Office of the Chief IT Architect (OCITA) together with our enterprise architecture stakeholders accomplished several important initiatives in 2007 that will deliver significant value to NIH.
We completed all Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) “To-Be” business process models, achieved stakeholder signoff on all post-sponsorship HSPD-12 business models, and began working on NIH Enterprise Directory (NED) enhancements to implement these processes and procedures. The benefit to NIH is that it provides functional requirements for IT Personal Identity Verification (PIV) support and establishes an agreed upon baseline from which to manage future changes to NIH identity management standards.
Through the NIH Request for Comment (NIHRFC) process, we authored and approved three new technical standards and one updated governance process:
- NIHRFC0001, “Enterprise Architecture Standards Process,” which was updated to refine the stages in the standardization process, the requirements for moving a document between stages, and the types of documents used during the process
- NIHRFC0002, “Person Name,” which establishes a standardized way for describing a person’s name, including various views of the data model
- NIHRFC0024, “NIH Budget Entities,” which identifies the major budget entities within the Accounting Code Structure (ACS) that are managed by the NIH Business System (NBS)
- NIHRFC0025, “NIH Enterprise Conceptual Data Model,” which provides a specification of the key data entities that support NIH’s business processes and which will serve as the foundational document for all NIH data architecture and data modeling efforts moving forward.
All of these NIHRFCs and more are published on the Approved NIHRFCs section of this website.
The Grants Conceptual Data Model (CDM) modeling effort, an initiative providing a conceptual view of the key data entities and relationships that support NIH’s extramural research grant activities has been published in draft form to internal NIH stakeholders as NIHRFC0026, “NIH Grants Conceptual Data Model” (NIH login required) and comments were reviewed. The authors of this proposed standard have incorporated these comments and OCITA will initiate a subsequent review with internal NIH stakeholders before submitting the final document to the Architecture Review Board (ARB) for approval. Once published as a standard, the Grants CDM will allow NIH management and stakeholders to plan for a future state grants data architecture that will enhance NIH’s ability to share information across the enterprise and build more integrated, flexible systems.
We completed domain teams to create standards including: Workflow/Business Process Management (BPM) Service Pattern, Workflow/Business Process Management (BPM) Tools Brick, Document Management Service Pattern, and Document Management Tools Brick. The purpose of the domain teams is to align information technology standards with business strategy and requirements. Domain teams consist of a sampling of individuals from different Institutes and Centers (ICs). This is of immense value to NIH, for it provides strategic guidance to stakeholders who then leverage recommendations for technology implementation projects.
For more information about these ongoing initiatives and all other work, please visit enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov.
