Transparency Transformation

Proposal to OMB

George ThomasGSA Chief Architect

Kshemendra PaulOMB Chief Architect

Clarion Calls

Gov Vision: Open Transparent Government

'Google for Government'

Voice of the Citizen: 'Transparency as a Service' (TaaS)

Poor data context (not to mention quality/integrity) Unnecessary visibility and exploration constraint

Just give us your (our) data! FFATA sources as P2P distribution seeds

Embrace

Atom – an IETF standard Syndication format, Publishing protocol

Basis of Google's Data API, (GoogleDocs) Well established, easy to use

Web Oriented (Solution) Architecture

For top-down data sources EA/FSAM, CPIC, FISMA, SDLC/EVM (other)

Data is then available (and transparent) via; External search engines Gov XMLDB (XPath/XQuery/SPARQL) queries

Extend

Top-down data source semantics with; Atom.owl

Ontology of Atom data

Bottom-up FFATA data source semantics with; RDF transformation of individual data sources FFATA.owl

Ontology that correlates FFATA data sources

Link top-down (M) and bottom-up (B) Ontology that correlates;

Atom.owl and FFATA.owl

Future

Transition Plan Move from free text to machine parse-able to machine interpretable Laws

Policy.owl Link changes in legislation to changes in top-

down and bottom-up data ala SIOC and FOAF

Emphasizing G2B, instead of individuals

Social Networking, Social Media Engage public/private/government at any scale

Backup

Graphic depictions of; Atom XML structure Atom Ontology structure SIOC + FOAF + SKOS

Semantically Interlinked Online Communities Friend Of A Friend Simple Knowledge Organizational System

Atom.xml

SOURCE - http://rollerweblogger.org/downloads/presentations/TriXML2006-BeyondBlogging.pdf

Atom.owl

SOURCE - http://bblfish.net/work/atom-owl/2006-06-06/AtomOwl.html

SIOC.rdfs

SOURCE - http://sioc-project.org/node/158