RE: [egov] Justice XML Data Model

["Ram Kumar" <rkumar@msi.com.au>]

OASIS approved XML specifications exist for person and address and
other personal/company entities. It is unfortunate that these standards are
not re-used in the Global Justice Information Sharing
Inititaive and instead, it has been re-invented. This is where
interoperability will fail. I know that it is not easy to agree on a common
standard for a specific entity like Name and Address across various govt.
sectors (eg. Justice, Health, Election services, etc), but this is where the
challenge is for eGov. to make it happen.

I have for quite sometime being advocating the re-use of XML
specifications developed by OASIS within OASIS TCs in the first
instance that will atleast help achieve interoperability within
OASIS TCs if not outside of OASIS.

Regards

Ram Kumar
Chair, OASIS CIQ TC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aerts, John F. [mailto:jfaerts@lasd.org]
> Sent: Friday, 11 April 2003 11:05 PM
> To: egov@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [egov] Justice XML Data Model
>
>
> The Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global)
> has released
> information on the Justice XML Data Model, including the
> prerelease of the
> Justice XML Data Dictionary, version 3.0. This effort was organized to
> explore and facilitate information sharing and technology
> integration in the
> justice and public safety communities.
> http://it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=43
>
> Possibly this effort can be a base for some of this TC's
> work. Hopefully
> some domain experts from this arena will review and comment on the pre
> release data model. Most of our environments deal with a
> Person, Address, or
> Activity and they are the base objects in this model.
>
> Lieutenant John Aerts
> Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
> Records & Identification Bureau
>
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