Version 2.1, a new version, of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is to be released in late summer 2009, according to an article in the July 2009 issue of NIEM Newsletter. NIEM is a standard for facilitating the exchange of XML documents by U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies. The XML document type definitions (DTDs) covered by NIEM include several law-related DTDs (which are gathered into entities, each of which is called an “Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD)”) listed at the National Center for State Courts and the U.S. Department of Justice.
According to the newsletter, NIEM 2.1 will feature a better “structure for an offense in the Justice domain,” and will include three new domains: Maritime; Family Services; and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN).
The Maritime domain will include the Maritime Information Exchange Model (MIEM) version 1.0 (described in this presentation by Dr. Rick Hayes-Roth and Dr. David Reading) which is relevant to legal informatics to the extent that it includes markup for Advance Notices of Arrival, required by 33 CFR sec. 401.79; for ship manifests, which have legal functions in certain contexts; and for other law-related documents.
The Family Services domain, being developed jointly by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Children and Families, the National Center for State Courts, and the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, will also include standards for certain as-yet-unspecified law-related documents.
The newsletter asserts that NIEM 2.1 is backwards compatible, that “[a]ll previous” intergovernmental information exchange models, “including GJXDM, NIEM 1.0 [scroll down], and NIEM 2.0 continue to remain available to support existing exchanges,” and that agencies “may migrate to [NIEM 2.1] in their own timelines.”
Training respecting NIEM 2.1 will be available at the 2009 NIEM National Training Event, to be held September 30-October 2, 2009, in Baltimore, Maryland, or from tutorials and other resources on the NIEM Website.
For more information, see the NIEM Newsletter article, or the NIEM Website.
Tags: Court technology, e-government, Family law systems, Juvenile justice systems, Legal information exchange models, Legal information interchange models, Legal information standards, Legal system design models, Legal XML, Maritime Information Exchange Model, Maritime legal information systems, MIEM, National Information Exchange Model, NIEM
May 6, 2010 at 5:15 pm |
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