1. Introduction Special appreciation to Panel Co-Organizers
Special Thanks to the following:
Gary Berg-Cross (EM&I) – Engineering, Management and Integration, Inc.
Brian Haugh, Institute for Defense Analyses
Brand Niemann, Sr. SICoP Co-Chair
Provided input to the panel questions.
Background:
This panel session is an effort to bring together individuals that are helping define the standards for National Information Sharing Standards and are part of the XML CoP and not the SICoP CoP.
During this day we invited participation in 2 separate sessions, the morning TopQuadrant TopBraid tutorial session on modeling person and location and to this birds of a feather session.
The XML CoP is the audience (or individuals outside the SICoP COP) that the panel was organized for. Panelist address XML CoP.

2. Special appreciation to Panel Co-Organizers
Introduction
Special appreciation to Panel Co-Organizers
Brian Haugh, Institute for Defense Analyses
Gary Berg-Cross, EM&I
Brand Niemann, Sr, SICoP Co-chair
Special Thanks to the following:
Gary Berg-Cross (EM&I) – Engineering, Management and Integration, Inc.
Brian Haugh, Institute for Defense Analyses
Brand Niemann, Sr. SICoP Co-Chair
Provided input to the panel questions.
Background:
This panel session is an effort to bring together individuals that are helping define the standards for National Information Sharing Standards and are part of the XML CoP and not the SICoP CoP.
During this day we invited participation in 2 separate sessions, the morning TopQuadrant TopBraid tutorial session on modeling person and location and to this birds of a feather session.
The XML CoP is the audience (or individuals outside the SICoP COP) that the panel was organized for. Panelist address XML CoP.

3. Schedule
2:30 – 4:15
Brief Introduction
6 -15 minute QA intervals

4. Six Question Intervals
Panel end goal
What is good?
What can be improved?
What is relevant?
What are the challenges?
What is recommended?
Following is the outline for the panel.

5. Panelist David Fado, SAIC Advanced Systems Concepts
Eric Monk, McDonald Bradley
John Sowa, VivoMind Intelligence, Inc
Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Joseph Rockmore, Cyladian Technology Consulting
Richard MacKnight, System Planning Corporation
As was mentioned in the opening session, the birds of a feather panel was a late edition to SICoP and organized within the last 2 weeks out of the need to develop semantic best practices for the Information Sharing Community. The panel has come together remarkably well. Interested in the panelists recommendations forward for improving information sharing standards.
Will give an introduction to the panelist in 3 primary areas:
Title and Company affiliation
Their background in standards that they support.
The organizations that are supported by these standards.
One individual from academia. Rest supporting Justice, Department of Defense and Intelligence Community domains.
Brand K. Niemann is an enterprise and data architect with SAIC supporting David Fado. I participated in the Data Refrence Model Data Context Team.
David Fado is a Senior Enterprise Architect with SAIC.
He is the Enterprise Architect for the Intelligence Community wide Research Development and Experimental Collaboration Network (RDEC).
He is author of the UML 2 Toolkit
He is currently leading a DoDAFUML profile through OMG standardization process.
Eric Monk is a Principal Architect at McDonald Bradley, focused on RDF and OWL standards for data sharing for DoD and Intel customers.
John Sowa is cofounder of VivoMind Intelligence, Inc.
John is working on the draft ISO standard for Common Logic, which is currently in the Final Committee Draft (FCD) and supporting the Intelligence Community in these standards.
Tom Finin is Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Joseph Rockmore is a partner in Cyladian Technology Consulting. He supports the Director of National Intelligence, Chief Information Officer.
Richard MacKnight is a Senior Science Advisor with System Planning Corporation and supports the National Institute of Justice’s Information Led Police program in areas dealing with the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative and the National Information Exchange Model.

6. DRM 2.0, NIEM, and TWPDES Overview
Ordered from general to specific.
Data Reference Model (DRM) 2.0, one of five reference models of the Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Models, which are the following Performance Reference Model, Business Reference Model, Service Component Reference Model, Data Reference Model, and Technical Reference Model.
The latest DRM 2.0 model was released in November of 2005 and was expanded to include “Data Context” and concept of unstructured information. DRM describes data along three dimensions, unstructured, semi-structured, and structured and along these dimensions three facets data description, data context, and data sharing.
The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), was identified as one of the first pilot use cases for the Data Reference Model (DRM) for information exchange. NIEM evolved from the Global Justice XML Data Model\Schema to become a National Standard for Information Sharing for Federal, State, Local, and Tribal communities. GJXDM has a track record in reaching out to it’s stakeholders. NIEM is based on the principle of sharing information within a Community of Interest, which was identified as a best practice of the DRM. Currently COI’s have been organized within 7 domains. Emergency Management, Immigration, Justice, Intelligence to name a few. A new Person Screening COI has recently been identified and announced. NIEM 1.0 was released the end of last month. Richard MacKnight can speak more to NIEM.
Terrorist Watchlist Person -- purpose is to provide a common data exchange format for terrorist Watchlist data between Department of State, Department of Justice, and the Intelligence Community under the Director of National Intelligence. In April 2003, GAO published report to consolidate Watch List to promote better integration and sharing. Work on TWPDES 1.0 began June TWPDES 1.0 was released in June There are currently TWPDES 1.2 and 2.0 Models. Recent developments are Cargo and Conveyance.

7. Six Question Intervals
Panel end goal
What is good?
What can be improved?
What is relevant?
What are the challenges?
What is recommended?
Following is the outline for the panel.

8. Panel end goal
What do panelists want to have come out of the panel discussion on National Information Sharing Standards, NIEM and TWPDES, as it relates to DRM 2.0 “Data Context” and data semantics as it relates to your background and experience?
Following is the outline for the panel.

9. 2. What is good?
What are the various dimensions and aspects of semantic interoperability covered, assumed or emphasized in NIEM and TWPDES?
Following is the outline for the panel.

10. 3. What can be improved?
With regard to NIEM and TWPDES, what aspects of semantic interoperability might be missing, but important (e.g. ontological analysis, proper formalisms, etc.)?
Following is the outline for the panel.

11. 4. What is relevant?
With regard to semantic standards and best practices, what semantic standards and best practices are relevant to National Information Standards, NIEM and TWPDES?
Following is the outline for the panel.

12. 5. What are the challenges?
With regard to semantic interoperability, what are the challenges that need to be addressed for successful adoption by National Information Sharing Standards?
Following is the outline for the panel.

13. 6. What is recommended?
What do panelists see as a possible way forward for addressing a greater need for semantic interoperability by National Information Sharing Standards?
Following is the outline for the panel.

14. Questions, Comments, Feedback?
How did we do?
Following is the outline for the panel.