Strategy Markup Language StratML

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Strategy Markup Language (StratML)

• Owen Ambur, Co-Chair
• AIIM StratML Committee
• April 2, 2009

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Definition, Focus Intent

• Strategy Markup Language (StratML) an XML
  vocabulary and schema for strategic plans
• Initial Focus the strategic plans that U.S.
  federal agencies are required to compile and
  maintain under the Government Performance
  Results Act (GPRA)
• Intent establish an international voluntary
  consensus standard (AIIM/ANSI/ISO) for potential
  use by all organizations worldwide

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Prospective Purposes

• Sharing, referencing, indexing, discovery,
  linking, reuse, and analyses of the elements of
  strategic plans
• Strategic alignment via literal linkages
• Discovery of potential performance partners
• Stakeholder feedback

• Overcome the tendency of plans to become
  outdated "shelfware"
• Reduce inconsistencies, and delays associated
  with "stovepipe" systems
• Compliance with eGov Act stakeholder linkage
  requirement

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Status Near-Term Plans

• Part 1, StratML Core
• March 23 StratML Committee ballot
  closed/approved
• Issue ballot to AIIM Standards Board National
  Standards Council
• 2nd Q 2009 Publish Standard
• Part 2, Performance Plans Reports
• Candidate elements identified
• Graphic depictions prepared
• Schema being drafted

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Pilots Longer-Term Plans

• During development, piloting, proof-of-concept
  phase more than 450 plans rendered in StratML
  format
• Five different authoring tools used thus far
• Several value-added service prototypes developed
• Part 3 will address optional extensions to Parts
  1 2, such as
• Relationships among elements across plans
• Geospatial references
• SWOT PEST analyses
• Critical Success Factors (CSFs)
• Programs Projects

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StratML Parts 1 2

• StratML Core

• Performance Plans/Reports

• Mission
• Vision
• Values
• Goals
• Objectives
• Stakeholders

• Inputs
• Processes
• Outputs
• Outcomes
• Metrics

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StratML Core
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Part 2, Performance Plans/Reports
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Value Chain
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Inputs
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Outputs
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Outcomes
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Processes
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Metrics
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How You Can Help

• Join AIIMs StratML Committee
• Subscribe to listserv
• Participate in teleconferences
• Contribute to Parts 2 3
• Review comment on drafts
• Convert plans to StratML format
• Encourage others to do so
• Insist that .gov agencies public service .orgs
  do
• Develop value-added services
• General purpose
• Specialized communities of interest

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Contact Addition Information

• AIIM StratML Committee http//www.aiim.org/stand
  ards/article.aspx?ID34121
• StratML page _at_xml.gov http//xml.gov/stratml/ind
  ex.htm
• StratML documents http//xml.gov/stratml/index.h
  tmStratPlans
• Value-added service prototypes
  http//xml.gov/stratml/index.htmSearchServices
• StratML Committee c0-chairs
• Owen Ambur, Co-Chair Emeritus, xmlCoP
• Adam Schwartz, Government Printing Office (GPO)
• Betsy Fanning, Director of Standards, AIIM

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Forms, Demos Prototypes

• PDF Fillable Form
• Xopus Form
• InfoPath Form
• Mark Logic Search Service Prototype
• Google Site-Specific Search
• Joe Carmels Atom Demo XML Datasets Demo
• Ari Knausenbergers Tag Cloud Demo
• Ken Holmans Style Sheet Demo

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PDF Fillable Form
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Xopus Form
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InfoPath Form
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Mark Logic Search Prototype
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Mark Logic Advanced Search
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Mark Logic Search Results
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Google Search Results
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Aris Tag Cloud Demo
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Joe Carmels Atom Demo
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Joe Carmels XML Datasets Demo
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Ken Holmans Style Sheet

• Styled

• Plain Text XML

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Xopus Editable Rendition

• Table of Contents

• Plan

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CMIS StratML

• Content Management Interoperability Specification
• CMIS Folders StratML hierarchy
• Organization
• Mission
• Goals
• Objectives
• CMIS Relationships
• StratML Missions, Goals Objectives Across
  Organizations

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Prospective Partners

• Voluntary Consensus Standards Authorities
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• International Organization for Standardization
  (ISO)
• Open Compliance Ethics Group (OCEG)
• Stratml.org domain
• Draft MOU
• ASC X12 Government Subcommittee (X12G)
• W3C eGov Interest Group (eGov IG)
• Organization for the Advancement of Structured
  Information Standards (OASIS)
• Others?