NIEM Technical Training -May 2024 (HYBRID)

Format: Hybrid + Chat via TEAMs

Based on feedback from the community, the NIEM Management Office is providing a new permanent hybrid technical training format. We have collected questions from prior training classes and incorporated them into a new professional pre-recorded curriculum that covers the NIEM technical training, supplemented with a LIVE trainer from 3 PM to 3:30 PM ET daily to answer your questions in real time via MS Teams chat.

Advantages to using the Hybrid format:

• You can fit the NIEM training in with your work schedule
• Hit pause and take important calls or answer urgent emails
• Rewind and re-watch a topic to ensure comprehension of the materials
• Access to an instructor to answer questions when you have them
• Access to the materials after the recordings after the class
• Keeps training costs down so that we can offer it to the community for FREE
• Allows people from different time-zones to receive training at a time that is convenient for them

Trainees can communicate with the instructor by attending the Q&A session from 3 PM - 3:30 PM daily.

While users can really choose to go at their own pace; below is the recommended schedule along with topics covered:

Monday

Total Video Length: 97 minutes

Part 1

• Logistics
• Prerequisites
• Asking Questions
• Introduction to NIEM
• What is NIEM?
• Scope of NIEM
• NIEM Harmonization and Organization

Part 2

• IEPD Development
• Overview
• Process
• Artifacts
• Scenario Planning
• Example MOUs and the Like
• Catalog-Oriented Metadata
• Requirements Analysis
• Variety of Diagrams
• UML Class Diagrams
• Business Term Oriented
• NIEM Oriented
• Tools
• Business Rules

Tuesday

Total Video Length: 110 minutes

Part 3

• Intro to Mapping
• Mapping Spreadsheets Options
• Documenting Business Objects
• Maintaining an Ongoing Sample Instance Skeleton
• Basics of Searching NIEM

Part 4

• Mapping to Existing Objects
• What you are defines what you hold
• Native Properties
• Substitution Groups
• Namespaces
• Inherited Properties

Wednesday

Total Video Length: 85 minutes

Part 5

• Mapping to Existing Objects (continued)
• Linking Things Together
• Associations
• Roles

Part 6

• Mapping to Existing Objects (continued)
• Code Tables

Part 7

• Mapping to Existing Objects (continued)
• Metadata

Thursday

Total Video Length: 117 minutes

Part 8

• Mapping to Existing Objects (continued)
• Combining Domains with Augmentations
• External Standards

Part 9

• Creating New Objects
• Simple Data Elements
• Complex Objects
• Adding New Objects to the Exchange
• Augmentations
• Concrete Extension

Part 10

**Part 10 is a long video and can be split over two days.

• Creating and Validating Schemas
• How Schemas Fit Together
• Schema Subsets
• Wantlists
• Extension and Exchange Schemas
• Sample Instances
• Tips and Tricks

Friday

Total Video Length: 87 minutes

Part 10 (continued)

• Creating and Validating Schemas
• How Schemas Fit Together
• Schema Subsets
• Wantlists
• Extension and Exchange Schemas
• Sample Instances
• Tips and Tricks

Part 11

• Assembly
• MEP Builder
• Assembling Artifacts by Hand
• Publishing
• Existing Registry/Repositories
• New Registry/Repositories
• Restricted
• Unrestricted
• Implementation
• Outside the Scope of this Session
• It's just XML (or JSON)
• Next Steps