Justice Domain
Overview
The Global JXDM [Justice XML Data Model] endeavor began in March 2001 as a reconciliation of data definitions and evolved into a broad, two-year effort to develop an XML-based framework that would enable the entire justice and public safety communities to effectively share information at all levels—laying the foundation for local, state, tribal, and national justice interoperability. In 2005, GJXDM 3.0.3 became the first domain in NIEM. The Justice domain continues to provide the criminal justice system with the data elements and objects and properties it needs to share critical information between jurisdictions and levels of government.
NIEM Domain Content
Click here to download the NIEM 2.1 schemas as a .zip file.
New for 2.1
NIEM 2.1 features additional data elements concerning data exchanges in the area of corrections, as well as a remodeling of the offense object to better reflect best practices in offense and incident data-sharing in the field.
Domain Stewardship
The U.S. Attorney General’s Advisory Council on Global Justice Information Sharing (Global) provides high-level, executive support for the Justice domain. The XML Structure Task Force (XSTF), an advisory body sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), provides data stewardship and governance.
XSTF consists of government and industry domain experts, technical managers, and engineers who identified data requirements, explored XML concepts, and applied XML best practices to the design and implementation of the Global JXDM. Technical development support was provided by members of Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), who played a key role in developing the software foundations for the Global JXDM. GTRI’s members represent the wide variety of stakeholders in the U.S. criminal justice system, including:
- Courts—National Center for State Courts, Missouri Administrative Office of the Courts, and New Jersey State Courts
- Law Enforcement—Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Nlets, the FBI-CJIS Division, and Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS)
- Corrections—New York City Department of Corrections
- State Criminal History Repository custodians—represented by SEARCH)
- Industry partners of all of the above—represented by member companies and staff of the IJIS Institute
- 911 dispatchers—represented by The Association of Public Safety Communications Officials – International (APCO)
- American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA)
Contact Information
For additional information about this domain, please contact the National Information Sharing Standards help desk at nisshelp@ijis.org.
