Strat Plan Model

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Standards vs. regulations
Standard A document approved by a recognized
body, that provides for common and repeated use,
rules, guidelines, or characteristics for
products, processes or services for which
compliance is not mandatory. Regulation A
document that describes product, process or
service characteristics, including the applicable
administrative provisions, with which compliance
is mandatory. International Standards
Organization (ISO)
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Standards adopt rather than develop

• Because standards for electronic justice
  information sharing have been developed at the
  national level, there is no need for states or
  localities to develop such standards from
  scratch.
• Standards are available to facilitate electronic
  information sharing between disparate justice
  systems at all levelsfederal, state and local
• Therefore, it is only necessary to actually
  develop standards for those very limited, unique
  exchanges that apply solely to a particular
  jurisdiction, locality or state.

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Can you get away without using standards? (well
yes, but!)

• Most electronic data exchanges that have been
  developed without standards are needlessly
  cumbersome
• Non-standards-based exchanges usually require
  expensive and time-consuming development of
  custom data exchange interfaces
• Custom interfaces, once developed, cannot easily
  be reused when creating an additional interfaces

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Net effect of ignoring standards

• Repeated custom interface development results in
  a tangled ad hoc data exchange architecture that
  is undependable and difficult to maintain
• High development costs associated with custom
  interfaces limits the overall value of data
  exchanges between justice agencies
• Reliance on custom interfaces limits electronic
  data exchange to the few agencies that can afford
  the required custom programming

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Bottom Line Without universally applicable
standards, information sharing must be negotiated
on an agency-by-agency basis and each
information-sharing interface must be
independently programmed. This is obviously
inefficient and costly.
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The solution the Global Justice XML Data Model
(JXDM)

• When properly implemented, the JXDM will allow
  information to be seamlessly transferred and
  simultaneously translated as it is passed from
  one justice agency to another.
• Many groups have contributed to the development
  of the JXDM. What has emerged is single, uniform
  justice XML definition that can be used by
  justice agencies throughout the world

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Whos behind Justice XML?

• SEARCH
• U.S. Dept. of Justice
• GLOBAL
• National Center for State Courts
• IJIS Institute
• Most justice application vendors

• Industry Working Group (IWG)
• Justice Information Systems Professionals (JISP)
• National Association of State Chief Information
  Officers (NASCIO)

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So, what is XML?

• XML is widely accepted as the technology that can
  facilitate the seamless exchange and simultaneous
  translation of data between disparate systems.
• While XML is not the only technology that
  facilitates data exchange between systems, it is
  by far the most accepted and it is gaining more
  acceptance every day
• All major vendors of database softwareIBM,
  Oracle and Microsoft, etc.have invested
  significantly in making their software offerings
  fully XML compliant.

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What about regulations?

• We need regulations that will mandate minimum
  levels of justice enterprise network security.
• We need regulations to ensure consistent
  telecommunications protocol(s) for transferring
  data between agencies
• We need data security regulations
• We need regulations that will ensure minimum
  levels of user training before users gain access
  to state and national criminal history systems.

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Justice XML is not a panacea solution (truth in
advertising)

• While justice XML provides the technology to move
  data seamlessly from system to system,
  translation issues still remain, for example
• ALIAS in a law enforcement system may mean
  something different than ALIAS in a court
  system
• Different systems record information at different
  levels of specificity.
• Different systems might share the same data items
  but have different allowable values