NIEM 2.0
Description
NIEM is the National Information Exchange Model, an interagency
initiative to provide the foundation and building blocks for
national-level interoperable information sharing and data exchange.
Initiated on 28 February 2005, NIEM is a joint venture between the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department
of Justice (DOJ) with outreach to other departments and agencies.
The NIEM is intended to provide users, practitioners, and developers
with a baseline set of XML Schema components for building
Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPDs).
This package contains documentation and schemas. The schema set includes
Core, domains, code lists, adapter types (wrappers) for external standards,
as well as the schemas, profiles, or adaptations for those standards.
Documentation
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Catalog -
Catalog of files; the file you are viewing now.
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Schemas - A complete list of schemas included in this distribution.
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Spreadsheet -
A hyperlinked, textually oriented model and dictionary of the NIEM
content.
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Change Log -
List of changes since last release.
NIEM Core Schemas
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niem-core: In this release, NIEM Core is a combination of the former Universal and Common namespaces into a single namespace and schema. The identities of Universal and Common components are still maintained in metadata.
NIEM Domain Schemas
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emergencyManagement: Emergency Management
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immigration: Immigration
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intelligence: Intelligence
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infrastructureProtection: Infrastructure Protection
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internationalTrade: International Trade
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jxdm: Justice
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screening: The Screening namespace provides harmonized information sharing content within the Screening Portfolio of DHS. The Screening namespace is initially being populated with person screening information for immigrant and non-immigrant person types who have been encountered and identified by the Screening Portfolio Components. The Screening namespace expands on encounter-related NIEM elements currently included in the Immigration and Intelligence domains.
NIEM Conformant Schemas (code values and external adapter types)
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ansi_d20: Motor vehicle administration codes from ANSI D20, the Data Dictionary for Traffic Record Systems, maintained by AAMVA, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.
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ansi-nist: The ANSI/NIST Fingerprint and Biometric standard.
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apco: The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) - International, Inc
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atf: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
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post-canada: Province codes for Canada.
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census: Employment codes from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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dea: Drug Enforcement Administration
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dod_jcs-pub2.0-misc: Intelligence discipline codes from the Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Publication 2.0, Appendix A.
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edxl: EDXL
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edxl-cap: The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).
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edxl-de: Distribution Element
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fips_10-4: Countries, dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, and their principal administrative divisions from the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 10-4.
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fips_5-2: Codes for the identification of the states, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the United States, and associated areas from the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 5-2.
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fips_6-4: Counties and equivalent entities of the United States, its possessions, and associated areas from the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 6-4.
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geospatial: Defines NIEM adapter types for external geospatial components defined by OGC, LIF, LandXML, IAI, and ANSI. This schema defines NIEM adapter types for external geospatial components defined by OGC, LIF, LandXML, IAI, and ANSI.
It also defines property types and elements according to the conventions required by the Geography Markup Language (GML) specification. These property types and elements allow niem geospatial adapter elements to be referenced from GML conformant application schemas. This situation is described in external-standards.pdf as Case 2: External schemas reference, import, and use NIEM components., but not addressed by that document. However, it applies to the development of the GML application schemas that must in most cases be developed to effectively use GML in niem IEPs.
Note for schema readers: The XML/Schema specification does not require processing implementations to transitively import definitions from imported schemas. To assure that all required definitions are available, a schema must re-import the schemas that are imported by the schemas it imports. Such re-imports are noted in the documentation.
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have: EDXL Hospital AVailability Exchange (HAVE)
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hazmat: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration - Office of Hazardous Materials Safety
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iso_3166: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 3166-1:1997.
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iso_4217: Codes for the representation of currencies and funds from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 4217:2001.
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iso_639-3: Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages.
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itis: Integrated Transportation Information System (ITIS)
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lasd: Los Angeles Sheriffs Department
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mmucc_2: Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria
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mn_offense: Statute and offense codes from the state of Minnesota.
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ncic_2000: Codes from the National Crime and Information Center (NCIC) 2000 standard.
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ndex: National Law Enforcement Data Exchange system
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nga: National Geospatial Agency (NGA)
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nibrs_misc: Miscellaneous crime-reporting codes from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
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nlets: NLETS - The International Justice and Public Safety Information Sharing Network
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nonauthoritative-code: Non-authoritative codes for the direction of a person's pose in an image.
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sar: Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR)
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twpdes: Terrorist Watchlist Person Data Exchange Standard (TWPDES)
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ucr: Crime reporting codes from Uniform Crime Reporting
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unece_rec20-misc: Miscellaneous unit of measurement code from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Recommendation No. 20, "Codes for Units of Measure used in International Trade".
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usps_states: United States state and possession abbreviations from the United States Postal Service (USPS).
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ut_offender-tracking-misc: Plea codes and military discharge codes from the Utah Offender Tracking Database, version 2.03.
NIEM Proxy Schemas
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xsd: Proxy types that carry dictionary metadata and have XML data type simple contents.
Special NIEM Schemas
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appinfo: Elements for use within xsd:appinfo to indicate information supporting the data model underlying NIEM.
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structures: Schema constructs for use by NIEM-conformant schemas to provide consistent definitions and functionality.