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Stage 2 - Subscription


President Obama's directive on transparency and open government instructs agencies to:

"Work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration."  (emphasis added)

The ET.gov site/process supports the President's directive by enabling the public to participate in identifying emerging technologies of potential interest to .gov and .mil agencies.

During Stage 2 of the ET.gov process, individuals like you may self-subscribe to emerging technology components and specifications in which you have significant interest, thereby forming communities of practice (CoPs) collaborating around them. 

We have not had the resources to automate this stage but it may eventually include elements such as those identified at http://xml.gov/draft/ETLifeCycleStage2.htm.  In the meantime, emerging technology (ET) CoPs of which we are aware are identified below.

CoPs may use whatever means they choose to collaborate around ET components, such as:
 Regardless of which collaborative means CoPs choose to use, we will point to them if they are openly available on the Web and conform to our linking policies.

If you are aware of any CoPs that have formed around any of the components identified on the Search Components screen that are not listed below, please let us know by using the Contact ET.gov mailto link at the bottom of this page.  If and, hopefully, when resources are available to do so, we will provide (or link and point to) more automated means of subscribing to components identified in the ET.gov process as well as identifying and locating the collaborative sites used by each CoP.
 
Registered ET component CoPs:
  1. IPv6 - The IPv6 Work Group is using CORE.gov for collaboration but accesss to their site is limited to .gov employees and requires as user ID and password.
  2. HSPD-12 - The HSPD-12 Work Group is using CORE.gov for collaboration but access to their site requires a user ID and password.  Public information is available on GSA and NIST-hosted sites.
  3. EVM - DCMA is using CORE.gov to collaborate around the schema they are specifying for project cost and schedule information, including earned value management.  However, membership is required in order to see documents posted on the site.
  4. NIEM - The National Information Exchange Model CoP is using CORE.gov for collaboration but a user ID and password is required to accesse their site.  Click here to search for components referencing NIEM.
  5. Strategy Markup Language - The activities of the StratML CoP are documented at http://xml.gov/stratml/index.htm. AIIM's Standards Board is fostering StratML for establishment as an international voluntary consensus standard. Those who wish to participate may subscribe to AIIM's StratML Committee listserv.  StratML Part 1, Strategic Plans, has been approved as an American national standard (ANSI/AIIM 21:2009).
  6. NIST Tools - have graduated the ET.gov process. With reference to NIST's naming assister, quality of design & content testing tools, see:
  7. PDF/A - AIIM's site for the ISO Portable Document Format/Archival standard is at http://www.aiim.org/standards.asp?ID=25013  PDF/A graduated the ET.gov process and is now included in the FEA TRM.
  8. iECM - AIIM's Interoperable Content Management standards committee's collaborative site is at http://www.aiim.org/standards.asp?ID=29284
  9. X3D - The Web3D Consortium has used message boards for collaboration around ISO's XML 3D Graphics standard.  X3D graduated the ET.gov process and is not included in the FEA TRM.
  10. RMSC - The Records Management Service Component CoP is collaborating on OMG's site.
  11. UBL - The OASIS Universal Business Language TC is using a listserv for collaboration. Those who wish to participate can subscribe at http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/
  12. EDXL-DE - The OASIS Emergency Management TC is using a listserv for collaboration. Those who wish to participate can subscribe at http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/
  13. CAM/jCAM - The  Content Assembly Mechanism community is using forums on SourceForge for collaboration.  See also the OASIS CAM TC's site.
See also Stage 3 CoPs.

Inactive CoPs:
  1. UDED - The CoP developing an XML vocabulary for grant budgeting and financial reporting by recipients of Federal, State and local government funds plans to use GSA's collaboration wiki
  2. eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) - The XBRL CoP collaborated at http://usgovxbrl.webexone.com.
  3. XSI WG - The XML Schema Interoperability Work Group, fomerly known as the XML Naming & Design Rules & Guidelines CoP, used CORE.gov
  4. EA Standards - The Association of Enterprise Architects (a|EA) issued a call for participation (CFP) in establishing EA standards, including the EA Management Guide and Knowledge Digest.  The EA Interest Group (EAIG) is an a|EA partner.  See also proposed EA metamodel.
  5. Energy Water Nexus Ontology - This CoP used a listserv for collaboration.

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