Excerpt below is from the article “NIEM: The key to improved information sharing” by Richard Spires, available at:http://fcw.com/articles/2014/12/18/niem-improved-information-sharing.aspx (Abridged) NIEM uses the XML standard to define the content of messages being exchanged. It’s about the data and how it’s structured. Users can also take advantage of tools that implement the