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Implementation Profile for Intelligence Publications (XML Encoding)

Purpose


This Implementation Profile for Intelligence Publications (XML Encoding), also known as PUBS-XML, defines detailed specifications for using Extensible Markup Language (XML) to encode publication metadata in compliance with the approved Intelligence Community Standard (ICS) for Publication Metadata. This Implementation Profile defines the XML elements and attributes, associated structures and relationships, mandatory and cardinality requirements, and permissible values for representing the publications concepts using XML. It is the umbrella XML standard for text-based intelligence products for more specific standards such as security markings, source citations and topical assertions.


Needs and Requirements


This Implementation Profile is designed to fulfill a number of requirements in support of the transformational efforts of the Intelligence Community. These requirements include:

  • Improving publication and dissemination efficiency by reducing the cost and time for performing manual and complex rendering, manipulation, and content transformation of information resource metadata in context of an intelligence publication.
  • Facilitating discovery and exchange of intelligence publications between collectors, all-source analysts, and consumers.
  • Capturing an intelligence publication’s overall security marking metadata in order to support attribute-and clearance-based information management practices, such as: secure collaboration; content management; content and portion-level filtering of discovery results, and content transfers across security domains.
  • Capturing source reference citations to provide intelligence producers the ability to systematically analyze how and how often the data they gather or produce is being used in order to facilitate better management of collection and production resources.
  • Capturing and retaining a greater understanding of an intelligence publication’s meaning, purpose, genesis, and characteristics as identified by a human or service.


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