Talk:NIEMOpen

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This article is inscrutable to the point that I felt like I was reading a quantum physics article. Can someone who already understands this go through and offer simpler explanations of what this is and what it does? 24.12.182.238 (talk) 17:34, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Most if not all of these links are dead. NIEM redesigned their website. Digitaloday (talk) 23:57, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I think I fixed them all. --hulmem (talk) 18:45, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

> I've never heard that NIEM was going to be expanded to the dept. of health and education. Does anyone have any proof to back this up?

Look at the NIME web page. Note the circles.

No ads for commercial products please. Just a link to the external site.

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RE: "I've never heard that NIEM was going to be expanded to the dept. of health and education. Does anyone have any proof to back this up?"

The intent is for NIEM to be available to support information exchanges involving any government entity at any level (not just federal - that's why it's not FIEM). It remains to be seen which govenment entities (beyond US DOJ and US DHS) and will actually participate. If you look at this page http://www.niem.gov/implementation.php you will see one of the circles says "Public Health" and "Education". Mike 17:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

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Added a See Also item to UCore. | Here is the NIEM official rationale. (By the way, NIEM is an important wiki page, but I don't know how to provide an importance rating to the group involved in the ratings). - Mark Underwood (knowlengr) 20:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Knowlengr (talk • contribs)

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http://www.niem.gov/pdf/NIEM_User_Guide.pdf (page 5-6) points out that NIEM complements the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), the Justice Reference Architecture (JRA) developed by the Global Infrastructure and Standards Working Group (GISWG), and the ISE Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF) developed by the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE).

"These architectures support the sharing of information. NIEM is not a competitor to those activities, but rather complements them as a method used to implement the data exchange layer within these architectures. " Joe Carmel (talk) 21:11, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

______________ Can someone help define what EIEM dictionaries are? Thanks --Dan 14:30, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Origins
The idea for this came from Georgia. The Georgia Courts Automation Commission, now defunct, was the default software vendor for the courts. The court system is highly decentralized in Georgia with separate elected officials at Magistrate Court, Probate Court, Juvenile Court, State Court and Superior Court, plus a separately elected Clerk of Superior Court and no State standards. Each time there was a software change, new APIs had to be written so that each office could communicate the data to the others. An employee named Talib Briscoe suggested to the Commission that we build an information exchange model to simplify the process. Let me explain: Imagine you are at the UN. You have a dozen people in the room who each speak a different language. For the Spanish speaker to speak to the Frenchman, you need a translator who speaks Spanish and French. For the Spanish speaker to speak to the Swahili speaker, you need a translator to speak Spanish and Swahili. You would also need a translator for the French to speak to the Swahili. GCAC was building a translator for each and every software program to speak to each and every other software program. Talib Briscoe suggested we write a single translator for each software program that translated the data to JIEM: Justice Information Exchange Model. This is like just teaching all the UN ambassadors to speak English--then everyone can speak to everyone else. It worked well. We shared it at the national conference and the Department of Justice picked up on it. It turned into Global Justice Information Exchange Model and expanded nationally. From there, it became the National Information Exchange Model as multiple branches of the Federal Government began adopting the standard for information exchange.

KaseetaKen (talk) 20:21, 21 June 2017 (UTC)