4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
You can go to page 8 at 4:15 PM to see why:
Human Services Standards Collaboration Within NIEM
Eric Jahn, Alexandria Consulting; Gabriel Cate, Bowman Systems; David Canavan, Canavan Associates; Michelle
Hayes, Cloudburst Group; Nancy Shank, University of Nebraska Public Policy Center; Cristina Vetrano, American
Red Cross
This panel discussion will introduce a variety of current human-service XML information exchange standards in
wide use across the United States. Discussants will describe the standards, their purpose, and users. Standards will
include those supporting day-to-day human service operations as well as standards developed for disaster
recovery. Collaboration efforts, as well as challenges, to achieve interoperability among the standards will be
highlighted. The panel will conclude with a discussion of the benefits of making these standards NIEM-
conformant, from the perspectives of service delivery to clients, government and community systems
implementers, standards developers, and NIEM
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GFIPM program, including governance agreements, operational policies and procedures, communication
protocols, and a common NIEM-based attribute dictionary to support a flexible attribute-based access control
paradigm. This panel session will feature representatives from several GFIPM participating agencies and will
examine the benefits and potential benefits that GFIPM is able to provide to those agencies.
4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Human Services Standards Collaboration Within NIEM
Eric Jahn, Alexandria Consulting; Gabriel Cate, Bowman Systems; David Canavan, Canavan Associates; Michelle
Hayes, Cloudburst Group; Nancy Shank, University of Nebraska Public Policy Center; Cristina Vetrano, American
Red Cross
This panel discussion will introduce a variety of current human-service XML information exchange standards in
wide use across the United States. Discussants will describe the standards, their purpose, and users. Standards will
include those supporting day-to-day human service operations as well as standards developed for disaster
recovery. Collaboration efforts, as well as challenges, to achieve interoperability among the standards will be
highlighted. The panel will conclude with a discussion of the benefits of making these standards NIEM-
conformant, from the perspectives of service delivery to clients, government and community systems
implementers, standards developers, and NIEM.
4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Information Sharing Project Development and Deployment. The underlying basis of any project is a good
understanding of the relevant business requirements. In addition, the type of project for which information must
be exchanged will have an impact on how much value each of the relative modeling approaches will impart to the
success of the overall project. The needs of the different project types also demonstrate a need for using multiple
tools for capturing all of the relevant information necessary, thereby presenting the case for being able to share
Exchange Modeling (JIEM) Tool as orthogonal components for
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