Environmental Information Exchange Network

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Overview of Other Global Networks Exchange
Network User Group Meeting April 2006
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Other Key Networks

• Global Justice
• Public Health Information Tracking
• National Information Exchange Model

Various Networks are getting press law
enforcement, intelligence, homeland security and
even the Exchange Network.
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Global Justice

• Driven by Policy Leaders at Department of Justice
• Foundation is to create common vocabulary to
  share information
• Data standards and XML schema created
• Partners are using the standards and XML schema
  but DOJ doesnt track implementors
• What is missing is the connection to defined
  business flows.

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Public Health Tracking Network

• Public Health Information
• Link to Environment Information
• Pilot project throughout the country
• CDC grants
• State environment departments and health
  departments focus on different projects to test
  approaches for sharing environmental and health
  data.
• Initial technical standards were using Messenger
  Services and ebXML.

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Public Health Tracking Network

• Current status
• Using results of pilot projects to develop
  implementation plan
• Final technical approach will be established
  based on pilot projects and interoperability with
  other Federal Networks

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National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)

• Two primary partners
• Dept of Justice
• Dept of Homeland Security
• Build out of the Global Justice Information
  Network
• Adding new data definitions and XML
• Aligns categories of data and how these groups
  exchange data

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National Information Exchange Model

• Federal Government continues to invest in growing
  this model
• FBI announced intent to invest 400 million
• Conforms and tests the Federal Data Reference
  Model

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Data Reference Model
The DRM is a framework whose primary purpose is
to enable information sharing and reuse across
the federal government via the standard
description and discovery of common data and the
promotion of robust data management practices.
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Commonalities

• Service Oriented Architecture
• XML
• Data standards and definitions

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Challenges Ahead

• There is a Federal Enterprise Architecturebut it
  will take a few years for a Federal direction
  to be implemented
• States are establishing State wide technical
  architecture and addressing interoperability
  internally
• How do we bring all this together?
• Will there be a governance similar to the
  Exchange Network
• Local, State, Tribes, and Federal government
  working together on interoperability?
• This is already starting in small pockets

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The Future

• Exchange Network is on course with Federal
  initiatives
• Serving business needs will go along way to
  staying the course
• We also need to be cognizant of these other
  initiatives to make sure we continue to be in
  alignment