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Subject:        Information Sharing Webinar from FCW and MetaMatrix
Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2005
From:   Federal Computer Week Magazine <[log in to unmask]>
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Achieving Information Sharing in Federal Agencies via Data Services and
SOA Webcast

When: 1/19/06
Time: 2PM ET/11AM PT
Register today:
http://click.101comm.hdsmail.com/t/43668/30108905/1552858/0/

Join Rob Cardwell, CTO, MetaMatrix and Drew Cohen, Principal, Booz Allen
Hamilton as they explore the business needs driving these requirements,
including the support of new users and use cases, the enablement of new
integration scenarios, and the need for greater information sharing.

Today’s agencies are faced with a compelling need to share their
information, including databases and content stores, with
communities-of-interest for whom those assets were never originally
designed.  The business needs driving these requirements include the
support of new users and use cases, the enablement of new integration
scenarios, and the potential for greater sharing of existing data assets.
Meanwhile, financial constraints dictate that agencies maximize the use
of existing systems, rather than make broad investments in new information
assets.  To meet the challenges defined above, agencies require a Data
Services solution that provides integrated access to agency-wide data
assets, while simultaneously providing an acceptable level of control,
performance, and scalability.

Making matters more difficult, agencies maintain information in many
different systems, and often these systems have grown “organically”,
rather than in a structured manner, in order to respond to
rapidly-changing business needs.  This has resulted in a set of
information silos, disconnected and seemingly unrelated to each other.
And yet much of this information is in fact related, and tremendous value
exists for the organization that can integrate and leverage these
disparate data sources.

In this webinar, we will provide insight into government agencies that
are using semantic technologies today to drive the architecture of their
integration solutions, including the following topics:

-       The deployment of intelligence portals that enable analysts to
        access their information without the need for explicit knowledge
        of data sources
-       The use of open-source ontologies at design time, to help
        automate the discovery, rationalization, and harmonization of
        multiple, overlapping information sources
-       The use of W3C standards (SOAP, WSDL, XSD) to implement an
        ontology-driven (service) architecture
-       The design and deployment of Data Services that, at a minimum,
        provide unmediated access to information stored in disparate
        technologies, and at their best, provide semantic mediation
        across related data
-       The use of ontological constructs to provide access to the
        entities and relationships that are latent in data stores, but
        which need to be tagged appropriately for use by analysts.
-       The use of semantic mediation software to provide document-
        centric interfaces and context for structured data sources,
        enabling search engines to crawl and index enterprise databases
-       The combining of software engineering languages and methodologies
        such as UML with Semantic Web technologies such as RDF and OWL

When: 1/19/06
Time: 2PM ET/11AM PT
Register today:
http://click.101comm.hdsmail.com/t/43668/30108905/1552858/0/



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