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Geospatial Interoperability Task TeamNGA OV1 and Central Node Subgroup

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Enterprise Architect – Data Scientist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

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

January 30, 2012

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Figure 1. Operational View OV-1

NGA Director Letitia Long andNATO will not understand this!

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Narrative Structure• 1. Overview• 2. Layers Top to Bottom:

– Local Application Environment– Services Layer– Content Layer– Federation Layer– Virtual Machine Layer

• 3. GeoCloud Actors:– Local User– Service Provider– Content Provider– Cloud Operator– Infrastructure Provider

• 4. Essential Information Flows:– Register node– Register content and services– Register service component– Search for content and service– Search for service component– Request service– Register usage

• 5. Figure

NGA Director Letitia Long andNATO will not understand this!

Note: Omits Configuration.Be Informed 4 (BI4) Uses Profiling to configure interfaces to knowledge services, systems, infrastructure and devices.

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My Comments• 1. Overview (Intent of the Operational View 1):

– Corresponds to BI4 Separation of Concerns into Business Speak and Technology Speak for Dynamic Case Management

• 2. Layers (Application, Content, Federation, etc.):– Correspond to BI4 Target Operating Model (User Role, Portal, Product, Case,

and Registration)• 3. Actors (Users, Providers, & Operators)

– Correspond to BI4 User Roles (Applicant, Case Handler, etc.)• 4. Information Flows (Register, Search, & Request)

– Correspond BI4 Registration Model and Portal• 5. Figure is the graphic in XMI Export Format:

– BI4 Model (= Design + Application + Documentation and all of the them are Semantic Services in OWL) is Executable!

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My Comments

• We need multiple (model) views for seniors:– Services (Semantic Web, Geospatial, etc.)– Network Topology (Nodes, Mobile Devices, etc.)– Work Flows (Provisioning, Emergency Response, etc.)– Technology (Cloud Platforms, Mobile Devices, etc.),– Etc.

• I will prepare some BI4 diagrams that can be implemented in the pilot as I showed on January 20th.– The purpose of the pilot was to implement the NGA’s New

Business Processes from Director Long (see next slides).

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NGA Director Letitia A. Long• Keynote Speech, GEOINTT 2011 Symposium, October 17, 2011:

– "I wanted to fundamentally change the user's experience by putting the power of GEOINT in the hands of the user. So when our content is easily accessible, when it's useable, within an open environment, and we've got a different delivery model, those three are going to help us get to the deeper analytics because we're going to free up the time of our analysts to be focused on the so what, to be focused on adding the context, to be able to experiment with the new sensor data, the new phenomenologies, developing new analytic tools and techniques.

– Humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery is one of our key mission areas. When a natural disaster is about to occur or has just occurred the first thing we will do is go into production mode and we will produce some very nice disaster atlases, map atlases, for FEMA for the urban search and rescue teams.

– The big thing on this, a couple of takeaways, was not only the fact that we made FEMA's life so much easier, much more efficient in what they were doing, but we freed up our analysts' time to do some deeper analytics."

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NGA’s New Business Processes• Humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery is one of our key mission areas (My

Comment: Disaster Knowledgebase)• Put the power of GEOINT in the hands of the user (My Note: Self-Service Business

Intelligence)• Our content is easily accessible, when it's useable, within an open environment, and

we've got a different delivery model (My Note: Linked Open Data)• Free up the time of our analysts to be focused on deeper analytics (My Note: Invert

the Bath Tub)• Focused on adding the context (My Note: Semantic Web), to be able to experiment

with the new sensor data, the new phenomenologies (My Note: See Next Slide for “Facebook for Global Leaders”), developing new analytic tools and techniques (My Note: Be Informed 4)

• When a natural disaster is about to occur or has just occurred the first thing we will do is go into production mode and we will produce some very nice disaster atlases, map atlases, for FEMA for the urban search and rescue teams (My Note: iPads)

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“Facebook for Global Leaders”• TopCom is a private communications platform for the two hundred most powerful people

in the world. TopCom is being officially launched in late January at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It is basically a customized, ridiculously secure version of Tibbr, a platform developed by Tibco as a kind of combination Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, texting, and Skype. It is a private social network, essentially — in this case, for world leaders.

• For example, Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda can post a video of himself — viewable only by the top two hundred — asking for help because a major earthquake has caused a tsunami that's approaching his country. Minutes later, they would see the message and call for an immediate videoconference among the appropriate world leaders to get Japan aid in the quickest way. CEOs of companies that have facilities near the impact site — there's a Nissan plant close by, for example — could join forces for evacuation and figure out how to address interruptions to their supply chains.

• The alert could then be extended to the next tier so that, for instance, experts on nuclear power and crisis management could instantly offer opinions on the likelihood of various disaster scenarios. Others could predict where aftershocks were most likely to occur. And on and on.

Source: News Story

My Note: Tibbr works with Spotfire as I showed in my previous demonstration.

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My Two Pilots

• Disaster Knowledgebase• Self-Service Business Intelligence• Linked Open Data• Invert the Bath Tub• Semantic Web• Be Informed 4• iPadshttp://semanticommunity.info/A_Quint-Cross_Information_Sharing_and_Integrationhttp://semanticommunity.info/A_Quint-Cross_Information_Sharing_and_Integration/2010_Haiti_Earthquake_Metamodel

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Be Informed 4• Be Informed 4: Has Four Metamodels and it usually takes all four for

a complete application as follows:– Case Management

• To performing activities towards a goal that usually have pre and post conditions, etc.

– Products and Decisions:• To show the logic of making a decision with conditions that reference data and

calculations and logic operations– Interaction:

• To define contents of a role-based portal, or legacy system interfaces– Registration:

• To show data objects and relationships

• Be Informed 4: Has Profiling to configure interfaces to knowledge services, systems, infrastructure and devices

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Case ManagementTo performing activities towards a goal that usually have pre and post conditions, etc.

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Products and DecisionsTo show the logic of making a decision with conditions that reference data and calculations and logic operations

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RegistrationTo show data objects and relationships

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InteractionTo define contents of a role-based portal, or legacy system interfaces

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Be Informed's Business Process Platform Formalism

• Specify business processes in a declarative, goal oriented way.• Focuses on modeling the underlying business aspects in terms

of requirements.• Focuses on the type of dependencies that exist between

activities.• A graph oriented representation consisting of concepts

and relations between concepts that have a type and properties.

• Nodes introduce concept types, edges indicate that relations of the specified type may occur between the concept types it connects.

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Initial MetaModel for NGA-Haiti PilotDisaster 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 Steps

• File, New Project, Project Name: NCOIC-NGA Haiti Pilot

• File, Create New Model Diagram:– Enter or select the parent folder: NCOIC-NGA Pilot– File name: NCOIC-NGA Haiti MetaModel.model– Next – Configuration: Label: Default, Language:

English– Next – Select a Metamodel for this model (see

previous 4): CaseManagement.metamodel

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Be Informed 4 Studio Modeling

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Next Steps

• Be Informed (Netherlands) can be a European Node for Dynamic Case Management:– Amazon Cloud for MindTouch and Spotfire Nodes

• Apply this to SCOPE, Semantic Interoperability Framework Work Group, and Semantic Wiki Work:– See Next Slide.

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Next Steps

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