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Knowledge
Management and Learning Technologies Track
Farance Inc.
Farance Inc.
Metadata serves a variety of purposes. One must pay attention to how metadata will be used. For example, metadata may be useful for on-line, real-time interoperability. This kind of metadata use may be used in a variety of applications, such as data transformation/ mining/ fusion/ mediation), searching, classification/taxonomy, knowledge management. The particular approach we use is: small, modular "nuts and bolts" of metadata. For example, the ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registries can be viewed in terms of 6 major modules: administrative, naming, relations, conceptual, data, and miscellaneous; the administrative module can be further subdivided into who, what, where, when, why, how. These modules have nested relationships and can provide more complex representations of metadata than the basic (obvious) population of an 11179 metadata registry.
This presentation will show how better reuse and interoperability of both data and metadata is achieved with this modular "nuts and bolts" approach.
Break
Using a Combination of UML, C2RM (Command and Control Reference Model),
XML, and Metadata Registries to Support Long-Term Development/Engineering
Dr. Israel Mayk
The Objective Force, including Units of Employment and subordinate Units of Action equipped with Future Combat Systems and manned by Objective Force Warriors, is distinguished from legacy and interim force units and systems by its exceptional responsiveness, deployability, agility, versatility, lethality, survivability and sustainability. These characteristics are meaningful individually but are not completely independent of each other. To support such characteristics, the Objective Force is expected to be an order of magnitude more complex in its force structure, doctrinal requirements and technology. A coherent, comprehensive and manageable set of complementary reference concepts are needed to support system engineering and integration and to assess interdependencies among the above characteristics based upon lower-level capabilities and their measures-of-performance.
In this presentation, this application will be discussed in terms of the system engineering, integration, and knowledge/metadata repository mechanisms for stimulating the capture of operational requirements, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating technical designs and transforming capabilities representations into specifiable and executable operational, technical and system architectural views.
Lunch
The Fourth Domain: A Knowledge Management Technique for Institutions and
Repositories
Tony Monaco
Foundation for Institutional Development
The Fourth Domain TM is a comprehensive solution that involves both management and workers in producing institutional agility and ability to affect not only the technical systems in place, but the human functions and processes that computerized applications support. In reintroducing the essential human element, proven methodologies for collecting and tailoring reusable knowledge are applied to the institution's technological foundation. As a management support tool, its multi-faceted features revitalize the institution by validating and verifying operational requirements, standardizing and integrating strategies and execution, and acting as an honest broker in real-time. The Fourth Domain TM has proven to be superior for planning, programming, resourcing, and execution - while maintaining a "dual vision" balance - across and within institutions.
Break
RFI: An "Request For Information"
Service that May be Re-Used for Federal Requirements
Bill Kinsey
US Army
Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL)
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