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JIEM 4.0 tool released September 25, 2007!
JIEM Tool now available on the Eclipse platform
While the current web-based JIEM Tool has proven to be a popular and effective requirements-gathering resource, consistent user feedback has demonstrated the need for functionality that is now available in the new Eclipse-based JIEM 4.0 Modeling Tool.
This functionality:
- Improves the Tool's usability and efficiency
- Supports more rapid and inexpensive addition of new features in the future
- Requires no connection to the Internet, running locally on the user's workstation
- Allows for easier sharing of exchange models with other users
- Provides more robust support for XML and integration with other modeling and development tools
- Allows considerable user customization of the tool's look and feel
- Employs many "rich client" features that users experience in other modeling tools.
In this initial Fall 2007 release, the concepts or basic functionality enjoyed in the current web-version Tool have remained constant. SEARCH will be adding new features (not currently available in the web-based version) to the Tool in another forthcoming release planned for Winter 2008.
Web-JIEM will remain available to JIEM-Certified users through January 2008. However, site databases stored in Web-JIEM will remain available indefinitely. Upon the user's request, SEARCH staff will archive and convert site databases for use in JIEM 4.0. Send requests to JIEM@search.org. Please refer to JIEM 4.0 Frequently Asked Questions for answers to many anticipated questions, such as how to obtain a copy of the JIEM 4.0 version.
JIEM Modeling Tool
The JIEM Modeling Tool is an easy-to-use web-based software package that enables justice system practitioners to build a model of their "as-is" and "to-be" information exchanges.
Using the Tool, practitioners apply the JIEM Methodology, documenting requirements for electronic information sharing, capturing both the information content and business context of information exchanges.
JIEM includes access to the JIEM Reference Model, a set of standard exchanges that occur in the adult felony environment and that are similar to the data exchanges occurring in most locations. Through leveraging the Reference Model, a site can perform JIEM analysis much more quickly and with results that are more consistent with those of other jurisdictions.
More detailed information on the JIEM Tool is available in these documents:
Using the JIEM Tool
The JIEM Tool is available at no charge to the justice community through funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Access to the JIEM Tool is restricted to individuals who have (1) attended a 1 ½-day SEARCH training course, and (2) taken and passed an on-line certification exam. The exam can be taken in conjunction with the training, if desired.
- Not yet a certified JIEM User? Then sign up for information on the JIEM Tool, including announcements on upcoming releases and opportunities for
1 ½-day JIEM training courses (you must take JIEM training provided by SEARCH, and then pass an online certification exam in order to be provided access to the JIEM 4.0 Tool)
- Already a certified JIEM user on a previous version of the Tool?
Sign up for a "JIEM 4.0
Quick-Start" WebEx session. Upon participating in this 90-minute online session, you'll receive the new JIEM 4.0 Tool via CD or download.
- Frequently asked questions about the new JIEM release on the Eclipse platform
Important Note about Converting Web JIEM Site Databases
SEARCH believes that practitioners who invest their resources in capturing information exchange requirements in JIEM should remain in control of that information while it resides on SEARCH's servers. As such, if a third party (e.g., consultant) wishes to request conversion of a Web JIEM site database for use in JIEM 4.0 on behalf of a practitioner or justice agency, we require that the practitioner (or a representative of the practitioner's agency) submit a request for the conversion that authorizes our disclosure of the information to the third party. The request should be sent via email and should identify the web JIEM site database(s) that SEARCH is authorized to convert.
Links
- Web-JIEM Modeling Tool Login
The Web-JIEM Tool is available through January 2008. To request your Web-JIEM site database be archived and converted for use in JIEM 4.0, please send an email to jiem@search.org. Rest assured that SEARCH staff will save Web-JIEM Site Databases indefinitely.
- New Release FAQs
- JIEM Flyer
 - May 2007
This one-page flyer makes a great hand-out and describes the features and benefits of the JIEM resource.
- JIEM Conceptual Framework - December 2006
This document defines and illustrates the five dimensions of information exchange (processes, events, agencies, conditions, and information), and explains how the individual dimensions are brought together to form meaningful exchanges of information.
- JIEM Reference Model version 1.0.1 - May 2004
This business reference model for justice information exchange contains almost 700 key exchanges common to most jurisdictions. It is a reference manual for analyzing information exchange as a part of an integrated justice initiative, and aids sites in using JIEM effectively and economically.
- JIEM Release Notes 3.1
- JIEM Release Notes 3.2
- JIEM Release Notes 3.3
- JIEM Release Notes 3.4
- Contact us: jiem@search.org
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