Open Source's Critical Role when Data must be Shared

Solving interoperability challenges requires management priority, operational innovation, and more effective use of technology. Future information-sharing architectures must expose information assets while providing multiple levels of
security with trusted, controlled interfaces that are appropriate for the type of information being requested.  Learn how open source technologies are helping solve many of the current problems plaguing government information sharing projects today.

About the Speakers:

Quyen L. Nguyen is currently working as System Architect in the Systems Engineering Division of the ERA Program Management Office at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. His interests are in the areas of system architecture, software modeling, and security architecture. Over the years, he has given presentations about different technical aspects of the ERA system in XML conferences, Digital Library Federation Forums, and IEEE Workshops.

Dr. Johnston leads EPA’s efforts to coordinate and implement geospatial technology across the Agency to meet a wide range of mission goals.  This includes providing a vision for geospatial interoperability throughout the EPA enterprise, as well as guidance and perspective on opportunities for adopting place-based approaches more broadly across Agency lines of business.

Tom MacWright is an engineer at Development Seed, an online communications strategy shop that specializes in building open source tools for international development agencies. His focus is on creating open source mapping tools, and he has been the lead developer in creating our open source mapping stack that combines Mapnik with Drupal to create beautiful, custom maps. Recently, he collaborated with Amazon Web Services to get 140 gbs of TIGER U.S. Census data hosted in the cloud, making the public data more accessible and easier to work with.