National Information Exchange Model
From GovITwiki
According to the Justice Department, the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), is a partnership of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. It is designed to develop, disseminate and support enterprise-wide information exchange standards and processes that can enable jurisdictions to effectively share critical information in emergency situations, as well as support the day-to-day operations of agencies throughout the nation.
A major component of NIEM is an XML schema. It's a set of tags that grew out of an older Justice XML effort and other data sharing efforts. The fundamental building block of NIEM is a data component. Data components are the basic business data items that describe common concepts used in general business activities.
NIEM enables information sharing, focusing on information exchanged among organizations as part of their current or intended business practices. The NIEM exchange development methodology results in a common semantic understanding among participating organizations and data formatted in a semantically consistent manner. NIEM will standardize content (actual data exchange standards), provide tools, and managed processes.
NIEM builds on the demonstrated success of the Global Justice XML Data Model. Stakeholders from relevant communities work together to define critical exchanges, leveraging the successful work of the GJXDM.
Links
- Main NIEM Web site
- NIEM Practical Implementer's Course from the NIEM Web site
