NIEMOpen - An OASIS Open Project | NIEM GitHub
If I say " vessel " and you say " boat ", and he says " ship " and she says " conveyance ", we may mean the same thing, but we have no way to tell our computer systems to treat the words as having the same meaning. Until we do, we'll all have separate facts about the same world—pieces of the big puzzle—but no common understanding or way to connect them.
This is the idea behind NIEM. It lets your system and my system speak—even if they've never spoken before—by ensuring that information carries the same consistent meaning across various communities.
Rather than starting from scratch, NIEM can save organizations time and money by providing consistent, reusable, and repeatable data terms, definitions, and processes.
NIEMOpen - An OASIS Open Project | NIEM GitHub