Good day NIEM community members!
We are excited to announce that NIEM 5.0 Beta 1 is available for review at
https://niem.github.io/niem-releases. Please provide your comments by
Friday, July 17, 2020.
Major content changes include:
- Addition of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) metadata
- Addition of content from the Generic Statistical Information Model (GSIM) content as a precursor to the upcoming Statistics domain
- Addition of new content from the Public Health Emergency Operations Center (PH-EOC) Minimum Data Set to the Emergency Management domain
- Major updates to the FBI NCIC, NDEx, and UCR code tables
- Simplified release folder layout and the removal of version numbers from file paths
- Updated character encoding (from US-ASCII to UTF-8) and addition of attribute xml:lang to the reference schemas for better international support
- Updated structures and appinfo utility schemas as part of the upcoming Naming and Design Rule (NDR) Specification 5.0 update
- Many harmonization content updates
Please see the README file in the release for more changes and details.
You are all valuable members of the NIEM community and your recommendations are important to advancing NIEM. Post comments and feedback at
https://github.com/NIEM/NIEM-Releases/issues/new?labels=5.0 or email
niem-comments@lists.gatech.edu.
Thank you for your continued NIEM advocacy and support!
NIEM Management Office