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RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] NIEM - National Information Exchange Model

From: Thomas Clarke
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:49:00 -0000

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Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] NIEM - National Information Exchange Model

From: "Clarke, Thomas" <[email protected]>
To: "Jim Beard" <[email protected]>,"Electronic Court Filing Technical Committeee" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 07:48:22 -0400

Jim,

NIEM was born when the Department of Justice (DOJ) convinced the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) earlier this year to adopt the
GJXDM as its data model.  DOJ and DHS renamed it NIEM because they
intend to include a much broader group of organizations than just the
justice community.  The GJXDM and its governance processes do represent
the initial iteration of NIEM, but the NIEM Program Office is hard at
work on its own governance process and concept of operations.  At some
point in the next year or so, it will grow beyond the original GJXDM
content and become a separate entity.  Whether or not the two remain in
complete consistency will be largely up to those of us in the justice
community.

There are two Global representatives right now on the NIEM PMO Steering
Committee.  One of those is me.  Someone from the National Center for
State Courts, either Scott Fairholm or myself, will also be on the newly
formed NIEM Governance Tiger Team.  I try to keep in close and frequent
contact with the two leaders of NIEM, Jim Feagans of DOJ and Mike
Daconta of DHS.

We do need to pay attention to NIEM.  If nothing else, it will introduce
a much more rigorous governance structure and add some pressure for a
more complete architecture.  It will also concentrate on what elements
of the data model cross different domains and work on their consistency.
It probably has enough momentum to dominate our original GJXDM work,
although they are trying to be as inclusive as any federal effort can
be.  At this point, having our specification be consistent with the
GJXDM also makes it consistent with NIEM.

Hope this helps.