Transparency Transformation Proposal to OMB George Thomas GSA Chief Architect Kshemendra Paul OMB Chief Architect

Clarion Calls Gov Vision: Open Transparent Government 'Google for Government' Voice of the Citizen: 'Transparency as a Service' (TaaS) Poor data context (not to mention quality/integrity) Unnecessary visibility and exploration constraint Just give us your (our) data! FFATA sources as P2P distribution seeds

Gov Vision:

Open Transparent Government

'Google for Government'

Voice of the Citizen:

'Transparency as a Service' (TaaS)

Poor data context (not to mention quality/integrity)

Unnecessary visibility and exploration constraint

Just give us your (our) data!

FFATA sources as P2P distribution seeds

Embrace Atom – an IETF standard Syndication format, Publishing protocol Basis of Google's Data API, (GoogleDocs) Well established, easy to use Web Oriented (Solution) Architecture For top-down data sources EA/FSAM, CPIC, FISMA, SDLC/EVM (other) Data is then available (and transparent) via; External search engines Gov XMLDB (XPath/XQuery/SPARQL) queries

Atom – an IETF standard

Syndication format, Publishing protocol

Basis of Google's Data API, (GoogleDocs)

Well established, easy to use

Web Oriented (Solution) Architecture

For top-down data sources

EA/FSAM, CPIC, FISMA, SDLC/EVM (other)

Data is then available (and transparent) via;

External search engines

Gov XMLDB (XPath/XQuery/SPARQL) queries

Extend Top-down data source semantics with; Atom.owl Ontology of Atom data Bottom-up FFATA data source semantics with; RDF transformation of individual data sources FFATA.owl Ontology that correlates FFATA data sources Link top-down (M) and bottom-up (B) Ontology that correlates; Atom.owl and FFATA.owl

Top-down data source semantics with;

Atom.owl

Ontology of Atom data

Bottom-up FFATA data source semantics with;

RDF transformation of individual data sources

FFATA.owl

Ontology that correlates FFATA data sources

Link top-down (M) and bottom-up (B)

Ontology that correlates;

Atom.owl and FFATA.owl

Future Transition Plan Move from free text to machine parse-able to machine interpretable Laws Policy.owl Link changes in legislation to changes in top-down and bottom-up data ala SIOC and FOAF Emphasizing G2B, instead of individuals Social Networking, Social Media Engage public/private/government at any scale

Transition Plan

Move from free text to machine parse-able to machine interpretable Laws

Policy.owl

Link changes in legislation to changes in top-down and bottom-up data

ala SIOC and FOAF

Emphasizing G2B, instead of individuals

Social Networking, Social Media

Engage public/private/government at any scale

Backup Graphic depictions of; Atom XML structure Atom Ontology structure SIOC + FOAF + SKOS Semantically Interlinked Online Communities Friend Of A Friend Simple Knowledge Organizational System

Graphic depictions of;

Atom XML structure

Atom Ontology structure

SIOC + FOAF + SKOS

Semantically Interlinked Online Communities

Friend Of A Friend

Simple Knowledge Organizational System

Atom.xml SOURCE - http://rollerweblogger.org/downloads/presentations/TriXML2006-BeyondBlogging.pdf

Atom.owl SOURCE - http://bblfish.net/work/atom-owl/2006-06-06/AtomOwl.html

SIOC.rdfs SOURCE - http://sioc-project.org/node/158