AIIM is pleased to announce the publication of a new standard, StratML. Part 1: Core elements. This standard specifies an Extensible Markup Language (XML) vocabulary and schema (XSD) for the elements that are common and considered to be part of the essential core of the strategic plans of all organizations worldwide. Included in the standard are two kinds of elements - core elements and administrative metadata.
StratML formalizes the strategic planning that all organizations go throught. This standard will enable information contained in strategic plans to be efficiently shared and analyzed in an organization. StratML will enable efficient discovery, sharing, referencing, reuse and analysis of strategic information.
StratML has a lot to offer organizations and their customers. It will allow more efficient and effective engagement of employees, partners and other stakeholders in the strategic planning process. From a customer or investor perspective, it will allow you to be able to review and provide feedback on the company strategy for those companies that are truly customer focused and open to sharing their plans with their customers and investors.
This standard is being issued in parts. Part 1 focuses on the core elements for the schema focused on strategic planning. The committee is working on Part 2 which will focus on the performance plans and reports that result from the strategic planning process. Part 2 is expected to be finalized in 2010.
For more information about StratML, visit http://www.aiim.org/stratml. If you would like to become involved in the work with this standard, send an email to Betsy Fanning.
The PDF Healthcare demonstrations at HIMSS 2009 in Chicago will be held at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the Hyatt Hotel (McCormick Place) Coffee Shop "public area" today, Monday, April 6. Join the PDF Healthcare committee to learn about the "State-of-the-art Secure Records Exchange".
Well, if you were at AIIM Info360 last week, you had the opportunity to see an implementation of the proposed OASIS standard CMIS. Thomas Pole and Laurence Hart on behalf of the AIIM iECM committee, in two short months, were able to develop a search federator that utilized CMIS. The demonstration at Philadelphia allowed users to search for articles in past issues of Infonomics and AIIM E-DOC Magazines that were contained in repositories made available by Alfresco, EMC and Nuxeo. Each of these repositories were physically located in either the United Kingdom, France or in a Google cloud. Pretty cool, right?! This demonstration showed that the standard works and the benefit it has to those of us who need to find information. If you were not able to be in Philadelphia to see the demonstration at the vendor booths, you should still be able to perform queries on the demo site at http://www.aiim.iecm.org.
If you happen to be in Chicago attending HIMSS 2009 today, stop by the Hyatt Coffee Shop where two informal demonstration sessions of PDF Healthcare will be provided. During these sessions, Stasia Kahn, MD, of the Fox Prairie Medical Group and Vice President of the Northern Illinois Physicians for Connectivity will demonstrate the secure exchange of patient health information from a physician's Electronic Health Record in NextGen to a patient's Personal Health Record in HealthString. Tom Lang, MD, a practicing Emergency Department physician and Chief Medical Officer of MACH 2 Solutions in collaboration with SpringCM and DimensionalInsight will demonstrate the secure exchange of health information for patient transfer from Emergency Room to a referral hospital. John Odden, a consultant with Coto Partners in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, PatCare and Sterling-Wright will demonstrate how clinicians, with only a 3G phone, memory stick and printer can securely exchange patient health information. Cris Ross with Minute Clinic will demonstrate the secure exchange of patient healt information between the nation's MinuteClinic providers and its patients. PDF Healthcare is helping to address one of the Obama Administration goals with regard to electronic healthcare information.
If you want to know more about PDF Healthcare, please visit http://www.aiim.org/pdfh or if you are in Chicago, stop by the Hyatt Coffee Shop at 5 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.
If you want to know more about AIIM's Standards Program, please visit http://www.aiim.org/standards.
While the title of this post may sound more like 'Bike Week 2009' and I am sure you would rather be in Daytona Beach, Florida than in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, we are holding a number of standards meetings next week. If you are in the Philadelphia area, you should visit info360 (AIIM International Exposition and Conference) at the Pennyslvania Convention Center - Tuesday, March 31 through Thursday, April 2. The following are the standards committees that will be meeting at that time:
As you can see, there is something for everyone. Come join us in one of these meetings! Looking forward to seeing you next week!
It's final! The PDF specification that billions of documents are based upon is now an ISO standard. The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1. This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems Incorporated, original developer and copyright owner of the format, to relinquish control to ISO, who is now in charge of publishing the specifications for the current version (1.7) and for updating and developing future versions. While this is an ISO standard, AIIM had a key role in the process of bringing the once Adobe controlled specification to ISO. AIIM, on behalf of ANSI, holds the secretariat for the ISO committee that is responsible for the development of ISO 32000-1. This version of the standard is an exact replica of the existing PDF 1.7.
While the committee's initial work has been completed in getting the standard through the approval and pubication process, the committee's work is far from over. The focus for the committee will now be to identify new features and functions that may be added to the PDF file and included in the standard. To follow the activities of the US committee for this standard, please visit http://www.aiim.org/Standards/article.aspx?ID=33223. For more information on this standard, please feel free to contact Betsy Fanning at bfanning@aiim.org.
In December, we announced the initiation of the StratML project. The committee has held a couple of meetings to work on the schema elements needed for transforming organizational strategic plans into the StratML format. The current focus of the committee is on the validation of the StratML elements. You can review at:
· The names and definitions of the elements in the StratML core outlined in Appendix C of the document available at: StratML Summary and Results White Paper
· The names and definitions of the elements in the StratML performance plans and report framework available at: StratML Performance Plans
Any recommendations to this should be provided as:
Subject: Change definition of ‘goal’
Proposed Change: Change the existing definition of ‘goal’ to ‘the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.”
Subject: Modify ‘objective’ element
Proposed Change: Extend ‘Objective’ element to include the sub-elements ‘Objective Measurement; and ‘Objective Timeframe/Completion’. The proposed definitions for these two new elements are as follows.
Subject: Add new elements for ‘assessment’ to the core schema
Proposed Change: Extend the core schema to include the element ‘Assessment.’ This would include 3 sub-elements, ‘Sequence Indicator’, ‘Assessment Findings Name’, ‘Assessment Findings Description’. The definitions for these three new elements are as follows.
Please send any recommendations by April 17, 2008 to bfanning@aiim.org
AIIM's Standards Week 2008 is now a piece of history. We had 7 committees hold meetings last week while we were in Boston for the AIIM Exposition and Conference. It was great to see so many friends.
Now for an overview of some of the activities of the week...
The US TAG (Technical Advisory Group) to ISO TC 171 held a meeting during which they reviewed the progress against commitments that had been made during the last ISO meeting in London. Significant progress is being made on all the tasks so that during the next meeting to be held in Beijing we will have very good discussions.
Implementation Guidelines - This committee began work on the next version of the popular ARP-1 document and discussed methods of getting additional adoption of the document and listed standards by the states.
iECM - The committee has many projects it is trying to work on. The focus of the committee will be on metadata. Given that there are many metadata projects being worked on by numerous groups, the committee discussed how to bring the work together to ensure that we do not have opposing efforts.
Evidentiary Support - This committee has been dormant for a while but is being revived to focus on record authenticity issues. It is being lead by Bob Williams, Cohasset and Paul Doyle, Proofspace and Sedona Group. They will be looking into producing some white papers and best practices as well as sharing evidentiary support information through blogs.
DIQP - The DIQP (Digital Image Quality and Preservation) committe heard presentations from Charles Dollar and Rick Laxman on preservation issues. Charles spoke on his ongoing research in the area and Rick shared what the Church's Family History Division is doing to preserve and provide access to their very old records.
C27 (Document Management) - In addition to discussions on various projects, this committee discussed the use of blu-ray disks for document imaging. As a result of the discussion, AIIM will be having a letter sent to OSTA, Optical Storage Technology Association, requesting that they focus on promoting the standardization of blu-ray disks.
PDF/UA (Universal Access) - The committee made good progress on their document and is planning to have it available before the meetings in Beijing which means they have a very aggressive committee meeting schedule to follow. They have made significant progress and feel it is now time to get other prespectives included in the standard.
While PDF Healthcare did not meet in Boston during Standards Week, they did hold their normally scheduled bi-weekly conference call.
We hope to see you at a Standards meeting soon!