Many state and local law enforcement officials eagerly joined an early
federal effort to use Extensible Markup Language to streamline data
exchanges within the law enforcement community. Several regions shot
ahead of the pack and began incorporating a federally designated Global
Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM), only to find the Justice and Homeland
Security departments are now pushing a different framework, the National
Information Exchange Model (NIEM). Federal officials released last
month the second production version of NIEM, which moves the framework
closer to the concept's original purpose, which was to cover a broad
range of homeland security-related activities. NIEM goes beyond law
enforcement by also applying to emergency response, disaster management,
the screening of people and cargo, and international trade. New York
was among the first states to adopt NIEM when the state decided to make
it the foundation of the New York State Integrated Justice environment.
This fall, the state will use NIEM in its eJusticeNY Web portal. Along
with New York, Florida has emerged as another NIEM frontrunner. The
Florida Department of Law Enforcement has established the Florida Law
Enforcement Exchange (FLEX) project to map data and establish new
regional information sharing systems. NIEM will play an integral role
in FLEX... NIEM uses a national standard to create a common vocabulary,
and it offers users a structured approach for developing records and
reference documents. Those elements are encapsulated in reusable NIEM
building blocks called Information Exchange Package Documentation. The
IEPDs include a set of schemas for specific XML exchange instances. An
IEPD might include examples of style sheets to use when entering new
data components or assembling existing data... CHECK HERE See also the NIEM web site: CLICK HERE
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