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Transforming the Way the DoD Manages Data Implementing the Net Centric Data Strategy using Communities of Interest
Introduction
DoD CIO(IM), OASD/NII
October 20, 2005

2. Enabling Net-Centricity  Data Strategy
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The Department’s Strategy
To move from privately owned and stored data in disparate networks and within legacy systems/applications to an enterprise information environment where authorized known and authorized unanticipated users can access any information and can post their contributions for enterprise-wide access.
Producer and Developer
Consumer
Consumer
Producer
Ubiquitous Global Network
System 1 Data
Metadata Catalogs
Security Services (e.g., PKI, SAML)
System 2 Data
Shared Data Space .
Enterprise & Community Services
Application Services (e.g., Web)
Metadata Registries
System N Data
Overarching Strategy
What is our vision?
Move from Producer to Consumer Centric data environment
Net Centricity =
Focused on information sharing
Taking lessons learned fro the Internet
How would you do things differently if you had a ubiquitous network where everybody was connected to everyone else?
Assumes
Better information which means…
Better decisions which means…
Better outcomes
Developer
From Producer-centric:
Multiple calls to find data
Private data – only supports planned consumers
Data translation needed for understanding when pulled from multiple sources
To Consumer-centric:
Data is visible, accessible and understandable
Shared data – supports planned and unplanned consumers
Shared meaning of the data enables understanding

3. B A R R I E R B A R R I E R B A R R I E R B A R R I E R
Barriers to Identifying, Accessing and Understanding Data Defining The Data Problem
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End-User Consumer
End-User Producer
“What data exists?“
“How do I access the data?”
“How do I know this data is what I need?”
“How can I tell someone what data I need?”
“How do I share my data with others?”
“How do I describe my data so others can understand it?” ?
User knows data exists and can access it but may not know how to make use of it due to lack of under standing of what data represents
User is unaware this data exists
User knows this data exists but cannot access it because of organizational and/or technical barriers
What are the barriers?
Posting and Pulling from exposed data asset repositories
Organization “A”
Organization “B”
Organization “C”
Data Strategy Approach:
Discovery
Metadata
Data Strategy Approach:
Web Enabling, Web-service Enabling
Data Strategy Approach:
Communities of Interest,
Metadata Registry

4. Publishing and Subscribing of Data & Services Supporting Both Known and Unanticipated Authorized Users
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System A
Data exchanged across engineered, well-defined
interfaces
System B
Publish
Structural and Semantic
Metadata
Known User
of System A Data
Publish Data and Services
All Data Assets are Tagged with DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS) Metadata
Publish Discovery Metadata
DoD Metadata Registry
“Pull” Structural and Semantic Metadata
“Pull” Data
The key is supporting unanticipated authorized users!!
DoD Discovery Catalogs
DoD Service Registry
Query Catalogs and Registry
System X
“Shared Space”
Data Producer
Data Consumer
Leverages
Service Oriented Architecture
Unanticipated Authorized User
of System A Data

5. Data Sharing Responsibilities
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Key Goal of DoD Directive
Scope of Enterprise Role
Scope of COI Role
Make data visible
Contextual Data
Develop, maintain DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS) to facilitate DoD-wide search
Direct development of Enterprise search capability
Tag data holdings with DDMS
Extend for COI specific search criteria
Make data accessible
Sharing Data
Maintain repository of acceptable commercial standards for web-based services
Direct development of federated service registry for web-services
Implement access services
Register access services in federated service registry
Make data understandable
Structural & Semantic Data Descriptions
Direct development of federated metadata registry for semantic and structural metadata
Develop vocabularies, taxonomies for data exchange
Register these agreements in federated DoD metadata Registry
What is our direction?
DepSecDef sees this as a DoD transformational priority !
DoD Directive, Data Sharing in a Net Centric Department of Defense
DoD Directive codifies DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy (DoD CIO)
Data Strategy Implementation Guide is under development (DoD CIO)

6. Community of Interest (COI) Approach
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Define data sharing shortfall as a problem statement
Define COI-specific vocabularies and taxonomies
Vocabularies to improve data exchange within COI and among COIs
Taxonomies to improve precision discovery
Make their data assets visible and accessible
Visible via service registry (WSDL), metadata registry (XSD), and data catalogs (DDMS)
Accessible via web services and common mime types
Register semantic and structural metadata to the DoD Metadata Registry (
XML Gallery for XML schemas, stylesheets, domain sets, samples
Taxonomy Gallery for discovery taxonomies (OWL syntax)
Pilots, Exercises, Integration with Programs of Record
Data asset discovery and understanding
Data asset posting to shared spaces
Problem Statement: Can I find data I need? Is the data I found available for me to retrieve? How do I make sense of the data I have retrieved? Are there duplicate sources for the data? Which source should I use or are they equivalent for my needs? What is the pedigree of the data?
Subject matter experts who use the data are best suited to describe the data
Post the data assets (vocabularies, taxonomies, discovery metadata, semantic metadata, and structural metadata)
COI pilots, exercises, and integration with programs of record
The Strategy identifies COIs as a mechanism for tackling these goals. The COI FAQ published at DefenseLink identifies 3 tasks for a COI. Under each of these tasks, we provide more elaboration on the what’s, the why’s, and the where’s for each task. The remainder of this presentation will illustrate and explain the NCES products and how a COI can use these products to accomplish the net-centric objectives.

7. Deputy CIO Proposed Activities for COIs to Implement
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COI Overview
Deputy CIO Proposed Activities for COIs to Implement
Key Activities
Identify/establish COI
Identify membership and governance (e.g. Mission Areas, Domains) and key stakeholders (e.g. Programs, Operators)
Identify/prioritize/select key COI capabilities and data assets to expose to Enterprise
Register into DoD COI Directory (
Define and register COI structural metadata (e.g. taxonomy, vocabulary, data models, schema)
Define discovery metadata and process (extend the DDMS)
Tag data assets and post to searchable catalogs (e.g. Domain metadata catalog and service registry)
Register COI services (supports separation of data from applications)
Operate and sustain COI services (e.g. web services) for selected COI capabilities (leverage NCES CES)
What do COIs do ?

8. Sample COI Organization Chart
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Sample COI Organization Chart
Executive Board
(FO/GO) Chair or Co-Chair
2 or 3 star level
Steering Committee Forum (FO)
(Chair or Co-Chair)
1 star level
with 0-6/GS-15 membership
Data Management
Working Group
(Military Service Co-Lead)
Pilot Demonstration Working Group
(Military Service Co-Lead)
Infrastructure Working Group
(Military Service Co-Lead
WGs
Additional
Groups
as needed
How are COIs structured?
Task: Develop a repeatable process to demonstrate pub/sub web service
Risk reduction for inclusion by Programs of Record
Task: Develop common data vocabulary for a given report
Bottoms up data user defined
Supports top down governance
Task: write web service to pub/sub the data
Web Services
Leverage Net Centric Enterprise Service (NCES) services (discovery, security)
FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY

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COIs are the key to our bottoms up approach spannning organizational and functional lines.

10. Reference Links The DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy
Data Sharing in a Net-Centric DoD, DODD
DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS)
DDMS Schema information
COI Directory