Transcript PSCIOC-PSSDC Secretariat

PSCIOC
XML Subcommittee
Status Update — September 27, 2004
Dave Wallace (Chair)
Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Management Board Secretariat
Ontario Government
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Contents
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Purpose of this presentation
Review of Key Objectives
Progress since last Lac Carling
CSDML project hi-lights
Pan Canadian Registry PoC project hi-lights
Potential Applications
Discussion Points
Approval Sought
Document references (available on request)
Glossary
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Purpose
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Provide update on progress of our work
Seek approval of work plan for two subprojects initiated
after last Council meeting at Lac Carling
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Canadian Service Delivery Markup Language development
(action plan item# 2.15.3,8)
Pan Canadian Registry Proof of Concept (action item# 2.15.4,
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Seek approval of funding model and funding support
for Pan Canadian Registry project
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Review of key Objectives
of XML Subcommittee
Objectives
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Leverage the capabilities of national
XML/Information Management standards in
enabling inter-jurisdictional service delivery
Pilot Pan Canadian Registry as the hub for
sharing national standards and reference
models across jurisdictions
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Progress since Lac Carling
conference (May, 2004)
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prepared and agreed on draft Project Charters by
subcommittee members
Appointed project lead for two projects
- Industry Canada for CSDML Development
- Treasury Board Secretariat for Pan Canadian Registry
Obtained primary project funding support for both projects
Align work plans for subcommittee and sponsoring
organizations (on-going)
Recruit project team members (on-going)
Negotiating software license and hardware support from
vendors (Sun Microsystems) (on-going)
Engage and align with other subgroups such as Privacy,
Information Security, ISD and IAA work group
Evolving a funding model for project work
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CSDML Development project
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Goal: to further develop the Service Discovery
vocabulary based on XML and identify potential
applications in member jurisdictions
Deliverables: a complete Canadian Service
Description Markup Language (CSDML) for service
discovery (service delivery capabilities planned)
Project lead: Jane Stewart of Industry Canada
Funding requirement: none, funded by Management
Government Information (MGI) program
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CSDML Development project
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Major milestones:
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Work plan completion – September, 04
Business requirements definition – November, 04
Iteration 1 of CSDML – December, 04
Import into Registry – January, 05
Iteration 2 of CSDML – February, 05
Prototype CSDML in pilot applications (tbd) – March, 05
Further iterations (tbd) – April, 05
Document findings – April, 05
Present findings – May, 05
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Pan Canadian Registry
PoC Project
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Goal: setup an interjurisdictional Registry based on
ebXML standards and import a number of jurisdictional
standards in identifying governance and funding issues
Deliverables: an operational national Registry to be
hosted in Ottawa by PWGSC with imported CSDML,
Canada Public Safety Information Network (CPSIN)
and Ontario’s Common Data Elements Schema
(CDES)
Project lead: Treasury Board Secretariat and with
PWGSC as a major contributing partner to the project
Funding requirement: mostly funded by MGI,
additional $50,000 required from PSCIOC to test the
importing/exporting of artifacts to Registry by members
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Pan Canadian Registry
PoC Project (cont’d)
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Major milestones:
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Work plan completion – September, 04
Functional requirements definition – October, 04
Setup & configure Registry (Ottawa) – November, 04
Setup & configure Registry (Toronto) – December, 04
Import into Registry (CSDML, CDES)– January, 05
Prototype Registry in Community Of Interest environment
by participating jurisdictions – February - March, 05
Test Registry replication between Ottawa, Toronto
locations, February - March, 05
Document findings – April, 05
Present findings – May, 05
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Potential Applications for CSDML
and Registry
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BizPaL implementation using CSDML as base
Senior’s Portal Phase 2 (based on CSDML and
Corresponding Information Models)
CBSC/COBSC implementation based on CSDML and
Registry in Ontario
eContact, Business Gateway, Canada Revenue
Agency (being investigated by Industry Canada)
Security vocabulary based on IAA (future)
Open Source Software shared code in Registry (future)
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Discussion Points
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Need Council to be the approval body for
this committee's work, such as approval of
national XML/IM standards and registry
operational model
Proposal for a funding model with member
funding (eg. MGI), donation in kind from
members (time), vendor donations (software,
hardware) plus Council funding, such as
Registry project where donation in kind is
insufficient to meet the project objectives
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Approval
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Approval for up to $50,000 to test the pilot
Registry’s importing/exporting capabilities by
member jurisdictions
Approval for basic principles of a Governance
model for national XML/IM standards
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Next Steps
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Report back on progress of both projects –
February, 05
XML/IM primer presentation – February, 05
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References (available from XML
subcommittee)
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Draft Project charter for CSDML Development
Draft Project charter for Pan Canadian PoC Registry
project
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Glossary
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CPSIN – Canada Public Safety Information Network is
an XML based data standard developed by Solicitor
General Canada, the Registry will import and publish
CPSIN standards to all subscribed users in pilot mode
ebXML – Electronic Business XML is an international
standard for conducting eBusiness and eGovernment
transactions, the Registry is based on the set of
standards for formatting its data contents as well as
establishing access protocols for member use
MGI – Management of Government Information is a
federal policy under which approved IM related
projects will receive funding. Both projects are funded
by MGI.
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Glossary (cont’d)
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CSDML – Canadian Service Description Markup
Language is an XML based vocabulary being proposed
as a national standard for defining Programs and
Services
CBSC/COBSC – Canada Business Services
Center/Canada Ontario Business Service Centers are
information discovery service offered by Industry
Canada to businesses across the country, it provided
the environment and funding for CSDML phase 1
development
BizPaL – On-line Business Permits and Licences
service PoC initiated by GoC with provincial and
municipal participations; will utilize CSDML as base for
defining services
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Dave Wallace
Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Management Board Secretariat
[email protected]
tel: 416-327-4108
Norman Lee
Project Manager, XML in Ontario
[email protected]
Tel. 416-327-6772
http://www.cio.gov.on.ca
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