Collaborative Expedition Workshop #63

July 17-18, 2007 at National Science Foundation

NSF Board Room

Building the Way Forward Together:

Towards Stable Meaning and Records Preservation in Information-Sharing

Workshop Purpose

The purpose of the workshop is to envision greater possibilities for robust cyberinfrastructure to accommodate routine public record-keeping, as well as agile responsiveness in the event of regional or global disasters. Participants will share lessons learned from virtual organizations (informal to formal, non-government to multi-government), employing the quality record-keeping needed for trust in relationships. The workshop will open up dialogue and facilitate "bootstrapping" among multiple communities committed to advancing records management capacity for electronically stored information. The workshop supports information exchange among Federal Enterprise Architecture improvement activities advancing citizen-centric government.

Workshop Questions

1. What are the relationships among records, repositories and rights of citizens that need to be understood and reflected in cyberinfrastructure?

2. How can relevant stakeholders tap "build to share" principles being advanced by forward-looking stewardship organizations, including:

a) Successful self-organizing, global volunteers (i.e.Tsunami wiki, Ontolog Forum),

b) information management practitioner communities including (ontologists, researchers, economic development specialists, records managers, and librarians) advancing sound approaches for electronically stored information (i.e. Data Reference Model, NASA, NARA, World Bank) and

c) Open Standards bodies (i.e. OMG, OASIS, W3C)

3. What are the common lessons that can be distilled among communities whose experience with distributed collaboration infrastructures is deep and diverse?

4. What are the emerging strategies for advancing public record-keeping infrastructures and telework environments with the resilience needed to mitigate disaster-related risks of disruptions to individual and institution-based records management services (i.e. financial, property, health)?

5. What are the emerging strategies for advancing public record-keeping infrastructures with the resilience to mitigate litigation risks associated with E-Discovery?

The second day of the workshop will draw on findings from the first and focus on “bootstrapping" among contributing communities advancing records management capacity for electronically stored information including: Records Management Community of Practice, led by NARA and OMG, Ontolog Forum, Federal E-Discovery Working Group, and Federal Information and Records Management Council.

AGENDA: Day One, July 17

8:30 am - Check-in and Coffee

8:45 am - Welcome and Introduction

Susan Turnbull, GSA and Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee and Co-Chair, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT CG

Robert Chadduck, Principal Technologist, Electronic Records Archives Program, National Archives and Records Administration

9:00 am - Participant Introductions: What is your Sense of Purpose in Relation to the Overall Workshop Goals?

9:30 am - Potentials and Realities: Opportunities and Challenges of Virtual Organizing for Humanitarian Response

Ranjeev Mittu, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Unclassified Information Sharing and Coordination in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

Peter Griffin, Lead, TsunamiHelp Blog, World Wide Help Blog and Indian Ocean Tsunami Wiki global volunteer network

11:00 am - Break

11:10 am - Virtual Organizing to Achieve Shared Understanding and Advance Records Management

Lessons Learned from Virtual Organizing for the Ontology Summit 2007 - A Panel from the Ontolog ForumSteveRay (NIST), Peter Yim (CIM3),FrankOlken (NSF), Ken Baclawski (Northeastern University), Doug Holmes (Java Professionals),DeniseBedford (World Bank), andSusan Turnbull (GSA)

12:30 pm - Networking Lunch (60 min. - on your own)

1:30 pm - Advancing Stability in Public Cyberinfrastructure: Records, Archives, and Transparency

A Pragmatic Approach to Information Management at NASA, Andrew Schain, Chief Technology Officer, NASA hdqtrs., and member of Data Reference Model V2.0 team

Intelligent Rules Ordered Data system technologyresearch: Digital Preservation Technology in a SOA Context, Robert Chadduck, Principal Technologist, Electronic Records Archives Program, National Archives and Records Administration.

3:00 pm - BREAK

3:15 pm - Break-Out Session

4:00 pm - Report Out of Break-Out Groups

4:30 pm - ADJOURN AND NETWORKING

AGENDA: Day Two, July 18 - Room 120

8:30 am - Check-in and Coffee

8:45 am - Welcome and Introduction

SusanTurnbull, GSA

Robert Chadduck, NARA

9:00 am - RMS Vision and the Contribution of Interagency Records Management Service Project Team (19 agencies) - Daryll Prescott, on detail OMB FEA-PMO

9:30 am - RMS CoP Activities and Guide,Larry Johnson, Leader, OMG Government Task Force

10:10 am - Use of ET.gov, Core.gov, and SOA governance process to facilitate RMS Adoption, Mel Greer, Records Management Service Community of Practice

10:40 am - BREAK

10:50 am - Records Management Capability Maturity Model (CMM) - Ed McCeney, Department of Interior

11:05 am - The Role of Ontology in Records Management - A Panel from the Ontolog Forum–Peter Yim (CIM3), Elisa Kendall (Sandpiper Software),Josh Lubell, (NIST),Frank Olken (NSF), Denise Bedford (World Bank), and LeoObrst (MITRE)

12:30 pm - Networking Lunch (60 min. - on your own)

1:30 pm - E-Discovery and E-Recordkeeping: The Litigation Risk Factor As A

Driver of Institutional Change, Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation, National Archives and Records Administration

2:15 pm- Discussion and formation of Break-out groups, Daryll Prescott, on detail OMB FEA-PMO, Larry Johnson, OMG

3:30 pm - Report Out from Break-Out Groups

4:15 pm - ADJOURN AND NETWORKING