These are the slides for the keynote address I gave at the NIEM Town Hall meeting in February 2010, covering the use of Altova tools for IEPD development for the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM).

1. Altova Tools in the IEPD Life Cycle NIEM Town Hall Keynote February 18, 2010 Alexander FalkCEOAltova, Inc.

2. Overview Using Altova tools during IEPD development Using Altova tools during implementation of an exchange The Altova MissionKit: an integrated suite of XML & UML tools for NIEM Future Outlook: Semantic technologies Q&A

4. Use Cases

8. Exchange Schema

9. XML Wantlist

10. Constraint Schema

11. Extension Schema

12. Main Document

13. IEPD Catalog

14. IEPD Metadata

15. Sample XML Instances

16. XML StylesheetsAssemble & Document We’ll discuss Altova Tools usedduring the implementation phase later Publish & Implement

17. Altova UModel Very affordable UML modeling tool that supports all 14 UML 2.3 diagram types plus BPMN and SysML Can be used in Scenario Planning phase to model and document: Use case diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Business processes Can be used in Map & Model phase to developClass diagrams to createthe Exchange contentmodel XMI Import/Exportsupport to exchangemodels with other UMLtools Code-generation, Round trip engineering, Reverseengineering Integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse

19. SOAP debugger

20. SOAP tester32-bit and 64-bit versions to help work withlarge XML files

21. Altova SchemaAgent Graphical tool for analyzing and managing schema relationships, especially imports, extensions of types, etc. Manage connections and dependencies between schema-dependent files, e.g. WSDL, XSLT Ideal for visualizing schemasin an IEPD to understandtheir relationships Manage and maintain a collection of schemasif an organization is usingmultiple exchanges Direct integration withXMLSpy to supportbrowsing schema collectionswithin the schema editorin XMLSpy 32-bit and 64-bit versions

22. Altova StyleVision Graphical stylesheet and electronic forms design tool Transforms XML, XBRL, and database content into HTML, Word, PDF, and Authentic® e-form formats Visual, drag-and-drop stylesheet design lets you create XML Stylesheets for Assemble & Document phase True electronic forms design through absolute positioning with blueprint functionality Let’s you import existing XSLT stylesheets and reuse templates Supports XSLT 1.0/2.0, XSL: FO, CSS, JavaScript Integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse 32-bit and 64-bit versions

23. Using Altova Tools during implementation of an exchange The scope of NIEM only extends to the definition of the data being exchanged in an IEP: The work doesn’t end there, however, and each side needs to implement their side of the exchange

25. C#

26. C++Integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse

27. Using Altova Tools during implementation of an exchange If you are using Web services to implement the exchange, you might also want to use: WSDL Editor in XMLSpy to helpdefine WSDL files SOAP Request Tester and SOAP Debugger in XMLSpy tohelp test the message exchange

29. XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, UModel, DiffDog, DatabaseSpy, SchemaAgent, SemanticWorksWinner of the 2009 Jolt Product Excellence Award in the “Development Environment” category Available for purchasing via GSA Contract# GS-35F-0635P * Pricing comparison is edition-specific and based on Altova MissionKit vs. two individual licenses of XMLSpy and MapForce. All Altova tools are available for a 30-day, fully functional FREE trial

30. FutureOutlook: Semantic Technologies NIEM is thinking about using RDF/OWL as a next possible step Altova already has a tool available for you: Altova SemanticWorks® Graphical RDF / OWL editor for building Semantic Web applications Visually create RDF instance documents, RDFS vocabularies, and OWL ontologies Support for OWL Lite, Full, and DL dialects RDF / XML & N-Triples code generation and export capabilities Tabs for organizing instances, properties, classes, mutual exclusivity, and ontologies 32-bit and 64-bit versions Already part of the Altova MissionKit

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