AIIM Standard will address government information sharing.
Press Release Summary:
AIIM 21:2009, Standard Recommended Practice - Strategy Markup Language - Part 1: StratML Core will enable government agencies to use Web 2.0 social networking technologies to engage citizens effectively in pursuit of strategic goals and objectives. At Federal level, it will enable citizens to provide feedback on agency plans. Standard also supports Government Performance Results Act and provides transparency to government information through websites like GPO's Federal Digital System.
Original Press Release:
New Industry Standard Supports Obama's IT Initiative to Address Information Sharing
AIIM (http://www.aiim.org), the international authority on Enterprise Content Management announces the release of AIIM 21:2009, Standard Recommended Practice - Strategy Markup Language - Part 1: StratML Core.
"Consistent with President Obama's directives on openness, transparency, collaboration, and participation, the StratML standard will enable agencies to use Web 2.0 social networking technologies in support of their missions to engage citizens more efficiently and effectively in pursuit of strategic goals and objectives," said Owen Ambur, AIIM StratML committee chair.
The use of this standard will enable information contained in strategic plans to be efficiently shared and analyzed. At the Federal level, StratML will enable citizens to provide feedback on agency strategic plans in a more efficient way than was previously possible.
"StratML will not only enable agencies to comply with the provisions of the eGov Act but also bring together a greater sense of reality to the concept of strategic alignment in organizations of all types, by enabling literal linkages among strategic objectives and the records created in the ongoing business process supporting the objectives" said John F. Mancini, AIIM President. "This standard directly supports the Obama Administration's initiatives for transparency that is an important step toward more effective content management in the government that can also be implemented in the private sector."
"StratML supports GPO's core mission of Keeping America Informed by providing a standardized framework in which Federal agencies can develop, plan, share, and report on strategic initiatives. It also supports the Government Performance Results Act (GPRA) and provides transparency to government information through websites like GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys). GPO was pleased to work on StratML and serve the public's needs by increasing the access to, and the usefulness of, Federal information," states Adam Schwartz, GPO Program Planner.
"X12 is pleased to have collaborated with AIIM in the development of this important standard. Strategic Plans are a critical piece in the planning for B2B standards like those developed by the ASC X12 member community. With a strategic planning process standard in place at the enterprise level, incorporating plans for B2B EDI, XML and data model standards from ASC X12 becomes a natural next step," said Cathy Sheppard, Chair, Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12.
Leading experts in strategic management participated on the committee representing U.S. Federal Government agencies as well as private sector organizations. Through the development of the standard, the committee with assistance from a number of organizations that provided tools and services to conduct proof-of-concept plans resulting in over 550 strategic plans being converted to StratML. These plans can be found at xml.gov/stratml.
The AIIM StratML committee is currently working on Part 2 of this standard which deals with performance plans and reports. Anyone interested in participating in the development of Part 2, is encouraged to contact AIIM's Director of Standards, Betsy Fanning at bfanning@aiim.org. For more information about StratML, please visit www.aiim.org/stratml.
About AIIM
AIIM (www.aiim.org) is the community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information. The AIIM community has grown to over 65,000 professionals from all industries and government, in over 150 unique countries, and within all levels of management including senior executives, line-of-business, and IT.
For more than 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. Today, AIIM is international in scope, independent, implementation-focused, and, as the representative of the entire enterprise content management (ECM) industry - including users, suppliers, and the channel - acts as the industry's intermediary.
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For more information about StratML and the Standards committee, contact:
Betsy Fanning
Director, Standards and Member Services
AIIM
301.755.2682
bfanning@aiim.org
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