news
- Human Services XML Development Underway!
- A work group consisting of human services data professionals has created hsxml.org to develop a standard for seamlessly share data amongst human services organizations.
- HMIS 2.8 Schema and WSDL Submitted for Approval
- The Schema and proposed messaging standard are now in the approval stage.
- HMIS 2.8 Schema Released by HUD!
- After about a year of part-time effort, this new version of the HUD Homeless Management Information System data interchange format is completed, with a proposal for messaging.
- Disaster Client Data Standard (CDS) v. 301 out
- The CDS is the only data standard in existence for client emergency services records.
- Human Services Data Synchronization Call to Action
- See attached paper.
- NIEM is the future of human services data exchange
- With the recent addition of the Family Services domain to NIEM, and plan for further expansion, NIEM looks like our best bet for achieving integrated human services delivery.
- Synthesis open source warehouse gaining features
- The Synthesis Project is completely freely licensed for anyone to take and use, raising the bar for standard human services features.
- Dept. of Health and Human Services joined the National Information Exchange Model
- This is important for the Human Services Community. Now we will all be working from the same data dictionary.
- Synthesis Human Services Open Source Data Integration Server is now a Web Service as well as an FTP/ETL tool
- it now uses the REST framework built within Pylons to wrap existing functionality
