XML Government Program

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

7:00 - 8:30 am	Registration
8:30 - 10:00 am	Keynote: XML Enabled Medical Records; Dr. Clement McDonald, Director, Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communications-NLM
10:00 - 10:45 am	Break and Exhibits Open
	Session Title	Description	Speakers
10:45 - 11:30 am	Open Government and Interoperability	Achieving the goals of improved transparency, public participation, and collaboration called for by open government demands new thinking and new processes. For starters, it will require unprecedented integration among government agencies and their IT environments. Interoperability, cloud services, and open source development can help provide the flexible infrastructure government agencies need to meet today’s mandates. This session will highlight Microsoft's active role in supporting this initiative.	Dan Kasun and Jas Sandhu, Microsoft
11:30 - 12:15 pm	Multilevel Security for Document Authoring and Management	IBM and its partners have developed a solution to address the secure portion marking of documents along with securing the access of the information while protecting the information at rest at a very granular level (XML element level). The solution incorporates three components: Quark Xpress Classification Marking Tool for XML documents; IBM Filenet for secure content management (including exploiting the CAPCO-compliant security markings feature integrated with the Quark tool), and ERUCES (IBM Business Partner) for encrypting XML elements in XML documents.	Rick Nickell, EMC Brand Architect, IBM
12:15 - 1:30 pm	Lunch and Expo
>1:30 - 2:15 pm	From Information Silos to User-Oriented Content: Challenges of Integrating Government Content	The government produces an immense amount of information each year. Most of it is available in difficult to use formats, if it is available to the public at all. One of the biggest challenges we, the public, have is gaining access to this information, even though we paid for it's creation and should benefit from its use. Increasingly, agencies and offices at various levels of government have begun organizing their information in ways that are more suitable for consumption by the average public user or professionals such as lawyers, accountants, and others. Several use cases will be described that illustrate the challenges and strategies of making public information more public. Examples will include state Web portals and emerging consumer use cases, law enforcement information exchange to assist in better decision making by justice personnel, and multi agency integrated data delivery to improve transparency into government activity.	Dale Walt and Barry Schaffer
2:15 -3:00	Strategy Mark-up Language (StratML) eGov Act and President Obama's Directives	Strategy Markup Language (StratML) is an XML vocabulary and schema for strategic plans. StratML is designed to facilitate the sharing, referencing, indexing, discovery, linking, reuse, and analyses of the elements of strategic plans, including goal and objective statements as well as the names and descriptions of stakeholder groups and any other content commonly included in strategic plans. StratML is a critical enabler for strategic alignment across organizations within the government by the categorization of Government information in a way that is searchable electronically and interoperably across agencies.The objective of this session is to report progress on Strategy Markup Language (StratML) and encourage the development additional tools and services leveraging the standard in support of the eGov Act and President Obama’s directives.	Owen Ambur, Co-Chair AIIM StratML Committee and Sylvia Webb, Founder, Vision4Standards
3:00 - 3:30	Break and Exhibits
>3:30 - 4:15 pm	Using the National Information Exchange Model, NIEM: A Technical Overview	NIEM (the National Information Exchange Model) is a US government standard for XML information sharing. This session will first introduce NIEM, explaining its purpose and use cases. It will then describe the technical components involved in NIEM and the process for creating a NIEM-conformant exchange. The topics covered will be the NIEM standard XML schemas, the methodology for extending and customizing NIEM, the online toolkits available, and the final end product of a NIEM development project: an IEPD (Information Exchange Package Documentation). Attendees will leave with a clear idea how to use NIEM building blocks to create a NIEM-conformant XML exchange.	Priscilla Walmsley, Datypic
4:15 -5:00	The National Library of Medicine Tag Suite for Journal Articals, Taking Over the World of XML Journal Publishing	The Nation Library of Medicine's publicly available "NLM Journal Article Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite" has taken over the world of XML journal publishing. The journal tag sets made from the Suite are better than DocBook for extensive references; more targeted than DITA and TEI to journal articles; flexible enough for content beyond the STM world; and easily adaptable for eBooks. It's free. It's customizable. What do the National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, the British National Library, JStore (Portico), and numerous journal publishers know that you should know? What is the Tag Suite and why is it the de facto journal article XML worldwide?	Debbie Lapeyre, Vice President, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
5:00 - 7:00	Reception and Exhibits

Thursday, October 1, 2009

7:00 - 8:30 am	Registration
8:30 - 10:00 am	Keynote: XML Enabling Social Media, Tee Morris
10:00 - 10:45 am	Break and Exhibits Open
	Session Title	Description	Speakers
10:45 - 11:30 am	The eXtensible Business Reporting Language, XBRL	The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) has rapidly become one of today’s most important XML vocabularies. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (whose website, sec.gov, is a treasure trove of XBRL data) recently mandated that all public companies submit financial reports in XBRL format, with deadlines phased in until 2011. This session provides both a high-level overview of XBRL and a detailed technical investigation, and introduces a new method by which XML developers can effectively cope with XBRL’s complexity. Come learn about XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language)—among today’s most important XML vocabularies. We’ll dive deep into the technology and discuss ways to cope with XBRL’s complexity.	Evan Lenz, President, Lenz Consulting Group
11:30 - 12:15 pm	Information Discovery with an Enterprise Data Catalogue Service	Is it possible for governments to strike a balance between information security and openness? In fact, it’s happening today in various branches of the U.S. government thanks to Enterprise Catalogs. Enterprise Catalogs organize and store XML metadata (data about data) across organizations. They provide detailed information snapshots— who, what, why, when, where—about stored data without necessarily providing access to the data itself, thus protecting its confidentiality. Currently the DoD is introducing a new and improved version of its Enterprise Catalog as part of the government-wide information sharing overhaul. This session will include a preview of the new and improved version, which is highly scalable, based on XML standards, and capable of holding millions of records. Contributors can submit documents and provide any level of detail—from metadata to full content. Users can submit queries on full-text, data, and metadata, including geospatial search over location data. Query results may be received using a Web application, web services, RSS feeds, or visualized using Google Earth.	Chris Biow, Chief Technologist, Federal, Mark Logic Corporation
12:15 - 1:30 pm	Lunch and Expo
>1:30 - 2:15 pm	Using DITA to Provide Consistent Communications to the Public	For years, the promise of using XML as a single source for all content formats has been used by federal agencies to publish information to their constituents. The reuse of that content across multiple publications has been largely dependent on the specific systems that were used to manage the XML. With the introduction of DITA, a standard way to reuse content down to almost any level of granularity is enabling federal agencies to provide more consistent, rapid, and accurate information to the public. This session will discuss DITA and how one federal agency is using it to transform their public communications from a set of process-heavy publication cycles into dynamic communication channels reaching out to the public.	Laurence Hart, Washington Consulting, Inc.
2:15 -3:00	The Use of XML in the Irish Government's eCabinet Initiative	The Irish Government had not changed its process for creating and publishing legislation since 1921. In 2008 they completed their eCabinet Initiative to completely upgrade the process. The project was groundbreaking and included a government-wide deployment of XML authoring of all legislative and other memoranda. Michael Boses, Director of XML Products for Quark, will present an overview of the challenges the Irish Government faced as they contemplated an XML-based authoring strategy. Audience members who publish a great deal of material across a number of contributors – under deadline – will be amazed at the success of the Irish Government’s success with their eCabinet strategy.	Michael Boses, Director of XML Products, Quark
3:00 - 3:30	Break and Exhibits
3:30 - 4:15 pm	Approach to a System Requirements Management Tool for Efficient Access	With the advent of Information Technology, more and more records today are digital born. In order to continue to fulfill its mission in the computer age, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has made the decision to develop the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) system. The ERA system represents an endeavor undertaken by the agency to preserve digital records, and make those records accessible independently of hardware and software with which they are created. By adhering to the Open Access Information System (OAIS) model, the ERA system comprises of subsystems with various functional areas and implementation technologies. This paper will discuss the issues in system requirements management and the need for an approach to develop a tool that would provide efficient and user-friendly store and access of requirements. On one hand, we want to have a controlled environment for interested parties within the organization to create, and share the system requirements. These requirements can be produced in different formats such as Microsoft Office Word and Excel spreadsheet. Other artifacts such as BPMN workflows, UML activity diagrams, and conceptual data model diagrams can also be included in the requirement repository. On the other hand, the tool must be designed with targeted audience belonging to groups of specialized interests. More specifically, the access and navigation mode should be tailored to users with different functional roles such as business users, system analysts, system architects, software developers, and testers. With that vision in mind, we are proposing a novel approach which leverages XML Content Management technologies, with conversion, tagging, and indexing processes. The resulting management tool will have two key features: a) providing traceability from different artifacts to main requirements; b) search by functional areas with faceted navigation.	Dyung Le, Director of ERA Systems Engineering Division, Quyen L. Nguyen, System Architect and Betty Harvey Consultant, National Archives and Records Administration
4:15 - 5:00 pm	Microsofts eGovernement Solutions	Government organizations are seeking the best ways to respond to the trend toward increasing transparency. Publishing and making use of government data involves many issues, but once you have the data to publish, whatâ€™s the best way? Tight budgets leave little for capital expenditures for servers and overwhelmed IT staffâ€™s struggle to find the time and resources to commit to publishing data in a useful way. Enter Microsofts Open Government Data initiative (OGDI). OGDI is an open-source data publishing solution based on Windows Azure. OGDI allows government agencies to publish data into the cloud without capital expenditures, and it encourages the creative use of that data by citizens and â€˜citizen developersâ€™ by providing programmatic access to data via a REST-based API. Come learn about Microsoftâ€™s Open Government Data Initiative and how you can use it to jump-start your data publishing efforts.	Keith Hurwitz Vlad Vinogradsky, Microsoft