Global justice XML tightens the net.

• Position: Homeland Security - Global Justice XML Data Model facilitates data sharing among federal and local agencies - Brief Article

"Incompatible databases and computer systems for many years have limited the ability of Federal, state, tribal, and local agencies to rapidly and efficiently share justice information," states John Wandelt, senior research scientist with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta. "The Global Justice XML Data Model [which recently was released in Version 3.0 for use by software developers] is sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs, which is the agency within the Department of Justice that administers Federal funding designed to support justice information sharing between local, state, and tribal jurisdictions.

"The initiative is designed to provide a way to translate information between different systems, allowing a more efficient flow of data among agencies that need to share information about potential criminal and terrorist activity."

Wandelt and other researchers in GTRI's Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory provided engineering support and technical guidance for the new system as part of a broad-based collaboration involving dozens of agencies and industry partners. The...