Re: .gov Domain Queries?

[Owen Ambur]

Carroll, it has never been my desire, much less my expectation, that the Federal government or anyone else might run their "solutions" in any of my domains, including https://aboutthem.info/, https://stratml.us/, and https://connectedcommunity.net/ as well as https://ambur.net/ and https://firmcouncil.org/  

(I formerly owned the productandservice.info domain.  I gave it up but the schema remains available at https://ambur.net/#ProductServiceDescription.)

I consider the entire StratML collection to be prototypical in nature, demonstrating the direction I hope the world will head.  Ultimately, the files should be posted on the organizations' and individuals' own websites and those files should cite their own URLs as the authoritative sources.  Other renditions (e.g., PDF) should be derived from them.

In the context of the aboutthem.info domain, those StratML files would become sources of about me/us statements as well as more formal strategic plans and performance reports, i.e., first-party info.  

Others would be free to provide second-party info, particularly if first-party info is unavailable in StratML format or they believe it is insufficient or inaccurate.

Myriad third-parties would provide tools, apps, and services indexing, aggegrating, analyzing, and otherwise adding value to the data contained in the first- and second-party files.  To the degree there are doubts and disagreements, resolving them can be raised to a higher, data-focused level than emotionally driven opinions and arguments.

If and, hopefully, when the number of files stored in other places on the Web exceeds those in my collection, I will gladly place it in archival status or, at least, focus on plans not yet available in StratML format.

Similarly, while I can envision continuing to support and enhance my query service for an indefinite period of time, I'd love to see the number and quality of other StratML-enabled services grow and demonstrate sustainability to the point that I no longer feel the need to provide such services myself.

Ultimately, all I care about is the files themselves, i.e., that they are available on the Web in open, standard, machine-readable format in support of the vision of the standard:

A worldwide web of intentions, stakeholders, and results.

BTW, I'm very pleased to see you say "The more we succeed ..." and "If we succeed beyond our wildest dreams ..."  While my dreams are pretty "wild" (expansive), I know they cannot begin to be realized without the help of folks like you and the formation of a virtual Truly Connected community of results (CoR).  I take your phrasing as an indication that you may have come to view yourself as part of such a community.  That thought leads me to suggest that perhaps the most important of my domains that might be worth maintaining and enhancing in perpetuity is https://connectedcommunity.net/

Owen Ambur

https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenambur/

On Friday, June 9, 2023 at 01:30:24 PM EDT, Carroll Ganier <gani...@gmail.com> wrote:

In the data governance and systems management climate that has prevailed over my career I really just don’t see the Federal government running its solution out of your domain nor out of StratNav. I’m not a CISO but those are the vibes I get and I wouldn’t be surprised if it is actual policy because IF we succeed at raising the practice of strategy machine readability etc, then the sensitivity and importance of the strategic plan will only increase. 

The more we succeed in the big picture sense the more important it is to have the tools for organizations to privately work with this stuff until it’s ready to go public. 

If we succeed beyond our wildest dreams and literal political appointees are working “natively” in StratML then the thing has to be ready to withstand nation state level adversaries. I have no illusions that my little project, if it launches, will be ready for that - but if StratML completely succeeds that’s what’s coming down the road. 

On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 11:38 AM Owen Ambur <owen....@verizon.net> wrote:

Carroll, as if I haven't already loaded you down with TMI, here's a thought for your consideration:  

Enable selective querying of the StratML collection for plans/reports whose sources are in the .gov domain with the intent of demonstrating more useful query/discovery capabilities than currently provided on the Performance.gov site.

Currently, I believe the best that can be done along those lines at https://search.aboutthem.info/ is to perform a full-text query for ".gov", which turns up 2,306 hits.

Combining that search with an "offender" query of the Stakeholder element reduces that number to 10, including CSOSA.

A query just of the Stakeholder element reveals two more plans with "offender" stakeholders, for a total of 12.

Owen Ambur

https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenambur/