repository:

– Patterns-to-Software Development (e.g. SOA.com-Logic Library)

• Semantic Wiki:– Media Wiki Extensions

• Cloud Computing SaS– MindTouch (Fork from MediaWiki), Spotfire (Spreadsheet Analytics),

and Concept-Map Ontology Environment (Knowledge Representation)

https://www.ncoic.org/apps/org/workgroup/tech/download.php/17089/MKS%20for%20NCOIC.pdf

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My History

• SIF – John Yanosy– Tried the Visual Knowledge Semantic Wiki (12/7/2006).

• SCOPE – Hans Polzer– Used the MindTouch Deki Wiki to relate the SCOPE document

and NCOIC Lexicon.• Services – Allen Jones

– Used the MindTouch Deki Wiki to author a Pattern (AHAW) document and relate it to the NCOIC Lexicon.

• SIF/SCOPE/Lexicon – Todd Schneider– Use MindTouch, Spotfire, and CoE to relate all three to one

another (new GBL glossaries).• Cloud Computing – Kevin Jackson

– Build a Geoviewer in the Cloud (Mindtouch and Spotfire) in Support of Data.gov and "Fighting Off One Map“.

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SCOPE

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/NCOIC_SCOPE_Version_1.0

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SCOPE

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/Special:Sitemap

SCOPE DocumentTaxonomy!

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Pattern for Spreadsheets to Spotfire Analytics

• 1. Inventory of Web Site/IT System:– Cover Page: Create a high-level spreadsheet catalog– Identify Items that are spreadsheets or should be

spreadsheets– Transfer this to the Wiki Page

• 2. Add Spreadsheets from Inventory and Reformat for Spotfire

• 3. Build Spreadsheets by Extraction, etc. for Spotfire

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NCOIC.xls

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/@api/deki/files/60/=NCOIC.xls

Interesting Spreadsheets

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Cloud Computing – SCOPE Questions (9/7/2010)

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/@api/deki/files/61/=CC_SCOPE_Questions_20100907KLJ.xls

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NCOIC.xls

• Cover Page

• NCOIC Lexicon and Glossary GBL Corporation

• Semantic Interoperability Work Group (SIF)

• SCOPE Work Group

• Cloud Computing Work Group

• More in process

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Network Centricity MindTouch Wiki Foreword

• September 22, 2010: The author of this Wiki has participated in the NCOIC as an invited guest since 2005 in the NCOIC Semantic Interoperability Framework Work Group and has developed this wiki to help understand the NCOIC and its products and promote semantic interoperability within the NCOIC and across other standards groups (W3C, OASIS, OMG) of which he is a member. The author is also a member of the SCOPE and Cloud Computing Work Groups and is using cloud computing tools (this Wiki, Spotfire Analytics, and Concept-map Ontology Environment (COE)).

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Network Centricity MindTouch Wiki

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/

Note: ImplementsPrevious Spread-Sheet!

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Tim Berners-Lee:"Five-Star" Plan for Open Data

• He said public information should be awarded a star rating based on the following criteria:– one star for making the information public; (yes)– a second is awarded if the information is machine-

readable; (yes-XML and RSS)– a third star if the data is offered in a non-proprietary

format; (yes-XML and RSS)– a fourth is given if it is in Linked Data format; (yes-can

be converted to RDF)– a fifth if it has actually been linked. (yes- see example

in next two slides)

http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/futureweb2010/open_government.xhtml

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T&E Net-Centric Operations Glossary

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/index.php?title=T%26E_Net-Centric_Operations_Glossary/A

Link to Definition of Metadata

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T&E Net-Centric Operations Glossary

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/index.php?title=T%26E_Net-Centric_Operations_Glossary/M#Metadata

Definition of Metadata

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All Hazards Alert and Warning Capability Pattern

Pattern Authoringand Editing-Version0.2, September 20,2009

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/All_Hazards_Alert_and_Warning_Capability_Pattern

Restrict AccessRestriction Type:Public: everybody can view and editSemi-Public: everybody can view, but only selected users can editPrivate: only selected users can view and edit this page

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All Hazards Alert and Warning Capability Pattern

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/All_Hazards_Alerts_and_Warnings_(AHAW)_Capability_Pattern

Version1.0, July 20,2010Supports PublicComments on EachSection

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All Hazards Alert and Warning Capability Pattern

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/@api/deki/files/60/=NCOIC.xls

Pattern can be expressed in aspreadsheet database:TopicKey ConceptKey ReferenceWiki URL

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NCOIC Kavi:Semantic Interoperability WG

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/@api/deki/files/60/=NCOIC.xls

Started to builda spreadsheetof the Kavicontent – decidedI wanted todownload someof the files –discoveredthat producesa spreadsheet!

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NCOIC Kavi:Semantic Interoperability WG

https://www.ncoic.org/apps/org/workgroup/interop/documents.php

DownloadAll Documents

Result: ASpreadsheetInventory!

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NCOIC Kavi:Semantic Interoperability WG

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/@api/deki/files/60/=NCOIC.xls

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NCOIC Kavi: Ontologies• Semantic Models and Ontologies

– https://www.ncoic.org/apps/org/workgroup/interop/documents.php?folder_id=377• Open Group SOA Ontology

– https://www.ncoic.org/apps/org/workgroup/interop/documents.php?folder_id=1947

• UCORE (ontologies)– https://www.ncoic.org/apps/org/workgroup/interop/documents.php?folder_id

=1914 • Semantic Interoperability Program

– https://www.ncoic.org/apps/org/workgroup/interop/documents.php?folder_id=376• Semantic Interoperability Framework WG

– https://www.ncoic.org/apps/org/workgroup/interop/documents.php• And there may be more – a search finds:

– Ontology – 44– .owl – 15! (28 when added Groups and Email Messages)

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Spotfire Analytics

Spotfire Analytics on the PC Desktop

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Spotfire Analytics

Spotfire Analytics in the Cloud Web Player

Side-by-sidecomparisonof the NCOICLexicon andGBL Glossary

Can download data

Can do factedsearch

Can get DetailsOn Demand

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Concept-Map Ontology Environment

http://cmap.ihmc.us/

Click on forexplanations

http://www.ihmc.us/groups/coe/wiki/24f87/Getting_Started_with_COE.html

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Concept-Map Ontology Environment: Adding Public Ontologies

My Semantic eScience ClassViews Cmap Tools on Desktop

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Some Next Steps

• So we could download “All the Documents in This Group” in Kavi and get a spreadsheet (729 documents).– It would be great if we could do this for all of Kavi on-demand to

just get the spreadsheet!

• If we continue doing this we can achieve more semantic interoperability across the NCOIC specifically and network centricity in general.– This was the goal of John Yanosy and Hans Polzer from the

beginning!• Be careful to differentiate between metadata used to

discover patterns, versus an ontology used to describe the internals of a pattern.

– NCOIC Network Centric Pattern (NCP) Metadata Strategy, John A. Yanosy Jr. December 5, 2008. 13 slides.

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Lexicon-Glossary Use Cases• Chunk and Reference the Terms: Public Web Searching

– Find your official definitions with a Google Search.• See next two slides.

• NCOIC Product Authoring: Semantic Word Wheel for Consistency– Find the NCOIC Definition and how others have used the same term / concept.

• Can do a demo in Mindtouch Wiki. See slide 30,

• NCOIC Product Integration: Semantic Concept Checking and Harmonization

– Starts with a spreadsheet and eventually uses Cmap Concept Ontology Environment.

• See my NCOIC.xls with Table of Contents for the 10 Patterns in slides 31.-32.

• NCOIC Member Participation: – In addition, you could eventually ask the entire NCOIC membership to do a

simple spreadsheet of say their 10 most frequently used NCOIC terms / concepts by Concept Name, Definition, and Specific Example and we could compile/analyze these and have an interesting discussion about it at the next Plenary.

• I have done this before to help a community become more semantically interoperable.

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NCOIC Lexicon in Mindtouch

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/NCOIC_Lexicon

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Google Search

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=network+centricity+lexicon

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Semantic Word Wheel in Mindtouch

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AHAW Pattern in NCOIC.xls

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/@api/deki/files/60/=NCOIC.xls

Need Rex BrooksTo Add Key ConceptsAnd Key References

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Ten Patterns in NCOIC.xls

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/@api/deki/files/60/=NCOIC.xls

Need Pattern AuthorsTo Add Key ConceptsAnd Key References

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Semantic Wikis• Queried NCOOIC Spotfire for Semantic Wiki: Found Two:

– Semantic Wiki for Net-centric Data Services:• Presentation by: Mills Davis, Managing Director Project 10X, Co-Chair,

Federal CIO Council SICoP (Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice), mdavis@project10x.com, 202-667-6400, and Connor Shankey, CEO, Visual Knowledge, Technical Lead, SICoP SWIM, cshankey@visualknowledge.com, 604-730-0086.

• Mills Davis presented this material at the NCOIC Reston Plenary in Reston, VA, on August 1, 2006, with Conor Shankey providing a demo of the Semantic Wiki application.

– Semantic Wiki Presentation:• This presentation was jointly created by John Yanosy, Steve Russell, Mills

Davis, and Conor Shankey and presented at the Semantic Interoperability Track with SPAWAR at the November 2006 NCOIC Plenary in San Diego. It represents a consensus view by multiple NCOIC working groups on the potential of Semantic Wiki to enable us to collaborate using semantic technology at a more granular level than documents, but still enabling the importation and semanticizing of document content.

• A proposal was made by this group to pilot the Visual Knowledge Semantic Wiki in 2007. SPAWAR has already expressed interest in also using this too for similar purposes, which will enable SPAWAR and NCOIC to collaborate more effectively.

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Semantic Wikis

Query NCOIC-Spotfire for Semantic Wiki: Found Two!

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Semantic Wikis

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Semantic Wikis

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NCOIC Semantic Wiki — Sample Screens

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Semantic Wikis

http://networkcentricity.wik.is/Semantic_Wikis

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Glossary in Context

• Lexicon: a vocabulary, including its words and expressions

• Glossary: an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.

• Taxonomy: the practice and science of classification (meaning 'order' or 'arrangement')

• Ontology: a formal representation of knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain, and the relationships between those concepts. It is used to reason about the entities within that domain, and may be used to describe the domain.

Sources: Wikipedia

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“Glossary” in NCOIC

Use Format Tool

Dictionary (for the public)

Web, Word, PDF

Web Page

Reference (in patterns)

Well-defined URL

Wiki

Hierarchy (for interoperability across patterns)

Well-defined URLs

Wiki