A threshold for the GJXDM
Now that the FBI has adopted the Global Justice XML Data Model as its baseline for the new national data exchange program that will augment and extend NIBRS reporting and the Department of Homeland Security has made the use of the GJXDM mandatory for projects it funds through grant programs, the question of the viability of the GJXDM has clearly been settled. This consensual standard for exchanging information between and among justice agencies is here to stay, and will only evolve to make it more useful in the future. You can read about the DHS requirement at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/fundopps.htm. Scroll down to FY05 Homeland Security Grant Program, then to pages 40 and 41.
Two notes to this setting of a new threshold in acceptance should be kept in mind. First, the GJXDM is not an official "standard" in the usual sense of this word, in that it has not been created and is not maintained by any of the official standard setting bodies that normally do set standards (such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology). Second, this powerful model is in its infancy, and there will be an fairly rapid evolutionary road as the model is enhanced to serve additional stakeholders such as juvenile justice agencies. These notes in no way suggest that the model should not be used yet, but developers need to be aware of the potential for change that will have to be reflected in any schemas derived from the current verion of the model.
This is still one of the most powerful changes in the world of integrated justice information systems that has happened in several decades.
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