Welcome to the SICOP/SWIM Test Wiki by Mills Davis and Brand Niemann, SICoP Co-Chairs

The Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) has used a GSA-sponsored - privately hosted Collaborative Wiki to support the work of its five Work Groups:

• Data Reference Model2.0 Implementation Through Iteration and Testing (DRM IT2) (evolved to SWIM below)
• Health Information Technology Ontology Project (HITOP)
• Ontology and Taxonomy Coordination (ONTAC)
• Common Upper Ontology - (CUO)
• Semantic Wikis and Information Management (SWIM)
• Please note that each of these WGs has email discussion forms as follows: SICoP/SWIM, CUO , DRM IT2 , HITOP , and ONTAC.

SICoP learned from using the Collaborative Wiki to develop the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model 2.0 that it could also use a Collaborative Wiki to implement the DRM 2.0 if it supported Semantic Metadata and the process for producing Trusted Reference Knowledge we now call the Knowledge Reference Model.

Our vision is to support Individuals collaborating on Semantic Interoperability of Content and Projects to build Semantic Knowledgebases in a Semantic Wiki.The purposes of this test is to:

• Organize Individuals (FOAF: Friend-of-a-Friend), Content (DC: Dublin Core), and Projects (DOAP: Description of a Project) using semantic standards
• Enable semantic search and navigation of wiki content
• Build ontology-driven applications
• Output content in W3C - compliant formats including OWL

The basic stages we envision are:

• Stage 1. Semantic website -- read, semantic search wiki content
• Stage 2. Semantic Web-based Wikis -- read, write content of all kinds
• Stage 3: Semantically enable content -- manual annoatation of concepts and relationships
• Stage 4: Manage semantic models and ontologies
• Stage 5: Knowledge Work Automation -- automation of reading, writing, and semantic enablement of content.
• Stage 6: Knowledge Computing — standing up services and applications driven by semantic models and knowledge bases

See White Papers below.

Our test schedule includes the following events:

• June 20-22, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Geospatial Information Technology, National Science Foundation, Ballston area of North Arlington, Virginia.
  • See list of sample geospatial ontologies .
• July 18, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Wiki Technology, National Science Foundation, Ballston area of North Arlington, Virginia.
• August 15, 2006, Open Collaboration: Networking Semantic Interoperability, National Science Foundation, Ballston area of North Arlington, Virginia.
• September 13, 2006, Networking Enterprise Architecture and Knowledge Management, Special Meeting in Conjunction with the 2006 Enterprise Architecture Conference , Reagan International Trade Center, Washington, DC.
• October 10-11, 2006, Fifth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference (focus on Knowledge Reference Model and Semantic Wikis), MITRE, McLean, Virginia .
• November 7-9, 2006, 5th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, Georgia (SICoP Participation in Panel on Implementing the Semantic Web for E-Government).

We are working on examples as follows:

1. Content:

• White Papers
  • Semantic Wikis and Semantic Research
• Literature
• Presentations
• Table - SICoP History

2. Projects:

• Teleconferences
• Workshops
• Conferences
• Pilots
• Semantic Knowledgebases

Summary of Test Wiki Training Sessions:

• Test Wiki Training Session 1, May 19, 2006
• Test Wiki Training Session 2, May 30, 2006
• Test Wiki Training Session 3, June 9, 2006
• Test Wiki Training Session 4, June 12, 2006
• Test Wiki Training Session 5, June 16, 2006
• Test Wiki Training Session 6, September 8, 2006
• Test Wiki Training Session 7, September 15, 2006

SICOP Demo Meeting runthrough

Mills' test page

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