NIEM Documentation

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NIEM Documentation
Specifications

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NIEM Documentation

NIEM Documents and Downloads at niem.gov
NIEM Naming and Design Rules (pdf)

Specifications

Draft documentation for the NIEM IEPD specification

IEPD spec requirements white paper (MS Word)
IEPD spec spreadsheet that contains requirements list, artifacts, and metadata definitions (MS Excel)

Artifacts - specifications for the NIEM IEPD catalog file

Example XHTML instance of the catalog file (XHTML)
View source of XHTML instance to see the rddl:purpose and rddl:nature
Values list for "purpose" (text)
Values list for "nature" (text)

Metadata - specifications for the NIEM IEPD metadata.xml file

IEPD metadata schema (XML Schema)
Example XML instance of the metadata file (MS Excel)

Wantlist - specification for schema subset wantlists

Wantlist schema (XML Schema)