Emerging Technology Component Registration Pilot

This Pilot Developed Using The Knowledge Fusion Methodology (KFM)

The ET Registry Pilot has been developed using the Knowledge Fusion Methodology (KFM). For this particular pilot, the following technologies and open source products have been used:

  • W3C XML Schema
  • XSLT - transformation to HTML and XSL-FO
  • Topic Maps (XTM) - tmtk topic map engine used for navigation, creation and categorization of topics
  • PHP - to create valid XML from form and to provide the capability to upload data directly from a validating editor
  • Apache Cocoon - Server-side transformation of XML
  • FOP - XSL-FO engine for creation of PDF

About the E.T.C. Registration Pilot
Search the Registry

If you prefer to complete the questionaire using XML, download our W3C Schema: InformationTechnologyComponent.xsd. A valid ET Registry XML document instance can then be uploaded at upload-ETData.html.

View Sample XML Instance.

Complete Organization Information


Organization Name

Organization Representative First Name:
Middle:        
Last Name:  

Email Address   Personal    Organization

Business Address




Complete Component Information


Component Name

Component Description

Benefit to the Government

Technical Standards

Service Type


Data Domain



Component Type


Candidate Option Lists for Services

The lists below are currently not used in the above form. However, the choices have been extracted from various lists defined in the FEA documents and are therefore worth considering for use in the schema. [See our XML Schema for details.]

Service Category:     

Service Type:             

Service Standard:     

Service Component:

XML.gov

ECC, Inc.

SiloSmashers

ETopicality

Corel

About the Emerging Technology Component Registration Pilot

This pilot is a proof of concept developed by the contributors listed on the right side of this page. The XML Schema associated with the above registry form is based entirely on the first stage (Identification) of Managing the IT Innovation Life-Cycle: Proposed Stages/Schemas, by Owen Ambur, Fish and Wildlife Service, which states:

The Emerging Technologies Subcommittee (ET S/C) has been charged with developing a process whereby the information technology innovation life-cycle can be managed on a Governmentwide basis. The driving force is the inability of agency chief information officers (CIOs) to respond effectively to myriad vendors and other proponents of technology components, particularly those that are new, innovative, and perhaps untested and unproven in practical application.

The eight stages of the life cycle are:

  1. Identification - identify and nominate a proposed component merely by providing the data required by the specified XML schema.
  2. Subscription
  3. Stewardship
  4. Graduation
  5. Budgeting
  6. Acquisition
  7. Maintenance
  8. Retirement/Replacement

Details concerning this process are presented in the following documents, also by Owen Ambur:

For additional background information, refer to these references from the U.S. CIO Council and the Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office: