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Upcoming Technical Committee Meeting

Reston, VA, USA – 19-23 March 2012
Technical Committee Meeting Information

GovDTF Agenda (under development)
Send suggested items to gov-chairs@omg.org

Agenda Highlights

TBD

GovDTF Meeting Results
Santa Clara, CA – 12-16 December 2011
Minutes: gov/2011-12-01

Review of Results from "Standards Palooza" – Kshemendra Paul, Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE) reviewed the results of this second summit conference. held 5 December 2011 in Washington DC (hosted by the PM-ISE).
Review of NIEM UML Initial Submission – The Initial Submission of the UML Profile for NIEM (NIEM UML) was presented and reviewed by the GovDTF. Comments and recommendations were made.
Presentations following up NIEM UML Review – A number of presentations were made that followed up the discussions surrounding the review of the NIEM UML Initial Submission, feeding into our Roadmap Session:
- Model Driven Information Exchange
- Global Reference Architecture View
- Enterprise-SOA with SoaML
Roadmap Session
- Provide over-arching contextual definitions for applying standards to governmental in-formation sharing
- Standards for use in Procurement
- ISE in the Community of Standards
- Service Oriented Architecture in the Information Sharing Environment
- Registry of resources that can be used by tool vendors and users of the tools
- PIM for identity management.
GovDTF's Name Changed – The full name of the "Government Domain Task Force" (GovDTF) was changed to the "Government Information Sharing and Services Domain Task Force". It will remain referred to in the short as the "GovDTF" and the document number prefix "gov" will be retained to provide continuity of documentation.
W3C Liaison Report on Government Linked Data Working Group

How to Get Involved

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Contacts:

Government Domain Task Force


Co-Chairs:	John C. Butler Everware-CBDI, Inc.
	Larry L. Johnson TethersEnd Consulting

Open Government Working Group

Chair: Cory Casanave, Model Driven Solutions
OpenGov Home Page
Informational Flyer

This working group was chartered at the request of the US Government WG Steering Committee, but it is intended to be international in scope. We will be liaising with other groups such as W3C, OASIS, etc.

If you are interested in participating send a request to mailto:request@omg.org and ask to be added to the OpenGovernment@omg.org mail list.

If you are interested in becoming a member of any of the following Steering Committees, contact its Chair, Government or military employees are preferred as members.

US Government Working Group
Steering Committee (click here)


Co-Chairs:	Richard Murphy General Services Administration Robert Spangler National Archives and Records Administration
Members:	Edwin McCeney Department of the Interior
	Daryll Prescott TethersEnd Consulting
	George Thomas Department of Health and Human Services

Japan Government Working Group Steering Committee (click here)


Chair:	Kenji Hirata Toyo University
Members:	To be appointed.

Latin American Governments Working Group Steering Committee (click here)


Acting Chair:	Roberto Sasso ICE
Members:	To be appointed.

Other Government Working Groups?

GovDTF would be pleased to be a vehicle for producing specifications of interest to your international, regional or local government organization or consortium

eMail Lists

The OMG maintains a number of email lists for our groups. Click here to view the email list(s) which are pertinent to this group. Many lists are only open to members of the OMG.

If you have any questions about adopted specifications, please feel free to contact the tech-editor.

GovDTF & Related Work Items
The bulleted Link is the project page for each work item. Go there for further detail on each item.

RFP: UML Profile for NIEM
This RFP was issued in the Salt Lake City meeting, June 2011.

Objectives: The objective of this RFP is to provide a standard for modeling National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) artifacts (Model Package Documents - MPDs) with UML. MPDs include numbered releases, domain updates, and IEPDs

Letter of Intent Deadline: Passed
Voting List Closed
Initial Submission Received

Revised Submission Due: 20120220
RFP: Compentency Management
This work item was originally titled "Skills Management" and begun during the June-2008 TC Meeting in Ottawa.

Parties interested in participating should contact the GovDTF Chairs.

This work item is currently on hold awaiting resources.
RFP: Records Management Services Version 2
This work item was initiated in the Costa Rica meeting in June 2009. The RFP was issued in the Long Beach TC meeting in December 2009.
Objectives:
- Subsume RMS Version 1.x
- Create multiple compliance points allowing finer granularity of compliant service provision.
- Create one or more AttributeProfile specifications. If only one profile is provided it will be of that required to support the extant records management standard DoD 5015.02
Letter of Intent Deadline: Passed
Voting List Closed:
Initial Submission Due 20120220

The future of this work item is being assessed.
RFP: Records Management Services Version 1 Test Suite.

This work item was initiated in the Costa Rica TC meeting in June 2009.

The US National Archives and Records Administration is supporting this follow-on RFP to provide standardized test suites for RMS Version 1.0 implementations. The goal is to enable a first level of Independent Verification & Validation in a procurement, the eventual creation of an RMS Reference Implementation to drive the tests, and the eventual creation of an RMS certification program.

Work Item is on hold awaiting resources.

WP: RMS Context with Other RM Standards
Schedule to be worked in the Salt Lake City Meeting, June 2011
WP: "Transforming Government IT With Architecture: Achieving Agility & Modularity"
This whitepaper was issued by the GovDTF in Salt Lake City in June 2011. See http://gov.omg.org/gov-doclib.htm.
RFC: Records Management Maturity Model
Work item on hold awaiting resources.
RFI: Model Based Acquisition
Work item on hold awaiting resources.

GovDTF Related FTF/RTFs

FTF: Model for Performance-Driven Government
The Finalization Task Force completed its mission in the Santa Clara CA TC Meeting in December 2010. The Board of Directors adopted the specification at Formal V1.0 Status shortly after the Salt Lake City in June 2011. An RMS V1.1 Revision Task Force has been formed.
RTF: Model for Performance-driven Government (MPG) V1.1
This Revision Task Force was chartered to address any issues arising in the implemenation of MPG V1.0. Go to this project page to register any issues concerning this specification.
RTF: Federal Transition Framework V1.1
This Revision Task Force was chartered to resolve issues raised against the V1.0 specification, producing V1.1. Go to this project page to register any issues concerning this specification.
RTF: Records Management Services V1.1
This Revision Task Force was chartered to address any issues arising in the implemenation of RMS V1.0. Go to this project page to register any issues concerning this specification.