XML’s emergence did not initially make our lives easier—at best, they did not change much. We quickly started writing our many data formats using angle brackets, which looked neat, but did not make ...

The federal departments of Homeland Security and Justice recently agreed on a global data-sharing standard that could spur interoperability throughout the public safety community and beyond. The move ...

Last week, officials from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a partnership to explore future development of a Global Extensible Markup Language ...

With the proliferation of XML as a new common data format, the problem of managing XML documents has become more critical. New technologies are now available that allow organizations to better manage ...

Six states will receive Justice Department funding for pilot projects aimed at improving their information-sharing systems. The National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices announced ...

The basic tenet of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to provide loose-coupling for different applications. It is thus imperative that data is produced by and for these applications, and that ...