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The successes of our intelligence, defense, homeland security, and law enforcement missions are critically dependent on information producers and consumers being able to share, manage, discover, retrieve, and access information across national and international boundaries.
To automate the enterprise, data, service, network, and information assurance architecture and engineering efforts must come together in response to defined mission and business requirements. The enterprise data specifications below are the result of IC collaboration and coordination in response to public law, executive orders, DNI policy and guidance, and change requests submitted by IC elements.
Data Encoding Specifications
The following data encoding specifications define agreed upon digital encodings or formats for information being shared or exchanged within the enterprise. These specifications are optimized for consistent and efficient processing within software, systems, or service applications.
These specifications should be viewed as component modules. Many of the specifications are tightly integrated and dependent on each other. They can be integrated into other data encoding specifications or profiled (i.e., configured or constrained) to achieve a particular mission or business objective. They may also serve in a standalone role as an encodings for exchange payloads within a web services environment.
Each version of an IC enterprise data encoding specification is individually registered in the IC Enterprise Standards Baseline (implemented via the IC Standards Registry (ICSR)). The registry citations address the prescriptive status and validity period for each new version. Data Encoding Specifications exist for the following types of data:
Abstract Data Definition
Abstract Data Definition for Electronic Records Management
Access Rights and Handling
Analysis Assertion
Body Of Evidence
Authority Category
Community Shared Resources
Contextual Entity Markup
Cross Domain System Manifest Assertion
Cross Domain System Manifest TDF
Data Element Definition
DigitalHazMat Assertion
DigitalHazMat TDF
DigitalHazMat Commercial TDF
Document and Media Exploitation
DoD Discovery Metadata
Electronic Records Management
Enterprise Audit
Fine Access Control
Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes
Information Resource Metadata
Information Security Marking Access
Information Security Marking Country
Information Security Marking Metadata
Information Transport Service Messaging Service
Information Transport Service - Organizational Messaging
Intelligence Community Docbook
Intelligence Community Access Control
Intelligence Community Enterprise Data Header
Intelligence Community Identifier
Intelligence Community Only Need to Know
Intelligence Community Specification Framework
Intelligence Discipline
Intelligence Publications
License
Media Type Controlled Vocabulary
Mission Need
Mission Need Taxonomy
Multi Audience Collections
Multi Audience Tearline
Need-To-Know Metadata
Need-To-Know Access Control Encoding Specification
ORCON Need-To-Know Access
Production Metrics
Production Metrics Assertion
Revision Recall
Role
Rollup Guidance for ISM
Source Citations
Trusted Data Format
Trusted Data Format - Base
US Agency Acronym
US Government Agency
Unified Identity Attribute Set
Unified Identity Attribute Set - Attribute Practice Compliance Statements
Virtual Coverage
Whitelist Guidance for ISM
Service Specifications
CDR: Atom Results Set
CDR: Brokered Search
CDR: Deliver
CDR: Manage Component
CDR: Query Management
CDR: Retrieve
CDR: Search
CDR: Reference Architecture
CDR: Specification Framework
CDR: Keyword Query Language
IdAM: Full Service Directory
RR: End-to-End Identity Propagation
RR: Security Markings
WSS High Level Guidance
WSS XML Signature and XML Encryption
WSS Guidance: Token Services
We are very interested in hearing your views on issues of importance to you. We encourage you to contact us with any questions, comments, and concerns of interest to the Intelligence Community Data Coordination Activity (Data Activity). Someone from the Data Activity staff will respond to your email.
As always, we thank you for your time and continued collaboration through the Data Activity.
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Abstract Data Definition
Abstract Data Definition - ERM
Access Rights and Handling
Analysis Assertion
Authority Category
Body Of Evidence
Community Shared Resources
Contextual Entity Markup
Cross Domain System Manifest Assertion
Cross Domain System Manifest TDF
Data Element Definition
DigitalHazMat Assertion
DigitalHazMat TDF
DigitalHazMat Commercial TDF
Document and Media Exploitation
DoD Discovery Metadata
Electronic Records Management
Enterprise Audit
Fine Access Control
Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes
Information Resource Metadata
Information Security Marking Access
Information Security Marking Country
Information Security Marking Metadata
Information Transport Service Messaging Service
Information Transport Service - Organization Messaging
Intelligence Community Docbook
Intelligence Community Access Control
Intelligence Community Enterprise Data Header
Intelligence Community Identifier
Intelligence Community Only Need to Know
Intelligence Community Specification Framework
Intelligence Discipline
Intelligence Publications
License
Media Type Controlled Vocabulary
Mission Need
Mission Need Taxonomy
Multi Audience Collections
Multi Audience Tearline
Need-To-Know Access Control Encoding Specification
Need-To-Know Metadata
ORCON Need-To-Know Access
Production Metrics
Production Metrics Assertion
Revision Recall
Role
Rollup Guidance for ISM
Source Citations
Trusted Data Format
Trusted Data Format - Base
US Agency Acronyms
US Government Agency
Unified Identity Attribute Set
Unified Identity Attribute Set - Attribute Practice Compliance Statements
Virtual Coverage
Whitelist Guidance for ISM
CDR: Atom Results Set
CDR: Brokered Search
CDR: Deliver
CDR: Manage Component
CDR: Query Management
CDR: Retrieve
CDR: Search
CDR: Reference Architecture
CDR: Specification Framework
CDR: Keyword Query Language
IdAM: Full Service Directory
RR: End-to-End Identity Propagation
RR: Security Markings
WSS High Level Guidance
WSS XML Signature and XML Encryption
WSS Guidance - Token Services