What work is the Ministry of Justice undertaking to develop XML schema for data interchange across the legal system?
Currently the Ministry of Justice has developed XML schemas for two systems: 1. Court Service schemas being used for the Xhibit-CJS Exchange interface. 2. LIBRA schemas proposed for LIBRA-DVLA and LIBRA-Police interfaces. In both instances the schema sets are application specific and build on the elements of the DTG GovTalk schema standards. For example the Address and Personal Details standards have been used. As each schema has been developed to meet the needs of the specific interface it governs, there is no intention, currently, to make the schema widely available. This decision will be reviewed should the documents passed across the interface become of wider interest. In addition the Ministry of Justice has been working alongside Criminal Justice IT (CJIT) to develop data standards that will be adopted by all the major criminal justice organisations (CJO). These standards will be incorporated into any new IT system build to allow the sharing of data through the Criminal Justice Sy
