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The NIEM Naming and Design Rules

The NIEM Naming and Design Rules specifies the data model, XML Schema components, and XML data for use with the National Information Exchange Model.

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The NDR is governed by the NIEM Technical Architecture Committee (NTAC), with input from the NIEM Business Architecture Committee (NBAC) and the community.

Versions of this specification are published at https://niem.github.io/NIEM-NDR/.

Please submit comments on this specification as issues at https://github.com/NIEM/NIEM-NDR/issues.

Machine-readable rules in the NDR are available as Schematron documents in this repository. You may also test against the rules using the Conformance Testing Assistant (Contesa) for NIEM at https://tools.niem.gov/contesa/, which features rules from version 3.0 and version 4.0.

See the wiki for additional documentation.

Packages required to build this document

  • WRTools: All. Incorporates processors for the XML source format used for this document, as well as Saxon, Schematron, Xalan, and an XML Schema validator.
  • m4
  • sed
  • ImageMagick
  • aspell, aspell-dict-en: for spell checking