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NCR Fire Records Management System (RMS) Incident Data Exchange Information Exchange Packet Documentation (IEPD) v0.1

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Purpose and Scope
Proposed Title

NCR Fire Records Management System (RMS) Incident Mapping Data Exchange (Based upon NIEM v1 beta 2)

Business Purpose This exchange demonstrates the feasibility of extracting incident data from existing Records Management Systems (RMS) or Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems, translating it into a National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) compliant data standard, and making it available to consuming applications, such as a prototype NCR regional mapping application, using the DEH Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The goal of this exchange is to improve situational awareness for Emergency Managers in the region. The purpose of this IEPD is to describe the exchange development process and provide the artifacts necessary to create a similar exchange.
Contributing Organizations The following organizations contributed data for this exchange:
  • Fairfax County, Virginia Fire/EMS;
  • Frederick County, Maryland and other Maryland jurisdictions who are members of the NCR and participants in the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) Incident Mapping Application Pilot.
Consuming Organizations The following organizations are consuming data from this exchange:
  • MEMA;
  • Data Exchange Hub
Development Initially, sessions were held with the Fire/EMS Staff from Fairfax County and MEMA to develop a business case for the exchange. Next, a series of technical exchange meetings were held with representatives from Fairfax County Fire/EMS Information Technology (IT), MEMA, and Towson University's Center of Geographic Information Science (CGIS), the organization responsible for development of the web application to render the RMS information from various NCR jurisdictions on a prototype regional map. As a result of these meetings, the development team was able to define requirements and determine the data elements required to support the exchange. Follow-on sessions were held as necessary to refine sequence diagrams, map RMS data elements to NIEM version 1 beta 2, and refine the schema.
Participants The following organizations participated in the development effort:
  • Fairfax County, Virginia Fire/EMS
  • Frederick County, Maryland and other participants in the MEMA Incident Mapping Application Pilot;
  • MEMA;
  • Towson University's Center for Geographic Information Science (CGIS)
Contact Information
Name
Scott Scheurich
Email
Scott.Scheurich@fairfaxcounty.gov
Phone
703-324-4991
Fax
703-324-2856
Organization
NCRIP
Organization Web Site
http://www.ncrnet.us
Street Address
12000 Government Center Pkwy, Suite 527
City
Fairfax
State
VA
Country
USA
Zip Code
22035
Testing TBD
Conformance Conforms with:
Target Capabilities
  • Common / Intelligence and Information Sharing and Dissemination
  • Prevent / Information Gathering and Recognition of Indicators and Warning
  • Response / Emergency Operations Center Management
  • Response / Fire Incident Response Support

Additional information on the HSN Target Capabilities is available on the LLIS website.

Feedback
Lessons Learned Creation of this reference implementation contributed to validation of, and revision to, the NCR Information Exchange Development Lifecyle.
Suggestions and Recommendations It will be necessary for the Data Exchange Hub to provide central support for the development of exchange schemas across Emergency Support Functions within the NCR and to provide technical assistance in implementing the Exchange Development Process. Before this exchange becomes operational, it will be necessary to establish an IT Maintenance and Support Plan for the region.

Development Artifacts
Title Size Date Posted
NCR Fire Incident Mapping Data Exchange Technical Implementation Guide (available upon request) 10.87 MB 08 January 2007
RMS Exchange NIEM Schema (Zip file) 1.44 MB 13 October 2006
Interoperable WSDL (CAD to DEH) 18 KB 3 October 2006

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Updated: 01/28/2011