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Cross Information Sharing and Integration for the Intelligence Community:

13th SOA for eGovernment Conference

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Enterprise Architect – Data Scientist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

AOL Government Bloggerhttp://gov.aol.com/bloggers/brand-niemann/

April 3, 2012MITRE, McLean, Virginia

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Overview

• Our Mantra is: Data Science Precedes the Use of SOA, Cloud, and Semantic Technologies!

• Our Mission is like Googles: Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful (Knowledgebases).

• Our Method is like Be Informed 4: Architectural Diagrams and Questions and Answers are not enough, you need Dynamic Case Management!

• Our Sound Byte: It is not just where you put your data (cloud), but how you put it there!

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Data Science Products

http://semanticommunity.info/#Data_Science_Products

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Data Science Stories

http://semanticommunity.info/#AOL_Government_Stories

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Knowledgebases

http://semanticommunity.info/Federal_SOA

MindTouch is based on a WOAarchitecture and supports the Sitemap.org and Schemamapp.org Protocols.

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Use a Systems of Systems Approach to Federate Content with a WOA Platform & Case Management

http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/tag/woa/

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Be Informed 4

http://gov.aol.com/2012/01/20/be-informed-platform-for-business-and-tech-teams-they-really/

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Dynamic Case ManagementInitial MetaModel for NGA-Haiti Pilot

Disaster in Haiti

Atlas of Maps for First RespondersNGA Intelligence Analyst

Within 24 Hours

Update Maps with On the Ground Information

MapsDeeper Analytics

Briefing for Seniors

Next Briefing for Seniors Lessons Learned

Note: The central types in the meta model presented here are the concept types that represent cases and the activities performed within cases.

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Be Informed 4 Studio Modeling

http://semanticommunity.info/A_Quint-Cross_Information_Sharing_and_Integration/2010_Haiti_Earthquake_Metamodel

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NCOIC-NGA Pilot Demo

http://semanticommunity.info/A_Quint-Cross_Information_Sharing_and_Integration

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Federal IT Dashboard as a Shared Service

http://gov.aol.com/2012/03/14/put-federal-it-dashboard-into-motion/http://semanticommunity.info/AOL_Government/Federal_IT_Dashboard_in_Motion

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Design Principles of Federal Shared Services Strategy

• Benefits:– Standardization

• Uses Sitemap and Schema Protocols and a Web Oriented Architecture

– Visibility• This is a government wide catalog of IT investments

that helps agencies discover existing services– Reusability

• This is a government wide catalog of IT investments that helps agencies avoid duplication of services

– Platform Independence• This platform imports many different data formats

and makes data services that export the data in standard formats for reuse

– Extensibility• The Amazon Cloud is elastic and so are the

applications I used that are hosted there– Location Transparency

• This is hosted in the Amazon Cloud with SLAs– Reliability

• This is hosted in the Amazon Cloud with SLAs

• Components:– 1 Requirements

• I reproduced the requirements and functionality of the new Federal IT Dashboard

– 2 Workflow• I made the business process of the new Federal

IT Dashboard more complete by putting all the data in memory and the metadata in linked open data format

– 3 Data Exchange• The application supports the data business

processes needed– 4 Applications

• The software and hardware provide more functionality and data exchange than the new Federal IT Dashboard

– 5 Hosting• This is hosted in the Amazon Cloud with SLAs

– 6 Security and Privacy• The applications used have received security

certifications and this is hosted in the Amazon Cloud with SLAs that provide for security and privacy protectionsBuilt Shared Services App That Meets or Exceeds These Benefits and Components

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Federal IT Dashboard in Motion and Data in Memory

http://semanticommunity.info/AOL_Government/Federal_IT_Dashboard_in_Motion

Knowledgebase

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Federal IT Dashboard in Motion and Data in Memory

Dashboard of Exhibit 53s