DRM Report - slightly off topic

Here is a report on yesterday's US Federal 
Government Data Reference Model (DRM) Public Forum. If you have any questions on 
this, please let me know - I am directly involved in this 
initiative.

 

(1) The DRM is the fifth of the 
Federal Enterprise Architecture's set of reference models, and its primary use 
case is to facilitate interagency information sharing. It will also facilitate 
the harmonization of data representation across the federal government, the 
creation/harmonization of data standards, and the establishment of authoritative 
data sources through its standard representation of the following 3 areas (note 
that "Data Sharing" is the strongest relation to SOA):

 

- Data Description (includes 
structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data, as well as data 
sources)

- Data Sharing (includes "exchange 
packages" and data access points)

- Data Context 
(taxonomies)

 

(2) Yesterday's session placed 
emphasis on moving from abstract to concrete, with the notion of an "Executable 
DRM"

 

(3) The public Wiki for the DRM is 
at:

http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DataReferenceModel

 

It contains a link to yesterday's 
Public Forum program (see "Key Date(s) to Note")

 

(4) We have created a draft DRM XML 
Schema along with an accompanying specification, which is available at (also 
from the link to the Public Forum under "Draft FEA DRM 
Schema"):

 

http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/drm/schema/Draft_FEA_DRM_Schema.htm

 

(5) 
Here is the presentation on the DRM XML Schema that I helped present 
yesterday:

http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/drm/PublicForum_2005-06-13/Daconta_DRM_Schema_Presentation_2005_06_13.ppt

 

Please note the depiction of a registry on slide 5 
(will aid the harmonization process across the federal government). Please note 
that this is a conceptual representatino that may involve federated registries 
rather than a single registry.

 

In the section on external 
references, we describe how federal agencies can leverage open standards that 
they already use rather than creating representations according to the DRM 
vocabulary.

 

If you have any comments on this 
work, or suggestions for its improvement, please let me know and I will pass 
them on.

 

Thanks,

Joe

 

Kind Regards,

Joseph Chiusano

Booz Allen Hamilton

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