Data Sharing, Government Style

rowama writes "The Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department have been collaborating to develop an XML-based model for data sharing. After less than a year since the initial release, in October 2005, the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) 1.0 Beta is out. It's big, really big. There are no less than 9 namespaces and plans for future expansion. Contact your local government contractor, with resume in hand, and you may be one of the lucky developers to implement NIEM-capable software."

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Re:Bonus advantage

[Lally Singh]

There are some large ethical questions programmers have to ask themselves when taking on jobs these days. After my last DoD gig, I've really started filtering what opportunities I'll consider. Mass surveillance, for example, is something most of my contacts know I won't touch.

As for the 9 namespaces, it's actually pretty reasonable. From TFA:
xmlns:u="http://niem.gov/niem/universal/1.0"
xmlns:s="http://niem.gov/niem/structures/1.0"
xmlns:c="http://niem.gov/niem/common/1.0"
xmlns:j="http://niem.gov/niem/domains/justice/1.0"
xmlns:emer="http://niem.gov/niem/domains/emergency -management/1.0"
xmlns:im="http://niem.gov/niem/domains/immigration /1.0"
xmlns:ip="http://niem.gov/niem/domains/infrastruct ureProtection/1.0"
xmlns:int="http://niem.gov/niem/domains/intelligen ce/1.0"
xmlns:it="http://niem.gov/niem/domains/internation alTrade/1.0"