Agenda as of January 14, 2003

DAY 3 -- Wednesday, January 22, 2003

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Transportation, Aviation, and Aerospace Track

8:30 - 10:00 AM

8:30 - 8:35 AM - Welcome to Track
Steven Hughes
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/JPL
Burton G. Parker, Paladin Integration Engineering

8:35 - 9:15 AM - ITS/TICS Metadata Registry/DD Standard, IS14817
Tom Kurihara
IEEE

In the US, a profile of the ISO/IEC 11179 standard, was adopted with some modifications and extensions for use in development of standard data for Intelligent Transportation Systems. At the international level, similar work has developed an international standard based on 11179. This presentation covers development of the ITS standard.

9:15 - 10:00 AM - IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Data Registry (presentation and demonstration)
Burton G. Parker
Paladin Integration Engineering

The IEEE ITS-DR is a central metadata registry for all ITS standard data elements and other concepts that have been formally specified and approved for use in the U.S. ITS domain.  A primary objective is to support the interchange and reuse of data  elements and other data concepts among the various functional areas in the intelligent transportation systems environment.  This presentation will provide an overview of the ITS-DR, and explain how it is being used and managed by public and private users, the registration authority, submitters, stewards, and governance committees.  A demonstration of the ITS-DR will highlight the functionality of the Registry.

10:00 - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 - Noon

Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) Data Registry (FDR)
Rick Jordan, Federal Aviation Administration
Burt Parker, Paladin Integration Engineering

This presentation provides an overview and discussion of the FAA Data Registry.  This includes a demonstration of the registry and a discussion on the data standardization and approval (i.e. configuration control board) process the FAA has developed.  The presentation also covers how the data registry fits into the overall data  management program that the FAA is implementing.

Noon - 2 PM

Lunch

2:00- 3:30 PM

2:00 - 2:45 PM - National and International Aviation Data Standards

Richard (Rick) Jordan
Federal Aviation Administration

 

The presentation will describe recent FAA data standardization experience including international standardization of aircraft identification data and internal data standardization activities.  It will also address the use of the FAA's Data Registry and data architecture in the data standardization process.

 

2:45 - 3:30 PM - Registry Models and Their Potential for Semantic Interoperability in the Space Science Domain
Lou Reich
NASA/CCSDS

 

NASA, with its vast data resources across its centers, is in need of an enterprise information architecture that enables data integration and exchange services at institutional and agency levels. Interoperable metadata registries and data exchange services are required to support this highly sophisticated integration. This presentation will provide an overview of existing registry models and their potential for use in the space science domain, identify their potential for supporting semantic interoperability, and identify specific alignments with ISO/IEC 11179 and OASIS registry models.

3:30 - 4:00 PM

Break

4:00 - 5:30 PM

Session: Space Science

4:00 - 4:45 PM - Semantic Interoperability Between Distributed Science Data Registries
J. Steven Hughes
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/JPL

The Planetary Data System (PDS) has a peer reviewed science data archive collected from over 30 years of solar system exploration. In accordance with a 1982 National Research Council recommendation for discipline data systems, the archive remains geographically distributed to keep the data in the hands of the scientific experts and to promote closer ties with the mission instrument teams. However the distribution of archive data on CD/DVD physical media can no longer be cost-justified given the much larger volumes of data being produced by new missions. This necessitates the development of an on-line distributed search and retrieval system. The first delivery of this system will use ISO/IEC 11179 based metadata descriptors, XML documents, and the wealth of metadata in the archive to locate data sets and supporting resources across the discipline nodes of the PDS. Subsequent releases of the system will allow the global search and retrieval of individual data products from the hundreds of distributed data registries and repositories in the archive.

4:45 - 5:30 PM - Enabling Information and Knowledge Management at the Enterprise Level
Daniel Crichton
NASA/JPL

The Enterprise Data Architecture task at JPL is developing an integrated information architecture to enable JPL to meet its strategic goals. It promises to provide institutional data management services that promote interoperability between distributed data resources and leverage existing institutional services and enterprise applications. The goal is to enable not only data management, but information and knowledge management. A key component of this architecture is the metadata service. The purpose of the metadata service is to provide a series of registries that allow for the management of enterprise data dictionaries, data elements, and system resource descriptions. The metadata service makes extensive use of the ISO/IEC 11179 specifications. Special emphasis has been given to providing semantic interoperability through the concept of an enterprise data element registry.

DAY 4 - Thursday, January 23, 2003

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Transportation, Aviation, and Aerospace Track

8:30 - 10:00 AM

Session: Space Science (continued)

8:30 - 9:15 AM - Developing a Distributed Data Dictionary Service Using LDAP and ISO11179 to Support STEP-based Data Integration and Re-Use
Jim U’Ren

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

An ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry might be considered a “directory” accessible using LDAP. This presentation describes an effort to prepare a standard for this and to demonstrate its functionality for the space science community. This presentation also describes the application of 11179 and other registries by the STEP & PDES community in the manufacturing domain.

9:15 - 10:00 AM - Registries and the Global GRID Forum
Reagan Moore
San Diego Supercomputer
Center

Wide-area distributed computing, or "grid" technologies, provide the foundation to a number of large-scale efforts utilizing the global Internet to build distributed computing and communications infrastructures. As common Grid services and interoperable components emerge, the difficulty in undertaking these large-scale efforts will be greatly reduced and, as importantly, the resulting systems will better support interoperation.

GGF efforts are aimed at the development of a broadly based Integrated Grid Architecture that can serve to guide the research, development, and deployment activities of the emerging Grid communities. Defining such an architecture will advance the Grid agenda through the broad deployment and adoption of fundamental basic services and by sharing code among different applications with common requirements.

10:00 - 10:30

 Break

End of Transportation, Aviation, and Aerospace Track

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