Semantic Community Wiki

Welcome to Our Space

Connecting Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, SOA, & the Semantic Web for Government 2.0 (Making It Easier to Do!).

A Government Computer News (January 7, 2008) Blog refers to us as "Speaking the same language". Also see see Role Reversal: Before and After Web 2.0

Using Our Space

• 1. Register to Create an Account
• 2. Click on People (left panel) and Click on New page (toolbar above) to create a Your Name page (see my example) (Add your name to the People page and link your name to Your Name page)
• 3. Click on Deki Wiki (left panel) and Click on New page (toolbar above) to create a Your Topic page (see my example) (Create a simple table of contents on Your Topic page and Click on New page (toolbar above) to create Subtopic pages for Your Topic page, etc.)
• 4. Email mail me with questions and requests for help at niemann.brand@epa.gov

Announcement at 2008 SemTech May 18-22, 2008

The Federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (aka SICoP), formally chartered under the Best Practices Committee of the Federal Chief Information Officer's Council (aka CIOC) in 2003 has completed it's work with the SICoP Special Conference 4, February 5, 2008. Its co-chairs, Mills Davis, Project 10x, and Brand Niemann, US EPA, have been recognized for their contributions to fostering semantic interoperability in the Federal Government through a series of white papers, pilots, and conferences during the past 5 years. With the maturation of the Semantic Web and Semantic Technologies, comes the need to apply the work of SICoP to the real-world needs of both government and non-government organizations in a new way so Brand and Mills have created Semanticommunity.Net and Semantic Exchange.Com, respectively, to build on SICoP, but not endorsed by any government or non-government organization. Brand is participating in the 2008 SemTech as a private citizen, not representing the US EPA, but his current work at the US EPA includes the development of Ontologies for EPA's Segment Data Architecture in communities of practice (see new NSF Accounting Ontology CoP) and semantification of emails, documents, and spreadsheets (see full announcement). Mills is presenting his work at multiple sessions at this conference in his new role. Mill's Tutorial on Web 3.0/Semantic Wave Market Outlook said it best in slide 31: What is Value, with the giraffe poking his head above the clouds and thinking: Its' All Good.., and Brand says "it is a blessing to be moved forward, otherwise we fall behind". May 20, 2008, Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, CA.

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