Technical References

This page references NIEM technical specification, guidance, and resource artifacts. Specifications are normative documents that detail explicit NIEM conformance requirements such as rules, principles, definitions, formats, interfaces, etc. Guidelines are non-normative documents that detail NIEM best practices, how to employ particular techniques, recommendations for implementation, etc. Resources are normative NIEM artifacts (often identified in specification appendices) that define NIEM formats, tools, tool inputs and outputs, interfaces, etc. Resources are in standard native formats such as XML or XML schemas, XSLT stylesheets, OWL or RDF vocabularies, spreadsheets, etc. In some cases, associated files (e.g., illustrations or tables) are included with these artifacts.

Normative Specifications

• Conformance 1.0
• Naming and Design Rules 1.3
• Type Augmentation Supplement to NDR 1.3
• Domain Update Specification 1.0
• High Level Version Architecture 1.0
• High Level Tool Architecture 1.1
• HLTA 1.1 diagram

Model Package Description Specification

    with associated resources

• Model Package Description Specification 1.0
• MPD Catalog Schema 1.0 (xsd)
• Example MPD Catalog Instance 1.0 (xml)
• Example MPD Catalog Stylesheet 1.0 (xslt)
• MPD Curie Functions 1.0 (xslext)
• MPD Change Log 1.0 (xsd) which imports:
• structures.xsd (in niem-core 2.0)
• niem-model-1.0.xsd
• MPD Lexicon 1.0 (owl)
• MPD Lexicon Stylesheet 1.0 (xslt)
• Nature 1.0 (jpg)
• Purpose 1.0 (jpg)

Non-Normative Guidelines and References

• Introduction 0.3
• Concept of Operations 0.5
• Techniques for Building and Extending NIEM 2.0.1
• Examples from Techniques for Building and Extending NIEM 2.0.1
• User Guide Volume 1
• Using IC-ISM with NIEM
• Quality Assurance Strategy and Plan 1.0
• Business Information Exchange Components 1.0 (concept paper)

Other Resources

• Change Request Template 1.0 (MS Excel; xls)

Wantlist Resources

• NIEM Wantlist 1.0 (xsd)
• NIEM Wantlist 2.0 (xsd)
• GJXDM Wantlist (xsd)

Model Editor Tool

• Model Editor Tool 1.0

Production Releases

NIEM 2.1

• NIEM 2.1 Schemas, indices, spreadsheet (zip)
• NIEM 2.1 Database formats (Access, Excel, CSV)
• NIEM 2.1 Summary
• NIEM 2.1 Schema index
• NIEM 2.1 Namespaces Documentation
• NIEM 2.1 Namespaces Documentation With Domain Updates

NIEM 2.0

• NIEM 2.0 Schemas, indices, spreadsheet (zip)
• NIEM 2.0 Database formats (Access, Excel, CSV)
• NIEM 2.0 Summary
• NIEM 2.0 Schema index
• NIEM 2.0 Namespaces Documentation

NIEM 1.0

• NIEM 1.0 Schemas, indices, spreadsheet (zip)
• NIEM 1.0 Database formats (Access, Excel, CSV)
• NIEM 1.0 Summary
• NIEM 1.0 Schema index
• NIEM 1.0 Namespaces Documentation