# Presentation: 109067

## Topic Maps for Managing Classification Guidance

-               Vinh Lê		               James David Mason
- U. S. Department of Energy       Y-12 National Security Complex

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## Topic Maps for Managing Classification Guidance

- Background
- Guidance information and the relationships in which it participates
- Topic Maps design
- System design considerations

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## Background

- Information Classification and Control Policy
- Classification guidance system
- Current challenges
- DOE Guidance Streamlining Initiative
- Infrastructure development—prototype system
- Topic Maps application

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## Structure of a typical chapter of a classification guide 

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## Sample classification topics

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## Sample classification topics

- Subject name

- Topic hierarchy

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## Sample classification topics

- Classification Topic
- Description

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## Sample classification topics

- Classification level
- and category

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## Guidance topics and related information 

- How-to-use Instructions:  Basic technology is technology
- available in academic text books, taught in accredited schools, or *widely*
- available in open literature.  For example, . . .

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## Guidance topics and related information (cont.)

- Keywords

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## Guidance topics and related information (cont.)

- Collaboration: Our advanced technology may help
- competitors cut down their R&D costs and delivery time
- of their products to consumers.  LLNL and SNL objected.

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## Guidance topics and related information (cont.)

- Key Concept:  Knowing what specific vehicle uses high-octane
- fuel one can determine the performance of a specific vehicle.
- The production technology of high-octane fuel is also SRD.  See...

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## Guidance topics and related information (cont.)

- Guidance History:  This topic was SRD in the early 1960s.
- Technology advancement allowed downgrading this information to CRD.
- A declassification is being considered by the DOE.

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## Guidance topics and related information (cont.)

- Tutorial: training materials, video clips, etc...
- are linked to this subject.

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## What Topic Maps may offer

- Place guidance documents under management
- Manage links between authoritative guides and derived guides
- Connect guidance topics to conceptual framework (e.g., key concepts, keywords, master subject list)
- Ease updating of guidance across the DOE complex
- Facilitate rapid production of new guidance products

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## What Topic Maps may offer (cont.)

- Indexing according to flexible, user-definable schemes
- Linking of complex subject matter
- Viewing unconstrained by linear structures or details of document encoding

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## Topic Maps for Managing Classification Guidance

-               Vinh Lê		               James David Mason
- U. S. Department of Energy       Y-12 National Security Complex

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## Components and roles in an ontology for guidance management

- Guide document roles: master, derived
- Guidance topics
- Guide structure: discursive text, hierarchy of topics
- Guidance topic components: text, classification
- Keywords and other conceptual units
- Associations with guidance topics
- Internal logical hierarchies
- Supporting structures
- Coordination and other annotation, “how to use” rules, examples, training materials
- Versioning, historical annotation

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## Current ontology structure

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## First demonstration GSI Topic Map: relationships between derived and master guides

- Objects
- Guides: Y-12 principal guide and headquarters guide on design principles
- Components: guidance topics, topic numbers, classifications, keywords
- Sources: external XML files
- Relationships
- Hierarchy of topics within guides
- Derivation of Y-12 guide topics from design guide topics
- Association of keywords to guidance topics in each guide
- Implication hierarchies of keywords (for Y-12 guide only)

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## GSI Topic Map structure

- Topics
- Ontology: typing topics for  association roles and static topics for fixed data values
- Objects: guides, components from guides, and keywords in conceptual framework
- Associations
- Among objects
- Between objects and fixed items
- According to roles derived from ontology

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## Topic Map objects, ontological components

- Typing topics
- Guide
- Guidance topic
- Classification component
- Keyword (also keystone)
- Source
- Logic components
- Static items
- Classification level (e.g., Secret, Confidential) with alternates and ranges
- Classification category (e.g., Restricted Data)
- NSI Exemptions and declassification conditions

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## Topic Map objects, active data

- Guides
- Guide identity
- Source files (components and completed products)
- Guidance topics
- Text
- Topic number
- Source in repository
- Keywords (keywords, master subject list)
- Coordination components (under development)
- Versioning components (also under development)

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## Associations

- Guidance topic centered
- Topic and guide
- Parent and child
- Master and derived
- Topic and classification components
- Topic and keyword
- Topic and coordination information
- Conceptual keyword centered
- Antecedent and consequent
- Logical conditions

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## Topic Map roles for objects

- Guide, master and derived
- Guidance topic
- Master and derived
- Parent and child
- Keyword
- Logical consequent, antecedent
- Trigger for guidance topic
- Implication rule type (AND, OR, NOT)
- Classification component (level and category)

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## Guidance topic as a Topic Map topic

- Names
- Text of topic (to make it visible in browser)
- Topic number
- Occurrences
- Source files
- Published documents
- Coordination and reference material
- Associations: primary means of locating and managing topics

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## Sample topical guidance

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## Guidance topic as a Topic Map topic

-  <topic id="gti-CG-CR-1-110.1.2.1">
-     <instanceOf><topicRef href="#r-topic-in-guide"/></instanceOf>
-     <baseName>
-       <scope><topicRef href="#gd-CG-CR-1"/><topicRef href="#r-fulltext"/></scope>
-       <baseNameString>
-           Information revealing theory or technology of EFI.
-       </baseNameString>
-     </baseName>
-     <baseName>
-       <scope><topicRef href="#gd-CG-CR-1"/><topicRef href="#r-topicnumber"/></scope>
-       <baseNameString>
-           110.1.2.1
-       </baseNameString>
-     </baseName>
-     <occurrence>
-       <instanceOf><topicRef href="#r-source"/></instanceOf>
-       <scope><topicRef href="#s-xml"/><topicRef href="#gti-CG-CR-1-110.1.2"/></scope>
-       <resourceRef href="YCG-990.xml#I 110.1.2.1"/>
-     </occurrence>
-   </topic>

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## Keyword as a Topic Map topic

- Name: primary visible entry
- Variants: synonyms
- Associations
- Connection to guidance topics
- Assembly of inferential networks
- Construction of “keyword clusters” that occur in multiple contexts

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## Keyword as a Topic Map topic

-  <topic id="kw-EFI">
-     <instanceOf><topicRef href="#r-keyword"/>
-     </instanceOf>
-     <baseName>
-       <baseNameString>EFI</baseNameString>
-       <variant>
-         <parameters><subjectIndicatorRef href="#r-synonym"/>
-         </parameters>
-         <variantName>
-           <resourceData>Electronic Fuel Injection</resourceData>
-         </variantName>
-       </variant>
-     </baseName>
-   </topic>

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## Associations: parent/child

-  <association>
-     <instanceOf><topicRef href="#f-topic-to-parent"/></instanceOf>
-    <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-classification-topic-parent"/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#gti-CG-CR-1-110.1.2"/>
-     </member>
-   <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-classification-topic-child"/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#gti-CG-CR-1-110.1.2.1"/>
-     </member>
-   <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-classification-topic-child"/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#gti-CG-CR-1-110.1.2.2"/>
-     </member>
- </association>

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## Associations: master/derived

-  <association>
-     <instanceOf><topicRef href="#f-mainTopic-to-instance-topic"/></instanceOf>
-    <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-topic-in-master-guide"/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#gti-MG-transportation-0331"/>
-     </member>
-   <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-c topic-in-local-guide "/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#gti-CG-CR-1-110.1.2.1"/>
-     </member>
- </association>

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## Associations: topic/classification

-  <association>
-     <instanceOf><topicRef href="#f-topic-classification"/></instanceOf>
-     <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-topic-in-guide"/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#gti-CG-CR-1-110.1.2.1"/>
-     </member>
-     <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-classification-category"/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#cat-RD"/>
-     </member>
-     <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-classification-level"/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#lev-C"/>
-     </member>
-   </association>

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## Associations: topic/keywords

-  <association>
-     <instanceOf><topicRef href="#f-mainTopic-to-keyword"/></instanceOf>
-     <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-topic-in-guide"/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#gti-CG-CR-1-110.1.2.2"/>
-     </member>
-     <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-keyword"/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#kw-EFI"/>
-     </member>
-     <member>
-       <roleSpec><topicRef href="#r-keyword"/></roleSpec>
-       <topicRef href="#kw-specific-vehicle"/>
-     </member>
-   </association>

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## Hypothetical Browser/Editor Screen

- Fact of Electronic Fuel Injection (EFI), no elaboration

- 110.1.2

- Parent topic:

- U

- Information revealing theory or technology of EFI.

- 110.1.2.1

- Sibling topics:

- C

- RD

- Streamline mode : Topic and keyword

- Add

- Browse

- Browse

- Edit

**Hypothetical Browser/Editor Screen**

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## What we can discover in the GSI Topic Map

- What Y-12 guide topic is derived from a given design guide topic?
- What is the design guide source for a given Y-12 guide topic?
- What are the keywords for this topic?
- What topics depend on a given keyword?
- What topic in this guide is the parent of this one?
- What topics in this guide branch out from this one?
- What is the classification of a given topic?
- What concepts lead up to a keyword?

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## Topic Map as control for all essential data and metadata

- Guidance topics for publication
- Pointers to external documents (e.g., derived guidance documents)
- Annotation and coordination
- Versioning
- Access control

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## Next steps with the GSI Topic Map

- Versioning
- Check-in, check-out, lock
- Storing of multiple versions of text (occurrences)
- Annotations
- Coordination
- Reviewers’ notes
- Approval cycle
- Connections to external text
- (Support from DBMS, document manager)

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## Architecture for guidance management and publishing system

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## Future work

- Demonstrate browser-based editing
- Improve ontology
- Improve storage of richly tagged text
- Link other guides
- Improve keyword framework
- Investigate document-management and file assembly and dissection

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## Digression

- A journal for Markup Technologies:
*interChange*
- Journal of ISUG, International SGML/XML Users’ Group
- mxm@y12.doe.gov

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