2004 Annual Report - Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative - U.s. Department Of Justice Page 19

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justice community in the information sharing
Support the implementation of Global JXDM,
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dialogue. Global recommendations are important for
Version 3.0. In 2005, GISWG will support
justice information sharing across all disciplines, at all
(through GTTAC activities) the implementation
levels of government. Case in point: on February 29,
through the following related tools and resources:
2005, DOJ and DHS announced plans to “work jointly
Education and training, such as the
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Global JXDM Developer’s Workshop
on a common computer language that could become
series, targeted to the audience (high-level
a model for agencies to use to share information.
decisionmakers, midlevel implementers,
Dubbed the National Information Exchange Model,
and technologists and developers).
this Extensible Markup Language framework will
Presently, three Global JXDM training
use Justice’s Global Justice XML Data Model as its
opportunities are slated for 2005.
base.”
This partnership represents a significant step
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in broadening the use of the Global JXDM. It could
Content-based search tool.
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Performance testing.
mean future partnerships with other departments,
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Online database, enabling practitioners
such as Transportation or Health and Human
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to post Global JXDM implementation
Services, and the intelligence community, which
information.
used the model as the basis for a schema to share the
terrorism watch list.
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will research and prepare proposals for GAC on the
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following issues and action items:
It is important to emphasize—before discussing
Make recommendations regarding local, state, and
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individual areas of focus—that the four GAC working
tribal law enforcement needs regarding crime and
groups’ activities are coordinated to maximize effort
terrorism intelligence and information.
and expertise in addressing overlapping concerns.
Make recommendations regarding standards
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GAC working groups, under DOJ purview, have
for public safety fusion centers, in collaboration
forecast, in broad terms, the following activities and
with DHS.
areas of focus for the coming year.
Make recommendations regarding analytical
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products for use by law enforcement agencies.
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Develop recommendations for enhanced outreach
In 2005, the GISWG will pursue its goals by:
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to disseminate training tools for local, state,
Continuing to support the exploration and
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and tribal law enforcement that describe how to
pursuit of SOA as a promising architecture
handle government watch-list information.
for justice information sharing. This includes
Make recommendations concerning a privacy,
recruitment of subject-matter experts to
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civil rights, and civil liberties policy template to
supplement the GISWG knowledge base and
address intelligence systems and issues impacting
facilitation of educational materials (to expand
those systems, such as data aggregation and
justice community support for this approach),
analysis.
targeted research, and possible SOA pilot project
support. These activities will be developed
Support the development of a white paper that
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along the key SOA topic areas of Interagency
provides recommendations on information
Agreements, Registries, Services, and Standards.
(sometimes referred to as “temporary” or
“working” files) that is received or possessed by law
Support of the NIEM Project by contributing
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enforcement agencies, which does not rise to the
GISWG expertise and personnel.
level of “reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.”
Ongoing oversight of JSC.
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Develop a cost-effective recommendation or
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Continuing support of standards initiatives
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proposal for delivery of outreach and training on
(including, but not limited to, Global JXDM
the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan
effort that continues to be shepherded by the
and future training courses (e.g., executive course).
technological experts on GXSTF, under the
guidance of this working group).
GAC 2004 Annual Report to the U.S. Attorney General
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