NASA Search: A Strategic Deployment

1. Jayne Dutra With Help From Lisa Smith Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology NASA Search: A Strategic Deployment

2. 2 Agenda For Today Overview Vision and Technologies Semantic Web, Metadata, SOA�s Goals and Objectives Strategy NASA Engineering Network (NEN) Benefits Possible Next Steps

3. 3 Overview More data More sources and repositories More silos (how many passwords do you have?) More fragmented information space

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10. 10 A Different Paradigm But what if content came to you?

11. 11 Turning Search Upside Down Just in time information delivery based on Engineering Lifecycle Task Analysis Associations and relationships Agents and electronic subscriptions Persistent queries and syndicated content

12. 12 New Technology

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18. 18 Then What? Make content available to delivery mechanisms using Service Oriented Architectures Data streams presented as services and available for consumption by workers in portals and other devices

19. 19 Then What? Make content available to delivery mechanisms using Service Oriented Architectures Data streams presented as services and available for consumption by workers in portals and other devices

20. 20 Attributes That Describe People An Engineer Specialty is Electrical Engineering Works on propulsion systems Worked on projects X, Y, Z Currently working on A As a Cog E On propulsion subsystem Project is in Phase C Has published papers on propulsion systems But What Goes Where?

21. 21 Attributes That Describe People An Engineer Specialty is Electrical Engineering Works on propulsion systems Worked on projects X, Y, Z Currently working on A As a Cog E On propulsion subsystem Project is in Phase C Has published papers on propulsion systems But What Goes Where?

22. 22 Attributes That Describe People An Engineer Specialty is Electrical Engineering Works on propulsion systems Worked on projects X, Y, Z Currently working on A As a Cog E On propulsion subsystem Project is in Phase C Has published papers on propulsion systems But What Goes Where?

23. 23 Attributes That Describe People An Engineer Specialty is Electrical Engineering Works on propulsion systems Worked on projects X, Y, Z Currently working on A As a Cog E On propulsion subsystem Project is in Phase C Has published papers on propulsion systems But What Goes Where?

24. 24 Attributes That Describe People An Engineer Specialty is Electrical Engineering Works on propulsion systems Worked on projects X, Y, Z Currently working on A As a Cog E On propulsion subsystem Project is in Phase C Has published papers on propulsion systems But What Goes Where?

25. 25 Attributes That Describe People An Engineer Specialty is Electrical Engineering Works on propulsion systems Worked on projects X, Y, Z Currently working on A As a Cog E On propulsion subsystem Project is in Phase C Has published papers on propulsion systems But What Goes Where?

26. 26 Attributes That Describe People An Engineer Specialty is Electrical Engineering Works on propulsion systems Worked on projects X, Y, Z Currently working on A As a Cog E On propulsion subsystem Project is in Phase C Has published papers on propulsion systems But What Goes Where?

27. 27 Attributes That Describe People An Engineer Specialty is Electrical Engineering Works on propulsion systems Worked on projects X, Y, Z Currently working on A As a Cog E On propulsion subsystem Project is in Phase C Has published papers on propulsion systems But What Goes Where?

28. 28 Attributes That Describe People An Engineer Specialty is Electrical Engineering Works on propulsion systems Worked on projects X, Y, Z Currently working on A As a Cog E On propulsion subsystem Project is in Phase C Has published papers on propulsion systems But What Goes Where?

29. 29 Attributes About People Competency/Subject Matter Discipline Past Task Assignment Current Task assignment - Role Subsystem Task Phase Associations to objects as Author Attributes About Info Objects Objects related to a Competency Interest in Subject Matter Areas Objects associated with Role Information on a Subsystem Objects associated with a project phase Information on project products Information on technologies Matching Attributes for People to Attributes for Content

30. 30 Attributes About Info Objects LLIS objects about elec engineering Targeted Content Delivery

31. 31 Attributes About Info Objects LLIS objects about elec engineering LLIS objects about propulsion design Targeted Content Delivery

32. 32 Attributes About Info Objects LLIS objects about elec engineering LLIS objects about propulsion design Designs related to team activity Targeted Content Delivery

33. 33 Attributes About Info Objects LLIS objects about elec engineering LLIS objects about propulsion design Designs related to team activity Anomalies involving propulsion systems Targeted Content Delivery

34. 34 Attributes About Info Objects LLIS objects about elec engineering LLIS objects about propulsion design Designs related to team activity Anomalies involving propulsion systems ECRs related to propulsion system Targeted Content Delivery

35. 35 Attributes About Info Objects LLIS objects about elec engineering LLIS objects about propulsion design Designs related to team activity Anomalies involving propulsion systems ECRs related to propulsion system GIDEP alerts about products related to propulsion Targeted Content Delivery

36. 36 Attributes About Info Objects LLIS objects about elec engineering LLIS objects about propulsion design Designs related to team activity Anomalies involving propulsion systems ECRs related to propulsion system GIDEP alerts about products related to propulsion Published papers on relevant subjects and technologies Targeted Content Delivery

37. 37 Attributes About People An Engineer Discipline is Electrical Engineering Worked on projects X, Y, Z Currently working on A as a Cog E on propulsion subsystem Project is in Phase C Has published papers on propulsion systems Attributes About Info Objects LLIS objects about propulsion systems Published papers on relevant subjects and technologies ECRs related to subsystem Information about projects Anomalies involving propulsion systems GIDEP alerts about products related to propulsion Associations Between Attribute Sets

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40. 40 The KM-ness of All This People People People Content Objects People Process (Engineering Life Cycle)

41. 41 KM End Products People People

42. 42 KM End Products People Content

43. 43 KM End Products People Process

44. 44 NASA Engineering Network Leverage the vast knowledge resources of NASA and its partners across domains Making resources more accessible and useful by proactively integrating capabilities Rearchitect the way in which lessons learned are captured, stored, shared, and learned at NASA Embed lessons in processes and tools using workflow Provide semantic search Connect engineers to expertise Capture tacit knowledge Manage communities of practice Provide customizable portals

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46. 46 Next Steps: PRACA Example

47. 47 But What About the Legacy Data? Tools, frameworks, architectures now available to deal with this problem. Architecture: UIMA from IBM Tools: Teragram Metatagger Inxight Many more Requirements and market survey done as part of this paper

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49. 49 Suggested Next Steps

50. Thanks for your time! Jayne.E.Dutra@jpl.nasa.gov

51. Back Up Slides (Dry Technical Stuff)

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