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Using Web Services and XML for Mission-Critical Law Enforcement

Abstract

This presentation is a case study that starts at the business needs and drills down to specific implementation problems with both Web Services and XML including an example of the transformation to legacy transaction format and a discussion of WebSphere/.NET Web Service integration issues, e.g. making DIME work. There will also be a discussion of the current criminal justice XML standardization initiatives, e.g. Department of Justice XML Data Dictionary effort and the standardized XML criminal history "rap sheet". The case study is not a story about sophisticated use of XML. It is about improving information sharing and improving operational efficiency for a very important mission.


1. Waitlisted Paper

Note

This paper was presented on Thursday December 12 at 11 am.

Since this was a waitlisted talk, the author did not prepare a paper for the proceedings.

Biography

Vice President, Product Development

Robert Slaski is the Vice President of Product Development at Advanced Technology Systems (ATS), a $100M privately held information technology provider in the Washington metro area. Mr. Slaski has more than 26 years of information technology leadership and has successfully led state, federal and international law enforcement software engineering and integrations efforts for the last 15 years. He has spent most of that time working with Internet technologies and is co-author of Internet RFC 1415, File Transfer Gateway Services. He was responsible for the implementation of the FBI Internet Leads Center that has handled tens of thousands of public tips in immediate response to the 9/11 tragedy. He has worked extensively in recent years implementing XML solutions for law enforcement customers. Mr. Slaski is a co-principal investigator for the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS) Accelerated Information Sharing for Law Enforcement (AISLE) project funded by the National Institute of Justice. NLETS connects all law enforcement agencies in North America – more than 400,000 stations. The AISLE project has fielded the first (possibly the only) interstate public safety XML Web services and is deploying extensive NLETS XML Web services in partnership with the State of Wisconsin Crime Information Bureau. Mr. Slaski was also responsible for the development and testing of the first XML implementation for the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) which is the principal national repository for current crime information, e.g. wanted persons, stolen vehicles. Mr. Slaski is a member of the OASIS Integrated Justice Technical Committee and the Integrated Justice Information System Industry Working Group.

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