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On July 14 & 15 in the
Washington DC area the Government Domain Task Force
(GovDTF) of the Object Management Group (OMG) is hosting
a two-day workshop with the following objectives:
- Inform the government community of the
activities of the OMG in the government sector.
- Receive feedback to guide our activities and our
roadmap of planned activities.
The Workshop will focus on the two
areas of greatest activity, spending one day on each.
Day One – OMB/OMG Collaboration
Agenda – The President's Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) has been working with the OMG for several
years. The OMB brought the Federal Transition Framework
to the OMG and successfully brought it to
standardization. Over the last year the collaboration
has turned to the Model for Federal Segment Architecture
(MFSA). Originally started to support the Federal
Segment Architecture Reporting Template, it became clear
that a larger view is necessary. There are overlapping
semantics in a number of areas in the OMB; Segment
Architecture, Federal Transition Framework, OMB 300,
Exhibit 53, and the Consolidated Reference Models. These
pieces have been defined separately and differences in
interpretations and details have occurred. This effort
is intended to bring all of these pieces under a single
semantic umbrella where appropriate.
The GovDTF wants to bring you
up-to-date on the OMB/OMG activities while soliciting
your ideas, comments, suggestions, and participation.
Day Two – Records Management
Services – An Interagency Project Team of 19 Federal
Agencies facilitated by the National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) published "Functional
Requirements, Attributes, and Unified Modeling Language
Class Diagrams for Records, Management Services,
September 7, 2006". NARA subsequently took these
requirements to the OMG to serve as the basis for a
Records Management Services specification. During the
last week of March 2009, the OMG approved the Alpha
version of that specification. This specification will
be brought through Beta to Formal V1.0 status using
OMG's Community Consensus Process. However, NARA, the
OMG and other agencies believe this standard to be a
beginning. It has a road map of additional
specifications to provide functionality not addressed in
this initial specification.
The GovDTF wants to present the
Records Management Services specification while
discussing what it does and does not do. We want to
acquaint you with the current roadmap of activities
while, again, soliciting your ideas, comments,
suggestions, and participation. |
