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Day 1: Monday, 18 June 2007

8:30 - 9:00 Conference Check In and Continental Breakfast (must be registered)

9:00 - 9:15 Opening the Workshop

• Daniel Weitzner (W3C/MIT), chairs' welcome, introductions and logistics [slides]

9:15 - 9:45 Keynote: Unlocking the Power of Public Sector Information

• Carol Tullo (Office of Public Sector Information, United Kingdom) [slides]

9:45 - 10:30 Adapting to new social and economic dynamics of information flow on the Web

Chair: Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton)

• Carol Tullo (Office of Public Sector Information, United Kingdom)
• Ari Schwartz (Center for Democracy & Technology)
• Mills Davis (Project10X/SICoP)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30 Keynote: Widescale data integration: opportunities and challenges

• Tim Berners-Lee (W3C/MIT) [slides]

11:30 - 13:00 Case studies in data integration from government information

Chair: Daniel Weitzner (W3C/MIT)

• Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) [slides]
• Stuart Shulman (University of Pittsburgh), Collaborative Research: Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking [slides]
• Michael Lang (Revelytix/SICoP), Creating and using OWL vocabularies in a wiki: Knoodl, Semantic Wiki [slides]

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:00 Keynote: A strategic approach to location for Great Britain: why place matters

• Vanessa Lawrence (Ordnance Survey, Great Britain) [slides]

15:00 - 16:30 Third party intermediary services for citizens

Chair: Ari Schwartz (Center for Democracy & Technology)

• Tom Steinberg (MySociety, UK) [slides]
• John Wonderlich (The Sunlight Foundation), How the Sunlight Foundation Promotes Transparency in Government
• J.L. Needham (Google), Ensuring government is only one search away: Implementing the Sitemap protocol [slides]
• Lynne Bradley, Carrie Russell (American Library Association) [slides]

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:30 Challenges in interoperability and standards compliance

Chair: Daniel Weitzner (W3C/MIT)

• David Capozzi (US Access Board) [slides]
• Judy Brewer (W3C/MIT) [slides]
• Miguel Porrúa (Organization of American States) [slides]
• Kevin Novak (Library of Congress)

Day 2: Tuesday, 19 June 2007

8:30 - 9:15 Conference Check In and Continental Breakfast (must be registered)

9:15 - 10:30 Session 1 from position papers: Improving the delivery of eGovernment services through the use of Web technologies

Chair: José Manuel Alonso (W3C/CTIC)

• Anil Saldhana (Redhat), Secure E-Government Portals- Building a web of trust and convenience for global citizens [slides]
• Kevin Novak, Michelle Springer (Library of Congress), Government as a Participant in Social Networks. Adding Authority to the Conversation [slides, slides]
• Chris Testa (Library of Congress), Designing the User-Centric eGovernment: The THOMAS Legislative Information System [slides]

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Session 2 from position papers: Policy Approaches

Chair: Ralph Swick (W3C/MIT)

• Phillip Hallam-Baker (Verisign), A Pre-History of Web Politics [slides]
• Jeffrey C. Griffith, Beyond Transparency: New Standards for Legislative Information Systems [slides]
• John Sheridan (UK Office of Public Sector Information), Position Paper [slides]
• Patrice McDermott (OpentheGovernment.org), What is E-Government – How Will It Affect Us?

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:15 Session 3 from position papers: Semantic Interoperability of Information on the Web

Chair: Brand Niemann (EPA/SICoP) [slides]

• Mills Davis (Project10X/SICoP), Position Paper from the Federal CIO Council's Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) [slides]
• Chris Testa, David Woodward (Library of Congress), Improving Search for Government Resources: Open Standards and Government, Industry Collaboration [slides]
• Gary Berg-Cross (Engineering Management & Integration (EM&I)), Exploring eGov Cooperation and Knowledge Sharing using Geospatial Ontologies in a Semantic Wiki [slides]
• James Bryce Clark (OASIS), Practical lurches towards semantic interoperability, and standards mash-ups in public sector data [slides]
• Richard C. Murphy (General Services Administration), Information Flow in the Federal Enterprise Redux: Governing Federations, Sharing Information and Ensuring Privacy [slides]

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:30 Session 4 from position papers: Web Services and Architectures

Chair: Kevin Novak (Library of Congress)

• Brad J. Cox (Binary Group), Paving the Bare Spots: Towards an Enterprise-wide Defense Service Bus (and amplification) [slides, slides]
• Cory Casanave (Model Driven Solutions), The Architecture of Services: Achieving Business Value with SOA in the Government [slides]

16:30 - 17:00 Discussion of next steps and wrap-up

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