Strategy Markup Language (StratML)A Worldwide Web of Intentions, Stakeholders, and ResultsDefinition & Purposes | Current Work & Results | Forms | Documents | Protoype Services | History | See AlsoStrategy Markup Language (StratML) Part 1 is an XML vocabulary and schema for strategic plans. Its purposes include:
On January 4, 2011, President Obama signed H.R. 2142, the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRAMA), into law as P.L. 111-352. Section 2 requires agencies to publish their strategic plans on their websites and section 10 requires them to publish their strategic and performance plans and reports in searchable, machine-readable format. StratML is such a format. On January 14, 2019, President Trump signed into law the OPEN Government Data Act (OGDA) extending to all Federal records the requirement to make them open, machine-readable, and compliant with standardized schemas by default. StratML Part 2 extends Part 1 to include the basic, minumum additional elements required for performance plans and reports, including stakeholder roles and performance indicators, in order to:
StratML Part 3 specifies additional elements addressing the data requirements implicit in GPRAMA as well as additional purposes. Under direction from Owen Ambur and consistent with the technical development plan, Naval Sarda of Epicomm Technologies has managed development of a StratML-enabled query service at Search.AboutThem.info. Its architecture is documented here. Now that the initial iteration of the service is stable enhancements will be considered in support of the conceptual development plan for the AboutThem.info domain. Feedback would be most welcome. Since U.S. federal agencies have again failed to comply with section 10 of the GPRA Modernization Act with reference to the updates to their strategic plans due in Februray 2022, Owen Ambur is in the process of converting their plans to StratML format for them. Thus far he has completed the following:
StratML Community Performance Report for 2022 - 2023 (SMLC2023) | There are more than 5,800 files in the StratML collection, all which can be queried in the AboutThem.info search service. Draft listings of:
StratML Glossary compiled by Owen Ambur using this XSD and stylesheet - Note the glossary is for informative purposes only. The authoritative names and defintions of the elements are contained in the schemas themselves and are available in the documentation for Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3. StratML Part 1, Strategic Plans StratML Part 1, Strategic Plans, was published as an international standard (ISO 17469-1) on February 11, 2015, and is available for purchase from ANSI. The schema itself is freely available for usage by anyone who cares to do so:
StratML Part 2, Performance Plans & Reports Pending recruitment of enough nations to work on international standardization of Part 2, Performance Plans and Reports, in the ISO processes, revisions were moved through the ANSI process. On January 19, 2017, ANSI approved revisions harmonizing Part 2 (ANSI/AIIM 22:2017) with the relatively minor changes made in Part 1 in the ISO process.
The DescriptorName element should occur as a direct child of the PerformanceIndicator element rather than being combined with the DescriptorValue element as children of a Descriptor element.
On January 23, 2020, Owen Ambur edited the schema to make that correction as well as to modify the definition of the
Stylesheet -- In the fall of 2018, Ibrahim Shah updated the stylesheet to accommodate the new Descriptor element in the Performance Indicators table. It is available at: ../forms/part2stratml.xsl
StratML Part 3, Additional Elements StratML Part 3, Additional Elements, was approved and published as an AIIM best practice (AIIM_BP_24-2014).
FORMS
More than 5,000 plans have been rendered in StratML format, using the following authoring/editing tools:
DOCUMENTS
Since StratML documents are plain text (XML) documents posted on the public Web, they are readily available for indexing by the search engines, like Google, albeit on an uncertain schedule. Thus, the major search engine indices may not contain the most recent submissions.
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