The initial OGK2011 program will be set in August once we know what papers have been accepted and finalized early in the fall. It will include a mix of invited talks, paper presentations, panels, system demonstrations, a poster session, and discussions. We plan to have several invited speakers drawn from government, academia and industry. The schedule will be coordinated with the other AAAI fall symposia with common breaks, lunches, a reception and plenary session. The following schedule is still a tentative program and may change in the future.

location: the Westin Arlington Gateway
room: Hemingway 2. floor map

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Friday, November 4

Saturday, November 5

Sunday, November 6

Keynote and Invited Talk (abstract)

Driving Global Innovation through Open Government Data, by Jeanne Holm, NASA/JPL
Abstract: Each day people make decisions based on information. How would things be different if people had better data that helped that make faster, more informed decisions? Opening up data from across the government, Data.gov strives to create an innovation ecosystem around data that puts that power in the hands of citizens across the nation and people across the globe. From Health to Energy to Law, Data.gov brings together communities around topics that people care about and companies work within. Join us to explore how new jobs, healthier outcomes, and global cooperation happen when data is set free.

Manichean Progress: Positive and Negative States of the Art in Web-Scale Data, by Lewis Shepherd, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments
Abstract: I will present current research projects and prospects which help drive open innovation and agile experimentation via cloud-based services; and projects which aim at advancing the state-of-the-art in knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty at web scale. I will also discuss potential malign implications of mass automated implementations of linked-data systems, as functions of what governments (and users of public data) can/should/shouldn’t do in promoting mass activity.

Creating an effective eco-system for Open Public Data, by Sreeram Balakrishnan, Google
Abstract: Although widely available, public data is often siloed and stored in hard to access formats. It is frequently necessary to clean, transform and join this data with other data before it can be useful. Tools for visualizing and analyzing the data are very expensive or brittle and hard to use. Google is working to build services that eliminate these barriers. We believe these services will create an eco-system for public data in which providers and users can much more effectively benefit from each other’s efforts. Data will be collaboratively built and enhanced creating even more data in a virtuous circle. This talk describes these services and provides real world examples of how they are being used by journalists, bloggers and variety of organizations to create and publish high quality content derived from public data with little or no IT skills.

Open Government and the National Institutes of Health: Crowdsourcing the Research Enterprise, by Abdul R. Shaikh, National Cancer Institute
Abstract: The White House's Open Government Directive has been a catalyst for change in government driven by the principles of transparency, collaboration, and participation. With the re-authorization of the America COMPETES Act and the launch of the Health Data Initiative and HealthData.gov, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been exploring new avenues to encourage health scientists, developers and entrepreneurs to utilize the growing array of publicly available data for the development of innovative new applications and services that can help improve health. This presentation will discuss how related efforts in open innovation and public-private collaboration, including the first NIH developer challenge authorized by America COMPETES, are tied to research priorities and funding opportunities in population health and behavioral informatics at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institutes of Health.

Open Energy Information, by Debbie Brodt-Giles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Abstract: Open Energy Information (OpenEI - openei.org) is a platform designed to be the world's most comprehensive, open, and collaborative energy information network—supplying powerful data to decision makers and supporting a global energy transformation. The platform is developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), but is intended for the world’s contribution, collaboration, and participation. The platform provides a means for DOE and its laboratories to share energy data and information while addressing the White House directive to be open, participatory, and collaborative with open government data. For more information, access the OpenEI video and summary featured on the White House Open Government Featured Innovations Website.

Provenance Challenges for Earth Science Dataset Publication, by Curt Tilmes, NASA
Abstract: Modern science is increasingly dependent on computational analysis of very large data sets. Organizing, referencing, publishing those data has become a complex problem. Published research that depends on such data often fails to cite the data in sufficient detail to allow an independent scientist to reproduce the original experiments and analyses. This paper explores some of the challenges related to data identification, equivalence and reproducibility in the domain of data intensive scientific processing. It will use the example of Earth Science satellite data, but the challenges also apply to other domains.

OGK 2011 Speakers