2008 February 5, SICoP Special Conference: Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration

Time: 8:25 a.m. - 3:35 p.m.

Place: Computer Science Corporation, 3170 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA, Executive Conference Center. Free Parking close by or a short cab ride from the Dunn Loring Metro Station.

Registration: Closed. Please attend remotely.

Accomodations: Marriott Fairiew Park 

Remote Access: Dial-in Number:  and Access Code:

Contacts: Brand Niemann (US EPA)

Organizers: Lucian Russell (Private Consultant), Bryan Aucoin (Alanthus Associates), Michael Lang (Revelytix), Mills Davis (Project10x) and Brand Niemann (US EPA)

Registrants (as of February 5, 2008): 65 in-person (52 callers for 5725 minutes) 

Special Recognitions: See Slides 15-18.

Press Coverage: February 4, 2008, Federal Computer Week, Make good data great, Flashy it's not, but a well-oiled data architecture project can pay dividends. See Sidebar: Data architecture's 'Medici effect'

February 18, 2008, Government Computer News, Context is everything: CIO Council looks to semantic interoperability to expand data sharing.

Special Announcement: Steve Hamby 

Proceedings: This will be audio and video recorded similar to the First SICoP Special Conference at CSC, February 6, 2007 .

Post Conference Comments: in process

Important Announcement: International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2009, in Washington, DC. Please contact: lobrst@mitre.org

Agenda:

• Welcome (8:25 a.m.): CSC and SICoP
  • Brand Niemann (US EPA), SICoP Co-chair, and Paul Davis, VP for Federal Consulting Programs (CSC)
• Part 1 (8:30 - 9:45 a.m.): Towards DRM 3.0 Semantic Interoperability 
  • Lucian Russell : DRM overview of Semantic Interoperability (5 minutes).
  • Professor Selmer Bringsjord: Using Sorted Logic to overcome schema mismatch (20 minutes) .
  • Lucian Russell: The New Artifact – The Data Descriptor and the New Services of Database Schema. Transformation, Query Relaxation and KB Integration (20 minutes).
  • Dr. Michael Witbrock (remote): The Cyc Platform: A Representational Seed for a National Knowledge Infrastructure (5 minutes) - longer presentation (and video) was created for the February 6, 2007, meeting.
  • Bryan Aucoin: Building a Data Layer (20 minutes). 
• BREAK (9:45 - 10:00 a.m.)
• Part 2 (10:00 – 11:30 a.m.): Semantic Interoperability with Large Data Stores, Organizations, and Sensor Webs:
  • The Open Web, Billion Triples Challenge and BigData  . Bigdata Slides.
    • Bryan Thompson (SYSTAP)
  • Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium Semantics, Interoperability, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium & SICoP:
    • Todd Schneider (Raytheon) (also Hans Polzer, Lockheed Martin, John Yanosy, Rockwell-Collins, and Steve Russell, L-3Com)
    • See SICoP Working with NCOIC and Adaptable Computing Infrastructure
  • Semantic Sensor Web, Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, Wright State University. Slides.
    • See Sensor Data Management: Short and Long 
• Part 3 (11:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon): Panel Discussion - Lucian Russell and Brand Niemann.
  • Professor Selmer Bringsjord, Bryan Aucoin, Bryan Thompson, Hans Polzer, Steve Ray, and Frank Olken.
  • Edgar Sibley, Distinguished Professor at George Mason and developer of the now standard three-level model of databases in 1976 and then Data Dictionary work to extend it in the 1980s. See Standard Biographic Questionnaire.
• LUNCH (12:00 noon - 1 p.m.) EBC Dining Room
• Part 4 (1:00 - 1:30 p.m.): Introduction by John Mazurkiewicz, CSC. Joint NEO Spiral Development Discussions, Dave Sweet, Boeing.
  • Semantic Wave 2008 Preview, Mills Davis (Project10x), SICoP Co-Chair (cancelled due to illness)
• Part 5 (1:30 - 3:00 p.m.): Semantic Wiki, Semantic Desktop, and Semantic Spreadsheets Demonstrations
  • Brand Niemann for Mills Davis (Project10x), SICoP Co-Chair, Organizer and Moderator
  • Michael Lang and Brooke Stevenson (Revelytix), Knoodl Semantic Wiki Update 
  • Dr. Marwan Sabbouh, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA. Slides.
    • Using Mapping Relations to Semi Automatically Compose Web Services 
    • Harmonizing Semantic Web Services and Mashups Using WMSL 
    • The Web Mashup Scripting Language Profile 
    • Also see DoD CoI, January 8, 2008
  • To be Rescheduled: Nova Spivak (Radar Networks), Twine Beta (Mills Davis will do - see Video Demo and Mills Davis Review)
  • Lee Feigenbaum (Cambridge Semantics), Towards Web Semantics: Spreadsheets and the US Government.
    • See Semantic Web takes big step forward. ComputerWorld, January 16, 2008. DBpedia, which extracts structured information from Wikipedia, as an example of a Web site based on the Semantic Web.
• Part 6 (3:00 - 3:30 p.m.): NSF Support for Semantic Web Research Update
  • Frank Olken (Program Director, Information Integration and Informatics, Division of Information and Intelligence Systems, CISE Directorate, National Science Foundation). PDF and PowerPoint.
• Closing (3:30-3:35 p.m.): Remarks and Thank Yous
  • Brand Niemann for Mills Davis (Project10x), SICoP Co-chair
• Adjourn and Networking
• Wait-listed: Dr. Richard Rohwer, HNC Software / FairIsaac.
  • A Framework for Social Ontology Development, John Byrnes, July 13, 2007 
  • Structure Alignment, John Byrnes,  September 24, 2007 
  • HNC Data Alignment Research Direction, Richard Rohwer, January 28, 2008