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NSF Accounting Ontology: A Tutorial

Brand NiemannSenior Enterprise Architect

US EPAMay 13, 2008

http://nsfaccountingontology.wik.is

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Preface

• Web 2.0 Crucial to New Information Workplace, CIO Magazine, November 29, 2007, C.G. Lynch, CIO:– Forrester reports that from blogs to wikis to virtual

worlds, the modern information worker wants a seamless user experience and more and more, IT will be forced to deliver.

– The Seven Tenets of the Information Workplace: Contextual, Individualized, Seamless, Visual, Multimodal, Social, and Quick.

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Preface

• Ontological Specification of Interoperability Semantics for Financial Information and Business Reporting Systems:– A Workshop Funded by the National Science

Foundation (in cooperation with the American Accounting Association and the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Michigan State University)

• May 12-13, 2007, Westin Gateway, Ballston, Virginia (near the National Science Foundation).

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• The organizers of the workshop are:– William E McCarthy

• Department of Accounting and Information Systems

• Michigan State University• mccarthy@bus.msu.edu

– Roger Debreceny• Shidler College of Business• University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa• roger@debreceny.com

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Step 1: Decide on Name

http://wik.is/

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Step 2: Register Name

http://wik.is/register/?sitename=nsfaccountingontology&x=49&y=13

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Step 3: Login

http://wik.is/success/?sitename=nsfaccountingontology

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Step 3: Login

Private Email

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Step 4: Set Preferences

http://nsfaccountingontology.wik.is/Admin:

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Step 4: Set Preferences

http://nsfaccountingontology.wik.is/Special:Preferences

Change Time Zone

Change Password

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Step 5: Control Panel

http://nsfaccountingontology.wik.is/Admin:

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Step 5: Control Panel

http://nsfaccountingontology.wik.is/Admin:Settings

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Step 6: Design Home Page

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Background and Purpose

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Step 6: Design Home Page

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Structure and Interface

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Step 7: Create Subtopics

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Email Links

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Step 8: Repurpose Web Content Into Wiki

http://nsfaccountingontology.wik.is/Web_Sites/The_Impact_of_Corporate_Governance_on_Internet_Financial_Reporting

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Step 9: Attach Files

http://nsfaccountingontology.wik.is/Workshop

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Step 9: Attach Files

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File Descriptions

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Step 9: Attach Files

http://nsfaccountingontology.wik.is/Workshop

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Step 10: Insert Images and Links

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Step 10: Insert Images and Links

http://nsfaccountingontology.wik.is/Participants/Leo_Obrst

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Step 11: Create Web Log (Blog)

http://cioslearning.wik.is/Blog

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Step 12: Set Security

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Step 12: Set Security

• Public: everybody can view and edit.• Semi-Public: everybody can view, but only

selected users can edit.• Private: only selected users can view and edit

this page.• Note: Deki Wiki has one of the most advanced

permission systems available. Deki Wiki administrators can make wikis public or private, anonymous or not. There is user groups support. Users can permission entire hierarchies to create private or non-editable workspaces or permission single pages.

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Step 13: Monitor Users & Changes

http://nsfaccountingontology.wik.is/Special:Recentchanges

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Step 14: Revise/Reorganize

• To soon for this new Wiki, but for another EPA Web 2.0 Wiki Project I did the following quickly:– Moved content from Wiki to another Wiki.– Implemented a set of topics and subtopics.– Created a new user interface.– Updated the Tutorial slides and uploaded them.

Note: This shows how agile and flexible the Web 2.0 Wiki environment is to respond to requests that would be more difficult (or impossible) and time consuming with Web 1.0 collaboration technology.