History, Charter

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History, Charter Challenges Facing the XML
Community of Practice (xmlCoP)

• Owen Ambur, Co-Chair Emeritus
• xmlCoP/XBRL CoP Forum _at_FOSE
• March 20, 2007

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Presentation Outline

• xmlCoP History
• Original Motivations
• 1st Charter
• 2nd Charter
• 3rd Charter
• 4th Charter
• Accomplishments
• Recent ET Submissions
• I411 BTS Prototype

• Stage 2 CoPs
• Stage 3 CoPs
• Remaining Challenges
• XML Registry Services
• ET.gov Enhancements
• XSD for DRM
• XML NDRG
• XML for Forms Records
• Contact Info

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History

• Chartered by CIO Council in 2000
• 1st Charter Expired on September 30, 2002
• Now Operating under 4th two-year Charter
• Expiring November 30, 2008
• New Co-Chairs
• Ed Coia, Treasurys Financial Management Service
• Kirk Keller, Missouris Department of
  Conservation
• http//xml.gov/documents/completed/history.htm

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Original Motivations

• Render all .gov forms in XML gather the data
  from them in XML
• Specify a core set of XML metatags for the
  classification management of records
  governmentwide
• My E-mail message
• http//xml.gov/documents/completed/genesis.htm

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Originally Chartered Activities

• Develop XML Best practices and Recommended
  Standards
• Develop Partnerships with Key Industry and Public
  Groups Developing XML Standards and
  Specifications
• Develop Partnerships with Existing Federal
  "Vertical" Communities to Accelerate the Delivery
  of XML Benefits
• Conduct "Results-Oriented" Education and Outreach
  
• http//xml.gov/documents/completed/charter1st.htm
  

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Additional Activity in 2nd Charter

• Propose for consideration by the AIC specific
  projects and products benefiting stakeholders of
  multiple Federal agencies
• CIOC intended to take more operational role
• Subsequently found resources lacking
• Congress cut cross-agency funding
• Including 2.1 million requested by the President
  for the XML Registry
• Business Case estimated ROI ranging from 500
  1400
• http//xml.gov/documents/completed/bah/registryBus
  inessCase.htm_Toc19694635

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Additions in 3rd Charter

• Continue previously authorized activities while
  focusing on
• Assisting with implementation of the emerging
  technology (ET) life-cycle management process
• Facilitating collaboration on and review of
  XML-based "components" within that process
• The XML Working Group (XML WG) was renamed as the
  XML Community of Practice (xmlCoP)
• http//xml.gov/documents/completed/charter3rd.htm

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Addition in 4th Current Charter

• Continue previously chartered activities while
• Coordinating with and supporting the activities
  of the Data Architecture Subcommittee (DAS) and
  Services Subcommittee, as well as the Governance
  Subcommittee of the AIC
• The CIOC/AIC
• Created the DAS to emphasize data architecture as
  a priority, and
• Renamed the Services S/C to focus on services
  already available for reuse
• http//xml.gov/documents/completed/charter.htm

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Accomplishments

• Education Outreach
• xml.gov site
• Meetings/briefings virtually every month for 6
  years
• See Agendas, Minutes Presentations
• ET.gov Site/Process
• About 80 components/specifications so far
• See search results screen i411 BTS prototype
• 14 CoPs at Stage 2
• 5 at Stage 3
• 2 have graduated at Stage 4
• PDF-A X3D included in the FEA TRM

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Most Recent ET.gov Submissions
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I411 Prototype
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Stage 2 ET CoPs
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Stage 3 CoPs
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Remaining Challenges

• XML Registry Services
• Emerging Technology Process Enhancements
• XML Schema for Data Reference Model
• XML Naming Design Rules Guidelines
• Original Motivations
• XML schemas data from all .gov forms
• XML metatags for records management/sharing

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XML Registry Services

• Collaborative development/use of XML schemas
• Still too hard to discover reuse
• Centralized registry has highest ROI
• Distributed set of interoperating registries
  preferred
• Posting XSDs on Web with appropriate metadata may
  be best alternative
• Build registries from the bottom-up
• See Registries page on xml.gov site

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ET.gov Site/Process Enhancements

• More effective well-coordinated consideration
  of ET by .gov agencies
• Dampen hype cycle
• Accelerate maturation adoption
• Enhancement of ET.gov site process
• See proposed enhancement requirements

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XSD for DRM

• One of Key Indicators in CIO Councils
  Strategic Plan is
• All of the e-Gov and Lines of Business (LoB)
  project management offices have fully documented
  data architectures in conformance with the XML
  schema for DRM 2.0
• Problem
• XSD for DRM is merely in draft form
• http//xml.coverpages.org/FEA-DRM-SchemaDraftV04-2
  0060103.xsd
• Not yet authoritative

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XML NDRG

• Various groups specifying own XML naming design
  rules (NDR)
• Not all make sense in all contexts
• Guidelines may be more appropriate than rules in
  some instances
• Difficult complex to apply
• Tool support required
• NIST XML Schema Interoperability Work Group
• https//collab.core.gov/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id2
  234

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XML for Forms Records

• A couple hopeful signs
• FIRMs forum this morning
• http//xml.gov/documents/completed.asp20070320pec
  hakucha
• XBRL/XForms presentation at this meeting
• http//xml.gov/presentations.asp20070320

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Contact Information

• My E-mail Address
• Owen.Ambur_at_verizon.net
• Web Sites
• http//xml.gov
• http//et.gov/
• http//mysite.verizon.net/ambur/
• This Presentation
• http//xml.gov/presentations/xmlCoPhistory.htm
• http//xml.gov/presentations/xmlCoPhistory.ppt