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White Papers

A Modeling Methodology to Harmonize Disparate Information Models (Office of Homeland Security) - an advanced study into possible modeling methodologies that could be used to facilitate information harmonization for the United States governments security and law enforcement branches. Espousing OO modeling techniques, this paper was written in the early days of OHS and many of the concepts have now been adopted by various justice institutions.

Service Oriented Architectures for Executives - Canadian Government Standards Magazine. A service-oriented architecture is a way of connecting services or applications across a network. Each service can have many incarnations. It can be a business process such as
requesting an eForm, or it can be a technical application. Fall 2003 issue

Adoption Strategies for XML Standards and the ebXML Infrastructure - By Duane Nickull - Deciding on an XML vocabulary is one of the critical decisions an organization can make. The most obvious option is to select an existing vocabulary. This presentation provides strategies for locating, reviewing, and selecting just the XML vocabulary to adopt. It also delves into the ebXML initiative and how it works with XML vocabularies. Fall 1999

Technology Papers:

NOTE: This page has been temporarily removed pending permission. Recommendations for placement of CPSIN IJI Data Dictionary Data Elements into an ebXML / ISO-IEC 11179 Metadata Facility - This paper is the final deliverable to examine registry support issues to help harmonize international justice data elements. The paper discusses ebXML Core Components, Business Information Entities, OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM), Context Methodology (UBL) and several registry standards as well as proprietary data formats for the Canadian Public Safety Information Network (CPSIN). 600 KB - November 28, 2003

Japanese Government's XMl/EDI internet Guidebook - The Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan (ECOM; chairman: Fujio Cho, president of Toyota Motor Corporation) has published the world’s first Internet EDI (XML/EDI) Introduction Guidebook. This guidebook describes introductory procedures and know-how intelligibly. This English version was finalized under the supervision of Duane Nickull (leader of the ebXML Technical Architecture Project Team in UN/CEFACT, and vice-president of Yellow Dragon Software Corporation) who is one of the key persons in the ebXML world. - May 29, 2003

HTML to XML conversion - XML GLobal has a two way conversion process which is the subject of scrutiny for it's use in retaining XML semantics within the confines of an HTML document. IT has been referred to by it's acronym of XHML which stands for Extensible hybrid markup language. DO not worry - it's not being proposed as another standard! November 1998