NIEMOpen Business Architecture Committee (NBAC)

The NIEMOpen Business Architecture Committee (NBAC) is a Technical Steering Committee within the OASIS Open Project known as NIEMOpen. The NBAC TSC is responsible for identifying the business requirements of NIEMOpen and

• Coordinates, harmonizes, and unifies content as it relates to the NIEM data model and the code-list

• Safeguards NIEM data model core content

• Identifies, validates and on-boards new NIEM communities of-interest focused on establishing new model domain spaces, as well as,

• Advises and supports the Project Governance Board (PGB) on matters relating to business architecture and requirements of NIEMOpen.

Meeting agendas and minutes are available in the NBAC TSC meeting-minutes folder. Some of the working notes and documents discussed at NBAC TSC meetings may be found in the NBAC TSC Subgroup Files folder.

Co-Chairs

• Kamran Atri
• Thomas Krul

Sub-Committees*

• Biometrics
• Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear
• Emergency Management
• Human Services
• Immigration
• Intelligence
• International Human services
• International Trade
• Justice
• Learning & Development
• Maritime
• MilOps
• Surface Transportation
• Harmonization**

* The Sub-Committee list reflects former NIEM domains which are currently in the process of transition to NIEMOpen and the Harmonization Sub-Committee which manages the harmonization process supporting the NIEM model.

** Unlike Sub-Committees representing Communities-of-Interest which manage a specific domain space, the Harmonization Sub-Committee manages the process of harmonization to ensure no duplication in the model as updates are made and it evolves to accommodate new community business requirements. The harmonization process integrates these new requirements while still ensuring data elements exist only once in the model. There are two types of harmonization, between model domain spaces and between NIEM core and model domain spaces.

Inactive Sub-Committees*

• Agriculture Cyber
• Cyber
• Infrastructure Protection
• Screening

* As part of the transition process to NIEMOpen, each former NIEM domain is undergoing a review to assess its maturity, activity level, and prospect for transition. Those domains that are evaluated as inactive will have their model content preserved and placed in conservatorship of the NBAC TSC.

Tiger Teams

• Sub-Committee Management & Standing Rules Tiger Team, governance document available in documents folder.

Active Members*

• Roster maintained in roster folder.

* Signed i-cla on file.

Community of Interest

• Roster maintained in roster folder.

Meetings

• The NBAC TSC currently meets the last Thursday of every month from 1 – 2 PM Eastern time. The meetings are scheduled on the NBAC TSC Calendar: https://lists.oasis-open-projects.org/g/niemopen-nbactsc/calendar

• Sub-Committee and Tiger Team meetings are scheduled on the NBAC TSC Calendar.

Other assets

In addition to this GitHub organization, this project also makes use of other assets.

• The NIEMOpen website is at www.niemopen.org. The website contains news, announcements, and other information of interest about the project.

• The General purpose mailing list. To subscribe, send an empty email message to [email protected]. Anyone interested is welcome to subscribe and send email to the list. The list maintains an archive.

• The Project Governing Board mailing list. This is the discussion list for use by the members of the PGB. To subscribe, send an empty email message to [email protected]. Anyone interested is welcome to subscribe read-only. Only PGB members can post. The list maintains an archive.

• NBAC Technical Steering Committee mailing list. This is the discussion list for use by the members of the NIEM Business Architecture Committee TSC. To subscribe, send an empty email message to [email protected]. Anyone interested is welcome to subscribe read-only. The list maintains an archive.

• NTAC Technical Steering Committee mailing list. This is the discussion list for use by the members of the NIEM Technical Architecture Committee TSC. To subscribe, send an empty email message to [email protected]. Anyone interested is welcome to subscribe read-only. The list maintains an archive.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details how to join the project, contribute changes to our repositories and communicate with the rest of the project contributors. Please become familiar with and follow the code of conduct.

Governance

NIEM Open operates under the terms of the Open Project Rules and the applicable license(s) specified in LICENSE.md. Further details can be found in GOVERNANCE.md, GOVERNANCE-NBAC.md, and GOVERNANCE-NTAC.md.

CLA & Non-assert signatures required

All technical contributions must be covered by a Contributor's License Agreement. This requirement allows our work to advance through OASIS standards development stages and potentially be submitted to de jure organizations such as ISO. You will get a prompt to sign this document when you submit your first pull request to a project repository, or you can sign here. If you are contributing on behalf of your employer, you must also sign the ECLA here.