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[Louisa Verma]

Hi Nancy,
 
Is it too late to "join remotely"? Is there a cost?
 
Thanks,
 
Louisa Verma
 
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On 7/5/06, Nancy G. Faget <zemogogog at yahoo.com> wrote: 
There is a significant push in federal government to begin using blogs,
wikis as collaborative tools.  The use in the intelligence community has
been especially surprising.  Please join us either at the National Science
Foundation facilities .... or let me know if you would like to join
remotely. 
 
Nancy
 
 

 
Collaborative Expedition Workshop 52
Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 8:30 a.m.
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd, Stafford I Building, Room 1235
Arlington, VA 
 
AGENDA
Open Collaboration: Networking Wiki Information Technology
for Information Sharing and Knowledge Management
 
Purpose / Description  
 
Participants will explore opportunities for multi-disciplinary and
community-based collaboration around national challenges. By drawing on
strategic leadership and "best practices" underway in the geospatial area,
participants will learn how to conduct open collaboration in their own
settings. Presentations will illustrate exemplary collaboration that is
transforming geospatial information technology today. Growing Communities of
Practice will benefit from knowledge-sharing including: 
• COLAB: Collaborative Work Environment Community Wiki 
• open standards development 
• web-based collaboration environments 
• ontologies for efficient information-sharing and semantic interoperability

• Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model V2.0 and the SICoP
Knowledge Reference Model Implementation in Wikis and Semantic Wikis 
• Community to national scale needs and applications
 
Logistics
• See Collaboration Wiki: 
• Check in and badges: Main NSF (Stafford I), 4201 Wilson Blvd. Laptop Scan:
Room 357 NSF Boardroom: Room 1235 
• Lunch: On your own for lots of eating places in area – food can be eaten
in meeting rooms.
 Upcoming Events :
• July 26th - Special Sessions on Networking EA and KM at FCW Conferences.
 See http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop
 
 
Questions:
• Is your Wiki part of your content development and management strategy? If
so, what role does it play? 
• What do you see as the essential elements of a good charter for a
Government Wiki? 
• What are the key components of a quality set of guidelines for community
participation? 
• Based on your experience in planning and operating a Wiki, what are the
problems to avoid? 
• What are your concerns about Wikis? 
• Are there aspects of current Wiki technology that you find inadequate for
meeting your needs? 
  
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
 
Welcome and Overview:
• 8:40 am – Workshop Organizers 
• 9:00 am - Introductions: What are your interests in light of the workshop
purpose?
 
Keynote: Wikis Changing Agency Culture for Information Sharing 
• 9:30 am - D. Calvin Andrus, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Center for
Mission Innovation, CIA 
 BREAK: 10:15 am
 
Panel: Agencies are starting to ask for Wikis and even advertise formal
requirements for them (see page 1)
• 10:30 am - Your agency wants or uses a Wiki 
• GPO, TC Evans, Moderator 
• USGS, Fred Travnichek (invited) 
• CIM3, Peter Yim 
• NIH, Olga Brazhnik 
• NARA, John Kane 
• GSA, Susan Turnbull
 Keynote: The Wiki - A grassroots approach to providing KM solutions 
• 11:15 am - Niall Sinclair (confirmed-remote), Director, KM Public Domain
Initiatives, Institute for Knowledge and Innovation, George Washington
University, and Author 
 
NETWORKING LUNCH: 12 noon – 1 pm (on your own, but preferably in groups)
 
Featured Presentations and Questions:
• 1:00-1:20 pm Mills Davis, Project10X  SICOP/SWIM Vision for Semantic Wikis
and Information Management 
• 1:20-1:40 pm Mark Kurtz and Aaron Fulkerson, MindTouch,  Next generation
Open Source collaborative wikis, enterprise network appliances, and wiki
mash-ups. 
• 1:40-2:00 pm Conor Shankey, Visual Knowledge,  Semantic wikis for
information management, knowledge delivery, and semantic agent-based
 applications. 
• 2:00-2:20 pm Chuck Rehberg, Semantic Insights, Automating the read, write,
and reporting functions of semantic wikis to leverage knowledge worker
productivity. 
• 2:20-2:30 pm Questions & Answers and Wrapup
 
BREAK: 3 - 3:15 pm
 
Hands-on Experience and Discussion of Next Steps
• 3:15 - 4 pm
 ADJOURN and NETWORKING: 4 - 5 pm
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