Global JXDM is independent of vendors, operating systems, storage media, and applications and is quickly becoming key technology for assisting how criminal and judicial organizations exchange information.
The Global JXDM is sponsored by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), with development supported by the Global XML Structure Task Force (GXSTF), which works closely with researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).
The Global JXDM is an XML standard designed specifically for criminal justice information exchanges, providing law enforcement, public safety agencies, prosecutors, public defenders, and the judicial branch with a tool to effectively share data and information in a timely manner.
The federal government has long encouraged criminal justice agencies throughout the country to share information electronically.
In March 2001, the OJP and the DOJ sponsored an effort to create a framework for the secure and timely sharing of information across the justice domain.
Their objective was to lay the foundation for local, state, tribal, and national interoperability by providing a “common ground” that information systems across the country could use for data exchanges.
When criminal justice agencies share data, they transmit Information Exchange Packages (IEPs) to each other.
Complications arise, however, from the fact that the justice community does not utilize a standard, common vocabulary when describing and recording events.
The GJXDD breaks down the information that is exchanged between agencies into individual data components and gives them unique names and definitions.
The GJXDM utilizes data models to describe the relationships between the different "building blocks" included in an IEP.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Justice.