Strategy Markup Language StratML Summary

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Strategy Markup Language (StratML)Summary
Results Update

• Architecture Infrastructure Committee (AIC)
• 9.20.2007

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Agenda

• StratML Scope Vision
• StratML Benefits
• Progress to Date Next Steps
• Strategic plan core schema
• Strategic plan rendering
• Search discovery prototype

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StratML Scope

• StratML is envisioned as a standardized XML
  template and vocabulary for Federal agency
  strategic plans, performance plans and
  performance reports that is aligned with the
  Federal Enterprise Architecture, government
  policy, and leverages existing standards.

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Why StratML?

• Standardization
• Search Discovery
• Line of Site
• Reduce Resource Application Dependency

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StratML Progress to Date

• Phase 1A (completed)
• Elements and definitions deemed essential (core)
  to any strategic plan are logically structured
  into an XML schema that is consistent with the
  intent, purpose, and lexicon of the GPRA and best
  practices of the Strategic Planning and
  Performance Management (SPPM) process.
• Phase 1B (completed)
• The vocabulary and schema has been tested with
  47 strategic plans
• The goal and objective statements contained in
  those plans were rendered in XML and the
  capability to search for and discover related
  goals and objectives across agencies has been
  demonstrated.
• Phase 1C (on-going)
• The CoP is seeking review, comment, and approval
  of the Phase 1 vocabulary and schema by the AIC,
  CIO-C, Chief Financial Officers Council (CFO-C),
  and OMB for inclusion in the National Information
  Exchange Model (NIEM).

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Strategic Plan Schema Rendering

• Phase 1A elements and definitions for the core
  strategic plan were created using GEFEG XML
  editing software.
• Phase 1B goal and objective statements were
  rendered in XML using
• Business Web Softwares AchieveForms
• Microsoft InfoPath
• Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) fillable
  form
• Microsoft Word

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Search Discovery Prototype

• Mark Logic Corporation created a prototype to
  demonstrate the following capabilities
• Ingest  The 47 sample strategic plans rendered
  in XML were ingested instantaneously, without the
  need of any especial configuration changes or
  pre-processing steps.  As they were loaded, these
  documents were automatically indexed, and the
  various XML tags were identified.
• Query  Once ingested, an XQuery application that
  utilizes the native structure of the rendered
  plans to query the different parts of the
  strategic plans was developed. 
• Manipulate  The prototype allows users to build
  synthetic documents based on selected sections of
  different plans. 

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StratML Next Steps

• Phase 2A
• Incorporate additional, optional (non-core)
  elements to produce a complete vocabulary and
  schema for strategic plans.
• Phase 2B
• Demonstrate and test the additional elements with
  a number of agency strategic plans.
• Phase 3A
• Extend the vocabulary and schema to include the
  elements of performance plans and reports.
• Phase 3B
• Test the additional elements with their own
  agency performance plans and reports.
• Engage industry partners to demonstrate the
  ability to use the resulting XML documents to
  aggregate, index, and provide for cross-agency
  queries and analyses of such reports, in
  coordination with the Performance Assessment
  Rating Tool (PART) process and the ExpectMore.gov
  site.
• Phase 4A
• Draft a Users Guide for StratML for
  consideration by OMB for potential adoption as a
  government-wide standard.
• Phase 4B
• Seek agency volunteers to pilot and test usage of
  the Guide.
• Phase 5
• Compile a report on the results of the first four
  phases and seek AIC, CIO C, CFO-C, and OMB
  approval of the entire vocabulary and schema for
  incorporation in NIEM and issuance of the Users
  Guide along with policy governing its usage by
  all Executive branch agencies

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StratML Community of Practice Co-Chairs

• Adam Schwartz
• Government Printing Office
• [phone]
• aschwartz_at_gpo.gov
• Owen Ambur
• Department of the Interior (Retired)
• Owen.Ambur_at_verizon.net
• http//xml.gov/stratml/index.htm