Strategy Markup Language StratML

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Strategy Markup Language (StratML)

• Enterprise Content Management Association (AIIM)
• 1.10.2007

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Agenda

• StratML Scope Vision
• StratML Benefits
• StratML Proposal to AIIM
• Progress to Date
• Strategic plan core schema
• Strategic plan rendering
• Search discovery prototype
• StratML core schema elements

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StratML Vision

• StratML is a proposed XML vocabulary and schema
  for strategic plans as well as performance plans
  and performance reports
• The initial focus has been on the core elements
  of the strategic plans U.S. federal agencies are
  required to compile and maintain under the
  Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
• The vision is to establish StratML as an
  international (ISO) voluntary consensus standard
  for potential use by all organizations worldwide

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Why StratML?

• Standardization
• Search Discovery
• Line of Site
• Reduce Resource Application Dependency
• http//xml.gov/stratml/index.htmDefinitionPurpose
  s

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StratML Project Proposal to AIIM

• http//www.xml.gov/draft/AIIMProjectProposalXSDfor
  StrategicPlans.htm
• E-Gov Act requires agencies to
• link their performance goals ... to key groups,
  including citizens, businesses, and other
  governments, and to internal Federal Government
  operations.
• work collectively in linking their performance
  goals to groups of stakeholders and use
  information technology in delivering Government
  information and services to those groups.
• Supports AIIMs mission of developing
• The tools and technologies used to capture,
  manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and
  documents related to organizational processes.

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StratML Project Proposal to AIIM

• Scope statement
• An XML schema (XSD) will be specified containing
  the semantic elements that are common to the
  strategic plans of all organizations worldwide.
  Examples include vision, mission, values, goals,
  objectives, metrics, and stakeholders.
• The XSD will not include stylistic elements.
• To the extent that may be appropriate, the XSD
  will be modular so that organizations can use any
  logically separable part of it without being
  bound to using all of its components. In
  addition, the schema will be extensible in the
  sense that any organization can add any element
  (s) it chooses to meet its own more specialized
  needs/desires without losing the benefits of the
  base schema.

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StratML Progress to Date

• Phase 1A (completed)
• Elements and definitions deemed essential (core)
  to any strategic plan are logically structured
  into an XML schema that is consistent with the
  intent, purpose, and lexicon of the GPRA and best
  practices of the Strategic Planning and
  Performance Management (SPPM) process.
• StratML Value Proposition White Paper
• Phase 1B (completed)
• The vocabulary and schema has been tested with
  100 strategic plans
• The goal and objective statements contained in
  those plans were rendered in XML and the
  capability to search for and discover related
  goals and objectives across agencies has been
  demonstrated.
• StratML Results Summary White Paper
• Next Steps
• AIIMs Standards Board approved StratML for
  inclusion in its standards program at its meeting
  in September 2007.
• Establish StratML as an international (ISO)
  voluntary consensus standard for potential use by
  all organizations worldwide

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Strategic Plan Schema Rendering

• Phase 1A elements and definitions for the core
  strategic plan were created using GEFEG XML
  editing software.
• Phase 1B goal and objective statements were
  rendered in XML using
• Business Web Softwares AchieveForms
• Microsoft InfoPath
• Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) fillable
  form
• Microsoft Word
• XOPUS

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Search Discovery Prototype

• Mark Logic Corporation created a prototype to
  demonstrate the following capabilities
• Ingest  The 100 sample strategic plans rendered
  in XML were ingested instantaneously, without the
  need of any especial configuration changes or
  pre-processing steps.  As they were loaded, these
  documents were automatically indexed, and the
  various XML tags were identified.
• Query  Once ingested, an XQuery application that
  utilizes the native structure of the rendered
  plans to query the different parts of the
  strategic plans was developed. 
• Manipulate  The prototype allows users to build
  synthetic documents based on selected sections of
  different plans. 

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StratML Core Schema Vocabulary

• Summary Results Whitepaper Appendix C
• http//xml.gov/stratml/SummaryAndResultsWhitePaper
  20070906.pdf

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StratML Contact Information

• Adam Schwartz
• Government Printing Office
• [phone]
• aschwartz_at_gpo.gov
• Owen Ambur
• Department of the Interior (Retired)
• Owen.Ambur_at_verizon.net
• Betsy A. Fanning
• AIIM
• Director, Standards Content
• BFANNING_at_AIIM.ORG
• http//xml.gov/stratml/index.htm