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National Human Services IT Resource Center

Consolidated References

This is the set of consolidated references that are external to the NHSITRC Web site. This includes electronic as well as traditionally published material. Some publication dates for items available on the Web were not available; therefore, the date of publication reflects the date the item was first accessed.

The date the item was added to this list of references is shown. Most external references throughout this Web site are hyperlinked to this page. References that are specific to a Resource are not included here. Hyperlinks on this page were last verified on the date shown.

  Reference/Comments Date
ACF 2000 Welfare Reform Information Technology: A Study of Issues in Implementing Information Systems for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program,  U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, October 2000 2/8/01
AIT 1997 The IT Reference Model (ITRM) and its integration Platform, AIT-IP2, Version 1.3, November 1997

Describes a model to enable the use of common building blocks and software modules to support an integrated platform.
9/18/01
AOC 2001 Web site for the Office of the Architect for the U.S. Capital

http://www.aoc.gov/homepage.htm

10/01/01
ANSI/ISO/IEC 9075-x, 1999 DATABASE LANGUAGES - SQL, ANSI/ISO/IEC 9075 (part 1 through 5)

available from: http://global.ihs.com/

9/18/01
ASP 2001 Home page of the Application Service Provider Consortium

http://www.aspindustry.org/

2/14/01
Beck, Kent 1999 Extreme Programming Explained. Reading Massachusetts: Addison Wesley 03/01/02
Booch, Grady, J. Rumbaugh, and I. Jacobson 1999 The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, Addison Wesley 9/18/01
Bradner, S. 1996 The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3, RFC 2026, October 1996

Documents the process used by the Internet community for standardization of protocols and procedures

http://www.ietf.org/
7/7/00
Bradner, S 1997 Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, RFC 2119, March 1997

Defines key reserved words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents.

http://www.ietf.org/

7/12/02
CIO Council 1999 Federal Enterprise Architectural Framework, Chief Information Officers Council, Version 1.1, September 1999

Collects approaches, models and definitions to develop and maintain an overall U.S. Federal Enterprise Architecture.

http://www.cio.gov/
9/18/01
CMU SEI 1995 The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

Integrates and elaborates the descriptions of the CMM for software and provides guidance on interpreting its practices.

9/18/01
DISA 1999 Department of Defense Technical Reference Model (TRM), Version 1.0, 5 November 1999

The underlying foundation for DoD and U.S. Government agencies to specify their technical infrastructure

http://www-trm.itsi.disa.mil/document.htm
9/18/01
DoD 1996 Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management, Version 3.0, Defense Systems Agency Center for Standards, Department of Defense, 30 April 1996.

Provides enterprise-level guidance for the evolution of the DoD Technical Infrastructure. Identifies the services, standards, concepts, components, and configurations that can be used to guide the development of technical architectures that meet specific mission requirements. TAFIM has been cancelled as a stand alone document. See the DoD TRM (DISA 1999)

http://www-library.itsi.disa.mil/ tafim/tafim3.0/pages/tafim.htm
9/18/01
e.Gov 2001 Government Technology Magazine, for news, trends and best practices for e-government.

http://www.govtech.net/

8/26/02
FIPS 1971 FIPS 13, Rectangular Holes in Twelve-Row Punched Cards (ANSI X3.21 - 1967/R1980 & R1991), 71 Oct 01, withdrawn 96 May 29

Sample of a standard being withdrawn, link to withdrawn Federal standards

http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/withdraw.htm
10/8/01
HHS 2001 The United States' Department of Health and Human Services web site

http://www.os.hhs.gov/

2/7/01
IEEE 1996b information technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) -- Part 1: System Application Program Interface (API) [C Language], IEEE Std 1003.1, 1996 Edition

One of the family of IEEE Std 1003.1x, describing the POSIX, a basis for many of the Technical Reference models and the OSE approach.

http://standards.ieee.org/
9/18/01
ISO/IEC 9126, 1991 Information technology - Software product evaluation - Quality characteristics and guidelines for their use, ISO/IEC 9216, International Standard, 12-15-1991. 

A framework for the evaluation of software quality (later versions are also available)

http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage

10/01/01
ISO/IEC 7498-1
1994
Information technology -- Open Systems Interconnection -- Basic Reference Model: The Basic Model. 9/18/01
I S0/IEC-14750 1999 ISO/IEC 14750:1999 Information technology -- Open Distributed Processing -- Interface Definition Language.

The OMG IDL adopted as an ISO/IEC Standard

http://www.iec.ch/webstore/

9/18/01
McConnell, Steve 1996 Rapid Development, Microsoft Press 10/01/01
Murhammer, Martin W, Kok-Keong Lee, Payam Motallebi, Paolo Borghim, and Karl Wozalbal 1999 IP Network Design Guide, International Technical Support Organization, SG24-2850-01, IBM

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

9/18/01
NASIRE 1998 Welfare Reform, Information Systems and the States

https://www.nascio.org/publications/welfare1998.cfm

2/8/01
NASIRE
2000
a
State Human Service Information Systems: Measuring the Impact of Welfare Reform. NASIRE

http://www.nascio.org/
publications/digital_government_report_2000.pdf

1/30/01
NASIRE
2000b
Issue Focus Report: The Role of the State Chief Information Officer, July 2000

http://www.nascio.org/publications/
The_Role_of_the_State_CIO_July_2000.pdf

2/7/01
Newkirk, James and Robert Martin 2001 Extreme Programming in Practice. Reading Massachusetts: Addison Wesley 03/01/02
NIST 1996
Application Portability Profile (APP), the U.S. Governments Open Systems Environment Profile. Version 3.0. NIST Special Publication 500-230. February 1996.
http://www.nist.gov/
9/18/01
OMG 1997 A discussion of the Object Management Architecture, January 1997

Overview of the Object Management Group's Object Management Architecture.

http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/00-06-41.pdf
9/18/01
Open Group 1998 The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF) - Version 5. Open Group, Dec 1999.

The TOGAF is a tool to help define an architecture for a current or planned information system.

http://www.opengroup.org/public/arch/
9/18/01
PL 105-220, 1998 WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT OF 1998
PL 105-220, 1998 HR 1385
PL 105-220, enacted on August 7, 1998, 112 Stat 936
codified as: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794d

The 508 statue requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities, including employees and members of the public

available from:
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/508home.html

10/4/01
PRWORA 1996

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Enrolled Bill), H.R.3734, 

available from:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/

2/13/01
SAE AIR5315 1998 April 1998 Overview and Rationale for GOA Framework, As-5 Embedded Computing Systems, SAE AIR5315, April 1998

Companion to (SAE 4893, 1996) provides an overview and rationale of the GOA framework.

http://www.sae.org/
9/18/01
SAE AS4893 1996 Generic Open Architecture (GOA) Framework, SAE AS5 GOA Task Group, SAE AS4893, January 1996.

Standard defining a generic technical reference model identifying functional layers and interface types.

http://www.sae.org/
9/18/01
Schulz, Frederick 1995 NIST Special Publication 500-232, Open System Environment (OSE): Architectural Framework for Information Infrastructure, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Overview of the OSE Reference Model

10/2/01
TPC 2001 Transaction Processing Performance Council Home page

A non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable performance data to the industry.

http://www.tpc.org/

9/18/01
W3C 2001 Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 15 March 2001

A submission to the World Wide Web Consortium as a suggestion for describing network services using an XML format.

http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl

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