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Slide 1: The Transition from Learning to Implementation: Some Thoughts Brand Niemann Chair, Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) Best Practices Committee (BPC), CIO Council, and Enterprise Architecture Team, Office of Environmental Information U.S. Environmental Protection Agency April 20, 2005 1
Slide 2: Overview • 1. Transition • 2. Mind Maps • 3. Principles for Use Cases 2
Slide 3: 1. Transition • In enterprise architecture we talk about the baseline and the target and the transition to get from the baseline to the target. • For NICS the "transition" should include: – Activities - an ongoing schedule of CoP meetings to address technical subjects and community building. – Projects - a wise selection of technical and community building tasks that CoP members will support financially. – Development - a marketing plan for cultivating the "NICS clients" (KNII, CIC-both, etc.) and getting the resources needed to get to the "target". 3
Slide 4: 1. Transition • Kent Greenes who is considered to be an unparalleled CoP practitioner, says: – "An idea that emerged earlier this year in a conversation I had with the CompanyCommand team is that conversation, content, and context need to be tightly coupled and integrated. They feed off each other. You create content from meaningful conversation. Content attracts more people. The people engage in more conversation, often about existing content, generating more context and new content. The most powerful use of content is to spark more informed conversations, because that is what gets people actually transferring knowledge so they can use it right now." 4
Slide 5: 1. Transition • Suggested Resources: – Harvard University, Communities of Practice: A New Tool for Government Managers) • This was distributed to NICS. – CompanyCommand: Unleashing the Power of the Army Profession) • To be presented and discussed at the April 21st KM.Gov All Hands Meeting at the KM Conference (3-4 p.m.). 5
Slide 6: 2. Mind Maps • The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain’s Untapped Potential (Tony Buzan): – Before the web came hypertext. And before hypertext came mind maps. – A mind map consists of a central word or concept, around the central word you draw the 5 to 10 main ideas that relate to that word. You then take each of those child words and again draw the 5 to 10 main ideas. – Mind maps allow associations and links to be recorded and reinforced. – The non-linear nature of mind maps makes it easy to link and cross-reference different elements of the map. • See next slide for examples from the “Explorer’s Guide to the Semantic Web,” Thomas Passin, Manning Publications, 2004, pages 106 and 141. 6
Slide 7: 2. Mind Maps for Searching and Ontologies hugh changing growing inconsistent adhoc categories ENVIRONMENT internet KINDS predefined informal formal distinctions multiple trees hierarchies taxonomies vocabularies CLASSIFICATION Searching Ontologies ONTOLOGIES keywords combining NAMES STRATEGIES ontologies specifying classification LANGUAGES committment metadata properties RDFS semantic Focusing relationships OWL social Analysis constraints DAML multiple Passes identifiers Description Logics 7 clustering Note: These are not complete.
Slide 8: 2. Mind Maps for the National Health Information Network general organizational & business management & operational standards & policies financial, regulatory, & legal other WORK GROUPS technical & architecture organization & business financial, regulatory, & legal STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS organizational technical semantic RFI DR. BRAILER FRAMEWORKS NHIN OTHER STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS NCVHS CCHIT Etc. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE other regional initiatives clinical practice population health health interoperability Federal Health Architecture 8 standards governance privacy regionalization financing architecture regulation Possible/probable Inform Clinical Practice interrelationships Interconnect Clinicians Personalize Care Improve Population Health
Slide 9: 2. Mind Maps for the National Infrastructure for Community Statistics Reno Conference Initial Convening Charter Formation Executive Committee Operations Group Program Group Transition Organization Core Operating Committee Staff Market Place Implement- Tools & Resources ation Sustainability The Community Data Intermediaries Community Data Users Foundations/Investors State Agencies Federal Agencies Non-profit Commercial 9 Local Organizations State organizations Federal Organizations National Non-Profit & Learning Commercial Phase KNII CIC (2) ICFS FEA-DRM Etc. Clients Identity NICS Ready NICS Services NICS Products NICS Use Cases Projects Pittsburgh Twin Cities Affiliates NEPH EPA Region 4
Slide 10: 3. Principles for Use Cases • Principle 1: All NICS CoP Members should work towards becoming “NICS Ready” – E.g., everyone has a “Use Case”. • This helps the Program Group with the agendas for the CoP Meetings and the needs of the Operations Group for “best practice” examples for marketing NICS. • Principle 2: NICS CoP Members that need help with Principle 1 should partner with other NICS CoP Members that can help them. – E.g., everyone finds a “win-win” relationship in the CoP. • This helps the CoP deals with resource constraints during startup. • Principle 3: The NICS Operations should help those NICS CoP Members that need resources find those resources. – E,g, everyone can get help with their business case and marketing. 10
Slide 11: 3. Principles for Use Cases • “NICS Ready” means data tables that have metadata that address at least the following: – Title, Explanation, Row and Column Labels Defined, Footnotes, and Source. • Note: This follows the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. format. • “NICS Services” means those “NICS Ready” data tables are available in an interoperable format (e.g. RDF/XML). • “NICS Products” are those that have been vetted within and outside the NICS CoP by a Peer Review Process to be defined. • All NICS “Community Statistics” need to be place in a broader context (see next slide). 11
Slide 12: 3. Principles for Use Cases • Context for Community Statistics: – National Statistics at the State Level: • Statistical Abstract of the U.S. – National Statistics at the County Level: • Census County Quick Facts – National Statistics at the City and Town Level: • Census City and Town (>25,000) Facts – NICS Community Statistics: • NICS CoP Member Sponsor and Host See http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html 12